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The widely studied edge modification problems ask how to minimally alter a graph to satisfy certain structural properties. In this paper, we introduce and study a new edge modification problem centered around transforming a given graph into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amirali Madani , Anil Maheshwari , Babak Miraftab , Paweł Żyliński

Triangle Counting (TC) is a procedure that involves enumerating the number of triangles within a graph. It has important applications in numerous fields, such as social or biological network analysis and network security. TC is a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Lorenzo Asquini , Manos Frouzakis , Juan Gómez-Luna , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Onur Mutlu , Francesco Silvestri

Counting the frequency of small subgraphs is a fundamental technique in network analysis across various domains, most notably in bioinformatics and social networks. The special case of triangle counting has received much attention. Getting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

The problem of counting collisions or interactions is common in areas as computer graphics and scientific simulations. Since it is a major bottleneck in applications of these areas, a lot of research has been carried out on such subject,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Matheus Henrique Junqueira Saldanha , Paulo Sérgio Lopes de Souza

The distance of a graph from being triangle-free is a fundamental graph parameter, counting the number of edges that need to be removed from a graph in order for it to become triangle-free. Its corresponding computational problem is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Majd Khoury

We consider the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph. This problem has been extensively studied in both theory and practice, but all existing algorithms read the entire graph. In this work we design a {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Talya Eden , Amit Levi , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

Triangle counting and sampling are two fundamental problems for streaming algorithms. Arguably, designing sampling algorithms is more challenging than their counting variants. It may be noted that triangle counting has received far greater…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Arijit Bishnu , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Sayantan Sen

In this note we introduce a new randomized algorithm for counting triangles in graphs. We show that under mild conditions, the estimate of our algorithm is strongly concentrated around the true number of triangles. Specifically, if $p \geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-01 Rasmus Pagh , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

An edge cover of a graph is a set of edges such that every vertex has at least an adjacent edge in it. Previously, approximation algorithm for counting edge covers is only known for 3 regular graphs and it is randomized. We design a very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Chengyu Lin , Jingcheng Liu , Pinyan Lu

Graphs are used to model interactions in a variety of contexts, and there is a growing need to quickly assess the structure of a graph. Some of the most useful graph metrics, especially those measuring social cohesion, are based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-22 C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar , Tamara G. Kolda

We consider the fundamental problems of approximately counting the numbers of edges and triangles in a graph in sublinear time. Previous algorithms for these tasks are significantly more efficient under a promise that the arboricity of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

Filtered graphs provide a powerful tool for data clustering. The triangular maximally filtered graph (TMFG) method, when combined with the directed bubble hierarchy tree (DBHT) method, defines a useful algorithm for hierarchical data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Steven Raphael , Julian Shun

The problem of (approximately) counting the number of triangles in a graph is one of the basic problems in graph theory. In this paper we study the problem in the streaming model. We study the amount of memory required by a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Vladimir Braverman , Rafail Ostrovsky , Dan Vilenchik

We develop an algorithm that finds the consensus of many different clustering solutions of a graph. We formulate the problem as a median set partitioning problem and propose a greedy optimization technique. Unlike other approaches that find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Md Taufique Hussain , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Samrat Chatterjee , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato , Ariful Azad

Triangle centrality is introduced for finding important vertices in a graph based on the concentration of triangles surrounding each vertex. It has the distinct feature of allowing a vertex to be central if it is in many triangles or none…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Paul Burkhardt

In a graph, a community may be loosely defined as a group of nodes that are more closely connected to one another than to the rest of the graph. While there are a variety of metrics that can be used to specify the quality of a given…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Christine Klymko , David Gleich , Tamara G. Kolda

We develop new methods based on graph motifs for graph clustering, allowing more efficient detection of communities within networks. We focus on triangles within graphs, but our techniques extend to other clique motifs as well. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Charalampos Tsourakakis , Jakub Pachocki , Michael Mitzenmacher

Subgraph counting aims to count the occurrences of a subgraph template T in a given network G. The basic problem of computing structural properties such as counting triangles and other subgraphs has found applications in diverse domains.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Langshi Chen , Jiayu Li , Ariful Azad , Lei Jiang , Madhav Marathe , Anil Vullikanti , Andrey Nikolaev , Egor Smirnov , Ruslan Israfilov , Judy Qiu

Pattern counting in graphs is a fundamental primitive for many network analysis tasks, and a number of methods have been developed for scaling subgraph counting to large graphs. Many real-world networks carry a natural notion of strength of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Raunak Kumar , Paul Liu , Moses Charikar , Austin R. Benson