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Many real world networks are considered temporal networks, in which the chronological ordering of the edges has importance to the meaning of the data. Performing temporal subgraph matching on such graphs requires the edges in the subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Patrick Mackey , Katherine Porterfield , Erin Fitzhenry , Sutanay Choudhury , George Chin

As the popularity of graph data increases, there is a growing need to count the occurrences of subgraph patterns of interest, for a variety of applications. Many graphs are massive in scale and also fully dynamic (with insertions and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kaixin Wang , Cheng Long , Da Yan , Jie Zhang , H. V. Jagadish

Counting small subgraphs, referred to as motifs, in large graphs is a fundamental task in graph analysis, extensively studied across various contexts and computational models. In the sublinear-time regime, the relaxed problem of approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Talya Eden , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Temporal networks have been increasingly used to model a diversity of systems that evolve in time; for example human contact structures over which dynamic processes such as epidemics take place. A fundamental aspect of real-life networks is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-08 Luis E C Rocha , Naoki Masuda , Petter Holme

Real-world graphs often manifest as a massive temporal stream of edges. The need for real-time analysis of such large graph streams has led to progress on low memory, one-pass streaming graph algorithms. These algorithms were designed for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

Temporal bipartite graphs are widely used to denote time-evolving relationships between two disjoint sets of nodes, such as customer-product interactions in E-commerce and user-group memberships in social networks. Temporal butterflies,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jiaxi Pu , Yanhao Wang , Yuchen Li , Xuan Zhou

Networks are a fundamental and flexible way of representing various complex systems. Many domains such as communication, citation, procurement, biology, social media, and transportation can be modeled as a set of entities and their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Sumit Purohit , Lawrence B. Holder , George Chin

The number of triangles (hereafter denoted by $\Delta$) is an important metric to analyze massive graphs. It is also used to compute clustering coefficient in networks. This paper proposes a new algorithm called PES (Priority Edge Sampling)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Roohollah Etemadi , Jianguo Lu

The number of triangles in a graph is useful to deduce a plethora of important features of the network that the graph is modeling. However, finding the exact value of this number is computationally expensive. Hence, a number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Duru Türkoğlu , Ata Turk

Traditional frameworks for dynamic graphs have relied on processing only the stream of edges added into or deleted from an evolving graph, but not any additional related information such as the degrees or neighbor lists of nodes incident to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Guyue Han , Harish Sethu

Algorithms for mining very large graphs, such as those representing online social networks, to discover the relative frequency of small subgraphs within them are of high interest to sociologists, computer scientists and marketeers alike.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Guyue Han , Harish Sethu

Many real-world scenarios involving streaming information can be represented as temporal graphs, where data flows through dynamic changes in edges over time. Anomaly detection in this context has the objective of identifying unusual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Simone Mungari , Albert Bifet , Giuseppe Manco , Bernhard Pfahringer

Motifs are thought to be some fundamental components of social face-to-face interaction temporal networks. However, the motifs previously considered are either limited to a handful of nodes and edges, or do not include triangles, which are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-19 Didier Le Bail

Group interactions arise in our daily lives (email communications, on-demand ride sharing, comment interactions on online communities, to name a few), and they together form hypergraphs that evolve over time. Given such temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

Counting the number of triangles in a graph has many important applications in network analysis. Several frequently computed metrics like the clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio need to count the number of triangles in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We consider the problem of sampling and approximately counting an arbitrary given motif $H$ in a graph $G$, where access to $G$ is given via queries: degree, neighbor, and pair, as well as uniform edge sample queries. Previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is essential for identifying malicious activities, fraud, and unexpected behaviors in real-world systems such as cybersecurity and power grids. However, existing approaches struggle with scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

Network classification has a variety of applications, such as detecting communities within networks and finding similarities between those representing different aspects of the real world. However, most existing work in this area focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Kun Tu , Jian Li , Don Towsley , Dave Braines , Liam D. Turner

Many real-world phenomena are best represented as interaction networks with dynamic structures (e.g., transaction networks, social networks, traffic networks). Interaction networks capture flow of data which is transferred between their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

Dynamic evolving networks capture temporal relations in domains such as social networks, communication networks, and financial transaction networks. In such networks, temporal motifs, which are repeated sequences of time-stamped…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Alexandra Porter , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Jure Leskovec