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We study a random graph model for small-world networks which are ubiquitous in social and biological sciences. In this model, a dense cycle of expected bandwidth $n \tau$, representing the hidden one-dimensional geometry of vertices, is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Cheng Mao , Alexander S. Wein , Shenduo Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a collection of planted cycles in an \ER random graph $G \sim \mathcal{G}(n, \lambda/n)$, in analogy to the famous Planted Clique Problem. When the cycles are planted on a uniformly random…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Julia Gaudio , Colin Sandon , Jiaming Xu , Dana Yang

Planted Dense Subgraph (PDS) problem is a prototypical problem with a computational-statistical gap. It also exhibits an intriguing additional phenomenon: different tasks, such as detection or recovery, appear to have different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Guy Bresler , Tianze Jiang

Multiple methods of finding the vertices belonging to a planted dense subgraph in a random dense $G(n, p)$ graph have been proposed, with an emphasis on planted cliques. Such methods can identify the planted subgraph in polynomial time, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Itay Levinas , Yoram Louzoun

The problems of detecting and recovering planted structures/subgraphs in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, have received significant attention over the past three decades, leading to many exciting results and mathematical techniques.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Dor Elimelech , Wasim Huleihel

We consider the task of detecting a hidden bipartite subgraph in a given random graph. This is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem, under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph over $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Asaf Rotenberg , Wasim Huleihel , Ofer Shayevitz

One fundamental goal of high-dimensional statistics is to detect or recover planted structure (such as a low-rank matrix) hidden in noisy data. A growing body of work studies low-degree polynomials as a restricted model of computation for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Tselil Schramm , Alexander S. Wein

We study the problem of detecting or recovering a planted ranked subgraph from a directed graph, an analog for directed graphs of the well-studied planted dense subgraph model. We suppose that, among a set of $n$ items, there is a subset…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Dmitriy Kunisky , Daniel A. Spielman , Alexander S. Wein , Xifan Yu

A central question in high-dimensional statistics is to understand statistical--computational gaps: regimes in which recovering a hidden signal is information-theoretically possible but conjectured to be computationally intractable. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Daniel Fu , Youngtak Sohn

This paper studies the problem of detecting the presence of a small dense community planted in a large Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal{G}(N,q)$, where the edge probability within the community exceeds $q$ by a constant factor.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bruce Hajek , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal

In this paper, we study the problems of detection and recovery of hidden submatrices with elevated means inside a large Gaussian random matrix. We consider two different structures for the planted submatrices. In the first model, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Marom Dadon , Wasim Huleihel , Tamir Bendory

In this work, we consider the problem of recovery a planted $k$-densest sub-hypergraph on $d$-uniform hypergraphs. This fundamental problem appears in different contexts, e.g., community detection, average-case complexity, and neuroscience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Luca Corinzia , Paolo Penna , Wojciech Szpankowski , Joachim M. Buhmann

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

We investigate the problem of identifying planted cliques in random geometric graphs, focusing on two distinct algorithmic approaches: the first based on vertex degrees (VD) and the other on common neighbors (CN). We analyze the performance…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Nelly Litvak , Riccardo Michielan

We consider the statistical inference problem of recovering an unknown perfect matching, hidden in a weighted random graph, by exploiting the information arising from the use of two different distributions for the weights on the edges…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-08-10 Guilhem Semerjian , Gabriele Sicuro , Lenka Zdeborová

We study the planted clique problem in which a clique of size k is planted in an Erdos-Renyi graph G(n,1/2) and one is interested in recovering this planted clique. It is widely believed that it exhibits a statistical-computational gap when…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jay Mardia , Hilal Asi , Kabir Aladin Chandrasekher

The planted bisection model is a random graph model in which the nodes are divided into two equal-sized communities and then edges are added randomly in a way that depends on the community membership. We establish necessary and sufficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman , Allan Sly

We study the planted clique problem in which a clique of size k is planted in an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph G(n, 1/2), and one is interested in either detecting or recovering this planted clique. This problem is interesting because it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Jay Mardia

We study computational limitations in \emph{multi-plant} average-case inference problems, in which $t$ disjoint planted structures of size $k$ are embedded in a random background on $n$ elements. A natural parameter in this setting is the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Matvey Mosievskiy , Lev Reyzin
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