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This paper studies the Laplacian spectrum and the average effective resistance of (large) graphs that are sampled from graphons. Broadly speaking, our main finding is that the Laplacian eigenvalues of a large dense graph can be effectively…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Renato Vizuete , Federica Garin , Paolo Frasca

We explicitly compute the effective resistances between any two vertices of a ladder graph by using circuit reductions. Using our findings, we obtain explicit formulas for Kirchhoff index and admissible invariants of a ladder graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Zubeyir Cinkir

We explicitly compute the effective resistances between any two vertices of a prism graph by using circuit reductions and our earlier findings on a ladder graph. As an application, we derived a closed form formula for the Kirchhoff index of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Zubeyir Cinkir

This paper presents an introduction and expository account of a beautiful, current, and active application of recursions to the computation of resistance distance. Resistance distance, also referred to as effective resistance, is a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Emily J. Evans , Russell Jay Hendel

Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. The resistance distance $R_G(x,y)$ between two vertices $x,y$ of $G$ is defined to be the effective resistance between the two vertices in the corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Si-Ao Xu , Huan Zhou , Xiang-Feng Pan

Message passing graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular learning architectures for graph-structured data. However, one problem GNNs experience is oversquashing, where a GNN has difficulty sending information between distant nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mitchell Black , Zhengchao Wan , Amir Nayyeri , Yusu Wang

Cascading failures are the typical reasons of black- outs in power grids. The grid topology plays an important role in determining the dynamics of cascading failures in power grids. Measures for vulnerability analysis are crucial to assure…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-24 Yakup Koç , Martijn Warnier , Robert E. Kooij , Frances M. T. Brazier

We consider a new problem of designing a network with small $s$-$t$ effective resistance. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, two designated vertices $s,t \in V$, and a budget $k$. The goal is to choose a subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pak Hay Chan , Lap Chi Lau , Aaron Schild , Sam Chiu-wai Wong , Hong Zhou

This paper introduces a scalable algorithmic framework (HyperEF) for spectral coarsening (decomposition) of large-scale hypergraphs by exploiting hyperedge effective resistances. Motivated by the latest theoretical framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

Assessing and improving the robustness of a graph $G$ are critical steps in network design and analysis. To this end, we consider the optimisation problem of removing $k$ edges from $G$ such that the resulting graph has minimal robustness,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Lukas Berner , Henning Meyerhenke

The interconnectedness and interdependence of modern graphs are growing ever more complex, causing enormous resources for processing, storage, communication, and decision-making of these graphs. In this work, we focus on the task graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ryan Wickman , Xiaofei Zhang , Weizi Li

This work presents inGRASS, a novel algorithm designed for incremental spectral sparsification of large undirected graphs. The proposed inGRASS algorithm is highly scalable and parallel-friendly, having a nearly-linear time complexity for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

We investigate how the underlying graph of a network supports a flow between a source node and a destination node and propose to compute the expected number of nodes and links that contribute to transferring items in random graphs. Since…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Zhihao Qiu , Xinhan Liu , Rogier Noldus , Piet Van Mieghem

We develop a framework for graph sparsification and sketching, based on a new tool, short cycle decomposition -- a decomposition of an unweighted graph into an edge-disjoint collection of short cycles, plus few extra edges. A simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Timothy Chu , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

Effective resistance (ER) is an attractive way to interrogate the structure of graphs. It is an alternative to computing the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian. One attractive application of ER is to point clouds, i.e. graphs whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Robi Bhattacharjee , Alexander Cloninger , Yoav Freund , Andreas Oslandsbotn

The attention mechanism has demonstrated superior performance for inference over nodes in graph neural networks (GNNs), however, they result in a high computational burden during both training and inference. We propose FastGAT, a method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Rakshith S Srinivasa , Cao Xiao , Lucas Glass , Justin Romberg , Jimeng Sun

Graph curvature provides geometric priors for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enhancing their ability to model complex graph structures, particularly in terms of structural awareness, robustness, and theoretical interpretability. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chaoqun Fei , Tinglve Zhou , Tianyong Hao , Yangyang Li

We provide new algorithms and conditional hardness for the problem of estimating effective resistances in $n$-node $m$-edge undirected, expander graphs. We provide an $\widetilde{O}(m\epsilon^{-1})$-time algorithm that produces with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Ishani Karmarkar , Aaron Sidford

The \emph{resistance matrix} of a simple connected graph $G$ is denoted by $R$, and is defined by $R =(r_{ij})$, where $r_{ij}$ is the resistance distance between the vertices $i$ and $j$ of $G$. In this paper, we consider the resistance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Fouzul Atik , Ravindra B Bapat , M. Rajesh Kannan

Graph sketching has emerged as a powerful technique for processing massive graphs that change over time (i.e., are presented as a dynamic stream of edge updates) over the past few years, starting with the work of Ahn, Guha and McGregor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Michael Kapralov , Aida Mousavifar , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Navid Nouri