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This paper challenges the convention of using graph-theoretic shortest distance in stress-based graph drawing. We propose a new paradigm based on resistance distance, derived from the graph Laplacian's spectrum, which better captures global…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yosuke Onoue

Spectral graph sparsification has emerged as a powerful tool in the analysis of large-scale networks by reducing the overall number of edges, while maintaining a comparable graph Laplacian matrix. In this paper, we present an efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-16 David G. Anderson , Ming Gu , Christopher Melgaard

This article discusses a geometric perspective on the well-known fact in graph theory that the effective resistance is a metric on the nodes of a graph. The classical proofs of this fact make use of ideas from electrical circuits or random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Karel Devriendt

Spectral graph sparsification aims to find ultra-sparse subgraphs whose Laplacian matrix can well approximate the original Laplacian eigenvalues and eigenvectors. In recent years, spectral sparsification techniques have been extensively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhuo Feng

Large-scale graphs are widely used to represent object relationships in many real world applications. The occurrence of large-scale graphs presents significant computational challenges to process, analyze, and extract information. Graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yu Jin , Andreas Loukas , Joseph F. JaJa

The computation of resistance distance is pivotal in a wide range of graph analysis applications, including graph clustering, link prediction, and graph neural networks. Despite its foundational importance, efficient algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yichun Yang , Longlong Lin , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

Effective resistance is a distance between vertices of a graph that is both theoretically interesting and useful in applications. We study a variant of effective resistance called the biharmonic distance. While the effective resistance…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Mitchell Black , Lucy Lin , Amir Nayyeri , Weng-Keen Wong

In recent years, spectral graph sparsification techniques that can compute ultra-sparse graph proxies have been extensively studied for accelerating various numerical and graph-related applications. Prior nearly-linear-time spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zhuo Feng

The effective graph resistance, also known as the Kirchhoff index, is metric that is used to quantify the robustness of a network. We show that the optimisation problem of minimizing the effective graph resistance of a graph by adding a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-29 Robert E. Kooij , Massimo A. Achterberg

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) become increasingly popular for learning from large-scale graph data across various domains, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks when using graph reduction techniques for scalability remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kerui Wu , Ka-Ho Chow , Wenqi Wei , Lei Yu

Recently, in Refs. \cite{jsj} and \cite{res2}, calculation of effective resistances on distance-regular networks was investigated, where in the first paper, the calculation was based on stratification and Stieltjes function associated with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Jafarizadeh , R. Sufiani , S. Jafarizadeh

This paper explores sparsification methods as a form of regularization in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address high memory usage and computational costs in large-scale graph applications. Using techniques from Network Science and Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Charlotte Cambier van Nooten , Christos Aronis , Yuliya Shapovalova , Lucia Cavallaro

Graphs are useful to interpret widely used image processing methods, e.g., bilateral filtering, or to develop new ones, e.g., kernel based techniques. However, simple graph constructions are often used, where edge weight and connectivity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Graph sparsification is a powerful tool to approximate an arbitrary graph and has been used in machine learning over homogeneous graphs. In heterogeneous graphs such as knowledge graphs, however, sparsification has not been systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Chandan Chunduru , Chun Jiang Zhu , Blake Gains , Jinbo Bi

This work introduces a highly scalable spectral graph densification framework for learning resistor networks with linear measurements, such as node voltages and currents. We prove that given $O(\log N)$ pairs of voltage and current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhuo Feng

Graph learning plays a central role in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as manifold learning, data representation and analysis, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization. In this work, we propose a highly…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are gaining popularity across various domains due to their effectiveness in learning graph-structured data. Nevertheless, they have been shown to be susceptible to backdoor poisoning attacks, which pose serious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yuxuan Zhu , Michael Mandulak , Kerui Wu , George Slota , Yuseok Jeon , Ka-Ho Chow , Lei Yu

Learning on large graphs presents significant challenges, with traditional Message Passing Neural Networks suffering from computational and memory costs scaling linearly with the number of edges. We introduce the Intersecting Block Graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jonathan Kouchly , Ben Finkelshtein , Michael Bronstein , Ron Levie

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

Graph sparsification is to approximate an arbitrary graph by a sparse graph and is useful in many applications, such as simplification of social networks, least squares problems, numerical solution of symmetric positive definite linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ming-Jun Lai , Jiaxin Xie , Zhiqiang Xu