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We give a linear-time algorithm that approximately uniformly generates a random simple graph with a power-law degree sequence whose exponent is at least 2.8811. While sampling graphs with power-law degree sequence of exponent at least 3 is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Pu Gao , Nicholas Wormald

Uniform sampling of simple graphs having a given degree sequence is a known problem with exponential complexity in the square of the mean degree. For undirected graphs, randomised approximation algorithms have nonetheless been shown to…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Femke van Ieperen , Ivan Kryven

In this paper, we revisit the problem of sampling edges in an unknown graph $G = (V, E)$ from a distribution that is (pointwise) almost uniform over $E$. We consider the case where there is some a priori upper bound on the arboriciy of $G$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , Will Rosenbaum

Let d = (d1, d2, ..., dn) be a vector of non-negative integers with even sum. We prove some basic facts about the structure of a random graph with degree sequence d, including the probability of a given subgraph or induced subgraph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Brendan D McKay

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

Interactions between two entities often occur at specific timestamps, which can be modeled as a temporal graph. Exploring the relationships between vertices based on temporal paths is one of the fundamental tasks. In this paper, we conduct…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhiyang Tang , Yanping Wu , Xiangjun Zai , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang , Ying Zhang

The area of sublinear algorithms have recently received a lot of attention. In this setting, one has to choose specific access model for the input, as the algorithm does not have time to pre-process or even to see the whole input. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jakub Tětek

In the realm of generative models for graphs, extensive research has been conducted. However, most existing methods struggle with large graphs due to the complexity of representing the entire joint distribution across all node pairs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Andreas Bergmeister , Karolis Martinkus , Nathanaël Perraudin , Roger Wattenhofer

Graph coloring is one of the most famous computational problems with applications in a wide range of areas such as planning and scheduling, resource allocation, and pattern matching. So far coloring problems are mostly studied on static…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-12 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Viktor Zamaraev

Random graph generation is an important tool for studying large complex networks. Despite abundance of random graph models, constructing models with application-driven constraints is poorly understood. In order to advance state-of-the-art…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Mohsen Bayati , Andrea Montanari , Amin Saberi

Random graphs (or networks) have gained a significant increase of interest due to its popularity in modeling and simulating many complex real-world systems. Degree sequence is one of the most important aspects of these systems. Random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan , Maleq Khan , Madhav Marathe

In the subgraph counting problem, we are given a input graph $G(V, E)$ and a target graph $H$; the goal is to estimate the number of occurrences of $H$ in $G$. Our focus here is on designing sublinear-time algorithms for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

We revisit the classic problem of estimating the degree distribution moments of an undirected graph. Consider an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, and define (for $s > 0$) $\mu_s = \frac{1}{n}\cdot\sum_{v \in V} d^s_v$. Our aim…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

We study the problem of generating graphs with prescribed degree sequences for bipartite, directed, and undirected networks. We first propose a sequential method for bipartite graph generation and establish a necessary and sufficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Tong Sun , Jianshu Hao , Michael C. Fu , Guangxin Jiang

Data generation is a fundamental research problem in data management due to its diverse use cases, ranging from testing database engines to data-specific applications. However, real-world entities often involve complex interactions that…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Fan Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dawei Cheng , Cong Chen , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

We present a randomized algorithm that, given a constant $\epsilon > 0$, outputs a proper $(1+\epsilon)\Delta$-edge-coloring of an $m$-edge simple graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 1/\epsilon$ in $O(m)$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

We present the first algorithm for generating random variates exactly uniformly from the set of perfect matchings of a bipartite graph with a polynomial expected running time over a nontrivial set of graphs. Previous Markov chain approaches…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Huber

Degree distribution, or equivalently called degree sequence, has been commonly used to be one of most significant measures for studying a large number of complex networks with which some well-known results have been obtained. By contrast,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-19 Fei Ma , Xiaoming Wang , Ping Wang

We study the mixing time of random graphs in the $d$-dimensional toric unit cube $[0,1]^d$ generated by the geographical threshold graph (GTG) model, a generalization of random geometric graphs (RGG). In a GTG, nodes are distributed in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Andrew Beveridge , Milan Bradonjić

The recent deep generative models for static graphs that are now being actively developed have achieved significant success in areas such as molecule design. However, many real-world problems involve temporal graphs whose topology and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Liming Zhang , Liang Zhao , Shan Qin , Dieter Pfoser