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We show that for all integers $t\geq 8$ and arbitrarily small $\epsilon>0$, there exists a graph property $\Pi$ (which depends on $\epsilon$) such that $\epsilon$-testing $\Pi$ has non-adaptive query complexity $Q=\~{\Theta}(q^{2-2/t})$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-27 Jeremy Hurwitz

A graph property is monotone if it is closed under removal of vertices and edges. In this paper we consider the following edge-deletion problem; given a monotone property P and a graph G, compute the smallest number of edge deletions that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Noga Alon , Asaf Shapira , Benny Sudakov

In the random geometric graph model $\mathsf{Geo}_d(n,p)$, we identify each of our $n$ vertices with an independently and uniformly sampled vector from the $d$-dimensional unit sphere, and we connect pairs of vertices whose vectors are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Siqi Liu , Sidhanth Mohanty , Tselil Schramm , Elizabeth Yang

The edit distance between two graphs on the same labeled vertex set is the size of the symmetric difference of the edge sets. The distance between a graph, $G$, and a hereditary property, ${\cal H}$, is the minimum of the distance between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Ryan R. Martin

The goal of graph inference is to design algorithms for learning properties of a hidden graph using queries to an oracle that returns information about the graph. Graph reconstruction, verification, and property testing are all types of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Huck Bennett , Mitchell Black , Amir Nayyeri , Evelyn Warton

Data consisting of a graph with a function mapping into $\mathbb{R}^d$ arise in many data applications, encompassing structures such as Reeb graphs, geometric graphs, and knot embeddings. As such, the ability to compare and cluster such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Erin W. Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

The area of graph property testing seeks to understand the relation between the global properties of a graph and its local statistics. In the classical model, the local statistics of a graph is defined relative to a uniform distribution…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Lior Gishboliner , Asaf Shapira

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

For a property $P$ and a sub-property $P'$, we say that $P$ is $P'$-partially testable with $q$ queries if there exists an algorithm that distinguishes, with high probability, inputs in $P'$ from inputs $\epsilon$-far from $P$ by using $q$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Eldar Fischer , Yonatan Goldhirsh , Oded Lachish

Local certification is a topic originating from distributed computing, where a prover tries to convince the vertices of a graph $G$ that $G$ satisfies some property $\mathcal{P}$. To convince the vertices, the prover gives a small piece of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Louis Esperet , Sébastien Zeitoun

The goal of property testing is to quickly distinguish between objects which satisfy a property and objects that are $\epsilon$-far from satisfying the property. There are now several general results in this area which show that natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Jacob Fox , Fan Wei

The problem of recovering graph signals is one of the main topics in graph signal processing. A representative approach to this problem is the graph Wiener filter, which utilizes the statistical information of the target signal computed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Koki Yamada

Given a small random sample of $n$-bit strings labeled by an unknown Boolean function, which properties of this function can be tested computationally efficiently? We show an equivalence between properties that are efficiently testable from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala

Suppose $G$ is a graph with degrees bounded by $d$, and one needs to remove more than $\epsilon n$ of its edges in order to make it planar. We show that in this case the statistics of local neighborhoods around vertices of $G$ is far from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-10 Itai Benjamini , Oded Schramm , Asaf Shapira

Gromov-Hausdorff distances measure shape difference between the objects representable as compact metric spaces, e.g. point clouds, manifolds, or graphs. Computing any Gromov-Hausdorff distance is equivalent to solving an NP-Hard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Vladyslav Oles , Nathan Lemons , Alexander Panchenko

Fix a prime $p$ and a positive integer $R$. We study the property testing of functions $\mathbb F_p^n\to[R]$. We say that a property is testable if there exists an oblivious tester for this property with one-sided error and constant query…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Jonathan Tidor , Yufei Zhao

The edit distance between two graphs on the same vertex set is defined to be size of the symmetric difference of their edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property, $\mathcal{H}$, is a function of $p$ and measures,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Ryan Martin , Tracy McKay

In this paper we initiate the study of \emph{property testing of weighted computational networks viewed as computational devices}. Our goal is to design property testing algorithms that for a given computational network with oracle access…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Artur Czumaj , Christian Sohler

We study the question of testing structured properties (classes) of discrete distributions. Specifically, given sample access to an arbitrary distribution $D$ over $[n]$ and a property $\mathcal{P}$, the goal is to distinguish between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Clément L. Canonne , Ilias Diakonikolas , Themis Gouleakis , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We study property testing in the \emph{random neighbor oracle} model for graphs, originally introduced by Czumaj and Sohler [STOC 2019]. Specifically, we initiate the study of characterizing the graph families that are $H$-\emph{testable}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Christine Awofeso , Patrick Greaves , Oded Lachish , Amit Levi , Felix Reidl