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A graph spanner is a fundamental graph structure that faithfully preserves the pairwise distances in the input graph up to a small multiplicative stretch. The common objective in the computation of spanners is to achieve the best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Merav Parter , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian , Anak Yodpinyanee

This paper presents efficient distributed algorithms for a number of fundamental problems in the area of graph sparsification: We provide the first deterministic distributed algorithm that computes an ultra-sparse spanner in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Marcel Bezdrighin , Michael Elkin , Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Saeed Ilchi , Václav Rozhoň

Recently, graph prompt learning has garnered increasing attention in adapting pre-trained GNN models for downstream graph learning tasks. However, existing works generally conduct prompting over all graph elements (e.g., nodes, edges, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bo Jiang , Hao Wu , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

We propose a fast approximate algorithm for large graph matching. A new projected fixed-point method is defined and a new doubly stochastic projection is adopted to derive the algorithm. Previous graph matching algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Yao Lu , Kaizhu Huang , Cheng-Lin Liu

To address the challenge of increasing network size, researchers have developed sparse models through network pruning. However, maintaining model accuracy while achieving significant speedups on general computing devices remains an open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Haitao Xu , Songwei Liu , Yuyang Xu , Shuai Wang , Jiashi Li , Chenqian Yan , Liangqiang Li , Lean Fu , Xin Pan , Fangmin Chen

We study graph spanners for point-set in the high-dimensional Euclidean space. On the one hand, we prove that spanners with stretch <\sqrt{2} and subquadratic size are not possible, even if we add Steiner points. On the other hand, if we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Alexandr Andoni , Hengjie Zhang

Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jinliang Shi , Shigang Li , Youxuan Xu , Rongtian Fu , Xueying Wang , Tong Wu

Distributed algorithms are often beset by the straggler effect, where the slowest compute nodes in the system dictate the overall running time. Coding-theoretic techniques have been recently proposed to mitigate stragglers via algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Jordan Ellenberg

A sparse graph that preserves an approximation of the shortest paths between all pairs of points in a plane is called a geometric spanner. Using range trees of sublinear size, we design an algorithm in massively parallel computation (MPC)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Sepideh Aghamolaei , Mohammad Ghodsi

We describe an algorithm that takes as input n points in the plane and a parameter {\epsilon}, and produces as output an embedded planar graph having the given points as a subset of its vertices in which the graph distances are a (1 +…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Glencora Borradaile , David Eppstein

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are popular probabilistic models that arise in many machine learning tasks, where distributions of diverse sets are characterized by matrix determinants. In this paper, we develop fast algorithms to find…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Insu Han , Prabhanjan Kambadur , Kyoungsoo Park , Jinwoo Shin

A spanner is a sparse subgraph of a given graph $G$ which preserves distances, measured w.r.t.\ some distance metric, up to a multiplicative stretch factor. This paper addresses the problem of constructing graph spanners w.r.t.\ the group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Davide Bilò , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Alessandro Straziota

In recent years, a variety of randomized constructions of sketching matrices have been devised, that have been used in fast algorithms for numerical linear algebra problems, such as least squares regression, low-rank approximation, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Dong Hu , Shashanka Ubaru , Alex Gittens , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Lior Horesh , Vassilis Kalantzis

Seminal works on light spanners over the years provide spanners with optimal lightness in various graph classes, such as in general graphs, Euclidean spanners, and minor-free graphs. Three shortcomings of previous works on light spanners…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hung Le , Shay Solomon

Given a set of points in the plane, we want to establish a connection network between these points that consists of several disjoint layers. Motivated by sensor networks, we want that each layer is spanning and plane, and that no edge is…

This paper presents the first parallel batch-dynamic algorithms for computing spanners and sparsifiers. Our algorithms process any batch of edge insertions and deletions in an $n$-node undirected graph, in $\text{poly}(\log n)$ depth and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

In a number of situations, collecting a function value for every data point may be prohibitively expensive, and random sampling ignores any structure in the underlying data. We introduce a scalable optimization algorithm with no correction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Saeed Vahidian , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Alexander Cloninger

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great superiority on non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various graph-related tasks. As a practical solution to train GNN on large graphs with billions of nodes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zeyu Zhu , Peisong Wang , Qinghao Hu , Gang Li , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

We introduce FastGraph, a novel GPU-optimized k-nearest neighbor algorithm specifically designed to accelerate graph construction in low-dimensional spaces (2-10 dimensions), critical for high-performance graph neural networks. Our method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Aarush Agarwal , Raymond He , Jan Kieseler , Matteo Cremonesi , Shah Rukh Qasim

A seminal work of [Ahn-Guha-McGregor, PODS'12] showed that one can compute a cut sparsifier of an unweighted undirected graph by taking a near-linear number of linear measurements on the graph. Subsequent works also studied computing other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li