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Effective resistance (ER) is an attractive way to interrogate the structure of graphs. It is an alternative to computing the eigen-vectors of the graph Laplacian. Graph laplacians are used to find low dimensional structures in high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Robi Bhattacharjee , Alex Cloninger , Yoav Freund , Andreas Oslandsbotn

Effective resistance is an important metric that measures the similarity of two vertices in a graph. It has found applications in graph clustering, recommendation systems and network reliability, among others. In spite of the importance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Pan Peng , Daniel Lopatta , Yuichi Yoshida , Gramoz Goranci

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

Effective Resistance (ER) is a fundamental tool in various graph learning tasks. In this paper, we address the problem of efficiently approximating ER on a graph $\mathcal{G}=(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{E})$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yichun Yang , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

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

The graphical notion of effective resistance has found wide-ranging applications in many areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics and control theory. By the nature of its construction, effective resistance can only be computed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-23 George Forrest Young , Luca Scardovi , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Effective graph resistance is a fundamental structural metric in network science, widely used to quantify global connectivity, compare network architectures, and assess robustness in flow-based systems. Despite its importance, current…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-05 Xiangrong Wang , Xin Yu , Zongze Wu , Yamir Moreno

We study the problem of efficiently approximating the \textit{effective resistance} (ER) on undirected graphs, where ER is a widely used node proximity measure with applications in graph spectral sparsification, multi-class graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Guanyu Cui , Hanzhi Wang , Zhewei Wei

Effective resistances are ubiquitous in graph algorithms and network analysis. In this work, we study sublinear time algorithms to approximate the effective resistance of an adjacent pair $s$ and $t$. We consider the classical adjacency…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongrun Cai , Xue Chen , Pan Peng

Graph Neural Networks struggle to capture long-range dependencies due to over-squashing, where information from exponentially growing neighborhoods must pass through a small number of structural bottlenecks. While recent rewiring methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bertran Miquel-Oliver , Manel Gil-Sorribes , Victor Guallar , Alexis Molina

For a simple graph $G=(V,E)$ and edge $e\in E$, the effective resistance is defined as a ratio $\frac{\tau(G/e)}{\tau(G)}$, where $\tau(G)$ denotes the number of spanning trees in $G$. We resolve the inverse problem for the effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Swee Hong Chan , Alex Kontorovich , Igor Pak

This work presents a new method for symmetrization of directed graphs that constructs an undirected graph with equivalent pairwise effective resistances as a given directed graph. Consequently a graph metric, square root of effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Katherine Fitch

This article introduces a new approach to discrete curvature based on the concept of effective resistances. We propose a curvature on the nodes and links of a graph and present the evidence for their interpretation as a curvature. Notably,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

The concept of effective resistance, originally introduced in electrical circuit theory, has been extended to the setting of graphs by interpreting each edge as a resistor. In this context, the effective resistance between two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Inés García-Redondo , Claudia Landi , Sarah Percival , Anda Skeja , Bei Wang , Ling Zhou

Effective resistance, which originates from the field of circuits analysis, is an important graph distance in spectral graph theory. It has found numerous applications in various areas, such as graph data mining, spectral graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Zhiqiang Liu , Wenjian Yu

We present a method for electronic structure calculations that retains all of the advantages of real space and addresses the inherent inefficiency of a regular grid, which has equal precision everywhere. The computations are carried out on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gil Zumbach , N. A. Modine , Efthimios Kaxiras

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

We consider linear partial differential equations on resistance spaces that are uniformly elliptic and parabolic in the sense of quadratic forms and involve abstract gradient and divergence terms. Our main interest is to provide graph and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Michael Hinz , Melissa Meinert

$ \def\vecc#1{\boldsymbol{#1}} $We design a polynomial time algorithm that for any weighted undirected graph $G = (V, E,\vecc w)$ and sufficiently large $\delta > 1$, partitions $V$ into subsets $V_1, \ldots, V_h$ for some $h\geq 1$, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Vedat Levi Alev , Nima Anari , Lap Chi Lau , Shayan Oveis Gharan

In this paper we consider the \emph{fully-dynamic} All-Pairs Effective Resistance problem, where the goal is to maintain effective resistances on a graph $G$ among any pair of query vertices under an intermixed sequence of edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 David Durfee , Yu Gao , Gramoz Goranci , Richard Peng
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