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We prove essentially tight lower bounds, conditionally to the Exponential Time Hypothesis, for two fundamental but seemingly very different cutting problems on surface-embedded graphs: the Shortest Cut Graph problem and the Multiway Cut…

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Adversarial attacks to graph analytics are gaining increased attention. To date, two lines of countermeasures have been proposed to resist various graph adversarial attacks from the perspectives of either graph per se or graph neural…

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Preservers and additive spanners are sparse (hence cheap to store) subgraphs that preserve the distances between given pairs of nodes exactly or with some small additive error, respectively. Since real-world networks are prone to failures,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Greg Bodwin , Fabrizio Grandoni , Merav Parter , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

In Part I of this work we defined a generalization of the concept of effective resistance to directed graphs, and we explored some of the properties of this new definition. Here, we use the theory developed in Part I to compute effective…

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

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

We consider the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph. This problem has been extensively studied in both theory and practice, but all existing algorithms read the entire graph. In this work we design a {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Talya Eden , Amit Levi , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

We demonstrate that for expander graphs, for all $\epsilon > 0,$ there exists a data structure of size $\widetilde{O}(n\epsilon^{-1})$ which can be used to return $(1 + \epsilon)$-approximations to effective resistances in…

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We abstract and study \emph{reachability preservers}, a graph-theoretic primitive that has been implicit in prior work on network design. Given a directed graph $G = (V, E)$ and a set of \emph{demand pairs} $P \subseteq V \times V$, a…

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Graph curvature provides geometric priors for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enhancing their ability to model complex graph structures, particularly in terms of structural awareness, robustness, and theoretical interpretability. Among…

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The \textit{toughness} $t(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a measure of its connectivity that is closely related to Hamiltonicity. Brouwer proved the lower bound $t(G) > \ell / \lambda - 2$ on the toughness of any connected $\ell$-regular graph, where…

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We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

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We perform the first adversarial robustness study into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that are provably more powerful than traditional Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs). In particular, we use adversarial robustness as a tool to uncover…

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Graph algorithms applied in many applications, including social networks, communication networks, VLSI design, graphics, and several others, require dynamic modifications -- addition and removal of vertices and/or edges -- in the graph.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Bapi Chatterjee , Sathya Peri , Muktikanta Sa , Nandini Singhal

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 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 initiate the study on fault-tolerant spanners in hypergraphs and develop fast algorithms for their constructions. A fault-tolerant (FT) spanner preserves approximate distances under network failures, often used in applications like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jialin He , Nicholas Popescu , Chunjiang Zhu

Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. The resistance distance $R_G(x,y)$ between two vertices $x,y$ of $G$ is defined to be the effective resistance between the two vertices in the corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Si-Ao Xu , Huan Zhou , Xiang-Feng Pan

Classes of graphs with bounded expansion are a generalization of both proper minor closed classes and degree bounded classes. Such classes are based on a new invariant, the greatest reduced average density (grad) of G with rank r,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona De Mendez

Resistance distance has been studied extensively in the past years, with the majority of previous studies devoted to undirected networks, in spite of the fact that various realistic networks are directed. Although several generalizations of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Mingzhe Zhu , Liwang Zhu , Huan Li , Wei Li , Zhongzhi Zhang