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Given a graph $G$ of degree $k$ over $n$ vertices, we consider the problem of computing a near maximum cut or a near minimum bisection in polynomial time. For graphs of girth $2L$, we develop a local message passing algorithm whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari , Mark Sellke

The vertex expansion of the graph is a fundamental graph parameter. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a parameter $\delta \in (0,1/2]$, its $\delta$-Small-Set Vertex Expansion (SSVE) is defined as \[ \min_{S : |S| = \delta |V|}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Suprovat Ghoshal , Anand Louis

Many differentially private and classical non-private graph algorithms rely crucially on determining whether some property of each vertex meets a threshold. For example, for the $k$-core decomposition problem, the classic peeling algorithm…

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Differentially private algorithms protect individuals in data analysis scenarios by ensuring that there is only a weak correlation between the existence of the user in the data and the result of the analysis. Dynamic graph algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Lara Ost

We give an FPTAS for computing the number of matchings of size $k$ in a graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ on $n$ vertices, for all $k \le (1-\delta)m^*(G)$, where $\delta>0$ is fixed and $m^*(G)$ is the matching number of $G$, and an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Vishesh Jain , Will Perkins , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney

An $s{\operatorname{-}}t$ minimum cut in a graph corresponds to a minimum weight subset of edges whose removal disconnects vertices $s$ and $t$. Finding such a cut is a classic problem that is dual to that of finding a maximum flow from $s$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Simon Apers , Arinta Auza , Troy Lee

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…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Éric Colin de Verdière , Daniel Marx , Arnaud de Mesmay

The problem of computing the vertex expansion of a graph is an NP-hard problem. The current best worst-case approximation guarantees for computing the vertex expansion of a graph are a $O(\sqrt{\log n})$-approximation algorithm due to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anand Louis , Rakesh Venkat

We present an improved $(\epsilon, \delta)$-jointly differentially private algorithm for packing problems. Our algorithm gives a feasible output that is approximately optimal up to an $\alpha n$ additive factor as long as the supply of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Zhiyi Huang , Xue Zhu

For a finite, simple, and undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and average degree $d$, Nikiforov introduced the degree deviation of $G$ as $s=\sum_{u\in V(G)}\left|d_G(u)-d\right|$. Provided that $G$ has largest eigenvalue $\lambda$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Dieter Rautenbach , Florian Werner

Given a graph, the densest subgraph problem asks for a set of vertices such that the average degree among these vertices is maximized. Densest subgraph has numerous applications in learning, e.g., community detection in social networks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Elaine Shi

In this note, we describe a $\alpha_{GW} + \tilde{\Omega}(1/d^2)$-factor approximation algorithm for Max-Cut on weighted graphs of degree $\leq d$. Here, $\alpha_{GW}\approx 0.878$ is the worst-case approximation ratio of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari

We give an approximation algorithm for non-uniform sparsest cut with the following guarantee: For any $\epsilon,\delta \in (0,1)$, given cost and demand graphs with edge weights $C, D$ respectively, we can find a set $T\subseteq V$ with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop

Estimating the geometric median of a dataset is a robust counterpart to mean estimation, and is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Recently, [HSU24] gave an $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm obtaining an…

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We consider the problem of sampling an edge almost uniformly from an unknown graph, $G = (V, E)$. Access to the graph is provided via queries of the following types: (1) uniform vertex queries, (2) degree queries, and (3) neighbor queries.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Talya Eden , Will Rosenbaum

In this work, we study the maximum matching problem from the perspective of sensitivity. The sensitivity of an algorithm $A$ on a graph $G$ is defined as the maximum Wasserstein distance between the output distributions of $A$ on $G$ and on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuichi Yoshida , Zihan Zhang

We give a deterministic, nearly logarithmic-space algorithm for mild spectral sparsification of undirected graphs. Given a weighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ vertices described by a binary string of length $N$, an integer $k\leq \log n$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Dean Doron , Jack Murtagh , Salil Vadhan , David Zuckerman

The problems of computing eccentricity, radius, and diameter are fundamental to graph theory. These parameters are intrinsically defined based on the distance metric of the graph. In this work, we propose quantum algorithms for the diameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Adam Wesołowski , Jinge Bao

Finding maximum-weight independent sets in graphs is an important NP-hard optimization problem. Given a vertex-weighted graph $G$, the task is to find a subset of pairwise non-adjacent vertices of $G$ with maximum weight. Most recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Mattthias Schimek

In this paper, we investigate one of the most fundamental nonconvex learning problems, ReLU regression, in the Differential Privacy (DP) model. Previous studies on private ReLU regression heavily rely on stringent assumptions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Meng Ding , Mingxi Lei , Shaowei Wang , Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang , Jinhui Xu