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We present a new, systematic approach for analyzing network topologies. We first introduce the dK-series of probability distributions specifying all degree correlations within d-sized subgraphs of a given graph G. Increasing values of d…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Priya Mahadevan , Dmitri Krioukov , Kevin Fall , Amin Vahdat

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

As a fundamental topic in graph mining, Densest Subgraph Discovery (DSD) has found a wide spectrum of real applications. Several DSD algorithms, including exact and approximation algorithms, have been proposed in the literature. However,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yingli Zhou , Qingshuo Guo , Yi Yang , Yixiang Fang , Chenhao Ma , Laks Lakshmanan

This paper introduces and demonstrates a computational pipeline for the statistical analysis of shape graph datasets, namely geometric networks embedded in 2D or 3D spaces. Unlike traditional abstract graphs, our purpose is not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Murad Hossen , Demetrio Labate , Nicolas Charon

In this article, we study the question of the statistical convergence of the 1-dimensional Mapper to its continuous analogue, the Reeb graph. We show that the Mapper is an optimal estimator of the Reeb graph, which gives, as a byproduct, a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel , Steve Oudot

Graph embedding provides a feasible methodology to conduct pattern classification for graph-structured data by mapping each data into the vectorial space. Various pioneering works are essentially coding method that concentrates on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xue Liu , Dan Sun , Xiaobo Cao , Hao Ye , Wei Wei

In this paper we introduce a novel family of attributed graphs for the purpose of shape discrimination. Our graphs typically arise from variations on the Mapper graph construction, which is an approximation of the Reeb graph for point cloud…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Justin Curry , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan , Florian Russold

We propose a new approach, named PolyMapper, to circumvent the conventional pixel-wise segmentation of (aerial) images and predict objects in a vector representation directly. PolyMapper directly extracts the topological map of a city from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zuoyue Li , Jan Dirk Wegner , Aurélien Lucchi

We present ShapeVis, a scalable visualization technique for point cloud data inspired from topological data analysis. Our method captures the underlying geometric and topological structure of the data in a compressed graphical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Nupur Kumari , Siddarth R. , Akash Rupela , Piyush Gupta , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Besides the complexity in time or in number of messages, a common approach for analyzing distributed algorithms is to look at the assumptions they make on the underlying network. We investigate this question from the perspective of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Afonso Ferreira

This paper gives poly-logarithmic-round, distributed D-approximation algorithms for covering problems with submodular cost and monotone covering constraints (Submodular-cost Covering). The approximation ratio D is the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Christos Koufogiannakis , Neal E. Young

The limits of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of macromolecules are steadily pushed forward by the relentless developments of computer architectures and algorithms. This explosion in the number and extent (in size and time) of MD…

We develop a new approach for distributed distance computation in planar graphs that is based on a variant of the metric compression problem recently introduced by Abboud et al. [SODA'18]. One of our key technical contributions is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Jason Li , Merav Parter

In this paper, we propose a path following replicator dynamic, and investigate its potentials in uncovering the underlying cluster structure of a graph. The proposed dynamic is a generalization of the discrete replicator dynamic. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Hairong Liu , Longin Jan Latecki , Shuicheng Yan

There is a growing need for unbiased clustering methods, ideally automated. We have developed a topology-based analysis tool called Two-Tier Mapper (TTMap) to detect subgroups in global gene expression datasets and identify their…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-08 Rachel Jeitziner , Mathieu Carrière , Jacques Rougemont , Steve Oudot , Kathryn Hess , Cathrin Brisken

The use of distributions and high-level features from deep architecture has become commonplace in modern computer vision. Both of these methodologies have separately achieved a great deal of success in many computer vision tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Junier B. Oliva , Danica J. Sutherland , Barnabás Póczos , Jeff Schneider

Recent advancements in graph representation learning have led to the emergence of condensed encodings that capture the main properties of a graph. However, even though these abstract representations are powerful for downstream tasks, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Cristian Bodnar , Cătălina Cangea , Pietro Liò

Graph partitioning has long been seen as a viable approach to address Graph DBMS scalability. A partitioning, however, may introduce extra query processing latency unless it is sensitive to a specific query workload, and optimised to…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Hugo Firth , Paolo Missier

Mapper algorithm can be used to build graph-based representations of high-dimensional data capturing structurally interesting features such as loops, flares or clusters. The graph can be further annotated with additional colouring of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Ciara Frances Loughrey , Nick Orr , Anna Jurek-Loughrey , Paweł Dłotko

Graph embeddings play a critical role in graph representation learning, allowing machine learning models to explore and interpret graph-structured data. However, existing methods often rely on opaque, high-dimensional embeddings, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Astrit Tola , Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora , Baris Coskunuzer