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Weight thresholding is a simple technique that aims at reducing the number of edges in weighted networks that are otherwise too dense for the application of standard graph theoretical methods. We show that the group structure of real…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Xiaoran Yan , Lucas G. S. Jeub , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models that can manage complex data sources and their interconnection links. One of GNNs' main drawbacks is their lack of interpretability, which limits their application in sensitive fields. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Salvatore Calderaro , Domenico Amato , Giosuè Lo Bosco , Riccardo Rizzo , Filippo Vella

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

We initiate the algorithmic study of the following "structured augmentation" question: is it possible to increase the connectivity of a given graph G by superposing it with another given graph H? More precisely, graph F is the superposition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

This paper studies the problem of detecting the presence of a small dense community planted in a large Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $\mathcal{G}(N,q)$, where the edge probability within the community exceeds $q$ by a constant factor.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Bruce Hajek , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as highly successful tools for graph-related tasks. However, real-world problems involve very large graphs, and the compute resources needed to fit GNNs to those problems grow rapidly. Moreover, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Eitan Kosman , Joel Oren , Dotan Di Castro

A relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-07 The-Anh Vu-Le , Minhyuk Park , Ian Chen , George Chacko , Tandy Warnow

We propose SGS-GNN, a novel supervised graph sparsifier that learns the sampling probability distribution of edges and samples sparse subgraphs of a user-specified size to reduce the computational costs required by GNNs for inference tasks…

An edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ is called stable if the value of a maximum-weight matching equals the value of a maximum-weight fractional matching. Stable graphs play an important role in some interesting game theory problems, such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Zhuan Khye Koh , Laura Sanità

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

We use the concept of the network communicability (Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008) 036111) to define communities in a complex network. The communities are defined as the cliques of a communicability graph, which has the same set of nodes as the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-17 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano

As real-world graphs expand in size, larger GNN models with billions of parameters are deployed. High parameter count in such models makes training and inference on graphs expensive and challenging. To reduce the computational and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hongwu Peng , Deniz Gurevin , Shaoyi Huang , Tong Geng , Weiwen Jiang , Omer Khan , Caiwen Ding

The maximum modularity of a graph is a parameter widely used to describe the level of clustering or community structure in a network. Determining the maximum modularity of a graph is known to be NP-complete in general, and in practice a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

We investigate the List $H$-Coloring problem, the generalization of graph coloring that asks whether an input graph $G$ admits a homomorphism to the undirected graph $H$ (possibly with loops), such that each vertex $v \in V(G)$ is mapped to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Hubie Chen , Bart M. P. Jansen , Karolina Okrasa , Astrid Pieterse , Paweł Rzążewski

In the Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP), the input is an edge-weighted (di)graph $G$ and an integer $r_{uv}$ for every pair of vertices $u,v\in V(G)$. The objective is to construct a subgraph $H$ of minimum weight which contains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Manu Basavaraju , Pranabendu Misra , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

To cope with the complexity of large networks, a number of dimensionality reduction techniques for graphs have been developed. However, the extent to which information is lost or preserved when these techniques are employed has not yet been…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-08-28 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

In graph modification problems, one is given a graph G and the goal is to apply a minimum number of modification operations (such as edge deletions) to G such that the resulting graph fulfills a certain property. For example, the Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

We present a general toolbox, based on new vertex sparsifiers, for designing data structures to maintain shortest paths in dynamic graphs. In an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions, our data structures give the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg

Community search is a well-studied problem which, given a static graph and a query set of vertices, requires to find a cohesive (or dense) subgraph containing the query vertices. In this paper we study the problem of community search in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ioanna Tsalouchidou , Francesco Bonchi , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Graph Sparsification aims at compressing large graphs into smaller ones while preserving important characteristics of the input graph. In this work we study Vertex Sparsifiers, i.e., sparsifiers whose goal is to reduce the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng