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We develop the first pure node-differentially-private algorithms for learning stochastic block models and for graphon estimation with polynomial running time for any constant number of blocks. The statistical utility guarantees match those…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Tommaso d'Orsi , Yiding Hua , Chih-Hung Liu , David Steurer

We initiate an investigation of node differential privacy for graphs in the local model of private data analysis. In our model, dubbed LNDP*, each node sees its own edge list and releases the output of a local randomizer on this input.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Connor Wagaman , Anatoly Zavyalov

A wide variety of complex networks (social, biological, information etc.) exhibit local clustering with substantial variation in the clustering coefficient (the probability of neighbors being connected). Existing models of large graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Samantha Petti , Santosh Vempala

We consider the edge-triangle model, a two-parameter family of exponential random graphs in which dependence between edges is introduced through triangles. In the so-called replica symmetric regime, the limiting free energy exists together…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Alessandra Bianchi , Francesca Collet , Elena Magnanini

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

We study a well known noisy model of the graph isomorphism problem. In this model, the goal is to perfectly recover the vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, with an initial seed set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Elchanan Mossel , Jiaming Xu

Consider a `dense' Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph model $G=G_{n,M}$ with $n$ vertices and $M$ edges, where we assume the edge density $M/\binom{n}{2}$ is bounded away from 0 and 1. Fix $k=k(n)$ with $k/n$ bounded away from 0 and~1, and let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Paul Balister , Emil Powierski , Alex Scott , Jane Tan

In this paper, we investigate the problem of differentially private distributed optimization. Recognizing that lower sensitivity leads to higher accuracy, we analyze the key factors influencing the sensitivity of differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

In most domains of network analysis researchers consider networks that arise in nature with weighted edges. Such networks are routinely dichotomized in the interest of using available methods for statistical inference with networks. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-10 James D. Wilson , Matthew J. Denny , Shankar Bhamidi , Skyler Cranmer , Bruce Desmarais

The distribution $\mathsf{RGG}(n,\mathbb{S}^{d-1},p)$ is formed by sampling independent vectors $\{V_i\}_{i = 1}^n$ uniformly on $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ and placing an edge between pairs of vertices $i$ and $j$ for which $\langle V_i,V_j\rangle…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Kiril Bangachev , Guy Bresler

In dense Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs, we are interested in the events where large numbers of a given subgraph occur. The mean behavior of subgraph counts is known, and only recently were the related large deviations results discovered.…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-03 Shankar Bhamidi , Jan Hannig , Chia Ying Lee , James Nolen

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm to estimate the mean of a $d$-variate probability distribution with bounded covariance from $\tilde{O}(d)$ independent samples subject to pure differential privacy. Prior algorithms for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Samuel B. Hopkins , Gautam Kamath , Mahbod Majid

The problems of detecting and recovering planted structures/subgraphs in Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, have received significant attention over the past three decades, leading to many exciting results and mathematical techniques.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Dor Elimelech , Wasim Huleihel

In this paper, we propose a deterministic algorithm that approximates the optimal path cover on weighted undirected graphs. Based on the 1/2-Approximation Path Cover Algorithm by Moran et al., we add a procedure to remove the redundant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Junyuan Lin , Guangpeng Ren

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

Starting with the large deviation principle (LDP) for the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi binomial random graph $\mathcal{G}(n,p)$ (edge indicators are i.i.d.), due to Chatterjee and Varadhan (2011), we derive the LDP for the uniform random graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Amir Dembo , Eyal Lubetzky

We propose the following model of a random graph on n vertices. Let F be a distribution in R_+^{n(n-1)/2} with a coordinate for every pair i$ with 1 \le i,j \le n. Then G_{F,p} is the distribution on graphs with n vertices obtained by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Alan Frieze , Santosh Vempala , Juan Vera

We study the problem of estimating the number of edges in an unknown graph. We consider a hybrid model in which an algorithm may issue independent set, degree, and neighbor queries. We show that this model admits strictly more efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tomer Adar , Yahel Hotam , Amit Levi

As the popularity of graph data increases, there is a growing need to count the occurrences of subgraph patterns of interest, for a variety of applications. Many graphs are massive in scale and also fully dynamic (with insertions and…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kaixin Wang , Cheng Long , Da Yan , Jie Zhang , H. V. Jagadish

Graph Sampling provides an efficient yet inexpensive solution for analyzing large graphs. While extracting small representative subgraphs from large graphs, the challenge is to capture the properties of the original graph. Several sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Raheel Anwar