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We study the detection and the reconstruction of a large very dense subgraph in a social graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges given as a stream of edges, when the graph follows a power law degree distribution, in the regime when $m=O(n. \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Claire Mathieu , Michel de Rougemont

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

We consider network structures that optimize the $\mathcal{H}_2$ norm of weighted, time scaled consensus networks, under a minimal representation of such consensus networks described by the edge Laplacian. We show that a greedy algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Dillon R. Foight , Daniel Calderone , Mehran Mesbahi , Roy S. Smith

In statistical learning and analysis from shared data, which is increasingly widely adopted in platforms such as federated learning and meta-learning, there are two major concerns: privacy and robustness. Each participating individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xiyang Liu , Weihao Kong , Sham Kakade , Sewoong Oh

We study the algorithmic task of finding large independent sets in Erdos-Renyi $r$-uniform hypergraphs on $n$ vertices having average degree $d$. Krivelevich and Sudakov showed that the maximum independent set has density $\left(\frac{r\log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Abhishek Dhawan , Yuzhou Wang

In this work we study the time complexity for the search of local minima in random graphs whose vertices have i.i.d. cost values. We show that, for Erd\"os-R\'enyi graphs with connection probability given by $\lambda/n^\alpha$ (with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Matthieu Jonckheere , Manuel Sáenz

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the degree index and clustering index in random graphs. The degree index in our setup is a certain measure of degree irregularity whose basic properties are well studied in the literature, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ümit Işlak , Barış Yeşiloğlu

Exploring unknown environments is a fundamental task in many domains, e.g., robot navigation, network security, and internet search. We initiate the study of a learning-augmented variant of the classical, notoriously hard online graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Franziska Eberle , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Jens Schlöter

We propose methods to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships captured by the social network. Proposed techniques aim at fitting and estimating a wide class of exponential random graph…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2015-05-21 Vishesh Karwa , Aleksandra B. Slavković , Pavel Krivitsky

Robustness is a critical measure of the resilience of large networked systems, such as transportation and communication networks. Most prior works focus on the global robustness of a given graph at large, e.g., by measuring its overall…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Hau Chan , Shuchu Han , Leman Akoglu

We investigate the number of maximal cliques, i.e., cliques that are not contained in any larger clique, in three network models: Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs, inhomogeneous random graphs (also called Chung-Lu graphs), and geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Thomas Bläsius , Maximillian Katzmann , Clara Stegehuis

This paper investigates the addition of random edges to arbitrary dense graphs; in particular, we determine the number of random edges required to ensure various monotone properties including the appearance of a fixed size clique, small…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Tom Bohman , Alan Frieze , Michael Krivelevich , Ryan R. Martin

The total effective resistance, also called the Kirchhoff index, provides a robustness measure for a graph $G$. We consider two optimization problems of adding $k$ new edges to $G$ such that the resulting graph has minimal total effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Maria Predari , Lukas Berner , Robert Kooij , Henning Meyerhenke

We present a fast spectral algorithm for community detection in complex networks. Our method searches for the partition with the maximum value of the modularity via the interplay of several refinement steps that include both agglomeration…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Santiago Treviño , Amy Nyberg , Charo I. Del Genio , Kevin E. Bassler

Densest subgraph discovery (DSD) is a fundamental problem in graph mining. It has been studied for decades, and is widely used in various areas, including network science, biological analysis, and graph databases. Given a graph G, DSD aims…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Yixiang Fang , Kaiqiang Yu , Reynold Cheng , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Xuemin Lin

We consider the task of detecting a hidden bipartite subgraph in a given random graph. This is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem, under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph over $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Asaf Rotenberg , Wasim Huleihel , Ofer Shayevitz

We prove that the treewidth of an Erd\"{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph $\rg{n, m}$ is, with high probability, greater than $\beta n$ for some constant $\beta > 0$ if the edge/vertex ratio $\frac{m}{n}$ is greater than 1.073. Our lower bound…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-08-03 Yong Gao

Accurately analyzing graph properties of social networks is a challenging task because of access limitations to the graph data. To address this challenge, several algorithms to obtain unbiased estimates of properties from few samples via a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo

Detection of a planted dense subgraph in a random graph is a fundamental statistical and computational problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. We study a hypergraph version of the problem. Let $G^r(n,p)$ denote the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Abhishek Dhawan , Cheng Mao , Alexander S. Wein

Given a large graph, the densest-subgraph problem asks to find a subgraph with maximum average degree. When considering the top-$k$ version of this problem, a na\"ive solution is to iteratively find the densest subgraph and remove it in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Muhammad Anis Uddin Nasir , Aristides Gionis , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Sarunas Girdzijauskas