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Effective resistances are ubiquitous in graph algorithms and network analysis. In this work, we study sublinear time algorithms to approximate the effective resistance of an adjacent pair $s$ and $t$. We consider the classical adjacency…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongrun Cai , Xue Chen , Pan Peng

The \emph{$k$-restricted edge-connectivity} of a graph $G$, denoted by $\lambda_k(G)$, is defined as the minimum size of an edge set whose removal leaves exactly two connected components each containing at least $k$ vertices. This graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Luis Pedro Montejano , Ignasi Sau

The effective graph resistance, also known as the Kirchhoff index, is metric that is used to quantify the robustness of a network. We show that the optimisation problem of minimizing the effective graph resistance of a graph by adding a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-29 Robert E. Kooij , Massimo A. Achterberg

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard for graph representation learning but remain vulnerable to structural perturbations. We propose a novel framework that integrates persistent homology features with stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jelena Losic

Spanning tree modulus is a generalization of effective resistance that is closely related to graph strength and fractional arboricity. The optimal edge density associated with spanning tree modulus is known to produce two hierarchical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Nathan Albin , Kapila Kottegoda , Pietro Poggi-Corradini

We analyse signed networks from the perspective of balance theory which predicts structural balance as a global structure for signed social networks that represent groups of friends and enemies. The scarcity of balanced networks encouraged…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Samin Aref

We propose an adaptive version of the total variation algorithm proposed in [3] for computing the balanced cut of a graph. The algorithm from [3] used a sequence of inner total variation minimizations to guarantee descent of the balanced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Xavier Bresson , Thomas Laurent , David Uminsky , James H. von Brecht

Designing well-connected graphs is a fundamental problem that frequently arises in various contexts across science and engineering. The weighted number of spanning trees, as a connectivity measure, emerges in numerous problems and plays a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

In the spanning tree congestion problem, given a connected graph $G$, the objective is to compute a spanning tree $T$ in $G$ that minimizes its maximum edge congestion, where the congestion of an edge $e$ of $T$ is the number of edges in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Huong Luu , Marek Chrobak

To prevent service time bottlenecks in distributed storage systems, the access balancing problem has been studied by designing almost supermagic edge labelings of certain graphs to balance the access requests to different servers. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Xin Wei , Xiande Zhang , Gennian Ge

Measuring robustness is a fundamental task for analyzing the structure of complex networks. Indeed, several approaches to capture the robustness properties of a network have been proposed. In this paper we focus on spectral graph theory…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Gian Paolo Clemente , Alessandra Cornaro

Message passing graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular learning architectures for graph-structured data. However, one problem GNNs experience is oversquashing, where a GNN has difficulty sending information between distant nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mitchell Black , Zhengchao Wan , Amir Nayyeri , Yusu Wang

Traditional graph centrality measures effectively quantify node importance but fail to capture the structural uniqueness of multi-scale connectivity patterns -- critical for understanding network resilience and function. This paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-03 R. Scott Johnson

The graph is one of the most widely used mathematical structures in engineering and science because of its representational power and inherent ability to demonstrate the relationship between objects. The objective of this work is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

In spatially embedded networks such as transportation and power grids, understanding how edge removals affect connectivity is crucial for robustness analysis. This paper studies a planar graph dismantling problem under an edge-budget…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fangchen You

When facing graph signal processing tasks, the workhorse assumption is that the graph describing the support of the signals is known. However, in many relevant applications the available graph suffers from observation errors and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Samuel Rey , Victor M. Tenorio , Antonio G. Marques

The study of network robustness is a critical tool in the characterization and sense making of complex interconnected systems such as infrastructure, communication and social networks. While significant research has been conducted in all of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Scott Freitas , Diyi Yang , Srijan Kumar , Hanghang Tong , Duen Horng Chau

In this paper, we consider circulant graphs obtained from the complete graph $K_N$ by deleting all edges belonging to a prescribed distance class. We study, in a unified manner, the effective resistance, the expected hitting time, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shunya Tamura

Suppose we want to estimate a total effect with covariate adjustment in a linear structural equation model. We have a causal graph to decide what covariates to adjust for, but are uncertain about the graph. Here, we propose a testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-07 Zehao Su , Leonard Henckel

We study a conductance-weighted arboricity for a finite simple undirected graph $G=(V,E,c)$ with a conductance assignment $c:E\to[0,\infty)$: \[ A_c(G):=\max\bigl\{ D_c(H): H\subseteq G\text{ connected}, |V(H)|\ge 2 \bigr\},\qquad…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Rowan Moxley