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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sotiris Kanellopoulos , Anna Mpanti , Aris Pagourtzis , Christos Pergaminelis

Temporal graphs serve as a critical foundation for modeling evolving interactions in domains ranging from financial networks to social media. Mining temporal motifs is essential for applications such as fraud detection, cybersecurity, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sanjay Sri Vallabh Singapuram , Ronald Dreslinski , Nishil Talati

Estimating the frequency of sub-graphs is of importance for many tasks, including sub-graph isomorphism, kernel-based anomaly detection, and network structure analysis. While multiple algorithms were proposed for full enumeration or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Itay Levinas , Roy Scherz , Yoram Louzoun

Computing subgraph frequencies is a fundamental task that lies at the core of several network analysis methodologies, such as network motifs and graphlet-based metrics, which have been widely used to categorize and compare networks from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Pedro Ribeiro , Pedro Paredes , Miguel E. P. Silva , David Aparicio , Fernando Silva

Characterizing motif (i.e., locally connected subgraph patterns) statistics is important for understanding complex networks such as online social networks and communication networks. Previous work made the strong assumption that the graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley

Counting small subgraphs, referred to as motifs, in large graphs is a fundamental task in graph analysis, extensively studied across various contexts and computational models. In the sublinear-time regime, the relaxed problem of approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Talya Eden , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Triangle counting is an important problem in graph mining. Clustering coefficients of vertices and the transitivity ratio of the graph are two metrics often used in complex network analysis. Furthermore, triangles have been used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-30 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Mihail N. Kolountzakis , Gary L. Miller

Frequent and structurally related subgraphs, also known as network motifs, are valuable features of many graph datasets. However, the high computational complexity of identifying motif sets in arbitrary datasets (motif mining) has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Carlos Oliver , Dexiong Chen , Vincent Mallet , Pericles Philippopoulos , Karsten Borgwardt

Network motif algorithms have been a topic of research mainly after the 2002-seminal paper from Milo \emph{et al}, that provided motifs as a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most networks. In Bioinformatics, motifs have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Luis A. A. Meira , Vinicius R. Máximo , Álvaro L. Fazenda , Arlindo F. da Conceição

Graph or network representations are an important foundation for data mining and machine learning tasks in relational data. Many tools of network analysis, like centrality measures, information ranking, or cluster detection rest on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Luka V. Petrovic , Ingo Scholtes

The sparsest cut problem consists of identifying a small set of edges that breaks the graph into balanced sets of vertices. The normalized cut problem balances the total degree, instead of the size, of the resulting sets. Applications of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami

Many real-world phenomena are best represented as interaction networks with dynamic structures (e.g., transaction networks, social networks, traffic networks). Interaction networks capture flow of data which is transferred between their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

The betweenness centrality of a vertex v is an important centrality measure that quantifies how many optimal paths between pairs of other vertices visit v. Computing betweenness centrality in a temporal graph, in which the edge set may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Hendrik Molter

Understanding the dynamic transition of motifs in temporal graphs is essential for revealing how graph structures evolve over time, identifying critical patterns, and predicting future behaviors, yet existing methods often focus on…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhiyuan Zheng , Jianpeng Qi , Jiantao Li , Guoqing Chao , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

In this work we consider temporal graphs, i.e. graphs, each edge of which is assigned a set of discrete time-labels drawn from a set of integers. The labels of an edge indicate the discrete moments in time at which the edge is available. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Paul G. Spirakis , Eleni Ch. Akrida

Graph generative models are highly important for sharing surrogate data and benchmarking purposes. Real-world complex systems often exhibit dynamic nature, where the interactions among nodes change over time in the form of a temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Penghang Liu , A. Erdem Sarıyüce

Counting the frequency of small subgraphs is a fundamental technique in network analysis across various domains, most notably in bioinformatics and social networks. The special case of triangle counting has received much attention. Getting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Ali Pinar , C. Seshadhri , V. Vishal

Temporal graphs are graphs with time-stamped edges. We study the problem of finding a small vertex set (the separator) with respect to two designated terminal vertices such that the removal of the set eliminates all temporal paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Philipp Zschoche , Till Fluschnik , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier

Networks are a fundamental and flexible way of representing various complex systems. Many domains such as communication, citation, procurement, biology, social media, and transportation can be modeled as a set of entities and their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Sumit Purohit , Lawrence B. Holder , George Chin

The problem of calculating the frequencies of network motifs on three and four nodes in large networks is considered. Telecommunications networks, cell molecular networks are investigated. The sizes of the investigated networks are hundreds…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-08 M. N. Yudina , V. N. Zadorozhnyi , E. B. Yudin