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We provide upper and lower bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of grounded Laplacian matrices (which are matrices obtained by removing certain rows and columns of the Laplacian matrix of a given graph). The gap between the upper and lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Mohammad Pirani , Shreyas Sundaram

In a recent paper, Caron and Fox suggest a probabilistic model for sparse graphs which are exchangeable when associating each vertex with a time parameter in $\mathbb{R}_+$. Here we show that by generalizing the classical definition of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Nina Holden

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of real-world applications by relying on the fixed graph data as input. However, the initial input graph might not be optimal in terms of specific downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Beidi Zhao , Boxin Du , Zhe Xu , Liangyue Li , Hanghang Tong

This paper studies the Laplacian spectrum and the average effective resistance of (large) graphs that are sampled from graphons. Broadly speaking, our main finding is that the Laplacian eigenvalues of a large dense graph can be effectively…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Renato Vizuete , Federica Garin , Paolo Frasca

The minrank of a graph $G$ is the minimum rank of a matrix $M$ that can be obtained from the adjacency matrix of $G$ by switching some ones to zeros (i.e., deleting edges) and then setting all diagonal entries to one. This quantity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Alexander Golovnev , Oded Regev , Omri Weinstein

Let $spex(n,H_{minor})$ denote the maximum spectral radius of $n$-vertex $H$-minor free graphs. The problem on determining this extremal value can be dated back to the early 1990s. Up to now, it has been solved for $n$ sufficiently large…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mingqing Zhai , Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

The minimum rank of a graph G is the minimum rank over all real symmetric matrices whose off-diagonal sparsity pattern is the same as that of the adjacency matrix of G. In this note we present the first exact algorithm for the minimum rank…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Boris Brimkov , Zachary Scherr

The minrank of a graph $G$ on the set of vertices $[n]$ over a field $\mathbb{F}$ is the minimum possible rank of a matrix $M\in\mathbb{F}^{n\times n}$ with nonzero diagonal entries such that $M_{i,j}=0$ whenever $i$ and $j$ are distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Noga Alon , Igor Balla , Lior Gishboliner , Adva Mond , Frank Mousset

We study the problem of detecting a random walk on a graph from a sequence of noisy measurements at every node. There are two hypotheses: either every observation is just meaningless zero-mean Gaussian noise, or at each time step exactly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

Given a graph, a $k$-plex is a set of vertices in which each vertex is not adjacent to at most $k-1$ other vertices in the set. The maximum $k$-plex problem, which asks for the largest $k$-plex from the given graph, is an important but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Zhengren Wang , Yi Zhou , Chunyu Luo , Mingyu Xiao , Jin-Kao Hao

Graphons offer a powerful framework for modeling large-scale networks, yet estimation remains challenging. We propose a novel approach that leverages a low-rank additive representation, yielding both a low-rank connection probability matrix…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-14 Xinyuan Fan , Feiyan Ma , Chenlei Leng , Weichi Wu

Typical performance of approximation algorithms is studied for randomized minimum vertex cover problems. A wide class of random graph ensembles characterized by an arbitrary degree distribution is discussed with some theoretical frameworks.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-10 Satoshi Takabe , Koji Hukushima

Spectral graph bisections are a popular heuristic aimed at approximating the solution of the NP-complete graph bisection problem. This technique, however, does not always provide a robust tool for graph partitioning. Using a special class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-22 John C. Urschel , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

The Grundy number of a graph is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the graph using the first-fit greedy algorithm regardless of the initial vertex ordering. Computing the Grundy number of a graph is an NP-Hard problem.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Thiago Assis , Gabriel Coutinho , Emanuel Juliano

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-14 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

The paper presents an algorithm for minimum vertex cover problem, which is an NP-Complete problem. The algorithm computes a minimum vertex cover of each input simple graph. Tested by the attached MATLAB programs, Stage 1 of the algorithm is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-30 Gang Hu

Let $G$ be a graph. The spectral radius $\rho(G)$ of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For an integer $k\geq1$, a $k$-factor of $G$ is a $k$-regular spanning subgraph of $G$. Assume that $k$ and $n$ are integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Xinying Tang , Wenqian Zhang

We study the problem of finding the maximum of a function defined on the nodes of a connected graph. The goal is to identify a node where the function obtains its maximum. We focus on local iterative algorithms, which traverse the nodes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

In this paper, we study a question of Hong from 1993 related to the minimum spectral radii of the adjacency matrices of connected graphs of given order and size. Hong asked if it is true that among all connected graphs of given number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Vishal Gupta , Celso Marques

Graphons, as limits of graph sequences, provide an operator-theoretic framework for analyzing the asymptotic behavior of graph neural operators. Spectral convergence of sampled graphs to graphons induces convergence of the corresponding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Roxanne Holden , Luana Ruiz