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Counting small patterns in a large dataset is a fundamental algorithmic task. The most common version of this task is subgraph/homomorphism counting, wherein we count the number of occurrences of a small pattern graph $H$ in an input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

Subgraph and homomorphism counting are fundamental algorithmic problems. Given a constant-sized pattern graph $H$ and a large input graph $G$, we wish to count the number of $H$-homomorphisms/subgraphs in $G$. Given the massive sizes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

We consider the problem of counting the number of copies of a fixed graph $H$ within an input graph $G$. This is one of the most well-studied algorithmic graph problems, with many theoretical and practical applications. We focus on solving…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Suman K. Bera , Lior Gishboliner , Yevgeny Levanzov , C. Seshadhri , Asaf Shapira

Counting homomorphisms of a constant sized pattern graph $H$ in an input graph $G$ is a fundamental computational problem. There is a rich history of studying the complexity of this problem, under various constraints on the input $G$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Suman K. Bera , Noujan Pashanasangi , C. Seshadhri

The problem of subgraph counting asks for the number of occurrences of a pattern graph $H$ as a subgraph of a host graph $G$ and is known to be computationally challenging: it is $\#W[1]$-hard even when $H$ is restricted to simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Christine Awofeso , Patrick Greaves , Oded Lachish , Felix Reidl

We consider the problem of counting all $k$-vertex subgraphs in an input graph, for any constant $k$. This problem (denoted sub-cnt$_k$) has been studied extensively in both theory and practice. In a classic result, Chiba and Nishizeki…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Suman K. Bera , Noujan Pashanasangi , C. Seshadhri

Given a $k$-node pattern graph $H$ and an $n$-node host graph $G$, the subgraph counting problem asks to compute the number of copies of $H$ in $G$. In this work we address the following question: can we count the copies of $H$ faster if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Marco Bressan

In the subgraph counting problem, we are given a input graph $G(V, E)$ and a target graph $H$; the goal is to estimate the number of occurrences of $H$ in $G$. Our focus here is on designing sublinear-time algorithms for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Counting the number of homomorphisms of a pattern graph H in a large input graph G is a fundamental problem in computer science. There are myriad applications of this problem in databases, graph algorithms, and network science. Often, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

Since counting subgraphs in general graphs is, by and large, a computationally demanding problem, it is natural to try and design fast algorithms for restricted families of graphs. One such family that has been extensively studied is that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Lior Gishboliner , Yevgeny Levanzov , Asaf Shapira , Raphael Yuster

Subgraph counting is a fundamental and well-studied problem whose computational complexity is well understood. Quite surprisingly, the hypergraph version of subgraph counting has been almost ignored. In this work, we address this gap by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Marco Bressan , Julian Brinkmann , Holger Dell , Marc Roth , Philip Wellnitz

We present an algorithm to count the number of occurrences of a pattern graph $H$ as an induced subgraph in a host graph $G$. If $G$ belongs to a bounded expansion class, the algorithm runs in linear time. Our design choices are motivated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Felix Reidl , Blair D. Sullivan

For an arbitrary, fixed graph (pattern graph), we study the algorithmic complexity of counting homomorphisms, subgraph isomorphisms, and induced subgraph isomorphisms from the pattern graph to $n$-vertex, $d$-degenerate graphs as input.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Balagopal Komarath , Anant Kumar , Akash Pareek

We study the problems of counting the homomorphisms, counting the copies, and counting the induced copies of a $k$-vertex graph $H$ in a $d$-degenerate $n$-vertex graph $G$. Our main result establishes exhaustive and explicit complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Marco Bressan , Marc Roth

Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Subgraph counting aims to count the occurrences of a subgraph template T in a given network G. The basic problem of computing structural properties such as counting triangles and other subgraphs has found applications in diverse domains.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Langshi Chen , Jiayu Li , Ariful Azad , Lei Jiang , Madhav Marathe , Anil Vullikanti , Andrey Nikolaev , Egor Smirnov , Ruslan Israfilov , Judy Qiu

We introduce a dense counterpart of graph degeneracy, which extends the recently-proposed invariant symmetric difference. We say that a graph has sd-degeneracy (for symmetric-difference degeneracy) at most $d$ if it admits an elimination…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Édouard Bonnet , Julien Duron , John Sylvester , Viktor Zamaraev

Subgraph counting is a fundamental primitive in graph processing, with applications in social network analysis (e.g., estimating the clustering coefficient of a graph), database processing and other areas. The space complexity of subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-16 John Kallaugher , Michael Kapralov , Eric Price

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem is of considerable importance in computer science. We examine the problem when the pattern graph H is of bounded treewidth, as occurs in a variety of applications. This problem has a well-known algorithm via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Karl Bringmann , Jasper Slusallek

Subgraph counting aims to count occurrences of a template T in a given network G(V, E). It is a powerful graph analysis tool and has found real-world applications in diverse domains. Scaling subgraph counting problems is known to be memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Langshi Chen , Jiayu Li , Ariful Azad , Cenk Sahinalp , Madhav Marathe , Anil Vullikanti , Andrey Nikolaev , Egor Smirnov , Ruslan Israfilov , Judy Qiu
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