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Effective resistance is an important metric that measures the similarity of two vertices in a graph. It has found applications in graph clustering, recommendation systems and network reliability, among others. In spite of the importance of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Pan Peng , Daniel Lopatta , Yuichi Yoshida , Gramoz Goranci

Effective resistance (ER) is an attractive way to interrogate the structure of graphs. It is an alternative to computing the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian. One attractive application of ER is to point clouds, i.e. graphs whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Robi Bhattacharjee , Alexander Cloninger , Yoav Freund , Andreas Oslandsbotn

We study the problem of graph structure identification, i.e., of recovering the graph of dependencies among time series. We model these time series data as components of the state of linear stochastic networked dynamical systems. We assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Sérgio Machado , Anirudh Sridhar , Paulo Gil , Jorge Henriques , José M. F. Moura , Augusto Santos

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

Subgraph matching is a fundamental problem in various fields that use graph structured data. Subgraph matching algorithms enumerate all isomorphic embeddings of a query graph q in a data graph G. An important branch of matching algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Hanchen Wang , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wei Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have limited expressive power, failing to represent many graph classes correctly. While more expressive graph representation learning (GRL) alternatives can distinguish some of these classes, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Leonardo Cotta , Christopher Morris , Bruno Ribeiro

This paper addresses the challenging problem of retrieval and matching of graph structured objects, and makes two key contributions. First, we demonstrate how Graph Neural Networks (GNN), which have emerged as an effective model for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yujia Li , Chenjie Gu , Thomas Dullien , Oriol Vinyals , Pushmeet Kohli

Graph curvature provides geometric priors for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enhancing their ability to model complex graph structures, particularly in terms of structural awareness, robustness, and theoretical interpretability. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chaoqun Fei , Tinglve Zhou , Tianyong Hao , Yangyang Li

In many areas such as computational biology, finance or social sciences, knowledge of an underlying graph explaining the interactions between agents is of paramount importance but still challenging. Considering that these interactions may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Mircea Moscu , Ricardo A. Borsoi , Cédric Richard , José-Carlos M. Bermudez

We study the problem of finding a spanning forest in an undirected, $n$-vertex multi-graph under two basic query models. One is the Linear query model which are linear measurements on the incidence vector induced by the edges; the other is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Sepehr Assadi , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Sanjeev Khanna

We present a simple iterative strategy for measuring the connection strength between a pair of vertices in a graph. The method is attractive in that it has a linear complexity and can be easily parallelized. Based on an analysis of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-24 Jie Chen , Ilya Safro

The graph reconstruction problem has been extensively studied under various query models. In this paper, we propose a new query model regarding the number of connected components, which is one of the most basic and fundamental graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hadley Black , Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha , Yinzhan Xu

A local property reconstructor for a graph property is an algorithm which, given oracle access to the adjacency list of a graph that is "close" to having the property, provides oracle access to the adjacency matrix of a "correction" of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Andrea Campagna , Alan Guo , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Following the success of Word2Vec embeddings, graph embeddings (GEs) have gained substantial traction. GEs are commonly generated and evaluated extrinsically on downstream applications, but intrinsic evaluations of the original graph…

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The graphical notion of effective resistance has found wide-ranging applications in many areas of pure mathematics, applied mathematics and control theory. By the nature of its construction, effective resistance can only be computed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-23 George Forrest Young , Luca Scardovi , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Large-scale graphs are widely used to represent object relationships in many real world applications. The occurrence of large-scale graphs presents significant computational challenges to process, analyze, and extract information. Graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yu Jin , Andreas Loukas , Joseph F. JaJa

In many statistical applications, the dimension is too large to handle for standard high-dimensional machine learning procedures. This is particularly true for graphical models, where the interpretation of a large graph is difficult and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Luc Devroye , Gábor Lugosi , Piotr Zwiernik

This paper considers the problem of inferring the structure of a network from indirect observations. Each observation (a "trace") is the unordered set of nodes which are activated along a path through the network. Since a trace does not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Vincent Gripon , Michael Rabbat

Thin spanning trees lie at the intersection of graph theory, approximation algorithms, and combinatorial optimization. They are central to the long-standing \emph{thin tree conjecture}, which asks whether every $k$-edge-connected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mohit Daga

Graph Neural Networks struggle to capture long-range dependencies due to over-squashing, where information from exponentially growing neighborhoods must pass through a small number of structural bottlenecks. While recent rewiring methods…

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