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Motivated by applications in social network community analysis, we introduce a new clustering paradigm termed motif clustering. Unlike classical clustering, motif clustering aims to minimize the number of clustering errors associated with…

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We study sublinear time algorithms for estimating the size of maximum matching. After a long line of research, the problem was finally settled by Behnezhad [FOCS'22], in the regime where one is willing to pay an approximation factor of $2$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We introduce the \emph{submodular objectives chasing problem}, which generalizes many natural and previously-studied problems: a sequence of constrained submodular maximization problems is revealed over time, with both the objective and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , David Wajc

Maximal clique enumeration (MCE) is a fundamental problem in graph theory and is used in many applications, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, intelligent agent systems, cyber security, etc. Most existing MCE algorithms focus…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiaofan Li , Rui Zhou , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Qiang He , Yun Yang

Network sampling is an indispensable tool for understanding features of large complex networks where it is practically impossible to search over the entire graph. In this paper, we develop a framework for statistical inference for counting…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya , Sayan Das , Sumit Mukherjee

A well-known problem in data science and machine learning is {\em linear regression}, which is recently extended to dynamic graphs. Existing exact algorithms for updating the solution of dynamic graph regression require at least a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We consider the fundamental problems of approximately counting the numbers of edges and triangles in a graph in sublinear time. Previous algorithms for these tasks are significantly more efficient under a promise that the arboricity of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

Consider an Erd\"os-Renyi random graph in which each edge is present independently with probability 1/2, except for a subset $\sC_N$ of the vertices that form a clique (a completely connected subgraph). We consider the problem of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

The $H$-Coloring problem is a well-known generalization of the classical NP-complete problem $k$-Coloring where the task is to determine whether an input graph admits a homomorphism to the template graph $H$. This problem has been the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ambroise Baril , Miguel Couceiro , Victor Lagerkvist

We consider the problem of estimating the number of triangles in a graph. This problem has been extensively studied in both theory and practice, but all existing algorithms read the entire graph. In this work we design a {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Talya Eden , Amit Levi , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

Understanding the singular value spectrum of a matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ is a fundamental task in countless applications. In matrix multiplication time, it is possible to perform a full SVD and directly compute the singular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Cameron Musco , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford , Shashanka Ubaru , David P. Woodruff

This paper looks at the task of network topology inference, where the goal is to learn an unknown graph from nodal observations. One of the novelties of the approach put forth is the consideration of prior information about the density of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Samuel Rey , T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

We introduce a new concept of a subgraph class called a superbubble for analyzing assembly graphs, and propose an efficient algorithm for detecting it. Most assembly algorithms utilize assembly graphs like the de Bruijn graph or the overlap…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Taku Onodera , Kunihiko Sadakane , Tetsuo Shibuya

We introduce a new method for finding network motifs: interesting or informative subgraph patterns in a network. Subgraphs are motifs when their frequency in the data is high compared to the expected frequency under a null model. To compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Peter Bloem , Steven de Rooij

Over the last two decades, frameworks for distributed-memory parallel computation, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark and Dryad, have gained significant popularity with the growing prevalence of large network datasets. The Massively Parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Community detection is a central task in graph analytics. Given the substantial growth in graph size, scalability in community detection continues to be an unresolved challenge. Recently, alongside established methods like Louvain and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tianyi Chen , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

We consider the problem of counting the copies of a length-$k$ pattern $\sigma$ in a sequence $f \colon [n] \to \mathbb{R}$, where a copy is a subset of indices $i_1 < \ldots < i_k \in [n]$ such that $f(i_j) < f(i_\ell)$ if and only if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Slobodan Mitrović , Pranjal Srivastava

We consider the classical makespan minimization scheduling problem where $n$ jobs must be scheduled on $m$ identical machines. Using weighted random sampling, we developed two sublinear time approximation schemes: one for the case where $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bin Fu , Yumei Huo , Hairong Zhao

We consider the problem of identifying a maximum clique in a given graph. We have proposed a mathematical model for this problem. The model resembles the matrix decomposition of the adjacency matrix of a given graph. The objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Salma Omer , Montaz Ali