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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

One fundamental problem in temporal graph analysis is to count the occurrences of small connected subgraph patterns (i.e., motifs), which benefits a broad range of real-world applications, such as anomaly detection, structure prediction,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Zhongqiang Gao , Chuanqi Cheng , Yanwei Yu , Lei Cao , Chao Huang , Junyu Dong

Networks of timestamped interactions arise across social, financial, and biological domains, where forecasting future events requires modeling both evolving topology and temporal ordering. Temporal link prediction methods typically frame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 İbrahim Bahadır Altun , Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce

The mining of pattern subgraphs, known as motifs, is a core task in the field of graph mining. Edges in real-world networks often have timestamps, so there is a need for temporal motif mining. A temporal motif is a richer structure that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati

Big graphs (networks) arising in numerous application areas pose significant challenges for graph analysts as these graphs grow to billions of nodes and edges and are prohibitively large to fit in the main memory. Finding the number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shaikh Arifuzzaman , Maleq Khan , Madhav Marathe

Network security events prediction helps network operators to take response strategies from a proactive perspective, and reduce the cost caused by network attacks, which is of great significance for maintaining the security of the entire…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Qiumei Cheng , Yi Shen , Dezhang Kong , Chunming Wu

There is a trivial $O(\frac{n^3}{T})$ time algorithm for approximate triangle counting where $T$ is the number of triangles in the graph and $n$ the number of vertices. At the same time, one may count triangles exactly using fast matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jakub Tětek

We propose data-driven one-pass streaming algorithms for estimating the number of triangles and four cycles, two fundamental problems in graph analytics that are widely studied in the graph data stream literature. Recently, (Hsu 2018) and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Justin Y. Chen , Talya Eden , Piotr Indyk , Honghao Lin , Shyam Narayanan , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal , Tal Wagner , David P. Woodruff , Michael Zhang

Triangle counting in hypergraph streams, including both hyper-vertex and hyper-edge triangles, is a fundamental problem in hypergraph analytics, with broad applications. However, existing methods face two key limitations: (i) an incomplete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lingkai Meng , Long Yuan , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang

The problem of (approximately) counting the number of triangles in a graph is one of the basic problems in graph theory. In this paper we study the problem in the streaming model. We study the amount of memory required by a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Vladimir Braverman , Rafail Ostrovsky , Dan Vilenchik

The performance of graph algorithms is often measured in terms of the number of traversed edges per second (TEPS). However, this performance metric is inadequate for a graph operation such as exact triangle counting. In triangle counting,…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Mark P. Blanco , Scott McMillan , Tze Meng Low

Listing and counting triangles in graphs is a key algorithmic kernel for network analyses, including community detection, clustering coefficients, k-trusses, and triangle centrality. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of a…

Triangle counting is a fundamental problem in graph mining, essential for analyzing graph streams with arbitrary edge orders. However, exact counting becomes impractical due to the massive size of real-world graph streams. To address this,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Xuan , Yan Liang , Huawei Cao , Ning Lin , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Madhav Jha , C. Seshadhri , Ali Pinar

Counting and finding triangles in graphs is often used in real-world analytics to characterize cohesiveness and identify communities in graphs. In this paper, we propose the novel concept of a cover-edge set that can be used to find…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-19 David A. Bader , Fuhuan Li , Anya Ganeshan , Ahmet Gundogdu , Jason Lew , Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez , Zhihui Du

Triangle counting is a fundamental problem in the analysis of large graphs. There is a rich body of work on this problem, in varying streaming and distributed models, yet all these algorithms require reading the whole input graph. In many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Suman K. Bera , C. Seshadhri

Traditional frameworks for dynamic graphs have relied on processing only the stream of edges added into or deleted from an evolving graph, but not any additional related information such as the degrees or neighbor lists of nodes incident to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Guyue Han , Harish Sethu

We introduce Tiered Sampling, a novel technique for approximate counting sparse motifs in massive graphs whose edges are observed in a stream. Our technique requires only a single pass on the data and uses a memory of fixed size $M$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Lorenzo De Stefani , Erisa Terolli , Eli Upfal

Spiking Transformers have recently emerged as promising architectures for combining the efficiency of spiking neural networks with the representational power of self-attention. However, the lack of standardized implementations, evaluation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sicheng Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Linghao Feng , Zeyang Yue , Jindong Li , Tenglong Li , Guobin Shen , Yi Zeng

In this paper we present improved results on the problem of counting triangles in edge streamed graphs. For graphs with $m$ edges and at least $T$ triangles, we show that an extra look over the stream yields a two-pass treaming algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Graham Cormode , Hossein Jowhari