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In graph sparsification, the goal has almost always been of {global} nature: compress a graph into a smaller subgraph ({sparsifier}) that maintains certain features of the original graph. Algorithms can then run on the sparsifier, which in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Shay Solomon

The all-pairs shortest distances (APSD) with differential privacy (DP) problem takes as input an undirected, weighted graph $G = (V,E, \mathbf{w})$ and outputs a private estimate of the shortest distances in $G$ between all pairs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jesse Campbell , Chunjiang Zhu

We develop a framework for graph sparsification and sketching, based on a new tool, short cycle decomposition -- a decomposition of an unweighted graph into an edge-disjoint collection of short cycles, plus few extra edges. A simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Timothy Chu , Yu Gao , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva , Saurabh Sawlani , Junxing Wang

A sparsifier of a graph $G$ (Bencz\'ur and Karger; Spielman and Teng) is a sparse weighted subgraph $\tilde G$ that approximately retains the cut structure of $G$. For general graphs, non-trivial sparsification is possible only by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Nikhil Bansal , Ola Svensson , Luca Trevisan

In recent years, hypergraph generalizations of many graph cut problems have been introduced and analyzed as a way to better explore and understand complex systems and datasets characterized by multiway relationships. Recent work has made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg , Nate Veldt

We revisit the problem of privately releasing the all-pairs shortest path distances of a weighted undirected graph up to low additive error, which was first studied by Sealfon [Sea16]. In this paper, we improve significantly on Sealfon's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Justin Y. Chen , Shyam Narayanan , Yinzhan Xu

Graph sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Sparsification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while preserving specific properties of the graph, like cuts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

Given a graph, the densest subgraph problem asks for a set of vertices such that the average degree among these vertices is maximized. Densest subgraph has numerous applications in learning, e.g., community detection in social networks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Elaine Shi

We initiate the study of dynamic algorithms for graph sparsification problems and obtain fully dynamic algorithms, allowing both edge insertions and edge deletions, that take polylogarithmic time after each update in the graph. Our three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , David Durfee , Ioannis Koutis , Sebastian Krinninger , Richard Peng

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We study the problem of graph clustering where the goal is to partition a graph into clusters, i.e. disjoint subsets of vertices, such that each cluster is well connected internally while sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Thatchaphol Saranurak , Di Wang

Expander decompositions of graphs have significantly advanced the understanding of many classical graph problems and led to numerous fundamental theoretical results. However, their adoption in practice has been hindered due to their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke , Maximilian Vötsch

Graph sparsification is a technique that approximates a given graph by a sparse graph with a subset of vertices and/or edges. The goal of an effective sparsification algorithm is to maintain specific graph properties relevant to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuhan Chen , Haojie Ye , Sanketh Vedula , Alex Bronstein , Ronald Dreslinski , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

We study the sublinear space continual release model for edge-differentially private (DP) graph algorithms, with a focus on the densest subgraph problem (DSG) in the insertion-only setting. Our main result is the first continual release DSG…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Zhou

In the decremental $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n = |V|, m = |E|$, undergoing edge deletions, and a distinguished source $s \in V$, and we are asked to process…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Graph sparsification serves as a foundation for many algorithms, such as approximation algorithms for graph cuts and Laplacian system solvers. As its natural generalization, hypergraph sparsification has recently gained increasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Chenghua Liu , Minbo Gao , Zhengfeng Ji , Mingsheng Ying

Expander graphs play a central role in graph theory and algorithms. With a number of powerful algorithmic tools developed around them, such as the Cut-Matching game, expander pruning, expander decomposition, and algorithms for decremental…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Julia Chuzhoy

We study the space complexity of sketching cuts and Laplacian quadratic forms of graphs. We show that any data structure which approximately stores the sizes of all cuts in an undirected graph on $n$ vertices up to a $1+\epsilon$ error must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Charles Carlson , Alexandra Kolla , Nikhil Srivastava , Luca Trevisan

We design the first node-differentially private algorithm for approximating the number of connected components in a graph. Given a database representing an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a privacy parameter $\varepsilon$, our algorithm runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff