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Frequent and structurally related subgraphs, also known as network motifs, are valuable features of many graph datasets. However, the high computational complexity of identifying motif sets in arbitrary datasets (motif mining) has limited…

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Bipartite graphs characterize relationships between two different sets of entities, like actor-movie, user-item, and author-paper. The butterfly, a 4-vertices 4-edges (2,2)-biclique, is the simplest cohesive motif in a bipartite graph and…

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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

A motif is a frequently occurring subgraph of a given directed or undirected graph $G$. Motifs capture higher order organizational structure of $G$ beyond edge relationships, and, therefore, have found wide applications such as in graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Sandeep Silwal , Christian Sohler , Jakab Tardos

Detecting strong ties among users in social and information networks is a fundamental operation that can improve performance on a multitude of personalization and ranking tasks. Strong-tie edges are often readily obtained from the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Rahmtin Rotabi , Krishna Kamath , Jon Kleinberg , Aneesh Sharma

Reasoning is a fundamental problem for computers and deeply studied in Artificial Intelligence. In this paper, we specifically focus on answering multi-hop logical queries on Knowledge Graphs (KGs). This is a complicated task because, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Alfonso Amayuelas , Shuai Zhang , Susie Xi Rao , Ce Zhang

Link prediction is one of the central problems in graph mining. However, recent studies highlight the importance of higher-order network analysis, where complex structures called motifs are the first-class citizens. We first show that…

The Graph Motif problem was introduced in 2006 in the context of biological networks. It consists of deciding whether or not a multiset of colors occurs in a connected subgraph of a vertex-colored graph. Graph Motif has been mostly analyzed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Édouard Bonnet , Florian Sikora

Understanding the dynamics of financial transactions among people is critical for various applications such as fraud detection. One important aspect of financial transaction networks is temporality. The order and repetition of transactions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Penghang Liu , Bahadir Altun , Rupam Acharyya , Robert E. Tillman , Shunya Kimura , Naoki Masuda , Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce

Temporal graphs are graphs where the presence or properties of their vertices and edges change over time. When time is discrete, a temporal graph can be defined as a sequence of static graphs over a discrete time span, called lifetime, or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Florent Krasnopol , Bruno Monasson , Nathalie Sznajder

Motifs are the most repetitive/frequent patterns of a time-series. The discovery of motifs is crucial for practitioners in order to understand and interpret the phenomena occurring in sequential data. Currently, motifs are searched among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Josif Grabocka , Nicolas Schilling , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

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

First Order Logic (FOL) is a powerful reasoning tool for program verification. Recent work on Ivy shows that FOL is well suited for verification of parameterized distributed systems. However, specifying many natural objects, such as a ring…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Rylo Ashmore , Arie Gurfinkel , Richard Trefler

Temporal networks representing a stream of timestamped edges are seemingly ubiquitous in the real-world. However, the massive size and continuous nature of these networks make them fundamentally challenging to analyze and leverage for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Ryan A. Rossi

Counting the frequencies of 3-, 4-, and 5-node undirected motifs (also know as graphlets) is widely used for understanding complex networks such as social and biology networks. However, it is a great challenge to compute these metrics for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Pinghui Wang , Jing Tao , Junzhou Zhao , Xiaohong Guan

We address the problem of computing the distribution of induced connected subgraphs, aka \emph{graphlets} or \emph{motifs}, in large graphs. The current state-of-the-art algorithms estimate the motif counts via uniform sampling, by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Marco Bressan , Stefano Leucci , Alessandro Panconesi

The focus of this paper is two fold. Firstly, we present a logical approach to graph modification problems such as minimum node deletion, edge deletion, edge augmentation problems by expressing them as an expression in first order (FO)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Kona Harshita , Sounaka Mishra , Renjith. P , N. Sadagopan

Dynamic evolving networks capture temporal relations in domains such as social networks, communication networks, and financial transaction networks. In such networks, temporal motifs, which are repeated sequences of time-stamped…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Alexandra Porter , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Jure Leskovec

Temporal graphs are a class of graphs defined by a constant set of vertices and a changing set of edges, each of which is known as a timestep. These graphs are well motivated in modelling real-world networks, where connections may change…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Duncan Adamson

Counting the number of triangles in a graph has many important applications in network analysis. Several frequently computed metrics like the clustering coefficient and the transitivity ratio need to count the number of triangles in the…

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