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This paper presents the first parallel batch-dynamic algorithms for computing spanners and sparsifiers. Our algorithms process any batch of edge insertions and deletions in an $n$-node undirected graph, in $\text{poly}(\log n)$ depth and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

Many practical data analysis tasks reduce to learning, from observed samples, how a collection of variables depend on each other. A widely used approach is to fit a Gaussian graphical model, which represents the dependence structure as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Ignacio Echave-Sustaeta Rodríguez , Aida Abiad , Frank Röttger

Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge capacities $c_e\geq 1$ for $e\in E$ and a subset $T$ of $k$ vertices called terminals, we say that a graph $H$ is a quality-$q$ cut sparsifier for $G$ iff $T\subseteq V(H)$, and for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Julia Chuzhoy

We establish that a simple polynomial-time algorithm that we call reweighted spectral partitioning obtains small 2/3-balanced vertex-separators for a number of graph classes, including $O(\sqrt{n})$-sized separators for planar graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jack Spalding-Jamieson

In this paper, we aim to design sparse D-optimal (determinantoptimal) pose-graph SLAM problems through the synthesis of sparse graphs with the maximum weighted number of spanning trees. Characterizing graphs with the maximum number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

For $\alpha \ge 1$, $\beta \ge 0$, and a graph $G$, a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ is said to be an $(\alpha, \beta)$-spanner if $\dist(u, v, H) \le \alpha \cdot \dist(u, v, G) + \beta$ holds for any pair of vertices $u$ and $v$. These type…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Prafullkumar Tale

Given a directed graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a parameter $k$ and two disjoint subsets $S,T \subseteq V(G)$, we show that the number of all-subsets important separators, which is the number of $A$-$B$ important vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Aditya Anand , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Generally, discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs) creates a sequence of linear systems $A_k x_k = b_k, k = 0, 1, 2, ..., N$ with well-known and structured sparsity patterns. Preconditioners are often necessary to achieve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Rishad Islam , Arielle Carr , Colin Jacobs

For a set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$, we define its density $0 \leq \sigma(S) \leq 1$ as the ratio of the number of edges of $G$ spanned by the vertices of $S$ to ${|S| \choose 2}$. We show that, given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-06 Alexander Barvinok , Anthony Della Pella

We provide a simple algorithm for finding the optimal upper bound for sums of products of matrix entries of the form S_pi(N) := sum_{j_1, ..., j_2m = 1}^N t^1_{j_1 j_2} t^2_{j_3 j_4} ... t^m_{j_2m-1 j_2m} where some of the summation indices…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-10-25 James A. Mingo , Roland Speicher

We present SsAG, an efficient and scalable lossy graph summarization method that retains the essential structure of the original graph. SsAG computes a sparse representation (summary) of the input graph and also caters to graphs with node…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sarwan Ali , Muhammad Ahmad , Maham Anwer Beg , Imdad Ullah Khan , Safiullah Faizullah , Muhammad Asad Khan

We study \emph{dynamic} algorithms for maintaining spectral vertex sparsifiers of graphs with respect to a set of terminals $T$ of our choice. Such objects preserve pairwise resistances, solutions to systems of linear equations, and energy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-26 David Durfee , Yu Gao , Gramoz Goranci , Richard Peng

Edge bundling reduces the visual complexity of drawings of large and complex graphs by clustering "compatible" edges. However, it often introduces distortion by bundling "unrelated" edges, resulting in misleading, ambiguous drawings.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xingjue Jiang , Seok-Hee Hong , Amyra Meidiana , Xianyuan Zeng

Designing well-connected graphs is a fundamental problem that frequently arises in various contexts across science and engineering. The weighted number of spanning trees, as a connectivity measure, emerges in numerous problems and plays a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

We propose an approach to graph sparsification based on the idea of preserving the smallest $k$ eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Graph Laplacian. This is motivated by the fact that small eigenvalues and their associated eigenvectors tend…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Catherine Babecki , Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

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

In this paper, we consider a ${\rm U}(1)$-connection graph, that is, a graph where each oriented edge is endowed with a unit modulus complex number that is conjugated under orientation flip. A natural replacement for the combinatorial…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Michaël Fanuel , Rémi Bardenet

In prior work, Gupta et al. (SPAA 2022) presented a distributed algorithm for multiplying sparse $n \times n$ matrices, using $n$ computers. They assumed that the input matrices are uniformly sparse--there are at most $d$ non-zeros in each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Chetan Gupta , Janne H. Korhonen , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela , Hossein Vahidi

We propose polynomial-time algorithms that sparsify planar and bounded-genus graphs while preserving optimal or near-optimal solutions to Steiner problems. Our main contribution is a polynomial-time algorithm that, given an unweighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

In this article we consider the graph alignment problem from the perspective of high-dimensional statistics: we aim to estimate an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ from the observation of two correlated random adjacency matrices $A_1$, $A_2$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Laurent Massoulié