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The burdensome training costs on large-scale graphs have aroused significant interest in graph condensation, which involves tuning Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on a small condensed graph for use on the large-scale original graph. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhenbang Xiao , Yu Wang , Shunyu Liu , Huiqiong Wang , Mingli Song , Tongya Zheng

Sparsification aims at extracting a reduced core of associations that best preserves both the dynamics and topology of networks while reducing the computational cost of simulations. We show that the semi-metric topology of complex networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-05 David Soriano Paños , Felipe Xavier Costa , Luis M. Rocha

Low congestion shortcuts, introduced by Ghaffari and Haeupler (SODA 2016), provide a unified framework for global optimization problems in the congest model of distributed computing. Roughly speaking, for a given graph $G$ and a collection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Shimon Kogan , Merav Parter

Edge-cloud convergence is reshaping service provisioning across 5G/6G and computing power networks (CPNs). Service function chaining (SFC) requires continuously placing and scheduling virtual network functions (VNFs) chains under…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zuyuan Zhang , Vaneet Aggarwal , Tian Lan

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We study approaches for the exact solution of the \NP--hard minimum spanning tree problem under conflict constraints. Given a graph $G(V,E)$ and a set $C \subset E \times E$ of conflicting edge pairs, the problem consists of finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Phillippe Samer , Sebastián Urrutia

We show how to find and efficiently maintain maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs in undirected graphs. In particular, we provide the following results. (1) A general framework for maintaining the maximal k-edge-connected subgraphs upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Evangelos Kosinas , Debasish Pattanayak

Given a directed graph $G$ with arbitrary real-valued weights, the single source shortest-path problem (SSSP) asks for, given a source $s$ in $G$, finding a shortest path from $s$ to each vertex $v$ in $G$. A classical SSSP algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Sanjiang Li , Yongming Li

Motivated by the problem of routing reliably and scalably in a graph, we introduce the notion of a splicer, the union of spanning trees of a graph. We prove that for any bounded-degree n-vertex graph, the union of two random spanning trees…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-10 Navin Goyal , Luis Rademacher , Santosh Vempala

Minimum-weight cut (min-cut) is a basic measure of a network's connectivity strength. While the min-cut can be computed efficiently in the sequential setting [Karger STOC'96], there was no efficient way for a distributed network to compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Michal Dory , Yuval Efron , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai

We study graph classes modeled by families of non-crossing (NC) connected sets. Two classic graph classes in this context are disk graphs and proper interval graphs. We focus on the cases when the sets are paths and the host is a tree…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Steven Chaplick

Min-Cut queries are fundamental: Preprocess an undirected edge-weighted graph, to quickly report a minimum-weight cut that separates a query pair of nodes $s,t$. The best data structure known for this problem simply builds a cut-equivalent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

Dynamically maintaining the minimum cut in a graph $G$ under edge insertions and deletions is a fundamental problem in dynamic graph algorithms for which no conditional lower bound on the time per operation exists. In an $n$-node graph the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Antoine El-Hayek , Monika Henzinger , Jason Li

Algebraic data structures are the main subroutine for maintaining distances in fully dynamic graphs in subquadratic time. However, these dynamic algebraic algorithms generally cannot maintain the shortest paths, especially against adaptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anastasiia Alokhina , Jan van den Brand

Graphs arising in statistical problems, signal processing, large networks, combinatorial optimization, and data analysis are often dense, which causes both computational and storage bottlenecks. One way of \textit{sparsifying} a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Neophytos Charalambides , Alfred O. Hero

Recently, Chalermsook et al. [SODA'21(arXiv:2007.07862)] introduces a notion of vertex sparsifiers for $c$-edge connectivity, which has found applications in parameterized algorithms for network design and also led to exciting dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Han Jiang , Shang-En Huang , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Tian Zhang

We give a simple algorithm for the dynamic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem. Given a graph $G = (V, E, l)$ with polynomially bounded edge lengths, our data structure processes $|E|$ edge insertions and deletions in total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Rasmus Kyng , Simon Meierhans , Gernot Zöcklein

We initiate the study of graph algorithms in the streaming setting on massive distributed and parallel systems inspired by practical data processing systems. The objective is to design algorithms that can efficiently process evolving graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

We present a Las Vegas algorithm for dynamically maintaining a minimum spanning forest of an $n$-node graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. Our algorithm guarantees an $O(n^{o(1)})$ worst-case update time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Deep generative models (DGMs) for graphs achieve impressively high expressive power thanks to very efficient and scalable neural networks. However, these networks contain non-linearities that prevent analytical computation of many standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Martin Rektoris , Milan Papež , Václav Šmídl , Tomáš Pevný