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Counting homomorphisms of a constant sized pattern graph $H$ in an input graph $G$ is a fundamental computational problem. There is a rich history of studying the complexity of this problem, under various constraints on the input $G$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Suman K. Bera , Noujan Pashanasangi , C. Seshadhri

We study the classic problem of subgraph counting, where we wish to determine the number of occurrences of a fixed pattern graph $H$ in an input graph $G$ of $n$ vertices. Our focus is on bounded degeneracy inputs, a rich family of graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

Subgraph and homomorphism counting are fundamental algorithmic problems. Given a constant-sized pattern graph $H$ and a large input graph $G$, we wish to count the number of $H$-homomorphisms/subgraphs in $G$. Given the massive sizes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

Counting the number of homomorphisms of a pattern graph H in a large input graph G is a fundamental problem in computer science. There are myriad applications of this problem in databases, graph algorithms, and network science. Often, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Daniel Paul-Pena , C. Seshadhri

We present an algorithm to count the number of occurrences of a pattern graph $H$ as an induced subgraph in a host graph $G$. If $G$ belongs to a bounded expansion class, the algorithm runs in linear time. Our design choices are motivated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Felix Reidl , Blair D. Sullivan

Subgraph counting is a fundamental and well-studied problem whose computational complexity is well understood. Quite surprisingly, the hypergraph version of subgraph counting has been almost ignored. In this work, we address this gap by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Marco Bressan , Julian Brinkmann , Holger Dell , Marc Roth , Philip Wellnitz

The problem of subgraph counting asks for the number of occurrences of a pattern graph $H$ as a subgraph of a host graph $G$ and is known to be computationally challenging: it is $\#W[1]$-hard even when $H$ is restricted to simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Christine Awofeso , Patrick Greaves , Oded Lachish , Felix Reidl

Given a $k$-node pattern graph $H$ and an $n$-node host graph $G$, the subgraph counting problem asks to compute the number of copies of $H$ in $G$. In this work we address the following question: can we count the copies of $H$ faster if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Marco Bressan

In the subgraph counting problem, we are given a input graph $G(V, E)$ and a target graph $H$; the goal is to estimate the number of occurrences of $H$ in $G$. Our focus here is on designing sublinear-time algorithms for approximately…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sepehr Assadi , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

We consider the problem of counting the number of copies of a fixed graph $H$ within an input graph $G$. This is one of the most well-studied algorithmic graph problems, with many theoretical and practical applications. We focus on solving…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Suman K. Bera , Lior Gishboliner , Yevgeny Levanzov , C. Seshadhri , Asaf Shapira

We study the problems of counting the homomorphisms, counting the copies, and counting the induced copies of a $k$-vertex graph $H$ in a $d$-degenerate $n$-vertex graph $G$. Our main result establishes exhaustive and explicit complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Marco Bressan , Marc Roth

Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem is of considerable importance in computer science. We examine the problem when the pattern graph H is of bounded treewidth, as occurs in a variety of applications. This problem has a well-known algorithm via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Karl Bringmann , Jasper Slusallek

Subgraph counting is a fundamental primitive in graph processing, with applications in social network analysis (e.g., estimating the clustering coefficient of a graph), database processing and other areas. The space complexity of subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-16 John Kallaugher , Michael Kapralov , Eric Price

We study the problems of counting copies and induced copies of a small pattern graph $H$ in a large host graph $G$. Recent work fully classified the complexity of those problems according to structural restrictions on the patterns $H$. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Marco Bressan , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Kitty Meeks , Marc Roth

The problem of Subgraph Isomorphism is defined as follows: Given a pattern H and a host graph G on n vertices, does G contain a subgraph that is isomorphic to H? Eppstein [SODA 95, J'GAA 99] gives the first linear time algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Frederic Dorn

A large body of work has investigated the properties of graph neural networks and identified several limitations, particularly pertaining to their expressive power. Their inability to count certain patterns (e.g., cycles) in a graph lies at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Emily Jin , Michael Bronstein , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Matthias Lanzinger

A graph $G$ contains a graph $H$ as an induced minor if $H$ can be obtained from $G$ by vertex deletions and edge contractions. The class of $H$-induced-minor-free graphs generalizes the class of $H$-minor-free graphs, but unlike…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tuukka Korhonen , Daniel Lokshtanov

Counting the number of small patterns is a central task in network analysis. While this problem is well studied for graphs, many real-world datasets are naturally modeled as hypergraphs, motivating the need for efficient hypergraph motif…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Daniel Paul-Pena , Vaishali Surianarayanan , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , C. Seshadhri

Given graphs $H$ and $G$, possibly with vertex-colors, a homomorphism is a function $f:V(H)\to V(G)$ that preserves colors and edges. Many interesting counting problems (e.g., subgraph and induced subgraph counts) are finite linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Radu Curticapean
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