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Motivated by alignment of correlated sparse random graphs, we introduce a hypothesis testing problem of deciding whether or not two random trees are correlated. We obtain sufficient conditions under which this testing is impossible or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Luca Ganassali , Laurent Massoulié , Marc Lelarge

When studying networks using random graph models, one is sometimes faced with situations where the notion of adjacency between nodes reflects multiple constraints. Traditional random graph models are insufficient to handle such situations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-10 N. Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan , Armand M. Makowski

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

We consider the problem of learning the structure of ferromagnetic Ising models Markov on sparse Erdos-Renyi random graph. We propose simple local algorithms and analyze their performance in the regime of correlation decay. We prove that an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Animashree Anandkumar , Vincent Tan , Alan Willsky

We consider the problem of determining the proportion of edges that are discovered in an Erdos-Renyi graph when one constructs all shortest paths from a given source node to all other nodes. This problem is equivalent to the one of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vincent D. Blondel , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Julien M. Hendrickx , Raphael M. Jungers

In this paper, we consider the hypothesis testing of correlation between two $m$-uniform hypergraphs on $n$ unlabelled nodes. Under the null hypothesis, the hypergraphs are independent, while under the alternative hypothesis, the hyperdges…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Mingao Yuan , Zuofeng Shang

Detection of planted subgraphs in Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs has been extensively studied, leading to a rich body of results characterizing both statistical and computational thresholds. However, most prior work assumes a purely random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dor Elimelech , Wasim Huleihel

We give a simple, computationally efficient, and node-differentially-private algorithm for estimating the parameter of an Erdos-Renyi graph---that is, estimating p in a G(n,p)---with near-optimal accuracy. Our algorithm nearly matches the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Adam Sealfon , Jonathan Ullman

Graph signals are functions of the underlying graph. When the edge-weight between a pair of nodes is high, the corresponding signals generally have a higher correlation. As a result, the signals can be represented in terms of a graph-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Rishabh Ravi , Kaushani Majumder , Kalp Vyas , Satish Mulleti

We study a well known noisy model of the graph isomorphism problem. In this model, the goal is to perfectly recover the vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graphs, with an initial seed set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Elchanan Mossel , Jiaming Xu

Understanding spatial correlation is vital in many fields including epidemiology and social science. Lee, Meeks and Pettersson (Stat. Comput. 2021) recently demonstrated that improved inference for areal unit count data can be achieved by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jessica Enright , Duncan Lee , Kitty Meeks , William Pettersson , John Sylvester

We study a generalization of the classical hidden clique problem to graphs with real-valued edge weights. Formally, we define a hypothesis testing problem. Under the null hypothesis, edges of a complete graph on $n$ vertices are associated…

Learning properties of large graphs from samples has been an important problem in statistical network analysis since the early work of Goodman \cite{Goodman1949} and Frank \cite{Frank1978}. We revisit a problem formulated by Frank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Jason M. Klusowski , Yihong Wu

We consider the hypothesis testing problem of deciding whether an observed high-dimensional vector has independent normal components or, alternatively, if it has a small subset of correlated components. The correlated components may have a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-04 Ery Arias-Castro , Sébastien Bubeck , Gábor Lugosi

We propose a new procedure for testing whether two networks are edge-correlated through some latent vertex correspondence. The test statistic is based on counting the co-occurrences of signed trees for a family of non-isomorphic trees. When…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

Graph alignment - identifying node correspondences between two graphs - is a fundamental problem with applications in network analysis, biology, and privacy research. While substantial progress has been made in aligning correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jakob Maier , Laurent Massoulié

The dissertation is related to combinatorial geometry with a strong probabilistic flavor. The main results can be split into three parts. The results of the first part guarantee that each "unit distance graph" in the plane has an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Andrei A. Kokotkin

Graph matching problem aims to identify node correspondence between two or more correlated graphs. Previous studies have primarily focused on models where only edge information is provided. However, in many social networks, not only the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Joonhyuk Yang , Hye Won Chung

We identify the scaling limit of random intersection graphs inside their critical windows. The limit graphs vary according to the clustering regimes, and coincide with the continuum Erdos--Renyi graph in two out of the three regimes. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Minmin Wang

In this work, we propose an efficient two-stage algorithm solving a joint problem of correlation detection and partial alignment recovery between two Gaussian databases. Correlation detection is a hypothesis testing problem; under the null…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ran Tamir