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In this paper we describe a triple correspondence between graph limits, information theory and group theory. We put forward a new graph limit concept called log-convergence that is closely connected to dense graph limits but its main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Balazs Szegedy

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

We consider a random sparse graph with bounded average degree, in which a subset of vertices has higher connectivity than the background. In particular, the average degree inside this subset of vertices is larger than outside (but still…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-02 Andrea Montanari

Length-constrained expander decompositions are a new graph decomposition that has led to several recent breakthroughs in fast graph algorithms. Roughly, an $(h, s)$-length $\phi$-expander decomposition is a small collection of length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Greg Bodwin , Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Zihan Tan

We study the random loop model with crosses and bars on sparse random graphs. Our main objective is to prove the existence of macroscopic loops, in the sense that a loop visits a positive proportion of the vertices. We develop a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Andreas Klippel

We introduce and develop a theory of limits for sequences of sparse graphs based on $L^p$ graphons, which generalizes both the existing $L^\infty$ theory of dense graph limits and its extension by Bollob\'as and Riordan to sparse graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao

We study the k-wise independent relaxation of the usual model G(N,p) of random graphs where, as in this model, N labeled vertices are fixed and each edge is drawn with probability p, however, it is only required that the distribution of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Noga Alon , Asaf Nussboim

Menger's Theorem is a fundamental result in graph theory. It states that if in a graph $G$ with distinguished sets of terminal vertices $S$ and $T$ there are no $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint $S$-$T$ paths, then there is a set of less than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Václav Blažej , Michał Pilipczuk , Evangelos Protopapas

A new efficient algorithm is presented for finding all simple cycles that satisfy a length constraint in a directed graph. When the number of vertices is non-trivial, most cycle-finding problems are of practical interest for sparse graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Anshul Gupta , Toyotaro Suzumura

In recent years, a variety of randomized constructions of sketching matrices have been devised, that have been used in fast algorithms for numerical linear algebra problems, such as least squares regression, low-rank approximation, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Dong Hu , Shashanka Ubaru , Alex Gittens , Kenneth L. Clarkson , Lior Horesh , Vassilis Kalantzis

In a recent paper, Caron and Fox suggest a probabilistic model for sparse graphs which are exchangeable when associating each vertex with a time parameter in $\mathbb{R}_+$. Here we show that by generalizing the classical definition of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Nina Holden

The bidimensionality of a set of vertices $X$ in a graph $G$ is the maximum $k$ for which $G$ contains as a $X$-rooted minor the $(k \times k)$-grid. This notion allows for the following version of the Graph Minors Structure Theorem (GMST)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Recent work has introduced sparse exchangeable graphs and the associated graphex framework, as a generalization of dense exchangeable graphs and the associated graphon framework. The development of this subject involves the interplay…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Victor Veitch

The edit distance between two graphs on the same vertex set is defined to be the size of the symmetric difference of their edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property, $\mathcal{H}$, is a function of $p$, and measures,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Ryan R. Martin , Tracy McKay

The spread of a graph $G$ is the difference between the largest and smallest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of $G$. In this paper, we consider the family of graphs which contain no $K_{s,t}$-minor. We show that for any $t\geq s \geq 2$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-07 William Linz , Linyuan Lu , Zhiyu Wang

A median graph is a connected graph, such that for any three vertices $u,v,w$ there is exactly one vertex $x$ that lies simultaneously on a shortest $(u,v)$-path, a shortest $(v,w)$-path and a shortest $(w,u)$-path. Examples of median…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Konstantinos Stavropoulos

A classical result of Robertson and Seymour (1986) states that the treewidth of a graph is linearly tied to its separation number: the smallest integer $k$ such that, for every weighting of the vertices, the graph admits a balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Robert Hickingbotham

We prove an inequality involving the degeneracy, the cutwidth and the sparsity of graphs. It implies a quadratic lower bound on the cutwidth in terms of the degeneracy for all graphs and an improvement of it for clique-free graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Benoit Kloeckner

We propose and investigate a unifying class of sparse random graph models, based on a hidden coloring of edge-vertex incidences, extending an existing approach, Random graphs with a given degree distribution, in a way that admits a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bo Söderberg

In a series of four papers we prove the following relaxation of the Loebl-Komlos-Sos Conjecture: For every $\alpha>0$ there exists a number $k_0$ such that for every $k>k_0$ every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with at least $(\frac12+\alpha)n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Jan Hladký , János Komlós , Diana Piguet , Miklós Simonovits , Maya J. Stein , Endre Szemerédi