Triangle Sparsifiers
Triangle Sparsifiers
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三角形稀疏器
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2011
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G. Miller
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作者:
Charalampos E. Tsourakakis;M. N. Kolountzakis;G. Miller
In this work, we introduce the notion of triangle sparsifiers , i.e., sparse graphs which are approximately the same to the original graph with respect to the triangle count. This results in a practical triangle counting method with strong theoretical guarantees. For instance, for unweighted graphs we show a randomized algorithm for approximately counting the number of triangles in a graph G , which proceeds as follows: keep each edge independently with probability p , enumerate the triangles in the spar-sified graph G (cid:48) and return the number of triangles found in G (cid:48) multiplied by p − 3 . We prove that under mild assumptions on G and p our algorithm returns a good approximation for the number of triangles with high probability. Specifically, we show that if p ≥ max ( polylog( n )∆ t , polylog( n ) t 1 / 3 ), where n , t , ∆, and T denote the number of vertices in G , the number of triangles in G , the maximum number of triangles an edge of G is contained and our triangle count estimate respectively, then T is strongly concentrated around t :