Graph sparsification, spectral sketches, and faster resistance computation via short cycle decompositions

T Chu, Y Gao, R Peng, S Sachdeva, S Sawlani… - SIAM Journal on …, 2020 - SIAM
We develop a framework for graph sparsification and sketching, based on a new tool, short
cycle decomposition, which is a decomposition of an unweighted graph into an edge-disjoint …

Non-redundant dynamic fragment allocation with horizontal partition in Distributed Database System

NKZ Lwin, TM Naing - 2018 International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main task of distributed database is how to fragment the global database into small
fragments, how to allocate and replicate the fragments among different sites over the …

Think globally, act locally: On the optimal seeding for nonsubmodular influence maximization

G Schoenebeck, B Tao, FY Yu - Information and Computation, 2022 - Elsevier
In the influence maximization problem, one chooses a fixed number of initial seeds in a
social network to maximize the spread of their influence. We study this problem with the r …

Dynamics and Social Networks

FY Yu - 2019 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Social networks are everywhere in our everyday lives. We aggregate information, make
decisions, and form opinions through these interactions on social networks. This thesis aims …

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