Demystifying Graph Sparsification Algorithms in Graph Properties Preservation
Summary: Systematically benchmarks 12 sparsifiers across 16 graph metrics and 14 real-world graphs. Reveals strong property-dependent tradeoffs—no universal sparsifier preserves both structural distances and downstream GNN behavior—and releases an extensible evaluation framework. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yuhan Chen (University of Michigan)
- 2. Haojie Ye (University of Michigan)
- 3. Sanketh Vedula (Technion)
- 4. Alex Bronstein (Technion)
- 5. Ronald Dreslinski (University of Michigan)
- 6. Trevor Mudge (University of Michigan)
- 7. Nishil Talati (University of Michigan)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chen_vldb24,
title = {{Demystifying Graph Sparsification Algorithms in Graph Properties Preservation}},
author = {Chen, Yuhan and Ye, Haojie and Vedula, Sanketh and Bronstein, Alex and Dreslinski, Ronald and Mudge, Trevor and Talati, Nishil},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {3},
pages = {427--440},
doi = {10.14778/3632093.3632106},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3632093.3632106},
year = {2024}
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| 5,960 | On Graph Representation for Attributed Hypergraph Clustering | 2025 | SIGMOD | 6.0274692e-05 |
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| 1,163 | Local Graph Sparsification for Scalable Clustering | 2011 | SIGMOD | 0.00011865557 |
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