Approximately Counting Triangles in Large Graph Streams Including Edge Duplicates with a Fixed Memory Usage
Summary: One-pass streaming algorithm uniformly samples distinct edges from large graph streams with duplicates, achieving O(1) per-edge sampling and no extra memory. It infers triangle counts from samples, outperforming prior methods in accuracy and speed within the same memory footprint. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Pinghui Wang (Shenzhen University; Xi'an Jiaotong University)
- 2. Yiyan Qi (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
- 3. Yu Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
- 4. Xiangliang Zhang (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
- 5. Jing Tao (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
- 6. Xiaohong Guan (Tsinghua University; Xi'an Jiaotong University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{wang_vldb18,
title = {{Approximately Counting Triangles in Large Graph Streams Including Edge Duplicates with a Fixed Memory Usage}},
author = {Wang, Pinghui and Qi, Yiyan and Sun, Yu and Zhang, Xiangliang and Tao, Jing and Guan, Xiaohong},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '18},
doi = {10.14778/3149193.3149197},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3149193.3149197},
year = {2018}
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| 2,680 | Sliding Window-based Approximate Triangle Counting over Streaming Graphs with Duplicate Edges | 2021 | SIGMOD | 8.1227558e-05 |
| 3,548 | Hypergraph Motifs: Concepts, Algorithms, and Discoveries | 2020 | VLDB | 7.1901061e-05 |
| 7,933 | Triangular Stability Maximization by Influence Spread over Social Networks | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4072642e-05 |
| 8,236 | LM-SRPQ: Efficiently Answering Regular Path Query in Streaming Graphs | 2024 | VLDB | 5.3569644e-05 |
| 10,093 | Finding Logic Bugs in Graph-processing Systems via Graph-cutting | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.068372e-05 |
| 11,317 | GREAT: Generalized Reservoir Sampling based Triangle Counting Estimation over Streaming Graphs | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 465 | Counting Triangles in Data Streams | 2006 | PODS | 0.00017754185 |
| 599 | Massive Graph Triangulation | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00015700433 |
| 1,125 | Counting and Sampling Triangles from a Graph Stream | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00011894507 |
| 2,229 | The Input/Output Complexity of Triangle Enumeration | 2014 | PODS | 8.7890942e-05 |
| 2,789 | All-Distances Sketches, Revisited: HIP Estimators for Massive Graphs Analysis | 2014 | PODS | 7.996482e-05 |
| 3,386 | OPT: A New Framework for Overlapped and Parallel Triangulation in Large-scale Graphs | 2014 | SIGMOD | 7.3366763e-05 |
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