Faster Spectral Density Estimation and Sparsification in the Nuclear Norm

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Main Authors: Jin, Yujia, Karmarkar, Ishani, Musco, Christopher, Sidford, Aaron, Singh, Apoorv Vikram
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author Jin, Yujia
Karmarkar, Ishani
Musco, Christopher
Sidford, Aaron
Singh, Apoorv Vikram
author_facet Jin, Yujia
Karmarkar, Ishani
Musco, Christopher
Sidford, Aaron
Singh, Apoorv Vikram
contents We consider the problem of estimating the spectral density of the normalized adjacency matrix of an $n$-node undirected graph. We provide a randomized algorithm that, with $O(nε^{-2})$ queries to a degree and neighbor oracle and in $O(nε^{-3})$ time, estimates the spectrum up to $ε$ accuracy in the Wasserstein-1 metric. This improves on previous state-of-the-art methods, including an $O(nε^{-7})$ time algorithm from [Braverman et al., STOC 2022] and, for sufficiently small $ε$, a $2^{O(ε^{-1})}$ time method from [Cohen-Steiner et al., KDD 2018]. To achieve this result, we introduce a new notion of graph sparsification, which we call nuclear sparsification. We provide an $O(nε^{-2})$-query and $O(nε^{-2})$-time algorithm for computing $O(nε^{-2})$-sparse nuclear sparsifiers. We show that this bound is optimal in both its sparsity and query complexity, and we separate our results from the related notion of additive spectral sparsification. Of independent interest, we show that our sparsification method also yields the first deterministic algorithm for spectral density estimation that scales linearly with $n$ (sublinear in the representation size of the graph).
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spellingShingle Faster Spectral Density Estimation and Sparsification in the Nuclear Norm
Jin, Yujia
Karmarkar, Ishani
Musco, Christopher
Sidford, Aaron
Singh, Apoorv Vikram
Data Structures and Algorithms
Machine Learning
We consider the problem of estimating the spectral density of the normalized adjacency matrix of an $n$-node undirected graph. We provide a randomized algorithm that, with $O(nε^{-2})$ queries to a degree and neighbor oracle and in $O(nε^{-3})$ time, estimates the spectrum up to $ε$ accuracy in the Wasserstein-1 metric. This improves on previous state-of-the-art methods, including an $O(nε^{-7})$ time algorithm from [Braverman et al., STOC 2022] and, for sufficiently small $ε$, a $2^{O(ε^{-1})}$ time method from [Cohen-Steiner et al., KDD 2018]. To achieve this result, we introduce a new notion of graph sparsification, which we call nuclear sparsification. We provide an $O(nε^{-2})$-query and $O(nε^{-2})$-time algorithm for computing $O(nε^{-2})$-sparse nuclear sparsifiers. We show that this bound is optimal in both its sparsity and query complexity, and we separate our results from the related notion of additive spectral sparsification. Of independent interest, we show that our sparsification method also yields the first deterministic algorithm for spectral density estimation that scales linearly with $n$ (sublinear in the representation size of the graph).
title Faster Spectral Density Estimation and Sparsification in the Nuclear Norm
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07521