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Reconstructing Random Graphs from Distance Queries

Authors: Michael Krivelevich and Maksim Zhukovskii

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
We estimate the minimum number of distance queries that is sufficient to reconstruct the binomial random graph G(n,p) with constant diameter with high probability. We get a tight (up to a constant factor) answer for all p > n^{-1+o(1)} outside "threshold windows" around n^{-k/(k+1)+o(1)}, k ∈ ℤ_{> 0}: with high probability the query complexity equals Θ(n^{4-d}p^{2-d}), where d is the diameter of the random graph. This demonstrates the following non-monotone behaviour: the query complexity jumps down at moments when the diameter gets larger; yet, between these moments the query complexity grows. We also show that there exists a non-adaptive algorithm that reconstructs the random graph with O(n^{4-d}p^{2-d}ln n) distance queries with high probability, and this is best possible.

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Michael Krivelevich and Maksim Zhukovskii. Reconstructing Random Graphs from Distance Queries. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 30:1-30:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{krivelevich_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.30,
  author =	{Krivelevich, Michael and Zhukovskii, Maksim},
  title =	{{Reconstructing Random Graphs from Distance Queries}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244982},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: random graphs, graph reconstruction, distance queries, query complexity}
}
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Greedy Maximal Independent Sets via Local Limits

Authors: Michael Krivelevich, Tamás Mészáros, Peleg Michaeli, and Clara Shikhelman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 159, 31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020)


Abstract
The random greedy algorithm for finding a maximal independent set in a graph has been studied extensively in various settings in combinatorics, probability, computer science - and even in chemistry. The algorithm builds a maximal independent set by inspecting the vertices of the graph one at a time according to a random order, adding the current vertex to the independent set if it is not connected to any previously added vertex by an edge. In this paper we present a natural and general framework for calculating the asymptotics of the proportion of the yielded independent set for sequences of (possibly random) graphs, involving a useful notion of local convergence. We use this framework both to give short and simple proofs for results on previously studied families of graphs, such as paths and binomial random graphs, and to study new ones, such as random trees. We conclude our work by analysing the random greedy algorithm more closely when the base graph is a tree. We show that in expectation, the cardinality of a random greedy independent set in the path is no larger than that in any other tree of the same order.

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Michael Krivelevich, Tamás Mészáros, Peleg Michaeli, and Clara Shikhelman. Greedy Maximal Independent Sets via Local Limits. In 31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 159, pp. 20:1-20:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{krivelevich_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20,
  author =	{Krivelevich, Michael and M\'{e}sz\'{a}ros, Tam\'{a}s and Michaeli, Peleg and Shikhelman, Clara},
  title =	{{Greedy Maximal Independent Sets via Local Limits}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-147-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{159},
  editor =	{Drmota, Michael and Heuberger, Clemens},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-120507},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Greedy maximal independent set, random graph, local limit}
}
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The Genus of the Erdös-Rényi Random Graph and the Fragile Genus Property

Authors: Chris Dowden, Mihyun Kang, and Michael Krivelevich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 110, 29th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2018)


Abstract
We investigate the genus g(n,m) of the Erdös-Rényi random graph G(n,m), providing a thorough description of how this relates to the function m=m(n), and finding that there is different behaviour depending on which `region' m falls into. Existing results are known for when m is at most n/(2) + O(n^{2/3}) and when m is at least omega (n^{1+1/(j)}) for j in N, and so we focus on intermediate cases. In particular, we show that g(n,m) = (1+o(1)) m/(2) whp (with high probability) when n << m = n^{1+o(1)}; that g(n,m) = (1+o(1)) mu (lambda) m whp for a given function mu (lambda) when m ~ lambda n for lambda > 1/2; and that g(n,m) = (1+o(1)) (8s^3)/(3n^2) whp when m = n/(2) + s for n^(2/3) << s << n. We then also show that the genus of fixed graphs can increase dramatically if a small number of random edges are added. Given any connected graph with bounded maximum degree, we find that the addition of epsilon n edges will whp result in a graph with genus Omega (n), even when epsilon is an arbitrarily small constant! We thus call this the `fragile genus' property.

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Chris Dowden, Mihyun Kang, and Michael Krivelevich. The Genus of the Erdös-Rényi Random Graph and the Fragile Genus Property. In 29th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 110, pp. 17:1-17:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{dowden_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2018.17,
  author =	{Dowden, Chris and Kang, Mihyun and Krivelevich, Michael},
  title =	{{The Genus of the Erd\"{o}s-R\'{e}nyi Random Graph and the Fragile Genus Property}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2018)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-078-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{110},
  editor =	{Fill, James Allen and Ward, Mark Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2018.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-89100},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2018.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Random graphs, Genus, Fragile genus}
}
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Smoothed Analysis on Connected Graphs

Authors: Michael Krivelevich, Daniel Reichman, and Wojciech Samotij

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 28, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2014)


Abstract
The main paradigm of smoothed analysis on graphs suggests that for any large graph G in a certain class of graphs, perturbing slightly the edges of G at random (usually adding few random edges to G) typically results in a graph having much "nicer" properties. In this work we study smoothed analysis on trees or, equivalently, on connected graphs. Given an n-vertex connected graph G, form a random supergraph of G* of G by turning every pair of vertices of G into an edge with probability epsilon/n, where epsilon is a small positive constant. This perturbation model has been studied previously in several contexts, including smoothed analysis, small world networks, and combinatorics. Connected graphs can be bad expanders, can have very large diameter, and possibly contain no long paths. In contrast, we show that if G is an n-vertex connected graph then typically G* has edge expansion Omega(1/(log n)), diameter O(log n), vertex expansion Omega(1/(log n)), and contains a path of length Omega(n), where for the last two properties we additionally assume that G has bounded maximum degree. Moreover, we show that if G has bounded degeneracy, then typically the mixing time of the lazy random walk on G* is O(log^2(n)). All these results are asymptotically tight.

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Michael Krivelevich, Daniel Reichman, and Wojciech Samotij. Smoothed Analysis on Connected Graphs. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 28, pp. 810-825, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@InProceedings{krivelevich_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2014.810,
  author =	{Krivelevich, Michael and Reichman, Daniel and Samotij, Wojciech},
  title =	{{Smoothed Analysis on Connected Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2014)},
  pages =	{810--825},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-74-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{28},
  editor =	{Jansen, Klaus and Rolim, Jos\'{e} and Devanur, Nikhil R. and Moore, Cristopher},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2014.810},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-47407},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2014.810},
  annote =	{Keywords: Random walks and Markov chains, Random network models}
}
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