  With the objective of employing graphs toward a more generalized theory of
signal processing, we present a novel sampling framework for (wavelet-)sparse
signals defined on circulant graphs which extends basic properties of Finite
Rate of Innovation (FRI) theory to the graph domain, and can be applied to
arbitrary graphs via suitable approximation schemes. At its core, the
introduced Graph-FRI-framework states that any K-sparse signal on the vertices
of a circulant graph can be perfectly reconstructed from its
dimensionality-reduced representation in the graph spectral domain, the Graph
Fourier Transform (GFT), of minimum size 2K. By leveraging the recently
developed theory of e-splines and e-spline wavelets on graphs, one can
decompose this graph spectral transformation into the multiresolution low-pass
filtering operation with a graph e-spline filter, and subsequent transformation
to the spectral graph domain; this allows to infer a distinct sampling pattern,
and, ultimately, the structure of an associated coarsened graph, which
preserves essential properties of the original, including circularity and,
where applicable, the graph generating set.
