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We study the classic Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. Given a set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points, the goal is to produce a spanning tree for $X$ with weight within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan , Peilin Zhong

Field level statistics, such as the minimum spanning tree (MST), have been shown to be a promising tool for parameter inference in cosmology. However, applications to real galaxy surveys are challenging, due to the presence of small scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Krishna Naidoo , Ofer Lahav

Minimum Spanning Trees are a well-studied subset of graph problems. While classical algorithms have existed to solve these problems for decades, new variations and application areas are constantly being discovered. When dealing with large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Arjun Bhalla

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framework called metric forest completion (MFC), where the learned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Grace J. Li , Geoffrey Sanders

The study on point sources in astronomical images is of special importance, since most energetic celestial objects in the Universe exhibit a point-like appearance. An approach to recognize the point sources (PS) in the X-ray astronomical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Zhixian Ma , Weitian Li , Lei Wang , Haiguang Xu , Jie Zhu

We investigate star-galaxy classification for astronomical surveys in the context of four methods enabling the interpretation of black-box machine learning systems. The first is outputting and exploring the decision boundaries as given by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Xan Morice-Atkinson , Ben Hoyle , David Bacon

As the most typical graph clustering method, spectral clustering is popular and attractive due to the remarkable performance, easy implementation, and strong adaptability. Classical spectral clustering measures the edge weights of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dehua Peng , Zhipeng Gui , Huayi Wu

We present a novel approach for identifying members of open star clusters using Gaia DR3 data by combining Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) techniques. Our method employs a three-step process: initial filtering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Rafe Sharif , M. Khakian Ghomi , M. Taefi

We present a distributed randomized algorithm finding Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of a given graph in O(1) rounds, with high probability, in the Congested Clique model. The input graph in the Congested Clique model is a graph of n nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Tomasz Jurdzinski , Krzysztof Nowicki

This article considers the detection of point sources in two dimensional astronomical images. The detection scheme we propose is based on peak statistics. We discuss the example of the detection of far galaxies in Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Lopez-Caniego , D. Herranz , J. L. Sanz , R. B. Barreiro

We propose and test new statistical tools to study the distribution of cosmic rays based on the use of the Minimal Spanning Tree. The method described is particularly sensitive to filamentary structures, as those expected to arise from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Diego Harari , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

The multiscale variance stabilization Transform (MSVST) has recently been proposed for Poisson data denoising. This procedure, which is nonparametric, is based on thresholding wavelet coefficients. We present in this paper an extension of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. -L. Starck , J. M. Fadili , S. Digel , B. Zhang , J. Chiang

We study streaming algorithms for two fundamental geometric problems: computing the cost of a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of an $n$-point set $X \subset \{1,2,\dots,\Delta\}^d$, and computing the Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Xi Chen , Rajesh Jayaram , Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

In this paper, we study weakly dynamic undirected graphs, that can be used to represent some logistic networks. The goal is to deliver all the delivery points in the network. The network exists in a mostly stable environment, except for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Moustafa Nakechbandi , Jean-Yves Colin , Hervé Mathieu

We give algorithms for geometric graph problems in the modern parallel models inspired by MapReduce. For example, for the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem over a set of points in the two-dimensional space, our algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Alexandr Andoni , Aleksandar Nikolov , Krzysztof Onak , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Given a connected, undirected graph whose edges are labelled (or coloured), the minimum labelling spanning tree (MLST) problem seeks a spanning tree whose edges have the smallest number of distinct labels (or colours). In recent work, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Sergio Consoli , Nenad Mladenovic , Jose Andres Moreno-Perez

We present the source separation framework SCARLET for multi-band images, which is based on a generalization of the Non-negative Matrix Factorization to alternative and several simultaneous constraints. Our approach describes the observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Peter Melchior , Fred Moolekamp , Maximilian Jerdee , Robert Armstrong , Ai-Lei Sun , James Bosch , Robert Lupton

Spectral clustering is a powerful method for finding structure in a dataset through the eigenvectors of a similarity matrix. It often outperforms traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means when the structure of the individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Paola Favati , Grazia Lotti , Ornella Menchi , Francesco Romani

We present a new and efficient algorithm for finding point sources in the photon event data stream from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, FermiFAST. The key advantage of FermiFAST is that it constructs a catalogue of potential sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Asha Asvathaman , Conor Omand , Alistair Barton , Jeremy S. Heyl

Recent years have witnessed a surge of biological interest in the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem for its relevance to automatic model construction using the distances between data points. Despite the increasing use of MST algorithms…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-02 Momoko Hayamizu , Hiroshi Endo , Kenji Fukumizu