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This paper bridges discrete and continuous optimization approaches for decomposable submodular function minimization, in both the standard and parametric settings. We provide improved running times for this problem by reducing it to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Kyriakos Axiotis , Adam Karczmarz , Anish Mukherjee , Piotr Sankowski , Adrian Vladu

In this paper, we introduce a new framework for approximately solving flow problems in capacitated, undirected graphs and apply it to provide asymptotically faster algorithms for the maximum $s$-$t$ flow and maximum concurrent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Jonathan A. Kelner , Yin Tat Lee , Lorenzo Orecchia , Aaron Sidford

Minimum cuts have been closely related to shortest paths in planar graphs via planar duality - so long as the graphs are undirected. Even maximum flows are closely related to shortest paths for the same reason - so long as the source and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-27 Glencora Borradaile , Anna Harutyunyan

We provide faster strongly polynomial time algorithms solving maximum flow in structured $n$-node $m$-arc networks. Our results imply an $n^{\omega + o(1)}$-time strongly polynomial time algorithms for computing a maximum bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Daniel Dadush , James B. Orlin , Aaron Sidford , László A. Végh

We study the problem of determining the worst optimal value and characterizing the corresponding worst-case scenarios in minimum cost network flow problems with interval uncertainty in arc capacities. In this setting, each capacity can take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Miroslav Rada , Milan Hladík , Elif Radová Garajová , Francesco Carrabs , Raffaele Cerulli , Ciriaco D'Ambrosio

We present a new approach to the minimum-cost integral flow problem for small values of the flow. It reduces the problem to the tests of simple multi-variate polynomials over a finite field of characteristic two for non-identity with zero.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson

The Clique Problem has a reduction to the Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem. We review the reduction to evolve a polynomial time algorithm for the Clique Problem. A computer program in C language has been written to validate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Pawan Tamta , B. P. Pande , H. S. Dhami

We consider node-weighted survivable network design (SNDP) in planar graphs and minor-closed families of graphs. The input consists of a node-weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and integer connectivity requirements $r(uv)$ for each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chandra Chekuri , Alina Ene , Ali Vakilian

Visual rendering of graphs is a key task in the mapping of complex network data. Although most graph drawing algorithms emphasize aesthetic appeal, certain applications such as travel-time maps place more importance on visualization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-06 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

When a flow is not allowed to be reoriented the Maximum Residual Flow Problem with $k$-Arc Destruction is known to be $NP$-hard for $k=2$. We show that when a flow is allowed to be adaptive the problem becomes polynomial for every fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Thomas Ridremont , Dimitri Watel , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Christophe Picouleau

The maximum achievable capacity from source to destination in a network is limited by the min-cut max-flow bound; this serves as a converse limit. In practice, link capacities often fluctuate due to dynamic network conditions. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rivka Gitik , Alejandro Cohen

This paper investigates the effect of network topology on the fair allocation of network resources among a set of agents, an all-important issue for the efficiency of transportation networks all around us. We analyse a generic mechanism…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-30 Rui Carvalho , Lubos Buzna , Wolfram Just , Dirk Helbing , David K. Arrowsmith

The balanced hypergraph partitioning problem is to partition a hypergraph into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size such that the sum of the number of blocks connected by each hyperedge is minimized. We present an improvement to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Lars Gottesbüren , Michael Hamann , Sebastian Schlag , Dorothea Wagner

We consider the densest $k$-subgraph problem, which seeks to identify the $k$-node subgraph of a given input graph with maximum number of edges. This problem is well-known to be NP-hard, by reduction to the maximum clique problem. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Polina Bombina , Brendan Ames

We show the existence of an exact mimicking network of $k^{O(\log k)}$ edges for minimum multicuts over a set of terminals in an undirected graph, where $k$ is the total capacity of the terminals, as well as a method for computing a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Magnus Wahlström

A number of inference problems with sensor networks involve projecting a measured signal onto a given subspace. In existing decentralized approaches, sensors communicate with their local neighbors to obtain a sequence of iterates that…

Given a digraph with two terminal vertices $s$ and $t$ as well as a conservative cost function and several not necessarily disjoint color classes on its arc set, our goal is to find a minimum-cost subset of the arcs such that its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Naonori Kakimura , Péter Madarasi , Jannik Matuschke , Kitti Varga

We show that the left/right relation on the set of s-t-paths of a plane graph induces a so-called submodular lattice. If the embedding of the graph is s-t-planar, this lattice is even consecutive. This implies that Ford and Fulkerson's…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Jannik Matuschke , Britta Peis

In this paper, we present a novel learning framework for finding shortest paths in graphs utilizing Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets). First, we examine theoretical properties of GFlowNets in non-acyclic environments in relation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nikita Morozov , Ian Maksimov , Daniil Tiapkin , Sergey Samsonov

The GC problem is to identify a pre-determined number of center vertices such that the distances or costs from (or to) the centers to (or from) other vertices is minimized. The bottleneck of a path is the minimum capacity of edges on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka