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We present an algorithm to find near-optimal weighted Steiner minimal trees in the plane. The algorithm is implemented in Evolver programming language, which already contains many built-in energy minimisation routines. Some are invoked in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Henrique Botelho , Francisco Zampirolli , Valério Ramos Batista

Given an undirected, weighted graph, the minimum spanning tree (MST) is a tree that connects all of the vertices of the graph with minimum sum of edge weights. In real world applications, network designers often seek to quickly find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-02 David A. Bader , Paul Burkhardt

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and a subset $T \subseteq V$ of terminals, a \emph{Steiner tree} of $G$ is a tree that spans $T$. In the vertex-weighted Steiner tree (VST) problem, each vertex is assigned a non-negative weight, and the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Alon Efrat , Stephen Kobourov , Spencer Krieger , Richard Spence

A quadratic minimum spanning tree (QMST) problem is to determine a minimum spanning tree of a connected graph having edges which are associated with linear and quadratic weights. The linear weights are the edge costs which are associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Saibal Majumder , Samarjit Kar , Tandra Pal

A novel approach for non-intrusive uncertainty propagation is proposed. Our approach overcomes the limitation of many traditional methods, such as generalised polynomial chaos methods, which may lack sufficient accuracy when the quantity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Yous van Halder , Benjamin Sanderse , Barry Koren

In this lecture we will consider the minimum weight spanning tree (MST) problem, i.e., one of the simplest and most vital combinatorial optimization problems. We will discuss a particular greedy algorithm that allows to compute a MST for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-21 O. Melchert

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 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

Due to its broad applications in practice, the minimum spanning tree problem and its all kinds of variations have been studied extensively during the last decades, for which a host of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yang Xu , Lianmin Zhang

The minimal spanning tree (MST) algorithm is a graph-theoretical cluster-finding method. We previously applied it to gamma-ray bidimensional images, showing that it is quite sensitive in finding faint sources. Possible sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 R. Campana , E. Bernieri , E. Massaro , F. Tinebra , G. Tosti

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

In the Steiner Tree problem we are given an edge weighted undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and a set of terminals $R \subseteq V$. The task is to find a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $R$ and minimizing the sum of weights of its edges. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Radek Hušek , Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík

The problem considered is the following. Given a graph with edge weights satisfying the triangle inequality, and a degree bound for each vertex, compute a low-weight spanning tree such that the degree of each vertex is at most its specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 S. Fekete , S. Khuller , M. Klemmstein , B. Raghavachari , Neal E. Young

Computing the Euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMST) is a computationally demanding step of many algorithms. While work-efficient serial and multithreaded algorithms for computing EMST are known, designing an efficient GPU algorithm is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Andrey Prokopenko , Piyush Sao , Damien Lebrun-Grandié

In the classical (min-cost) Steiner tree problem, we are given an edge-weighted undirected graph and a set of terminal nodes. The goal is to compute a min-cost tree S which spans all terminals. In this paper we consider the min-power…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Fabrizio Grandoni

Given a vertex-weighted connected graph $G = (V, E)$, the maximum weight internal spanning tree (MwIST for short) problem asks for a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ such that the total weight of the internal vertices in $T$ is maximized. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Lusheng Wang , Yong Chen , Dan Wang

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

In this paper we present and evaluate a parallel algorithm for solving a minimum spanning tree (MST) problem for supercomputers with distributed memory. The algorithm relies on the relaxation of the message processing order requirement for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Artem Mazeev , Alexander Semenov , Alexey Simonov

Vector Perturbation Precoding (VPP) can speed up downlink data transmissions in Large and Massive Multi-User MIMO systems but is known to be NP-hard. While there are several algorithms in the literature for VPP under total power constraint,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Kyle Jamieson

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