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Neural networks that compute over graph structures are a natural fit for problems in a variety of domains, including natural language (parse trees) and cheminformatics (molecular graphs). However, since the computation graph has a different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Moshe Looks , Marcello Herreshoff , DeLesley Hutchins , Peter Norvig

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

This work introduces two techniques for the design and analysis of branching algorithms, illustrated through the case study of the Vertex Cover problem. First, we present a method for automatically generating branching rules through a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Katie Clinch , Serge Gaspers , Tao Zixu He , Simon Mackenzie , Tiankuang Zhang

We describe algorithms to efficiently compute minimum $(s,t)$-cuts and global minimum cuts of undirected surface-embedded graphs. Given an edge-weighted undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices embedded on an orientable surface of genus $g$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Erin W. Chambers , Jeff Erickson , Kyle Fox , Amir Nayyeri

Many optimization problems can be naturally represented as (hyper) graphs, where vertices correspond to variables and edges to tasks, whose cost depends on the values of the adjacent variables. Capitalizing on the structure of the graph,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Nicklas Hoch , Ugo Montanari , Matteo Sammartino

Bidimensionality is the most common technique to design subexponential-time parameterized algorithms on special classes of graphs, particularly planar graphs. The core engine behind it is a combinatorial lemma of Robertson, Seymour and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In this paper, we study fundamental parameterized problems such as $k$-Path/Cycle, Vertex Cover, Triangle Hitting Set, Feedback Vertex Set, and Cycle Packing for dynamic unit disk graphs. Given a vertex set $V$ changing dynamically under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Shinwoo An , Kyungjin Cho , Leo Jang , Byeonghyeon Jung , Yudam Lee , Eunjin Oh , Donghun Shin , Hyeonjun Shin , Chanho Song

In this paper we study graph problems in dynamic streaming model, where the input is defined by a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. As many natural problems require $\Omega(n)$ space, where $n$ is the number of vertices, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Zengfeng Huang , Pan Peng

Real-world graphs, such as social networks, financial transactions, and recommendation systems, often demonstrate dynamic behavior. This phenomenon, known as graph stream, involves the dynamic changes of nodes and the emergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yanping Zheng , Zhewei Wei , Jiajun Liu

Subexponential parameterized algorithms are known for a wide range of natural problems on planar graphs, but the techniques are usually highly problem specific. The goal of this paper is to introduce a framework for obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dániel Marx , Pranabendu Misra , Daniel Neuen , Prafullkumar Tale

Computational topology is an area that revisits topological problems from an algorithmic point of view, and develops topological tools for improved algorithms. We survey results in computational topology that are concerned with graphs drawn…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Éric Colin de Verdière

An NP-hard graph problem may be intractable for general graphs but it could be efficiently solvable using dynamic programming for graphs with bounded width (or depth or some other structural parameter). Dynamic programming is a well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer

Partitioning a graph into blocks of "roughly equal" weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications. In particular, the problem is a building block in applications that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier

Motivated by recent applications of dominator computations, we consider the problem of dynamically maintaining the dominators of flow graphs through a sequence of insertions and deletions of edges. Our main theoretical contribution is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Luigi Laura , Federico Santaroni

In this paper we study the problem of dynamically maintaining graph properties under batches of edge insertions and deletions in the massively parallel model of computation. In this setting, the graph is stored on a number of machines, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 David Durfee , Laxman Dhulipala , Janardhan Kulkarni , Richard Peng , Saurabh Sawlani , Xiaorui Sun

We propose topology-aware feature partitioning into $k$ disjoint partitions for given scene features as a method for object-centric representation learning. To this end, we propose to use minimum $s$-$t$ graph cuts as a partitioning method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Adeel Pervez , Phillip Lippe , Efstratios Gavves

Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Noe

Building on previous work by Cameron et al. in [3], we give a recurrence for computing the number of acyclic orientations of complete $k$-partite graphs, which can be implemented to obtain a dynamic programming algorithm running in time…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Veselin Blagoev

Decomposing hypergraphs is a key task in hypergraph analysis with broad applications in community detection, pattern discovery, and task scheduling. Existing approaches such as $k$-core and neighbor-$k$-core rely on vertex degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xiaoyu Leng , Hongchao Qin , Rong-Hua Li

Embedding static graphs in low-dimensional vector spaces plays a key role in network analytics and inference, supporting applications like node classification, link prediction, and graph visualization. However, many real-world networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Claudio D. T. Barros , Matheus R. F. Mendonça , Alex B. Vieira , Artur Ziviani