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We significantly improve known time bounds for solving the minimum cut problem on undirected graphs. We use a ``semi-duality'' between minimum cuts and maximum spanning tree packings combined with our previously developed random sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David R. Karger

In this paper, we present new efficiently solvable cases of the Minimum Uncovering Branching problem, an optimization problem with applications in cancer genomics introduced by Hujdurovi\'c, Husi\'c, Milani\v{c}, Rizzi, and Tomescu in 2018.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Narmina Baghirova , Esther Galby , Martin Milanič

In pliable index coding (PICOD), a number of clients are connected via a noise-free broadcast channel to a server which has a list of messages. Each client has a unique subset of messages at the server as side-information, and requests for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tulasi Sowjanya B. , Prasad Krishnan

An identifying code of a graph G is a dominating set C such that every vertex x of G is distinguished from all other vertices by the set of vertices in C that are at distance at most 1 from x. The problem of finding an identifying code of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-25 Florent Foucaud , Eleonora Guerrini , Matjaz Kovse , Reza Naserasr , Aline Parreau , Petru Valicov

The computational complexity of the MaxCut problem restricted to interval graphs has been open since the 80's, being one of the problems proposed by Johnson on his Ongoing Guide to NP-completeness, and has been settled as NP-complete only…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Celina M. H. de Figueiredo , Alexsander A. de Melo , Fabiano S. Oliveira , Ana Silva

A problem of index coding with side information was first considered by Y. Birk and T. Kol (IEEE INFOCOM, 1998). In the present work, a generalization of index coding scheme, where transmitted symbols are subject to errors, is studied.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

Isocontours in road networks represent the area that is reachable from a source within a given resource limit. We study the problem of computing accurate isocontours in realistic, large-scale networks. We propose polygons with minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Moritz Baum , Thomas Bläsius , Andreas Gemsa , Ignaz Rutter , Franziska Wegner

We characterise the optimal broadcast rate for a few classes of pliable-index-coding problems. This is achieved by devising new lower bounds that utilise the set of absent receivers to construct decoding chains with skipped messages. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Lawrence Ong , Badri N. Vellambi , Jörg Kliewer

Sequence representations supporting queries $access$, $select$ and $rank$ are at the core of many data structures. There is a considerable gap between the various upper bounds and the few lower bounds known for such representations, and how…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Djamal Belazzougui , Gonzalo Navarro

Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the properties of linear coding schemes for the ICSI problem are further explored. The notion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-29 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

A problem of index coding with side information was first considered by Y. Birk and T. Kol (IEEE INFOCOM, 1998). In the present work, a generalization of index coding scheme, where transmitted symbols are subject to errors, is studied.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-17 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

In this paper we define critical graphs as minimal graphs that support a given set of rates for the index coding problem, and study them for both the one-shot and asymptotic setups. For the case of equal rates, we find the critical graph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Amirbehshad Shahrasbi , Amin Gohari

We study the index coding problem in the unicast message setting, i.e., where each message is requested by one unique receiver. This problem can be modeled by a directed graph. We propose a new scheme called interlinked cycle cover, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Chandra Thapa , Lawrence Ong , Sarah J. Johnson

The shortest-path distance is a fundamental concept in graph analytics and has been extensively studied in the literature. In many real-world applications, quality constraints are naturally associated with edges in the graphs and finding…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-17 You Peng , Zhuo Ma , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang , Xiaoshuang Chen

It was recently shown \cite{STV} that satisfiability is polynomially solvable when the incidence graph is an interval bipartite graph (an interval graph turned into a bipartite graph by omitting all edges within each partite set). Here we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Serge Gaspers , Christos Papadimitriou , Sigve Hortemo Saether , Jan Arne Telle

The Minimum Path Cover (MPC) problem consists of finding a minimum-cardinality set of node-disjoint paths that cover all nodes in a given graph. We explore a variant of the MPC problem on acyclic digraphs (DAGs) where, given a subset of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Roberto Baldacci

The groupcast index coding problem is the most general version of the classical index coding problem, where any receiver can demand messages that are also demanded by other receivers. Any groupcast index coding problem is described by its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Chinmayananda Arunachala , B. Sundar Rajan

The capacity of symmetric instance of the multiple unicast index coding problem with neighboring antidotes (side-information) with number of messages equal to the number of receivers was given by Maleki, Cadambe and Jafar. In this paper we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Mahesh Babu Vaddi , Roop Kumar Bhattaram , B. Sundar Rajan

The Pliable Index CODing (PICOD) problem is a variant of the Index Coding (IC) problem, where the desired messages by the users, who are equipped with message side information, is part of the optimization. This paper studies the PICOD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Tang Liu , Daniela Tuninetti

The bandwidth of a graph is the labeling of vertices with minimum maximum edge difference. For many graph families this is NP-complete. A classic result computes the bandwidth for the hypercube. We generalize this result to give sharp lower…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf , Mitchell A. Harris