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The minimum cost multicut problem is the NP-hard/APX-hard combinatorial optimization problem of partitioning a real-valued edge-weighted graph such as to minimize the total cost of the partition. While graph convolutional neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

In recent years, network coding has become one of the most interesting fields and has attracted considerable attention from both industry and academia. The idea of network coding is based on the concept of allowing intermediate nodes to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Somayeh Kafaie , Yuanzhu Peter Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , Mohamed Hossam Ahmed

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

The All-Pairs Min-Cut problem (aka All-Pairs Max-Flow) asks to compute a minimum $s$-$t$ cut (or just its value) for all pairs of vertices $s,t$. We study this problem in directed graphs with unit edge/vertex capacities (corresponding to…

Given a graph with edge costs, the {\em power} of a node is themaximum cost of an edge incident to it, and the power of a graph is the sum of the powers of its nodes. Motivated by applications in wireless networks, we consider the following…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Nachshon Cohen , Zeev Nutov

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

An identifying code of a graph is a subset of its vertices such that every vertex of the graph is uniquely identified by the set of its neighbours within the code. We study the edge-identifying code problem, i.e. the identifying code…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Florent Foucaud , Sylvain Gravier , Reza Naserasr , Aline Parreau , Petru Valicov

We investigate the achievable rate of data transmission from sources to sinks through a multiple-relay network. We study achievable rates for omniscient coding, in which all nodes are considered in the coding design at each node. We find…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-15 Lawrence Ong , Mehul Motani

Clustering bipartite graphs is a fundamental task in network analysis. In the high-dimensional regime where the number of rows $n_1$ and the number of columns $n_2$ of the associated adjacency matrix are of different order, existing methods…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Guillaume Braun , Hemant Tyagi

For general connections, the problem of finding network codes and optimizing resources for those codes is intrinsically difficult and little is known about its complexity. Most of the existing solutions rely on very restricted classes of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy

Random linear network code has to sacrifice part of bandwidth to transfer the coding vectors, thus a head of size k log|T| is appended to each packet. We present a distributed random network coding approach based on the Chinese remainder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Zhifang Zhang

We consider the problem of multicasting information from a source to a set of receivers over a network where intermediate network nodes perform randomized network coding operations on the source packets. We propose a channel model for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-17 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Soheil Mohajer , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

The multicut problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with diverse applications in fields such as bioinformatics, data mining and computer vision. Graph neural networks have been defined for the multicut problem but can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jannik Irmai , Lucas Fabian Naumann , Bjoern Andres

In this paper, we study the contribution of network coding (NC) in improving the multicast capacity of random wireless ad hoc networks when nodes are endowed with multi-packet transmission (MPT) and multi-packet reception (MPR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-23 Zheng Wang , Shirish Karande , Hamid R. Sadjadpour , J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

We show that Edge Multiway Cut (also called Multiterminal Cut) and Node Multiway Cut are NP-complete on graphs of maximum degree $3$ (also known as subcubic graphs). This improves on a previous degree bound of $11$. Our NP-completeness…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Matthew Johnson , Barnaby Martin , Siani Smith , Sukanya Pandey , Daniel Paulusma , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We study augmenting a plane Euclidean network with a segment, called a shortcut, to minimize the largest distance between any two points along the edges of the resulting network. Problems of this type have received considerable attention…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Natalia Rodríguez , Rodrigo I. Silveira

In technology mapping, enumeration of subcircuits or cuts to be replaced by a standard cell is an important step that decides both the quality of the solution and execution speed. In this work, we view cuts as set of edges instead of as set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Niranjan Kulkarni , Sarma Vrudhula

In a reduction sequence of a graph, vertices are successively identified until the graph has one vertex. At each step, when identifying $u$ and $v$, each edge incident to exactly one of $u$ and $v$ is coloured red. Bonnet, Kim, Thomass\'e…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Édouard Bonnet , O-joung Kwon , David R. Wood

Coding for distributed storage gives rise to a new set of problems in coding theory related to the need of reducing inter-node communication in the system. A large number of recent papers addressed the problem of optimizing the total amount…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Itzhak Tamo , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Given a directed graph $G$, a set of $k$ terminals and an integer $p$, the \textsc{Directed Vertex Multiway Cut} problem asks if there is a set $S$ of at most $p$ (nonterminal) vertices whose removal disconnects each terminal from all other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx