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Efficient algorithms are presented for constructing spanners in geometric intersection graphs. For a unit ball graph in R^k, a (1+\epsilon)-spanner is obtained using efficient partitioning of the space into hypercubes and solving…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

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

We consider the problem of partitioning the node set of a graph into $k$ sets of given sizes in order to \emph{minimize the cut} obtained using (removing) the $k$-th set. If the resulting cut has value $0$, then we have obtained a vertex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Ting Kei Pong , Hao Sun , Ningchuan Wang , Henry Wolkowicz

Multilevel partitioning methods that are inspired by principles of multiscaling are the most powerful practical hypergraph partitioning solvers. Hypergraph partitioning has many applications in disciplines ranging from scientific computing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ruslan Shaydulin , Jie Chen , Ilya Safro

A hypergraph is said to be $1$-Sperner if for every two hyperedges the smallest of their two set differences is of size one. We present several applications of $1$-Sperner hypergraphs and their structure to graphs. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Endre Boros , Vladimir Gurvich , Martin Milanič

For an optimization problem $\Pi$ on graphs whose solutions are vertex sets, a vertex $v$ is called $c$-essential for $\Pi$ if all solutions of size at most $c \cdot OPT$ contain $v$. Recent work showed that polynomial-time algorithms to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Bart M. P. Jansen , Ruben F. A. Verhaegh

We address the problem of partitioning a vertex-weighted connected graph into $k$ connected subgraphs that have similar weights, for a fixed integer $k\geq 2$. This problem, known as the \emph{balanced connected $k$-partition problem}…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Flávio K. Miyazawa , Phablo F. S. Moura , Matheus J. Ota , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

The hypergraph minimum cut problem aims to partition its vertices into two blocks while minimizing the total weight of the cut hyperedges. This fundamental problem arises in network reliability, VLSI design, and community detection. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Adil Chhabra , Christian Schulz , Bora Uçar , Loris Wilwert

More and more large data collections are gathered worldwide in various IT systems. Many of them possess the networked nature and need to be processed and analysed as graph structures. Due to their size they require very often usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Przemyslaw Kazienko , Wojciech Indyk

Hypergraphs allow modeling problems with multi-way high-order relationships. However, the computational cost of most existing hypergraph-based algorithms can be heavily dependent upon the input hypergraph sizes. To address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Ali Aghdaei , Zhiqiang Zhao , Zhuo Feng

Core decomposition is a fundamental operator in network analysis. In this paper, we study the problem of computing distance-generalized core decomposition on a network. A distance-generalized core, also termed $(k, h)$-core, is a maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Qiangqiang Dai , Rong-Hua Li , Lu Qin , Guoren Wang , Weihua Yang , Zhiwei Zhang , Ye Yuan

Graph Partitioning is a critical problem in numerous scientific and engineering domains including social network analysis, VLSI design, and many more. Spectral methods are known to produce quality partitions while minimizing edge cuts for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Joshua Dennis Booth , Vishvam Patel

State-of-the-art hypergraph partitioners utilize a multilevel paradigm to construct progressively coarser hypergraphs across multiple layers, guiding cut refinements at each level of the hierarchy. Traditionally, these partitioners employ…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hamed Sajadinia , Ali Aghdaei , Zhuo Feng

The Weisfeiler-Leman procedure is a widely-used technique for graph isomorphism testing that works by iteratively computing an isomorphism-invariant coloring of vertex tuples. Meanwhile, a fundamental tool in structural graph theory, which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Sandra Kiefer , Daniel Neuen

In the quadratic minimum spanning tree problem (QMSTP) one wants to find the minimizer of a quadratic function over all possible spanning trees of a graph. We present a formulation of the QMSTP as a mixed-integer semidefinite program…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Frank de Meijer , Melanie Siebenhofer , Renata Sotirov , Angelika Wiegele

This paper considers the balanced hypergraph partitioning problem, which asks for partitioning the vertices into $k$ disjoint blocks of bounded size while minimizing an objective function over the hyperedges. Here, we consider the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Sebastian Schlag , Tobias Heuer , Lars Gottesbüren , Yaroslav Akhremtsev , Christian Schulz , Peter Sanders

Partitioning a graph into blocks of roughly equal weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with numerous practical applications. While shared-memory parallel partitioners have recently matured to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

In a series of recent works, we have generalised the consistency results in the stochastic block model literature to the case of uniform and non-uniform hypergraphs. The present paper continues the same line of study, where we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ambedkar Dukkipati