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Short spanning trees subject to additional constraints are important building blocks in various approximation algorithms. Especially in the context of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), new techniques for finding spanning trees with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Martin Nägele , Rico Zenklusen

Algorithms for dynamically maintaining minimum spanning trees (MSTs) have received much attention in both the parallel and sequential settings. While previous work has given optimal algorithms for dense graphs, all existing parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Kanat Tangwongsan

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

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

Binary neural networks (BNNs) have been widely adopted to reduce the computational cost and memory storage on edge-computing devices by using one-bit representation for activations and weights. However, as neural networks become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Quang Hieu Vo , Linh-Tam Tran , Sung-Ho Bae , Lok-Won Kim , Choong Seon Hong

We study the problem of detecting and recovering a planted spanning tree $M_n^*$ hidden within a complete, randomly weighted graph $G_n$. Specifically, each edge $e$ has a non-negative weight drawn independently from $P_n$ if $e \in M_n^*$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mehrdad Moharrami , Cristopher Moore , Jiaming Xu

A singularly (near) optimal distributed algorithm is one that is (near) optimal in \emph{two} criteria, namely, its time and message complexities. For \emph{synchronous} CONGEST networks, such algorithms are known for fundamental…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Fabien Dufoulon , Shay Kutten , William K. Moses , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg

This paper gives a new deterministic algorithm for the dynamic Minimum Spanning Forest (MSF) problem in the EREW PRAM model, where the goal is to maintain a MSF of a weighted graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges while supporting edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Tsvi Kopelowitz , Ely Porat , Yair Rosenmutter

In this paper we give a single-source shortest-path algorithm that breaks, after over 60 years, the $O(n \cdot m)$ time bound for the Bellman-Ford algorithm, where $n$ is the number of vertices and $m$ is the number of arcs of the graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Amr Elmasry

In this paper, we present a fully-dynamic distributed algorithm for maintaining a minimum spanning tree on general graphs with positive real edge weights. The goal of a dynamic MST algorithm is to update efficiently the minimum spanning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pradosh Kumar Mohapatra

This paper presents an adaptive amoeba algorithm to address the shortest path tree (SPT) problem in dynamic graphs. In dynamic graphs, the edge weight updates consists of three categories: edge weight increases, edge weight decreases, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Xiaoge Zhang , Qi Liu , Yong Hu , Felix T. S. Chan , Sankaran Mahadevan , Zili Zhang , Yong Deng

The Minimum Linear Arrangement problem (MLA) consists of finding a mapping $\pi$ from vertices of a graph to distinct integers that minimizes $\sum_{\{u,v\}\in E}|\pi(u) - \pi(v)|$. In that setting, vertices are often assumed to lie on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lluís Alemany-Puig , Juan Luis Esteban , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

We present an implementation and an experimental evaluation of an algorithm that, given a connected graph G (represented by adjacency lists), estimates in sublinear time, with a relative error, the Minimum Spanning Tree Weight of G; the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Gabriele Santi , Leonardo De Laurentiis

Finding the minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph is an important task in computer vision, as it enables a sparse and low-cost representation of connectivity among elements (such as superpixels, points, or regions), which is useful for…

Given a set of points in the Euclidean plane, the Euclidean \textit{$\delta$-minimum spanning tree} ($\delta$-MST) problem is the problem of finding a spanning tree with maximum degree no more than $\delta$ for the set of points such the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Patrick J. Andersen , Charl J. Ras

We give a randomized algorithm that finds a minimum cut in an undirected weighted $m$-edge $n$-vertex graph $G$ with high probability in $O(m \log^2 n)$ time. This is the first improvement to Karger's celebrated $O(m \log^3 n)$ time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

Fischer has shown how to compute a minimum weight spanning tree of degree at most $b \Delta^* + \lceil \log\_b n\rceil$ in time $O(n^{4 + 1/\ln b})$ for any constant $b > 1$, where $\Delta^*$ is the value of an optimal solution and $n$ is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christian Lavault , Mario Valencia-Pabon

We give two fully dynamic algorithms that maintain a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation of the weight $M$ of a minimum spanning forest (MSF) of an $n$-node graph $G$ with edges weights in $[1,W]$, for any $\varepsilon>0$. (1) Our deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

In the laminar-constrained spanning tree problem, the goal is to find a minimum-cost spanning tree which respects upper bounds on the number of times each cut in a given laminar family is crossed. This generalizes the well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Nathan Klein , Neil Olver

Minimum Spanning Trees are a well-studied subset of graph problems. While classical algorithms have existed to solve these problems for decades, new variations and application areas are constantly being discovered. When dealing with large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Arjun Bhalla