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Given a set of source-sink pairs, the maximum multiflow problem asks for the maximum total amount of flow that can be feasibly routed between them. The minimum multicut, a dual problem to multiflow, seeks the minimum-cost set of edges whose…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sina Kalantarzadeh , Nikhil Kumar

The semidirect product of a finitely generated group dual with the symmetric group can be described through so-called group-theoretical categories of partitions (covers only a special case; due to Raum--Weber, 2015) and skew categories of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Daniel Gromada

In this paper we study the impact of degree correlations in the subgraphs statistics of scale-free networks. In particular we consider loops: a simple case of network subgraphs which encode the redundancy of the paths passing through every…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

An autonomous variational inference algorithm for arbitrary graphical models requires the ability to optimize variational approximations over the space of model parameters as well as over the choice of tractable families used for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Eric P. Xing , Michael I. Jordan , Stuart Russell

Based upon the idea that network functionality is impaired if two nodes in a network are sufficiently separated in terms of a given metric, we introduce two combinatorial \emph{pseudocut} problems generalizing the classical min-cut and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Alan Kuhnle , Tianyi Pan , Victoria G. Crawford , Md Abdul Alim , My T. Thai

We address the following general question: given a graph class C on which we can solve Maximum Matching in (quasi) linear time, does the same hold true for the class of graphs that can be modularly decomposed into C ? A major difficulty in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Guillaume Ducoffe , Alexandru Popa

The initial motivation of this work was to give a topological interpretation of two-periodic twisted de-Rham cohomology which is generalizable to arbitrary coefficients. To this end we develop a sheaf theory in the context of locally…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Ulrich Bunke , Markus Spitzweck , Thomas Schick

The flow semigroup, introduced by John Rhodes, is an invariant for digraphs and a complete invariant for graphs. After collecting together previous partial results, we refine and prove Rhodes's conjecture on the structure of the maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Gábor Horváth , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv , Károly Podoski

Let \(\T\) be a commutative ternary \(\Gm\)-semiring in the sense of the triadic, \(\Gm\)-parametrized multiplication \(\{a,b,c\}_{\gamma}\). Building on the affine \(\Gm\)-spectrum \(\SpecG(\T)\), the structure sheaf, and the equivalence…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu

The maximum integer skew-symmetric flow problem (MSFP) generalizes both the maximum flow and maximum matching problems. It was introduced by Tutte in terms of self-conjugate flows in antisymmetrical digraphs. He showed that for these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-15 Andrew V. Goldberg , Alexander V. Karzanov

Graph domain variables and constraints are an extension of constraint programming introduced by Dooms et al. This approach had been further investigated by Fages in its PhD thesis. On the other hand, Beldiceanu et al. presented a generic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Dimitri Justeau-Allaire , Philippe Birnbaum , Xavier Lorca

Algorithmic meta-theorems explain the tractability of large classes of computational problems by linking logical expressibility with structural graph properties. While extensions of first-order logic such as FO+dp admit efficient model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ignasi Sau , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Alexandre Vigny

Graphs are mathematical tools that can be used to represent complex real-world interconnected systems, such as financial markets and social networks. Hence, machine learning (ML) over graphs has attracted significant attention recently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 O. Deniz Kose , Yanning Shen , Gonzalo Mateos

We develop two generalizations of contraction theory, namely, semi-contraction and weak-contraction theory. First, using the notion of semi-norm, we propose a geometric framework for semi-contraction theory. We introduce matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Saber Jafarpour , Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Francesco Bullo

Neural Algorithmic Reasoning is an emerging area of machine learning which seeks to infuse algorithmic computation in neural networks, typically by training neural models to approximate steps of classical algorithms. In this context, much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Danilo Numeroso , Davide Bacciu , Petar Veličković

In the theory of persistent homology, a well known duality relates the barcodes of the absolute homology and relative cohomology of a one-parameter simplicial filtration. Motivated by the problem of computing free presentations of the…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Ulrich Bauer , Fabian Lenzen , Michael Lesnick

We consider a refinement of the partition function of graph homomorphisms and present a quasi-polynomial algorithm to compute it in a certain domain. As a corollary, we obtain quasi-polynomial algorithms for computing partition functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Alexander Barvinok , Pablo Soberón

We axiomatize the algebraic properties of toroidal compactifications of (mixed) Shimura varieties and their automorphic vector bundles. A notion of generalized automorphic sheaf is proposed which includes sheaves of (meromorphic) sections…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Fritz Hörmann

This paper bridges discrete and continuous optimization approaches for decomposable submodular function minimization, in both the standard and parametric settings. We provide improved running times for this problem by reducing it to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Kyriakos Axiotis , Adam Karczmarz , Anish Mukherjee , Piotr Sankowski , Adrian Vladu

We introduce a new technique to certify lower bounds on the multicut size using network coding. In directed networks the network coding rate is not a lower bound on the multicut, but we identify a class of networks on which the rate is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Anna Blasiak