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A variant of the well-known Shortest Path Problem is studied in this paper, where pairs of conflicting arcs are provided, and for each conflicting pair a penalty is paid once neither or both of the arcs are selected. This configures a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

The MEG (minimum equivalent graph) problem is, given a directed graph, to find a small subset of the edges that maintains all reachability relations between nodes. The problem is NP-hard. This paper gives an approximation algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Samir Khuller , Balaji Raghavachari , Neal E. Young

Optimal transport on a graph focuses on finding the most efficient way to transfer resources from one distribution to another while considering the graph's structure. This paper introduces a new distributed algorithm that solves the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yacine Mokhtari , Emmanuel Moulay , Patrick Coirault , Jérôme Le Ny

We propose a novel optimization-based approach to embedding heterogeneous high-dimensional data characterized by a graph. The goal is to create a two-dimensional visualization of the graph structure such that edge-crossings are minimized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Amina Shabbeer , Cagri Ozcaglar , Kristin P. Bennett

Identifying shortest paths between nodes in a network is a common graph analysis problem that is important for many applications involving routing of resources. An adversary that can manipulate the graph structure could alter traffic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

Minimizing the number of dropped User Datagram Protocol (UDP) messages in a network is regarded as a challenge by researchers. This issue represents serious problems for many protocols particularly those that depend on sending messages as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Intisar Al-Mejibli , Martin Colley

The MEG (minimum equivalent graph) problem is, given a directed graph, to find a small subset of the edges that maintains all reachability relations between nodes. The problem is NP-hard. This paper gives a proof that, for graphs where each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Samir Khuller , Balaji Raghavachari , Neal Young

Given a pair of graphs with the same number of vertices, the inexact graph matching problem consists in finding a correspondence between the vertices of these graphs that minimizes the total number of induced edge disagreements. We study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Jesús Arroyo , Daniel L. Sussman , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

The algorithm of Gutwenger et al. to insert an edge $e$ in linear time into a planar graph $G$ with a minimal number of crossings on $e$, is a helpful tool for designing heuristics that minimize edge crossings in drawings of general graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Marcel Radermacher , Ignaz Rutter

In the Directed Disjoint Paths problem, we are given a digraph $D$ and a set of requests $\{(s_1, t_1), \ldots, (s_k, t_k)\}$, and the task is to find a collection of pairwise vertex-disjoint paths $\{P_1, \ldots, P_k\}$ such that each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Raul Lopes , Ignasi Sau

We present randomized algorithms for some well-studied, hard combinatorial problems: the k-path problem, the p-packing of q-sets problem, and the q-dimensional p-matching problem. Our algorithms solve these problems with high probability in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-08 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt , Petteri Kaski , Mikko Koivisto

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference in discrete-valued Markov random fields is a fundamental problem in machine learning that involves identifying the most likely configuration of random variables given a distribution. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jonathan N. Lee , Aldo Pacchiano , Peter Bartlett , Michael I. Jordan

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Out (MIMO) detection is an important problem in modern wireless communication systems. While traditional Belief Propagation (BP) detectors perform poorly on loopy graphs, the recent Graph Neural Networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Hongyi Li , Junxiang Wang , Yongchao Wang

In this paper we describe an algorithm that embeds a graph metric $(V,d_G)$ on an undirected weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ into a distribution of tree metrics $(T,D_T)$ such that for every pair $u,v\in V$, $d_G(u,v)\leq d_T(u,v)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We propose an optimal algorithm for solving the longest path problem in undirected weighted graphs. By using graph partitioning and dynamic programming, we obtain an algorithm that is significantly faster than other state-of-the-art…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Tomas Balyo , Kai Fieger , Christian Schulz

The minimum feedback arc set problem asks to delete a minimum number of arcs (directed edges) from a digraph (directed graph) to make it free of any directed cycles. In this work we approach this fundamental cycle-constrained optimization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-13 Yi-Zhi Xu , Hai-Jun Zhou

In Path Set Packing, the input is an undirected graph $G$, a collection $\calp$ of simple paths in $G$, and a positive integer $k$. The problem is to decide whether there exist $k$ edge-disjoint paths in $\calp$. We study the parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-03 N. R. Aravind , Roopam Saxena

The subgraph-centric programming model is a promising approach and has been applied in many state-of-the-art distributed graph computing frameworks. However, traditional graph partition algorithms have significant difficulties in processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shuai Zhang , Zite Jiang , Xingzhong Hou , Zhen Guan , Mengting Yuan , Haihang You

We consider the communication complexity of finding an approximate maximum matching in a graph in a multi-party message-passing communication model. The maximum matching problem is one of the most fundamental graph combinatorial problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Zengfeng Huang , Bozidar Radunovic , Milan Vojnovic , Qin Zhang

We study the problem of maximizing the number of spanning trees in a connected graph by adding at most $k$ edges from a given candidate edge set. We give both algorithmic and hardness results for this problem: - We give a greedy algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huan Li , Stacy Patterson , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang