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In this research, we investigate the subject of path-finding. A pruned version of visibility graph based on Candidate Vertices is formulated, followed by a new visibility check technique. Such combination enables us to quickly identify the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pei Cao , Zhaoyan Fan , Robert X. Gao , Jiong Tang

We propose efficient distributed algorithms to aid navigation of a user through a geographic area covered by sensors. The sensors sense the level of danger at their locations and we use this information to find a safe path for the user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Chiranjeeb Buragohain , Divyakant Agrawal , Subhash Suri

Researchers have designed many algorithms to measure the distances between graph nodes, such as average hitting times of random walks, cosine distances from DeepWalk, personalized PageRank, etc. Successful although these algorithms are,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Enzhi Li , Zhengyi Le

Sampling-based path planning is a widely used method in robotics, particularly in high-dimensional state space. Among the whole process of the path planning, collision detection is the most time-consuming operation. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xingrong Diao , Wenzheng Chi , Jiankun Wang

Safe and efficient path planning in parking scenarios presents a significant challenge due to the presence of cluttered environments filled with static and dynamic obstacles. To address this, we propose a novel and computationally efficient…

Due to the computational complexity of finding almost shortest simple paths, we propose that identifying a larger collection of (nonbacktracking) paths is more efficient than finding almost shortest simple paths on positively weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-08 David Burstein , Leigh Metcalf

Continuous-time quantum walks provide a natural framework to tackle the fundamental problem of finding a node among a set of marked nodes in a graph, known as spatial search. Whether spatial search by continuous-time quantum walk provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 Simon Apers , Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Jérémie Roland

In this paper, we review a method for computing and parameterizing the set of homotopy classes of chain maps between two chain complexes. This is then applied to finding topologically meaningful maps between simplicial complexes, which in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Andrew Tausz , Gunnar Carlsson

Shortest path search is a core operation in graph-based applications, yet existing methods face important limitations. Classical algorithms such as Dijkstra's and A* become inefficient as graphs grow more complex, while index-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tiantian Liu , Xiao Li , Huan Li , Hua Lu , Christian S. Jensen , Jianliang Xu

This study develops a graph search algorithm to find the optimal discrimination path for the binary classification problem. The objective function is defined as the difference of variations between the true positive (TP) and false positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qinwu Xu

We study homomorphism polynomials, which are polynomials that enumerate all homomorphisms from a pattern graph $H$ to $n$-vertex graphs. These polynomials have received a lot of attention recently for their crucial role in several new…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Balagopal Komarath , Anurag Pandey , C. S. Rahul

In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical framework for robot navigation in dynamic environments with heterogeneous constraints. Our approach leverages a graph neural network trained via reinforcement learning (RL) to efficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Huajian Liu , Yixuan Feng , Wei Dong , Kunpeng Fan , Chao Wang , Yongzhuo Gao

We consider the problem of classifying a map using a team of communicating robots. It is assumed that all robots have localized visual sensing capabilities and can exchange their information with neighboring robots. Using a graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Martin Takáč , Héctor Muñoz-Avila , Nader Motee

The quest for efficient sorting is ongoing, and we will explore a graph-based stable sorting strategy, in particular employing comparison graphs. We use the topological sort to map the comparison graph to a linear domain, and we can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Balaram Behera

Random walks on graphs can be slow. To speed them up, imagine that at each step instead of choosing the neighbor at random, there is a small probability $\varepsilon>0$ that we can choose it. We show that in this case, at least for graphs…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Boris Bukh , Quentin Dubroff

We investigate searching efficiency of different kinds of random walk on complex networks which rely on local information and one-step memory. For the studied navigation strategies we obtained theoretical and numerical values for the graph…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Miroslav Mirchev , Lasko Basnarkov , Igor Mishkovski

Spatial search is an important problem in quantum computation, which aims to find a marked vertex on a graph. We propose a novel approach for designing deterministic quantum search algorithms on a variety of graphs via alternating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Qingwen Wang , Ying Jiang , Shiguang Feng , Lvzhou Li

We present an algorithm that, given finite simplicial sets $X$, $A$, $Y$ with an action of a finite group $G$, computes the set $[X,Y]^A_G$ of homotopy classes of equivariant maps $\ell \colon X \to Y$ extending a given equivariant map $f…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Marek Filakovský , Lukáš Vokřínek

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

We propose a novel method for motion planning and illustrate its implementation on several canonical examples. The core novel idea underlying the method is to define a metric for which a path of minimal length is an admissible path, that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Shenyu Liu , Mohamed Ali Belabbas