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We consider a family of local search algorithms for the minimum-weight spanning tree, indexed by a parameter $\rho$. One step of the local search corresponds to replacing a connected induced subgraph of the current candidate graph whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Louigi Addario-Berry , Jordan Barrett , Benoît Corsini

In this lecture we will consider the minimum weight spanning tree (MST) problem, i.e., one of the simplest and most vital combinatorial optimization problems. We will discuss a particular greedy algorithm that allows to compute a MST for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-21 O. Melchert

We introduce a new structure for a set of points in the plane and an angle $\alpha$, which is similar in flavor to a bounded-degree MST. We name this structure $\alpha$-MST. Let $P$ be a set of points in the plane and let $0 < \alpha \le…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Rom Aschner , Matthew J. Katz

We study the problem of privately releasing an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST). Given a graph $G = (V, E, \vec{W})$ where $V$ is a set of $n$ vertices, $E$ is a set of $m$ undirected edges, and $ \vec{W} \in \mathbb{R}^{|E|} $ is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Rasmus Pagh , Lukas Retschmeier , Hao Wu , Hanwen Zhang

Network interdiction problems are a natural way to study the sensitivity of a network optimization problem with respect to the removal of a limited set of edges or vertices. One of the oldest and best-studied interdiction problems is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Rico Zenklusen

The minimal spanning tree (MST) algorithm is a graph-theoretical cluster-finding method. We previously applied it to gamma-ray bidimensional images, showing that it is quite sensitive in finding faint sources. Possible sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 R. Campana , E. Bernieri , E. Massaro , F. Tinebra , G. Tosti

Due to its broad applications in practice, the minimum spanning tree problem and its all kinds of variations have been studied extensively during the last decades, for which a host of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yang Xu , Lianmin Zhang

In the first part of the paper, we present an (1+\mu)-approximation algorithm to the minimum-spanning tree of points in a planar arrangement of lines, where the metric is the number of crossings between the spanning tree and the lines. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Sariel Har-Peled , Piotr Indyk

Motivated by applications in clustering and synthetic data generation, we consider the problem of releasing a minimum spanning tree (MST) under edge-weight differential privacy constraints where a graph topology $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Rasmus Pagh , Lukas Retschmeier

Based on a recently proposed $q$-dependent detrended cross-correlation coefficient $\rho_q$, we generalize the concept of minimum spanning tree (MST) by introducing a family of $q$-dependent minimum spanning trees ($q$MST) that are…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-05-19 Jaroslaw Kwapien , Pawel Oswiecimka , Marcin Forczek , Stanislaw Drozdz

Choi et. al (2011) introduced a minimum spanning tree (MST)-based method called CLGrouping, for constructing tree-structured probabilistic graphical models, a statistical framework that is commonly used for inferring phylogenetic trees.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Prabhav Kalaghatgi , Thomas Lengauer

We provide the first asynchronous distributed algorithms to compute broadcast and minimum spanning tree with $o(m)$ bits of communication, in a graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges. For decades, it was believed that $\Omega(m)$ bits of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ali Mashreghi , Valerie King

This paper give a simple linear-time algorithm that, given a weighted digraph, finds a spanning tree that simultaneously approximates a shortest-path tree and a minimum spanning tree. The algorithm provides a continuous trade-off: given the…

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

A fundamental problem in wireless networks is the \emph{minimum spanning tree} (MST) problem: given a set $V$ of wireless nodes, compute a spanning tree $T$, so that the total cost of $T$ is minimized. In recent years, there has been a lot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Maleq Khan , V. S. Anil Kumar , Gopal Pandurangan , Guanhong Pei

In length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) we are given an $n$-node graph $G = (V,E)$ with edge weights $w : E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ and edge lengths $l: E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ along with a root node $r \in V$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang

We present Fast Approximate Minimum Spanning Tree (FAMST), a novel algorithm that addresses the computational challenges of constructing Minimum Spanning Trees (MSTs) for large-scale and high-dimensional datasets. FAMST utilizes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mahmood K. M. Almansoori , Miklos Telek

This paper considers the \textit{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem in the Congested Clique model and presents an algorithm that runs in $O(\log \log \log n)$ rounds, with high probability. Prior to this, the fastest MST algorithm in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

Consider~\(n\) nodes~\(\{X_i\}_{1 \leq i \leq n}\) independently distributed in the unit square~\(S,\) each according to a distribution~\(f\) and let~\(K_n\) be the complete graph formed by joining each pair of nodes by a straight line…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

This paper introduces the notion of distributed verification without preprocessing. It focuses on the Minimum-weight Spanning Tree (MST) verification problem and establishes tight upper and lower bounds for the time and message complexities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Liah Kor , Amos Korman , David Peleg

We study the noise sensitivity of the minimum spanning tree (MST) of the $n$-vertex complete graph when edges are assigned independent random weights. It is known that when the graph distance is rescaled by $n^{1/3}$ and vertices are given…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Omer Israeli , Yuval Peled