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We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

We investigate the complexity of finding a transformation from a given spanning tree in a graph to another given spanning tree in the same graph via a sequence of edge flips. The exchange property of the matroid bases immediately yields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Nicolas Bousquet , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Haruka Mizuta , Paul Ouvrard , Akira Suzuki , Kunihiro Wasa

In the recent years, several polynomial algorithms of a dynamical nature have been proposed to address the graph isomorphism problem. In this paper we propose a generalization of an approach exposed in cond-mat/0209112 and find that this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marats Golovkins

We study the complexity of the directed periodic temporal graph realization problem. This work is motivated by the design of periodic schedules in public transport with constraints on the quality of service. Namely, we require that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Julia Meusel , Matthias Müller-Hannemann , Klaus Reinhardt

We consider the approximability of the maximum edge-disjoint paths problem (MEDP) in undirected graphs, and in particular, the integrality gap of the natural multicommodity flow based relaxation for it. The integrality gap is known to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Chandra Chekuri , Guyslain Naves , F. Bruce Shepherd

For graphs $G$ and $H$, a \emph{homomorphism} from $G$ to $H$ is an edge-preserving mapping from the vertex set of $G$ to the vertex set of $H$. For a fixed graph $H$, by \textsc{Hom($H$)} we denote the computational problem which asks…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Karolina Okrasa , Paweł Rzążewski

We study the fundamental problem of scheduling bidirectional traffic along a path composed of multiple segments. The main feature of the problem is that jobs traveling in the same direction can be scheduled in quick succession on a segment,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Yann Disser , Max Klimm , Elisabeth Lübbecke

In this article we introduce Graph Generation, an enhanced Column Generation (CG) algorithm for solving expanded linear programming relaxations of mixed integer linear programs. To apply Graph Generation, we must be able to map any given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Julian Yarkony , Naveed Haghani , Amelia Regan

We consider the following natural "above guarantee" parameterization of the classical Longest Path problem: For given vertices s and t of a graph G, and an integer k, the problem Longest Detour asks for an (s,t)-path in G that is at least k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ivona Bezáková , Radu Curticapean , Holger Dell , Fedor V. Fomin

Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon

We continue the study of graph classes in which the treewidth can only be large due to the presence of a large clique, and, more specifically, of graph classes with bounded tree-independence number. In [Dallard, Milani\v{c}, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Martin Milanič , Paweł Rzążewski

Corporate mobility is often based on a fixed assignment of vehicles to employees. Relaxing this fixation and including alternatives such as public transportation or taxis for business and private trips could increase fleet utilization and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sebastian Knopp , Benjamin Biesinger , Matthias Prandtstetter

We study two related problems on simple, un-directed graphs: Edge Deletion to Cactus and Spanning Tree to Cactus. Edge Deletion to Cactus has been known to be NP-hard on general graphs at least since 1988. We show improved exact algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sheikh Shakil Akhtar , Geevarghese Philip

The Stacker Crane Problem (SCP) is a variant of the Traveling Salesman Problem. In SCP, pairs of pickup and delivery points are designated on a graph, and a crane must visit these points to move objects from each pickup location to its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yike Chen , Ke Shi , Chao Xu

The Unsplittable Flow on a Path (UFP) problem has garnered considerable attention as a challenging combinatorial optimization problem with notable practical implications. Steered by its pivotal applications in power engineering, the present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Areg Karapetyan , Khaled Elbassioni , Majid Khonji , Chi-Kin Chau

The Integer Multicommodity Flow problem has been studied extensively in the literature. However, from a parameterised perspective, mostly special cases, such as the Disjoint Paths problem, have been considered. Therefore, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hans L. Bodlaender , Isja Mannens , Jelle J. Oostveen , Sukanya Pandey , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The \textsc{Bipartite Contraction} problem is to decide, given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, whether we can can obtain a bipartite graph from $G$ by at most $k$ edge contractions. The fixed-parameter tractability of the problem was shown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Sylvain Guillemot , Dániel Marx

Neural networks that compute over graph structures are a natural fit for problems in a variety of domains, including natural language (parse trees) and cheminformatics (molecular graphs). However, since the computation graph has a different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Moshe Looks , Marcello Herreshoff , DeLesley Hutchins , Peter Norvig

Consider a graph $G = (V, E)$ and some commuters, each specified by a tuple $(u, v, b)$ consisting of two nodes in the graph $u, v \in V$ and a non-negative real number $b$, specifying their budget. The goal is to find a pricing function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Andrei Constantinescu , Andrzej Turko , Roger Wattenhofer

In this paper, we propose several graph-based extensions of the Douglas-Rachford splitting (DRS) method to solve monotone inclusion problems involving the sum of $N$ maximal monotone operators. Our construction is based on a two-layer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Kristian Bredies , Enis Chenchene , Emanuele Naldi