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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…

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We address the problem of enumerating all maximal clique-partitions of an undirected graph and present an algorithm based on the observation that every maximal clique-partition can be produced from the maximal clique-cover of the graph by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mircea Marin , Temur Kutsia , Cleo Pau , Mikheil Rukhaia

An isomorphism between two graphs is a bijection between their vertices that preserves the edges. We consider the problem of determining whether two finite undirected weighted graphs are isomorphic, and finding an isomorphism relating them…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Reza Takapoui , Stephen Boyd

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on finite undirected graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum weight sum. MWIS is one of the most investigated and most important algorithmic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

The Maximum Balanced Biclique Problem (MBBP) is a prominent model with numerous applications. Yet, the problem is NP-hard and thus computationally challenging. We propose novel ideas for designing effective exact algorithms for MBBP.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Yi Zhou , André Rossi , Jin-Kao Hao

Given an integer weighted bipartite graph $\{G=(U\sqcup V, E), w:E\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}\}$ we consider the problems of finding all the edges that occur in some minimum weight matching of maximum cardinality and enumerating all the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Carlos E. Valencia , Marcos C. Vargas

We introduce and study the Doubly Balanced Connected graph Partitioning (DBCP) problem: Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph with a weight (supply/demand) function $p:V\rightarrow \{-1,+1\}$ satisfying $p(V)=\sum_{j\in V} p(j)=0$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Saleh Soltan , Mihalis Yannakakis , Gil Zussman

We consider the Max-$3$-Section problem, where we are given an undirected graph $ G=(V,E)$ equipped with non-negative edge weights $w :E\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ and the goal is to find a partition of $V$ into three equisized parts while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dor Katzelnick , Aditya Pillai , Roy Schwartz , Mohit Singh

The maximum edge colouring problem considers the maximum colour assignment to edges of a graph under the condition that every vertex has at most a fixed number of distinct coloured edges incident on it. If that fixed number is $q$ we call…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zdeněk Dvořák , Abhiruk Lahiri

A labelled, undirected graph is a graph whose edges have assigned labels, from a specific set. Given a labelled, undirected graph, the well-known minimum labelling spanning tree problem is aimed at finding the spanning tree of the graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Jose' Andres Moreno Perez , Sergio Consoli

The NP-hard maximum value preordering problem is both a joint relaxation and a hybrid of the clique partition problem (a clustering problem) and the partial ordering problem. Toward approximate solutions and lower bounds, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jannik Irmai , Maximilian Moeller , Bjoern Andres

We study the problem of connecting the parts of a multipartite graph using a minimum number of edges under a matching constraint. We introduce interconnection trees, defined as matchings whose projections onto the quotient graph form a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Noé Demange , Yann Strozecki

Hypergraph partitioning is a pervasive NP-hard problem, and accelerating its computation on GPU can both slice time-to-solution and raise quality of results. In this work, we implement a multi-level hypergraph partitioning algorithm on GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

We aim to find orientations of mixed graphs optimizing the total reachability, a problem that has applications in causality and biology. For given a digraph $D$, we use $P(D)$ for the set of ordered pairs of distinct vertices in $V(D)$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Florian Hörsch

We develop an FPT algorithm and a bi-kernel for the Weighted Edge Clique Partition (WECP) problem, where a graph with $n$ vertices and integer edge weights is given together with an integer $k$, and the aim is to find $k$ cliques, such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Davis Issac , Ashutosh Rai

In this work, we introduce and study the forbidden-vertices problem. Given a polytope P and a subset X of its vertices, we study the complexity of linear optimization over the subset of vertices of P that are not contained in X. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Gustavo Angulo , Shabbir Ahmed , Santanu S. Dey , Volker Kaibel

The degree-diameter problem seeks to find the maximum possible order of a graph with a given (maximum) degree and diameter. It is known that graphs attaining the maximum possible value (the Moore bound) are extremely rare, but much activity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Dominique Buset , Mourad El Amiri , Grahame Erskine , Hebert Pérez-Rosés , Mirka Miller

The Unfriendly Partition Problem asks whether it is possible to split the vertex set of an infinite graph $G$ into two parts so that every vertex has at least as many neighbors in the other part than on its own. Despite the uncountable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Leandro Fiorini Aurichi , Lucas Real

A graph covering projection, also referred to as a locally bijective homomorphism, is a mapping between the vertices and edges of two graphs that preserves incidences and is a local bijection. This concept originates in topological graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jan Bok , Jiří Fiala , Nikola Jedličková , Jan Kratochvíl

The input of the Maximum Colored Cut problem consists of a graph $G=(V,E)$ with an edge-coloring $c:E\to \{1,2,3,\ldots , p\}$ and a positive integer $k$, and the question is whether $G$ has a nontrivial edge cut using at least $k$ colors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Luerbio Faria , Sulamita Klein , Ignasi Sau , Uéverton S. Souza , Rubens Sucupira