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Graph augmentation is a fundamental and well-studied problem that arises in network optimization. We consider a new variant of this model motivated by reconfigurable communication networks. In this variant, we consider a given physical…

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The Procrustes distance is used to quantify the similarity or dissimilarity of (3-dimensional) shapes, and extensively used in biological morphometrics. Typically each (normalized) shape is represented by N landmark points, chosen to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Yaron Lipman Reema Al-Aifari Ingrid Daubechies

Max-Cut is a fundamental problem that has been studied extensively in various settings. We design an algorithm for Euclidean Max-Cut, where the input is a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, in the model of dynamic geometric streams, where the…

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Consider the continuum of points along the edges of a network, i.e., an undirected graph with positive edge weights. We measure distance between these points in terms of the shortest path distance along the network, known as the network…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Prosenjit Bose , Kai Dannies , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Christoph Doell , Carsten Grimm , Anil Maheshwari , Stefan Schirra , Michiel Smid

We study shortest paths and their distances on a subset of a Euclidean space, and their approximation by their equivalents in a neighborhood graph defined on a sample from that subset. In particular, we recover and extend the results of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Ery Arias-Castro , Thibaut Le Gouic

We revisit the classical question of the relationship between the diameter of a graph and its expansion properties. One direction is well understood: expander graphs exhibit essentially the lowest possible diameter. We focus on the reverse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Michael Dinitz , Michael Schapira , Gal Shahaf

A long series of recent results and breakthroughs have led to faster and better distributed approximation algorithms for single source shortest paths (SSSP) and related problems in the CONGEST model. The runtime of all these algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Jason Li

This paper considers a networked system with a finite number of users and supposes that each user tries to minimize its own private objective function over its own private constraint set. It is assumed that each user's constraint set can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Hideaki Iiduka

While much progress has been achieved over the last decades in neuro-inspired machine learning, there are still fundamental theoretical problems in gradient-based learning using combinations of neurons. These problems, such as saddle points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Winfried Lohmiller , Philipp Gassert , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Searching for optimal ways in a network is an important task in multiple application areas such as social networks, co-citation graphs or road networks. In the majority of applications, each edge in a network is associated with a certain…

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We develop a convex analytic approach to analyze finite width two-layer ReLU networks. We first prove that an optimal solution to the regularized training problem can be characterized as extreme points of a convex set, where simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Tolga Ergen , Mert Pilanci

Computing the shortest path between two given locations in a road network is an important problem that finds applications in various map services and commercial navigation products. The state-of-the-art solutions for the problem can be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Lingkun Wu , Xiaokui Xiao , Dingxiong Deng , Gao Cong , Andy Diwen Zhu , Shuigeng Zhou

Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, a connected sides cut $(U, V\backslash U)$ or $\delta (U)$ is the set of edges of E linking all vertices of U to all vertices of $V\backslash U$ such that the induced subgraphs $G[U]$ and $G[V\backslash U]$ are…

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We numerically investigate the scale-free network model of Barab{\'a}si and Albert [A. L. Barab{\'a}si and R. Albert, Science {\bf 286}, 509 (1999)] through the use of various path finding strategies. In real networks, global network…

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In several multiobjective decision problems Pairwise Comparison Matrices (PCM) are applied to evaluate the decision variants. The problem that arises very often is the inconsistency of a given PCM. In such a situation it is important to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Marcin Anholcer , Janos Fülöp

Cycles are ubiquitous in various networks such as social, biological, and technological systems, where they play a significant functional and dynamical role. This paper proposes a node similarity measure based on minimal simple cycles,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yang

A simple and accurate relationship is demonstrated that links the average shortest path, nodes, and edges in a complex network. This relationship takes advantage of the concept of link density and shows a large improvement in fitting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-24 Reginald D. Smith

Max-Cut is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem that has been studied in various computational settings. We initiate the study of its streaming complexity in \emph{general metric spaces} with access to distance oracles. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Pan Peng , Haoze Wang

The diameter of a graph measures the maximal distance between any pair of vertices. The diameters of many small-world networks, as well as a variety of other random graph models, grow logarithmically in the number of nodes. In contrast, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strömbergsson

One of the defining features of complex networks is the connectivity properties that we observe emerging from local interactions. Recently, hypergraphs have emerged as a versatile tool to model networks with non-dyadic, higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-30 Berné L. Nortier , Simon Dobson , Federico Battiston