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Topological metrics of graphs provide a natural way to describe the prominent features of various types of networks. Graph metrics describe the structure and interplay of graph edges and have found applications in many scientific fields. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Loukianos Spyrou , Javier Escudero

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) face two fundamental challenges when scaled to deep architectures: oversmoothing, where node representations converge to indistinguishable vectors, and oversquashing, where information from distant nodes fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

We consider three variants of the problem of finding a maximum weight restricted $2$-matching in a subcubic graph $G$. (A $2$-matching is any subset of the edges such that each vertex is incident to at most two of its edges.) Depending on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Katarzyna Paluch , Mateusz Wasylkiewicz

The connections in many networks are not merely binary entities, either present or not, but have associated weights that record their strengths relative to one another. Recent studies of networks have, by and large, steered clear of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. J. Newman

The analysis of networks characterized by links with heterogeneous intensity or weight suffers from two long-standing problems of arbitrariness. On one hand, the definitions of topological properties introduced for binary graphs can be…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-04-28 Diego Garlaschelli , Sebastian E. Ahnert , Thomas M. A. Fink , Guido Caldarelli

We study budget constrained network upgradeable problems. We are given an undirected edge weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ where the weight an edge $e \in E$ can be upgraded for a cost $c(e)$. Given a budget $B$ for improvement, the goal is to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Debjyoti Saharoy , Sandeep Sen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved strong performance across various real-world domains. Nevertheless, they suffer from oversquashing, where long-range information is distorted as it is compressed through limited message-passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Tanvir Hossain , Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam , Lilia Chebbah , Charles Fanning , Esra Akbas

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications, yet they remain limited by oversmoothing and poor performance on heterophilic graphs. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Cristina López Amado , Tassilo Schwarz , Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. MWIS is known to be $NP$-complete in general, even under various restrictions. Let…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-16 T. Karthick

Suppose there is a spreading process such as an infectious disease propagating on a graph. How would we reduce the number of affected nodes in the spreading process? This question appears in recent studies about implementing mobility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Dongyue Li , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Hongyang R. Zhang

In this paper, we discuss how modern deep learning approaches can be applied to the credit scoring of bank clients. We show that information about connections between clients based on money transfers between them allows us to significantly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 Ivan Sukharev , Valentina Shumovskaia , Kirill Fedyanin , Maxim Panov , Dmitry Berestnev

Is matching in NC, i.e., is there a deterministic fast parallel algorithm for it? This has been an outstanding open question in TCS for over three decades, ever since the discovery of randomized NC matching algorithms [KUW85, MVV87]. Over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nima Anari , Vijay V. Vazirani

Dense subgraph discovery is an important graph-mining primitive with a variety of real-world applications. One of the most well-studied optimization problems for dense subgraph discovery is the densest subgraph problem, where given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Francesco Bonchi , David García-Soriano , Atsushi Miyauchi , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

As one of the most fundamental tasks in graph theory, subgraph matching is a crucial task in many fields, ranging from information retrieval, computer vision, biology, chemistry and natural language processing. Yet subgraph matching problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zixun Lan , Limin Yu , Linglong Yuan , Zili Wu , Qiang Niu , Fei Ma

Message passing graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular learning architectures for graph-structured data. However, one problem GNNs experience is oversquashing, where a GNN has difficulty sending information between distant nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mitchell Black , Zhengchao Wan , Amir Nayyeri , Yusu Wang

Given an assignment of weights w to the edges of a graph G, a matching M in G is called strongly w-maximal if for any matching N the sum of weights of the edges in N\M is at most the sum of weights of the edges in M\N. We prove that if w…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Ron Aharoni , Eli Berger , Agelos Georgakopoulos , Philipp Sprüssel

We study the problem of optimal power allocation in a single-hop ad hoc wireless network. In solving this problem, we propose a hybrid neural architecture inspired by the algorithmic unfolding of the iterative weighted minimum mean squared…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Arindam Chowdhury , Gunjan Verma , Chirag Rao , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

Given a connected graph $G=(V(G), E(G))$, the length of a shortest path from a vertex $u$ to a vertex $v$ is denoted by $d(u,v)$. For a proper subset $W$ of $V(G)$, let $m(W)$ be the maximum value of $d(u,v)$ as $u$ ranging over $W$ and $v$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-11 Min Feng , Xuanlong Ma , Huiling Xu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used to learn representations on graphs and tackle many real-world problems from a wide range of domains. In this paper we propose wsGAT, an extension of the Graph Attention Network (GAT)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

Finding maximum-weight independent sets in graphs is an important NP-hard optimization problem. Given a vertex-weighted graph $G$, the task is to find a subset of pairwise non-adjacent vertices of $G$ with maximum weight. Most recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Mattthias Schimek