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In recent years, several algorithms, which approximate matrix decomposition, have been developed. These algorithms are based on metric conservation features for linear spaces of random projection types. We show that an i.i.d sub-Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Yariv Aizenbud , Amir Averbuch

The q-state Potts model is a fundamental framework in statistical physics and graph theory, with its partition function encoding rich information about spin configurations. The multivariate Tutte polynomial (known as the partition function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Sofya Mukhamedzhanova , Bulat Sabirov , Amir Mukhamedzhanov

The maximum clique problem is a classical NP-complete problem in graph theory and has important applications in many domains. In this paper we show, in a partially non-constructive way, the existence of an exact polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran

In this paper we prove a new zero-free region for the partition function of the hard-core model, that is, the independence polynomials of graphs with largest degree $\Delta$. This new domain contains the half disk $$D=\left\{ \lambda \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Ferenc Bencs , Péter Csikvári

A graph separator is a subset of vertices of a graph whose removal divides the graph into small components. Computing small graph separators for various classes of graphs is an important computational task. In this paper, we present a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Chetan Gupta , Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

Given a graph $G$, and terminal vertices $s$ and $t$, the TRACKING PATHS problem asks to compute a minimum number of vertices to be marked as trackers, such that the sequence of trackers encountered in each s-t path is unique. TRACKING…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Choudhary

Uniform sampling from graphical realizations of a given degree sequence is a fundamental component in simulation-based measurements of network observables, with applications ranging from epidemics, through social networks to Internet…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Hyunju Kim , Zoltan Toroczkai , Kevin E. Bassler

We present a new family of zero-field Ising models over $N$ binary variables/spins obtained by consecutive "gluing" of planar and $O(1)$-sized components and subsets of at most three vertices into a tree. The polynomial-time algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Valerii Likhosherstov , Yury Maximov , Michael Chertkov

We give polynomial-time approximation schemes for monotone maximization problems expressible in terms of distances (up to a fixed upper bound) and efficiently solvable in graphs of bounded treewidth. These schemes apply in all fractionally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Zdeněk Dvořák , Abhiruk Lahiri

Many complex questions in biology, physics, and mathematics can be mapped to the graph isomorphism problem and the closely related graph automorphism problem. In particular, these problems appear in the context of network visualization,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Thilo Gross

We consider the problem of devising algorithms to count exactly the number of independent sets of a graph G . We show that there is a polynomial time algorithm for this problem when G is restricted to the class of strongly orderable graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Marc Heinrich , Haiko Müller

In this paper we study the problem of deterministic factorization of sparse polynomials. We show that if $f \in \mathbb{F}[x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n}]$ is a polynomial with $s$ monomials, with individual degrees of its variables bounded by…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Vishwas Bhargava , Shubhangi Saraf , Ilya Volkovich

This article deals with new polynomial time algorithm for graph isomorphism testing.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Michael I. Trofimov

A right [left] locally testable language S is a language with the property that for some non negative integer k two words u and v in alphabet S are equal in the semi group if (1) the prefix and suffix of the words of length k coincide, (2)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 A. N. Trahtman

We study the problem of learning the causal relationships between a set of observed variables in the presence of latents, while minimizing the cost of interventions on the observed variables. We assume access to an undirected graph $G$ on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Raghavendra Addanki , Andrew McGregor , Cameron Musco

For distributed graph processing on massive graphs, a graph is partitioned into multiple equally-sized parts which are distributed among machines in a compute cluster. In the last decade, many partitioning algorithms have been developed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Nikolai Merkel , Ruben Mayer , Tawkir Ahmed Fakir , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

In this work we consider the problem of maximizing the PageRank of a given target node in a graph by adding $k$ new links. We consider the case that the new links must point to the given target node (backlinks). Previous work shows that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Martin Olsen , Anastasios Viglas , Ilia Zvedeniouk

Differential (Ore) type polynomials with "approximate" polynomial coefficients are introduced. These provide an effective notion of approximate differential operators, with a strong algebraic structure. We introduce the approximate Greatest…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mark Giesbrecht , Joseph Haraldson , Erich Kaltofen

We introduce the partition function of edge-colored graph homomorphisms, of which the usual partition function of graph homomorphisms is a specialization, and present an efficient algorithm to approximate it in a certain domain. Corollaries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Alexander Barvinok , Pablo Soberón

For every finite simple connected graph $G = (V,E)$, we introduce an invariant, its blowup-polynomial $p_G(\{ n_v : v \in V \})$. This is obtained by dividing the determinant of the distance matrix of its blowup graph $G[{\bf n}]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Projesh Nath Choudhury , Apoorva Khare