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Every graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ can be colored with $(\Delta+1)$ colors using a simple greedy algorithm. Remarkably, recent work has shown that one can find such a coloring even in the semi-streaming model. But, in reality, one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Sepehr Assadi , Pankaj Kumar , Parth Mittal

We consider the problem of coloring a 3-colorable graph in polynomial time using as few colors as possible. This is one of the most challenging problems in graph algorithms. In this paper using Blum's notion of ``progress'', we develop a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup , Hirotaka Yoneda

The Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm is a classical optimization method that has found many applications. When specialized to two normal cone operators, it yields an algorithm for finding a point in the intersection of two convex sets.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Heinz H. Bauschke , J. Y. Bello Cruz , Tran T. A. Nghia , Hung M. Phan , Xianfu Wang

The graph coloring problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem with important applications such as register allocation and task scheduling, and it has been extensively studied for decades. However, near-real-time algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chenghao Zhu , Yi Zhou

Coloring unit-disk graphs efficiently is an important problem in the global and distributed setting, with applications in radio channel assignment problems when the communication relies on omni-directional antennas of the same power. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Louis Esperet , Sébastien Julliot , Arnaud de Mesmay

A $k$-coloring of a graph is an assignment of integers between $1$ and $k$ to vertices in the graph such that the endpoints of each edge receive different numbers. We study a local variation of the coloring problem, which imposes further…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Jie You , Yixin Cao , Jianxin Wang

Graph coloring is fundamental to distributed computing. We give the first general treatment of the coloring of virtual graphs, where the graph $H$ to be colored is locally embedded within the communication graph $G$. Besides generalizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin

Register allocation, which is a crucial phase of a good optimizing compiler, relies on graph coloring. Hence, an efficient graph coloring algorithm is of paramount importance. In this work we try to learn a good heuristic for coloring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Dibyendu Das , Shahid Asghar Ahmad , Kumar Venkataramanan

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Sergey Pupyrev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

The complexity class NP of decision problems that can be solved nondeterministically in polynomial time is of great theoretical and practical importance where the notion of polynomial-time reductions between NP-problems is a key concept for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Hans-Jörg Kreowski , Sabine Kuske , Aaron Lye , Aljoscha Windhorst

We consider the problem of coloring k-colorable graphs with the fewest possible colors. We present a randomized polynomial time algorithm that colors a 3-colorable graph on $n$ vertices with min O(Delta^{1/3} log^{1/2} Delta log n),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Karger , Rajeev Motwani , Madhu Sudan

An edge-colored graph $G$ is said to be rainbow connected if between each pair of vertices there exists a path which uses each color at most once. The rainbow connection number, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Juho Lauri

In this paper, we explore the graph partitioning problem, a pivotal combina-torial optimization challenge with extensive applications in various fields such as science, technology, and business. Recognized as an NP-hard prob-lem, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Vivek Chaudhary

In the List $k$-Coloring problem we are given a graph whose every vertex is equipped with a list, which is a subset of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$. We need to decide if $G$ admits a proper coloring, where every vertex receives a color from its list.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski

Graph coloring is fundamental to distributed computing. We give the first sub-logarithmic distributed algorithm for coloring cluster graphs. These graphs are obtained from the underlying communication network by contracting nodes and edges,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Maxime Flin , Magnus M. Halldorsson , Alexandre Nolin

This paper proposes a hybrid self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm for graph coloring that is hybridized with the following novel elements: heuristic genotype-phenotype mapping, a swap local search heuristic, and a neutral survivor selection…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Iztok Fister , Marjan Mernik , Bogdan Filipič

Given a graph $G$ and color set $\{1, \ldots, k\}$, a $\textit{proper coloring}$ is an assignment of a color to each vertex of $G$ such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color. The problem of drawing a proper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mark Huber

We consider the problem of online graph colouring. Whenever a node is requested, a colour must be assigned to the node, and this colour must be different from the colours of any of its neighbours. According to the greedy algorithm the node…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Wojciech Kordecki , Anna Łyczkowska-Hanćkowiak

For graph classes $P_1,...,P_k$, Generalized Graph Coloring is the problem of deciding whether the vertex set of a given graph $G$ can be partitioned into subsets $V_1,...,V_k$ so that $V_j$ induces a graph in the class $P_j$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir E. Alekseev , Alastair Farrugia , Vadim V. Lozin

In Defective Coloring we are given a graph $G$ and two integers $\chi_d$, $\Delta^*$ and are asked if we can $\chi_d$-color $G$ so that the maximum degree induced by any color class is at most $\Delta^*$. We show that this natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rémy Belmonte , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou