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Any solid object can be decomposed into a collection of convex polytopes (in short, convexes). When a small number of convexes are used, such a decomposition can be thought of as a piece-wise approximation of the geometry. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Boyang Deng , Kyle Genova , Soroosh Yazdani , Sofien Bouaziz , Geoffrey Hinton , Andrea Tagliasacchi

For a graph $G$ and $a,b\in V(G)$, the shortest path reconfiguration graph of $G$ with respect to $a$ and $b$ is denoted by $S(G,a,b)$. The vertex set of $S(G,a,b)$ is the set of all shortest paths between $a$ and $b$ in $G$. Two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-29 John Asplund , Kossi Edoh , Ruth Haas , Yulia Hristova , Beth Novick , Brett Werner

Among the several topological properties of complex networks, the shortest path represents a particularly important characteristic because of its potential impact not only on other topological properties, but mainly for its influence on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Guilherme S. Domingues , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa

Every generic linear functional $f$ on a convex polytope $P$ induces an orientation on the graph of $P$. From the resulting directed graph one can define a notion of $f$-arborescence and $f$-monotone path on $P$, as well as a natural graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Christos Athanasiadis , Jesús De Loera , Zhenyang Zhang

Tree convex sets refer to a collection of sets such that each set in the collection is a subtree of a tree whose nodes are the elements of these sets. They extend the concept of row convex sets each of which is an interval over a total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Yuanlin Zhang , Forrest Sheng Bao

We propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Simplicial complexes are extensively studied in the field of algebraic topology. They have gained attention in recent time due to their applications in fields like theoretical distributed computing and simplicial neural networks. Graphs are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sukrit Chakraborty , Prasanta Choudhury , Arindam Mukherjee

Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial complexity of graph spaces, such optimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shiqiang Zhang , Ruth Misener

We present a fast algorithm for the design of smooth paths (or trajectories) that are constrained to lie in a collection of axis-aligned boxes. We consider the case where the number of these safe boxes is large, and basic preprocessing of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Tobia Marcucci , Parth Nobel , Russ Tedrake , Stephen Boyd

Numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on curved domains, as well as the associated geodesic distance, arises in a broad range of applications across digital geometry processing, scientific computing, computer graphics, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Keenan Crane , Marco Livesu , Enrico Puppo , Yipeng Qin

This work deals with the generation of theoretical correlation matrices with specific sparsity patterns, associated to graph structures. We present a novel approach based on convex optimization, offering greater flexibility compared to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Ali Fakhar , Kévin Polisano , Irène Gannaz , Sophie Achard

The present article is an exposition of a theory of discrete convex functions on certain graph structures, developed by the author in recent years. This theory is a spin-off of discrete convex analysis by Murota, and is motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Hiroshi Hirai

This work deals with the generation of theoretical correlation matrices with specific sparsity patterns, associated to graph structures. We present a novel approach based on convex optimization, offering greater flexibility compared to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Ali Fahkar , Kévin Polisano , Irène Gannaz , Sophie Achard

The traditional complex network approach considers only the shortest paths from one node to another, not taking into account several other possible paths. This limitation is significant, for example, in urban mobility studies. In this short…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Leonardo B. L. Santos , Luiz Max Carvalho , Giovanni G. Soares , Leonardo N. Ferreira , Igor M. Sokolov

We consider the problem of classifying graphs using graph kernels. We define a new graph kernel, called the generalized shortest path kernel, based on the number and length of shortest paths between nodes. For our example classification…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Linus Hermansson , Fredrik D. Johansson , Osamu Watanabe

The importance of aggregated count data, which is calculated from the data of multiple individuals, continues to increase. Collective Graphical Model (CGM) is a probabilistic approach to the analysis of aggregated data. One of the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-19 Yasunori Akagi , Naoki Marumo , Hideaki Kim , Takeshi Kurashima , Hiroyuki Toda

A drawback of the classic approach for complexity analysis of distributed graph problems is that it mostly informs about the complexity of notorious classes of ``worst case'' graphs. Algorithms that are used to prove a tight (existential)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Philipp Schneider

A graphical model provides a compact and efficient representation of the association structure of a multivariate distribution by means of a graph. Relevant features of the distribution are represented by vertices, edges and other…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Alberto Roverato , Robert Castelo

What does a typical road network look like? Existing generative models tend to focus on one aspect to the exclusion of others. We introduce the general-purpose \emph{quadtree model} and analyze its shortest paths and maximum flow.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-28 David Eisenstat

Through the development of efficient algorithms, data structures and preprocessing techniques, real-world shortest path problems in street networks are now very fast to solve. But in reality, the exact travel times along each arc in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Trivikram Dokka , Marc Goerigk