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An emerging trend in approximate counting is to show that certain `low-temperature' problems are easy on typical instances, despite worst-case hardness results. For the class of regular graphs one usually shows that expansion can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Charles Carlson , Ewan Davies , Alexandra Kolla

It was recently proved that every planar graph is a subgraph of the strong product of a path and a graph with bounded treewidth. This paper surveys generalisations of this result for graphs on surfaces, minor-closed classes, various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Zdeněk Dvořák , Tony Huynh , Gwenaël Joret , Chun-Hung Liu , David R. Wood

In this paper we show a new way of constructing deterministic polynomial-time approximation algorithms for computing complex-valued evaluations of a large class of graph polynomials on bounded degree graphs. In particular, our approach…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Viresh Patel , Guus Regts

We prove algorithmic weak and \Szemeredi{} regularity lemmas for several classes of sparse graphs in the literature, for which only weak regularity lemmas were previously known. These include core-dense graphs, low threshold rank graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Greg Bodwin , Santosh Vempala

Proposing an effective and flexible matrix to represent a graph is a fundamental challenge that has been explored from multiple perspectives, e.g., filtering in Graph Fourier Transforms. In this work, we develop a novel and general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mingqi Yang , Wenjie Feng , Yanming Shen , Bryan Hooi

Graphs are used in many disciplines to model the relationships that exist between objects in a complex discrete system. Researchers may wish to compare a network of interest to a "typical" graph from a family (or ensemble) of graphs which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Catherine Greenhill

In this paper we consider kernelization for problems on d-degenerate graphs, i.e. graphs such that any subgraph contains a vertex of degree at most $d$. This graph class generalizes many classes of graphs for which effective kernelization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Marek Cygan , Fabrizio Grandoni , Danny Hermelin

We present the first polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTASes) for the following subset-connectivity problems in edge-weighted graphs of bounded genus: Steiner tree, low-connectivity survivable-network design, and subset TSP. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Glencora Borradaile , Erik D. Demaine , Siamak Tazari

We introduce in this paper a new summarization method for large graphs. Our summarization approach retains only a user-specified proportion of the neighbors of each node in the graph. Our main aim is to simplify large graphs so that they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Abd Errahmane Kiouche , Julien Baste , Mohammed Haddad , Hamida Seba

In the k-Apex problem the task is to find at most k vertices whose deletion makes the given graph planar. The graphs for which there exists a solution form a minor closed class of graphs, hence by the deep results of Robertson and Seymour,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-31 Dániel Marx , Ildikó Schlotter

For a graph $G$, let $Z(G,\lambda)$ be the partition function of the monomer-dimer system defined by $\sum_k m_k(G)\lambda^k$, where $m_k(G)$ is the number of matchings of size $k$ in $G$. We consider graphs of bounded degree and develop a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Marc Lelarge , Hang Zhou

Despite that going deep has proven successful in many neural architectures, the existing graph transformers are relatively shallow. In this work, we explore whether more layers are beneficial to graph transformers, and find that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haiteng Zhao , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Furu Wei

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

In the talk at the workshop my aim was to demonstrate the usefulness of graph techniques for tackling problems that have been studied predominantly as problems on the term level: increasing sharing in functional programs, and addressing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Clemens Grabmayer

We consider the problem of partitioning a graph into a non-fixed number of non-overlapping subgraphs of maximum density. The density of a partition is the sum of the densities of the subgraphs, where the density of a subgraph is its average…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Cristina Bazgan , Katrin Casel , Pierre Cazals

We present the first polynomial-time approximation schemes, i.e., (1 + {\epsilon})-approximation algorithm for any constant {\epsilon} > 0, for the minimum three-edge connected spanning subgraph problem and the minimum three-vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Baigong Zheng

We introduce a new distributed algorithm for aligning graphs or finding substructures within a given graph. It is based on the cavity method and is used to study the maximum-clique and the graph-alignment problems in random graphs. The…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-04-02 S. Bradde , A. Braunstein , H. Mahmoudi , F. Tria , M. Weigt , R. Zecchina

We develop a new framework for generalizing approximation algorithms from the structural graph algorithm literature so that they apply to graphs somewhat close to that class (a scenario we expect is common when working with real-world…

This paper proposes a new general technique for maximal subgraph enumeration which we call proximity search, whose aim is to design efficient enumeration algorithms for problems that could not be solved by existing frameworks. To support…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Alessio Conte , Andrea Marino , Roberto Grossi , Takeaki Uno , Luca Versari

We study polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTASes) for constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) such as Maximum Independent Set or Minimum Vertex Cover on sparse graph classes. Baker's approach gives a PTAS on planar graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Balázs F. Mezei , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný