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Decentralized optimization is a powerful paradigm that finds applications in engineering and learning design. This work studies decentralized composite optimization problems with non-smooth regularization terms. Most existing gradient-based…

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Bayesian network structure learning is the notoriously difficult problem of discovering a Bayesian network that optimally represents a given set of training data. In this paper we study the computational worst-case complexity of exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

We consider the \textsc{Steiner Orientation} problem, where we are given as input a mixed graph $G=(V,E,A)$ and a set of $k$ demand pairs $(s_i,t_i)$, $i\in[k]$. The goal is to orient the undirected edges of $G$ in a way that the resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Nikolaos Melissinos , Edouard Nemery , Hirotaka Ono , Manolis Vasilakis

Graph spanners are fundamental graph structures with a wide range of applications in distributed networks. We consider a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over every edge (the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ofer Grossman , Merav Parter

We abstract and study \emph{reachability preservers}, a graph-theoretic primitive that has been implicit in prior work on network design. Given a directed graph $G = (V, E)$ and a set of \emph{demand pairs} $P \subseteq V \times V$, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Amir Abboud , Greg Bodwin

In length-constrained minimum spanning tree (MST) we are given an $n$-node graph $G = (V,E)$ with edge weights $w : E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ and edge lengths $l: E \to \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}$ along with a root node $r \in V$ and a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang

Algorithmic meta-theorems, stating that graph properties expressible in some particular logic can be decided efficiently in graph classes having some specific structural properties, are now standard in sequential graph algorithms. One of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Benjamin Jauregui , Jason Li , Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

We consider connectivity problems with orientation constraints. Given a directed graph $D$ and a collection of ordered node pairs $P$ let $P[D]=\{(u,v) \in P: D {contains a} uv{-path}}$. In the {\sf Steiner Forest Orientation} problem we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Marek Cygan , Guy Kortsarz , Zeev Nutov

A paradigm that was successfully applied in the study of both pure and algorithmic problems in graph theory can be colloquially summarized as stating that "any graph is close to being the disjoint union of expanders". Our goal in this paper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Guy Moshkovitz , Asaf Shapira

We give the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for quasi-bipartite instances of Directed Steiner Tree on graphs that exclude fixed minors. In particular, for $K_r$-minor-free graphs our approximation guarantee is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zachary Friggstad , Ramin Mousavi

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ be the convex hull of characteristic vectors of its independent sets of size at most $k$. We study extension complexity of $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ with respect to a fixed parameter…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Hans Raj Tiwary

Let F be a finite family of graphs. In the F-Deletion problem, one is given a graph G and an integer k, and the goal is to find k vertices whose deletion results in a graph with no minor from the family F. This may be regarded as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Roohani Sharma , Michał Włodarczyk

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We give almost-linear-time algorithms for approximating rooted minimum cut and maximum arborescence packing in directed graphs, two problems that are dual to each other [Edm73]. More specifically, for an $n$-vertex, $m$-edge directed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yonggang Jiang , Yaowei Long , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

We give a dynamic programming solution to find the minimum cost of a diameter constrained Steiner tree in case of directed graphs. Then we show a simple reduction from undirected version to the directed version to realize an algorithm of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Prashanth Amireddy , Chetan Sai Digumarthi

The number of self-adjoint extensions of a symmetric operator acting on a complex Hilbert space is characterized by its deficiency indices. Given a locally finite unoriented simple tree, we prove that the deficiency indices of any discrete…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Sylvain Golénia , Christoph Schumacher

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

In the sufficiently sparse case, we find the probability that a uniformly random bipartite graph with given degree sequence contains no edge from a specified set of edges. This enables us to enumerate loop-free digraphs and oriented graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Catherine Greenhill , Mahdieh Hasheminezhad , Isaiah Iliffe , Brendan D. McKay

The \emph{$r$-neighbourhood complexity} of a graph $G$ is the function counting, for a given integer $k$, the largest possible number, over all vertex-subsets $A$ of size $k$, of subsets of $A$ realized as the intersection between the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Laurent Beaudou , Jan Bok , Florent Foucaud , Daniel A. Quiroz , Jean-Florent Raymond

We study random digraphs on sequences of expanders with bounded average degree {which converge locally in probability}. We prove that the threshold for the existence of a giant strongly connected component, as well as the asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Yeganeh Alimohammadi , Christian Borgs , Amin Saberi