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We study the problem of connecting the parts of a multipartite graph using a minimum number of edges under a matching constraint. We introduce interconnection trees, defined as matchings whose projections onto the quotient graph form a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Noé Demange , Yann Strozecki

Graph connectivity and network design problems are among the most fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. The minimum spanning tree problem, the two edge-connected spanning subgraph problem (2-ECSS) and the tree augmentation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-14 David Adjiashvili , Felix Hommelsheim , Moritz Mühlenthaler

In this study, we investigate the problem of classifying, characterizing, and designing efficient algorithms for hard inference problems on planar graphs, in the limit of infinite size. The problem is considered hard if, for a deterministic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Iuliana Teodorescu , Razvan Teodorescu , Pranav Warman

One of the most important and well-studied settings for network design is edge-connectivity requirements. This encompasses uniform demands such as the Minimum $k$-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem ($k$-ECSS), as well as nonuniform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Michael Dinitz , Ama Koranteng , Guy Kortsarz

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. Motivated by several recent studies of local graph algorithms, we consider the following variant of this problem. Let G be a connected bounded-degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Reut Levi , Guy Moshkovitz , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Asaf Shapira

In this paper, we investigate some basic connectivity problems in directed graphs (digraphs). Let $G$ be a digraph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices, and let $G\setminus e$ be the digraph obtained after deleting edge $e$ from $G$. As a first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Loukas Georgiadis , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal

We study the minimum cut problem in the presence of uncertainty and show how to apply a novel robust optimization approach, which aims to exploit the similarity in subsequent graph measurements or similar graph instances, without posing any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Barbara Geissmann , Rastislav Šrámek

Graphs are naturally sparse objects that are used to study many problems involving networks, for example, distributed learning and graph signal processing. In some cases, the graph is not given, but must be learned from the problem and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-31 Martin Sundin , Arun Venkitaraman , Magnus Jansson , Saikat Chatterjee

Graphs are a natural representation of data from various contexts, such as social connections, the web, road networks, and many more. In the last decades, many of these networks have become enormous, requiring efficient algorithms to cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Noe

Given a graph $G$, the maximal induced subgraphs problem asks to enumerate all maximal induced subgraphs of $G$ that belong to a certain hereditary graph class. While its optimization version, known as the minimum vertex deletion problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yixin Cao

We consider node-weighted survivable network design (SNDP) in planar graphs and minor-closed families of graphs. The input consists of a node-weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and integer connectivity requirements $r(uv)$ for each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chandra Chekuri , Alina Ene , Ali Vakilian

The 2-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem (2ECSS) is among the most basic survivable network design problems: given an undirected and unweighted graph, the task is to find a spanning subgraph with the minimum number of edges that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Miguel Bosch-Calvo , Mohit Garg , Fabrizio Grandoni , Felix Hommelsheim , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Alexander Lindermayr

We study the problem of computing a minimum equivalent digraph (also known as the problem of computing a strong transitive reduction) and its maximum objective function variant, with two types of extensions. First, we allow to declare a set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-02 Piotr Berman , Bhaskar DasGupta , Marek Karpinski

We present improved approximation algorithms for some problems in the related areas of Capacitated Network Design and Flexible Graph Connectivity. In the Cap-$k$-ECSS problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges have non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ishan Bansal , Joseph Cheriyan , Sanjeev Khanna , Miles Simmons

We propose a combinatorial optimisation model called Limited Query Graph Connectivity Test. We consider a graph whose edges have two possible states (On/Off). The edges' states are hidden initially. We could query an edge to reveal its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mingyu Guo , Jialiang Li , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Hung Nguyen

Network sparsification is the task of reducing the number of edges of a given graph while preserving some crucial graph property. In community-aware network sparsification, the preserved property concerns the subgraphs that are induced by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Emanuel Herrendorf , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer

We consider the classical Minimum Balanced Cut problem: given a graph $G$, compute a partition of its vertices into two subsets of roughly equal volume, while minimizing the number of edges connecting the subsets. We present the first {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Julia Chuzhoy , Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We study approaches for the exact solution of the \NP--hard minimum spanning tree problem under conflict constraints. Given a graph $G(V,E)$ and a set $C \subset E \times E$ of conflicting edge pairs, the problem consists of finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Phillippe Samer , Sebastián Urrutia

In the vertex connectivity survivable network design problem we are given an undirected graph G = (V,E) and connectivity requirement r(u,v) for each pair of vertices u,v. We are also given a cost function on the set of edges. Our goal is to…

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