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Local algorithms on graphs are algorithms that run in parallel on the nodes of a graph to compute some global structural feature of the graph. Such algorithms use only local information available at nodes to determine local aspects of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-09 David Gamarnik , Madhu Sudan

We study the problem of partitioning a set of $n$ objects in a metric space into $k$ clusters $V_1,\dots,V_k$. The quality of the clustering is measured by considering the vector of cluster costs and then minimizing some monotone symmetric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Matthias Kaul , Kelin Luo , Matthias Mnich , Heiko Röglin

We introduce the Red-Blue Separation problem on graphs, where we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose vertices are colored either red or blue, and we want to select a (small) subset $S \subseteq V$, called red-blue separating set, such that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Subhadeep Ranjan Dev , Sanjana Dey , Florent Foucaud , Ralf Klasing , Tuomo Lehtilä

One of the fundamental open problems in the area of distributed graph algorithms is the question of whether randomization is needed for efficient symmetry breaking. While there are fast, $\text{poly}\log n$-time randomized distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Philipp Bamberger , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

We study a scheduling problem in which jobs may be split into parts, where the parts of a split job may be processed simultaneously on more than one machine. Each part of a job requires a setup time, however, on the machine where the job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Frans Schalekamp , Rene Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie , Victor Verdugo , Anke van Zuylen

We study the optimization version of the set partition problem (where the difference between the partition sums are minimized), which has numerous applications in decision theory literature. While the set partitioning problem is NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

This article empirically examines the computational cost of solving a known hard problem, graph clustering, using novel purpose-built computer hardware. We express the graph clustering problem as an intra-cluster distance or dissimilarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Pierre Miasnikof , Seo Hong , Yuri Lawryshyn

Clique clustering is the problem of partitioning the vertices of a graph into disjoint clusters, where each cluster forms a clique in the graph, while optimizing some objective function. In online clustering, the input graph is given one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Marek Chrobak , Christoph Durr , Aleksander Fabijan , Bengt Nilsson

A partition $\mathcal{P}$ of a weighted graph $G$ is $(\sigma,\tau,\Delta)$-sparse if every cluster has diameter at most $\Delta$, and every ball of radius $\Delta/\sigma$ intersects at most $\tau$ clusters. Similarly, $\mathcal{P}$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Arnold Filtser

We study the parameterized complexity of a broad class of problems called "local graph partitioning problems" that includes the classical fixed cardinality problems as max k-vertex cover, k-densest subgraph, etc. By developing a technique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Edouard Bonnet , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Emeric Tourniaire

We show that the problem of identifying different signal components from a time-frequency representation can be equivalently phrased as a graph clustering problem: given a graph $G=(V,E)$ one aims to identify `clusters', subgraphs that are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Marcelo A. Colominas , Stefan Steinerberger , Hau-Tieng Wu

We study the problem of recognizing the cluster structure of a graph in the framework of property testing in the bounded degree model. Given a parameter $\varepsilon$, a $d$-bounded degree graph is defined to be $(k, \phi)$-clusterable, if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Artur Czumaj , Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

The question if a given partial solution to a problem can be extended reasonably occurs in many algorithmic approaches for optimization problems. For instance, when enumerating minimal dominating sets of a graph $G=(V,E)$, one usually…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Katrin Casel , Henning Fernau , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jérôme Monnot , Florian Sikora

This work initiates the study of memory-query tradeoffs for graph problems, with a focus on correlation clustering. Correlation clustering asks for a partition of the vertices that minimizes disagreements: non-edges inside clusters plus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sumegha Garg , Songhua He , Periklis A. Papakonstantinou

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

Normalized-cut graph partitioning aims to divide the set of nodes in a graph into $k$ disjoint clusters to minimize the fraction of the total edges between any cluster and all other clusters. In this paper, we consider a fair variant of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jia Li , Yanhao Wang , Arpit Merchant

Given a graph, the sparsest cut problem asks for a subset of vertices whose edge expansion (the normalized cut given by the subset) is minimized. In this paper, we study a generalization of this problem seeking for $ k $ disjoint subsets of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Ramin Javadi , Saleh Ashkboos

Cluster Editing, also known as Correlation Clustering, is a well-studied graph modification problem. In this problem, one is given a graph and the task is to perform up to $k$ edge additions or deletions to transform it into a cluster…

The graph partition problem is the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into a fixed number of sets of given sizes such that the sum of weights of edges joining different sets is optimized. In this paper we simplify a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

With the recent popularity of graphical clustering methods, there has been an increased focus on the information between samples. We show how learning cluster structure using edge features naturally and simultaneously determines the most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-09 Matt Barnes , Artur Dubrawski