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We develop an approach for solving rooted orienteering problems with category constraints as found in tourist trip planning and logistics. It is based on expanding partial solutions in a systematic way, prioritizing promising ones, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Paolo Bolzoni , Sven Helmer

We propose a novel method that leverages sparse autoencoders (SAEs) and clustering techniques to analyze the internal token representations of large language models (LLMs) and guide generations in mathematical reasoning tasks. Our approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Daniel Zhao , Abhilash Shankarampeta , Lanxiang Hu , Tajana Rosing , Hao Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in machine learning, with wide applications in social networks, bioinformatics, knowledge graphs, and other fields. Most research assumes ideal closed-set environments. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yicong Dong , Rundong He , Guangyao Chen , Wentao Zhang , Zhongyi Han , Jieming Shi , Yilong Yin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art (SOTA) method for graph-based learning tasks. However, it still remains prohibitively challenging to inference GNNs over large graph datasets, limiting their application to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yongan Zhang , Haoran You , Yonggan Fu , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Yingyan Lin

$k$-plexes relax cliques by allowing each vertex to disconnect to at most $k$ vertices. Finding a maximum $k$-plex in a graph is a fundamental operator in graph mining and has been receiving significant attention from various domains. The…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuohao Gao , Kaiqiang Yu , Shengxin Liu , Cheng Long

Many municipalities and large organizations have fleets of vehicles that need to be coordinated for tasks such as garbage collection or infrastructure inspection. Motivated by this need, this paper focuses on the common subproblem in which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Bo Liu , Xuesu Xiao , Peter Stone

$k$-truss model is a typical cohesive subgraph model and has been received considerable attention recently. However, the $k$-truss model only considers the direct common neighbors of an edge, which restricts its ability to reveal…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Zi Chen , Long Yuan , Li Han , Zhengping Qian

Many major cities suffer from severe traffic congestion. Road expansion in the cites is usually infeasible, and an alternative way to alleviate traffic congestion is to coordinate the route of vehicles. Various path selection and planning…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-05 Hao Liao , Xingtong Wu , Mingyang Zhou , Chi Ho Yeung

We present the Stochastic alternate Linearization Method (StochaLM), a token-based method for distributed optimization. This algorithm finds the solution of a consensus optimization problem by solving a sequence of subproblems where some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Inês Almeida , João Xavier

The routing algorithms used by current operators aim at coping with the demanded QoS requirements while optimizing the use of their network resources. These algorithms rely on the optimal substructure property (OSP), which states that an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Amaury Van Bemten , Jochen W. Guck , Carmen Mas Machuca , Wolfgang Kellerer

Top-k threshold estimation is the problem of estimating the score of the k-th highest ranking result of a search query. A good estimate can be used to speed up many common top-k query processing algorithms, and thus a number of researchers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jinrui Gou , Yifan Liu , Minghao Shao , Torsten Suel

In this paper, we investigate the problem of (k,r)-core which intends to find cohesive subgraphs on social networks considering both user engagement and similarity perspectives. In particular, we adopt the popular concept of k-core to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Fan Zhang , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

We consider optimal transport based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with locally strongly convex transport cost functions and affine decision rules. Under conventional convexity assumptions on the underlying loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Jose Blanchet , Karthyek Murthy , Fan Zhang

In this paper, we propose a method, based on graph signal processing, to optimize the choice of $k$ in $k$-nearest neighbor graphs ($k$NNGs). $k$NN is one of the most popular approaches and is widely used in machine learning and signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Asuka Tamaru , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka , Antonio Ortega

We study the problem of finding the $k$ most similar trajectories to a given query trajectory. Our work is inspired by the work of Grossi et al. [6] that considers trajectories as walks in a graph. Each visited vertex is accompanied by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lutz Oettershagen , Anne Driemel , Petra Mutzel

We propose a simple generalization of standard and empirically successful decision tree learning algorithms such as ID3, C4.5, and CART. These algorithms, which have been central to machine learning for decades, are greedy in nature: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Chirag Pabbaraju , Colin Sullivan , Li-Yang Tan , Mo Tiwari

In this paper we look at $k$-stroll, point-to-point orienteering, as well as the deadline TSP problem on graphs with bounded doubling dimension and bounded treewidth and present approximation schemes for them. Given a weighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kinter Ren , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and cloud computing technology, large-scale multimedia data, e.g., texts, images, audio and videos have been generated, collected, stored and shared. In this paper, we propose a novel query…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Chengyuan Zhang , Kesheng Cheng , Lei Zhu , Ruipeng Chen , Zuping Zhang , Fang Huang

In this paper, we discuss distributed optimization over directed graphs, where doubly-stochastic weights cannot be constructed. Most of the existing algorithms overcome this issue by applying push-sum consensus, which utilizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Ran Xin , Chenguang Xi , Usman A. Khan

This paper considers the collaborative graph exploration problem in GPS-denied environments, where a group of robots are required to cover a graph environment while maintaining reliable pose estimations in collaborative simultaneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Hongliang Guo , Pengyu Yin , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie