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In this article, we revisit and expand our prior work on graph similarity. As with our earlier work, we focus on a view of similarity which does not require node correspondence between graphs under comparison. Our work is suited to the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shetopaloff

Determining whether two graphs are structurally identical is a fundamental problem with applications spanning mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and network science. Despite decades of study, graph isomorphism remains a challenging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Sara Najem , Amer E. Mouawad

Given two graphs $H$ and $G$, the Subgraph Isomorphism problem asks if $H$ is isomorphic to a subgraph of $G$. While NP-hard in general, algorithms exist for various parameterized versions of the problem: for example, the problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Dániel Marx , Michał Pilipczuk

We study the approximability of the maximum size independent set (MIS) problem in bounded degree graphs. This is one of the most classic and widely studied NP-hard optimization problems. We focus on the well known minimum degree greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Piotr Krysta , Mathieu Mari , Nan Zhi

Many modern data analysis algorithms either assume that or are considerably more efficient if the distances between the data points satisfy a metric. These algorithms include metric learning, clustering, and dimensionality reduction.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Anna C. Gilbert , Rishi Sonthalia

Graph isomorphism is an important problem as its worst-case time complexity is not yet fully understood. In this study, we try to draw parallels between a related optimization problem called point set registration. A graph can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Yigit Oktar

Graph matching is the process of computing the similarity between two graphs. Depending on the requirement, it can be exact or inexact. Exact graph matching requires a strict correspondence between nodes of two graphs, whereas inexact…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Shri Prakash Dwivedi

We study the computational complexity of estimating local observables for Gibbs distributions. A simple combinatorial example is the average size of an independent set in a graph. In a recent work, we established NP-hardness of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Andreas Galanis , Daniel Stefankovic , Eric Vigoda

Twin-width is a recently formulated graph and matrix invariant that intuitively quantifies how far a graph is from having the structural simplicity of a co-graph. Since its introduction in 2020, twin-width has received increasing attention…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Andrei Arhire , Matei Chiriac , Radu Timofte

The graph isomorphism problem is considered. We assign modified $n$-variable characteristic polynomials for graphs and reduce the graph isomorphism problem to the problem of the polynomials isomorphism. It is required to find out, is there…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Alexander Prolubnikov

Pedigree graphs, or family trees, are typically constructed by an expensive process of examining genealogical records to determine which pairs of individuals are parent and child. New methods to automate this process take as input genetic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-19 Bonnie Kirkpatrick , Yakir Reshef , Hilary Finucane , Haitao Jiang , Binhai Zhu , Richard M. Karp

Despite persistent efforts, there is no known technique for obtaining unconditional super-linear lower bounds for the computational complexity of the problems in P. Vassilevska Williams and Williams introduce a fruitful approach to advance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mahdi Boroujeni , Sina Dehghani , Soheil Ehsani , MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Saeed Seddighin

Vertex integrity is a graph parameter that measures the connectivity of a graph. Informally, its meaning is that a graph has small vertex integrity if it has a small separator whose removal disconnects the graph into connected components…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Manolis Vasilakis , Kanae Yoshiwatari

The paper considers the NP-hard graph vertex coloring problem, which differs from traditional problems in which it is required to color vertices with a given (or minimal) number of colors so that adjacent vertices have different colors. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Adil Erzin , Roman Plotnikov , Georgii Zhukov

We pursue the study of edge-irregulators of graphs, which were recently introduced in [Fioravantes et al. Parametrised Distance to Local Irregularity. IPEC, 2024]. That is, we are interested in the parameter Ie(G), which, for a given graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Julien Bensmail , Noémie Catherinot , Foivos Fioravantes , Clara Marcille , Nacim Oijid

The problem of Distance Edge Labeling is a variant of Distance Vertex Labeling (also known as $L_{2,1}$ labeling) that has been studied for more than twenty years and has many applications, such as frequency assignment. The Distance Edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík

A \emph{binary tanglegram} is a drawing of a pair of rooted binary trees whose leaf sets are in one-to-one correspondence; matching leaves are connected by inter-tree edges. For applications, for example, in phylogenetics, it is essential…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-17 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Jaroslaw Byrka , Martin Nöllenburg , Yoshio Okamoto , Rodrigo I. Silveira , Alexander Wolff

Graph alignment aims at finding the vertex correspondence between two correlated graphs, a task that frequently occurs in graph mining applications such as social network analysis. Attributed graph alignment is a variant of graph alignment,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ziao Wang , Ning Zhang , Weina Wang , Lele Wang

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

Numerous approaches study the vulnerability of networks against social contagion. Graph burning studies how fast a contagion, modeled as a set of fires, spreads in a graph. The burning process takes place in synchronous, discrete rounds. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Anthony Bonato , Shahin Kamali