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Large graphs are difficult to represent, visualize, and understand. In this paper, we introduce "gate graph" - a new approach to perform graph simplification. A gate graph provides a simplified topological view of the original graph.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ning Ruan , Ruoming Jin , Yan Huang

Given a planar graph $G$, we consider drawings of $G$ in the plane where edges are represented by straight line segments (which possibly intersect). Such a drawing is specified by an injective embedding $\pi$ of the vertex set of $G$ into…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-05-20 Mihyun Kang , Oleg Pikhurko , Alexander Ravsky , Mathias Schacht , Oleg Verbitsky

Unit disk graphs are intersection graphs of circles of unit radius in the plane. We present simple and provably good heuristics for a number of classical NP-hard optimization problems on unit disk graphs. The problems considered include…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Madhav V. Marathe , H. Breu , Harry B. Hunt , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz

Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial complexity of graph spaces, such optimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shiqiang Zhang , Ruth Misener

We give an accessible introduction and elaboration on the methods used in obtaining a geodesic, which is the curve of shortest length connecting two points lying on the surface of a function. This is found through computing what's known as…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Andrew R. Tawfeek

A graph drawing in the plane is called an almost embedding if the images of any two non-adjacent simplices (i.e. vertices or edges) are disjoint. Almost embeddings (more precisely, their higher-dimensional analogues) naturally appear in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-10 E. Alkin , A. Miroshnikov , A. Skopenkov

The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigability of graphs where the vertices are tagged by a number (between 1…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-25 Sang Hoon Lee , Petter Holme

Finding shortest paths in a graph is relevant for numerous problems in computer vision and graphics, including image segmentation, shape matching, or the computation of geodesic distances on discrete surfaces. Traditionally, the concept of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Viktoria Ehm , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard

We define the crossing graph of a given embedded graph (such as a road network) to be a graph with a vertex for each edge of the embedding, with two crossing graph vertices adjacent when the corresponding two edges of the embedding cross…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-20 David Eppstein , Siddharth Gupta

The search is based on the preliminary transformation of matrices or adjacency lists traditionally used in the study of graphs into projections cleared of redundant information (refined) followed by the selection of the desired shortest…

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The notion of forbidden-transition graphs allows for a robust generalization of walks in graphs. In a forbidden-transition graph, every pair of edges incident to a common vertex is permitted or forbidden; a walk is compatible if all pairs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Thomas Bellitto , Shaohua Li , Karolina Okrasa , Marcin Pilipczuk , Manuel Sorge

Visual rendering of graphs is a key task in the mapping of complex network data. Although most graph drawing algorithms emphasize aesthetic appeal, certain applications such as travel-time maps place more importance on visualization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-20 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Given an n-vertex graph G, a drawing of G in the plane is a mapping of its vertices into points of the plane, and its edges into continuous curves, connecting the images of their endpoints. A crossing in such a drawing is a point where two…

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Some graphs admit drawings in the Euclidean k-space in such a (natu- ral) way, that edges are represented as line segments of unit length. Such drawings will be called k dimensional unit distance representations. When two non-adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-07 Jan Kratochvil , Boris Horvat , Tomaz Pisanski

Graph embeddings have become a key and widely used technique within the field of graph mining, proving to be successful across a broad range of domains including social, citation, transportation and biological. Graph embedding techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Stephen Bonner , Ibad Kureshi , John Brennan , Georgios Theodoropoulos , Andrew Stephen McGough , Boguslaw Obara

Graph embeddings have emerged as a powerful tool for representing complex network structures in a low-dimensional space, enabling the use of efficient methods that employ the metric structure in the embedding space as a proxy for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Radosław Nowak , Adam Małkowski , Daniel Cieślak , Piotr Sokół , Paweł Wawrzyński

In this paper, we study the computational complexity of finding the \emph{geodetic number} of graphs. A set of vertices $S$ of a graph $G$ is a \emph{geodetic set} if any vertex of $G$ lies in some shortest path between some pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Harmender Gahlawat , Subir Kumar Ghosh , Bodhayan Roy

Graph embedding is the task of representing nodes of a graph in a low-dimensional space and its applications for graph tasks have gained significant traction in academia and industry. The primary difference among the many recently proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Palash Goyal , Di Huang , Ankita Goswami , Sujit Rokka Chhetri , Arquimedes Canedo , Emilio Ferrara

We consider hypergraph visualizations that represent vertices as points in the plane and hyperedges as curves passing through the points of their incident vertices. Specifically, we consider several different variants of this problem by (a)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Alexander Dobler , Stephen Kobourov , Debajyoti Mondal , Martin Nöllenburg

For a given collection G of directed graphs we define the join-reachability graph of G, denoted by J(G), as the directed graph that, for any pair of vertices a and b, contains a path from a to b if and only if such a path exists in all…

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