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In the Steiner Tree problem we are given an edge weighted undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and a set of terminals $R \subseteq V$. The task is to find a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $R$ and minimizing the sum of weights of its edges. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Radek Hušek , Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík

We show that under mild assumptions for a problem whose solutions admit a dynamic programming-like recurrence relation, we can still find a solution under additional packing constraints, which need to be satisfied approximately. The number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Etienne Bamas , Shi Li , Lars Rohwedder

In this paper, we consider the Uniform Cost-Distance Steiner Tree Problem in metric spaces, a generalization of the well-known Steiner tree problem. Cost-distance Steiner trees minimize the sum of the total length and the weighted path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Stephan Held , Yannik Kyle Dustin Spitzley

The Steiner Tree Problem (STP) in graphs is an important problem with various applications in many areas such as design of integrated circuits, evolution theory, networking, etc. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to solve the STP. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matthieu De Laere , San Tu Pham , Patrick De Causmaecker

Nowadays hybrid evolutionary algorithms, i.e, heuristic search algorithms combining several mutation operators some of which are meant to implement stochastically a well known technique designed for the specific problem in question while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Boris Mitavskiy , Jun He

Let $P$ and $S$ be two disjoint sets of $n$ and $m$ points in the plane, respectively. We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree whose Steiner vertices belong to $S$, in which each point of $P$ is a leaf, and whose longest edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

For a given graph $G=(V,\, E)$ with a terminal set $S$ and a selected root $r\in S$, a positive integer cost and a delay on every edge and a delay constraint $D\in Z^{+}$, the shallow-light Steiner tree (\emph{SLST}) problem is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao

We consider the problem of embedding the Steiner points of a Steiner tree with given topology into the rectilinear plane. Thereby, the length of the path between a distinguished terminal and each other terminal must not exceed given length…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Jens Maßberg

Network design under uncertainty arises in countless real-world settings and can be captured by the Stochastic Steiner Tree Problem (SSTP). Although there are a few approaches specifically tailored to this stochastic optimization problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Berend Markhorst , Alessandro Zocca , Joost Berkhout , Rob van der Mei

It is challenging to design large and low-cost communication networks. In this paper, we formulate this challenge as the prize-collecting Steiner Tree Problem (PCSTP). The objective is to minimize the costs of transmission routes and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Yahui Sun , Marcus Brazil , Doreen Thomas , Saman Halgamuge

We present approximation algorithms for the following NP-hard optimization problems related to bottleneck spanning trees in metric spaces. 1. The disjoint bottleneck spanning tree problem: Given $n$ pairs of points in a metric space, find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

This paper studies a 4-approximation algorithm for k-prize collecting Steiner tree problems. This problem generalizes both k-minimum spanning tree problems and prize collecting Steiner tree problems. Our proposed algorithm employs two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Yusa Matsuda , Satoshi Takahashi

We consider finding a counterfactual explanation for a classification or regression forest, such as a random forest. This requires solving an optimization problem to find the closest input instance to a given instance for which the forest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Suryabhan Singh Hada

In the Priority Steiner Tree (PST) problem, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with a source $s \in V$ and terminals $T \subseteq V \setminus \{s\}$, where each terminal $v \in T$ requires a nonnegative priority $P(v)$. The goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Stephen Kobourov , Richard Spence

We consider a new Steiner tree problem, called vertex-cover-weighted Steiner tree problem. This problem defines the weight of a Steiner tree as the minimum weight of vertex covers in the tree, and seeks a minimum-weight Steiner tree in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Takuro Fukunaga , Takanori Maehara

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

We study the following two maximization problems related to spanning trees in the Euclidean plane. It is not known whether or not these problems are NP-hard. We present approximation algorithms with better approximation ratios for both…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ahmad Biniaz

The Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST) problem is a generalization of the Steiner Tree problem that has applications in network design, content distribution networks, and many more. There are a few centralized approximation algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Parikshit Saikia , Sushanta Karmakar , Aris T. Pagourtzis

The prevailing mindset is that a single decision tree underperforms classic random forests in testing accuracy, despite its advantages in interpretability and lightweight structure. This study challenges such a mindset by significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Qiangqiang Mao , Yankai Cao

The optimization version of the cavity method for single instances, called Max-Sum, has been applied in the past to the Minimum Steiner Tree Problem on Graphs and variants. Max-Sum has been shown experimentally to give asymptotically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Alfredo Braunstein , Anna Muntoni