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Seeking the external equitable partitions (EEPs) of networks under unknown structures is an emerging problem in network analysis. The special structure of EEPs has found widespread applications in many fields such as cluster synchronization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenshun Teng , Qingna Li

Randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms are frequently applied to dynamic combinatorial optimization problems. Within this paper, we present a dynamic model of the classic Weighted Vertex Cover problem and analyze the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Feng Shi , Frank Neumann , Jianxin Wang

This paper considers the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network resources to meet diverse service requirements. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wei-Kun Chen , Zheyu Wu , Rui-Jin Zhang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study parameterized and approximation algorithms for a variant of Set Cover, where the universe of elements to be covered consists of points in the plane and the sets with which the points should be covered are segments. We call this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Katarzyna Kowalska , Michał Pilipczuk

We present improved approximation algorithms for some problems in the related areas of Capacitated Network Design and Flexible Graph Connectivity. In the Cap-$k$-ECSS problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges have non-negative…

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Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) have gained increasing popularity over the years. Rooted into statistical physics, the ERGMs framework has been successfully employed for reconstructing networks, detecting statistically significant…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-10-04 Nicolò Vallarano , Matteo Bruno , Emiliano Marchese , Giuseppe Trapani , Fabio Saracco , Giulio Cimini , Mario Zanon , Tiziano Squartini

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), owing to their mesh-free nature, offer a powerful approach for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) in complex geometries, including irregular domains. This capability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Hanfei Zhou , Lei Shi

Effective Resistance (ER) is a fundamental tool in various graph learning tasks. In this paper, we address the problem of efficiently approximating ER on a graph $\mathcal{G}=(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{E})$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yichun Yang , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Guoren Wang

We consider the classic problem of Network Reliability. A network is given together with a source vertex, one or more target vertices, and probabilities assigned to each of the edges. Each edge appears in the network with its associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Fatemeh Mohammadi

Virtual network embedding (VNE) is an crucial part of network virtualization (NV), which aims to map the virtual networks (VNs) to a shared substrate network (SN). With the emergence of various delay-sensitive applications, how to improve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Peiying Zhang , Xue Pang , Yongjing Ni , Haipeng Yao , Xin Li

We consider the problem of finding a minimum edge cost subgraph of a graph satisfying both given node-connectivity requirements and degree upper bounds on nodes. We present an iterative rounding algorithm of the biset LP relaxation for this…

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We construct and analyze approximation rates of deep operator networks (ONets) between infinite-dimensional spaces that emulate with an exponential rate of convergence the coefficient-to-solution map of elliptic second-order partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Carlo Marcati , Christoph Schwab

The rapid development of virtual network architecture makes it possible for wireless network to be widely used. With the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) industry in daily life, efficient resource allocation of wireless network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Chao Wang , Tao Dong , Youxiang Duan , Qifeng Sun , Peiying Zhang

A perfect matching in an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set of vertex disjoint edges from $E$ that include all vertices in $V$. The perfect matching problem is to decide if $G$ has such a matching. Recently Rothvo{\ss} proved the striking…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-26 David Avis , David Bremner , Hans Raj Tiwary , Osamu Watanabe

In this article, we consider the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem for 5G networks slicing. This problem requires to allocate multiple Virtual Networks (VN) on a substrate virtualized physical network while maximizing among others,…

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We show that the Minimal Length-Bounded L-But problem can be computed in linear time with respect to L and the tree-width of the input graph as parameters. In this problem the task is to find a set of edges of a graph such that after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Dušan Knop , Pavel Dvořák

Network virtualization provides a promising solution to overcome the ossification of current networks, allowing multiple Virtual Network Requests (VNRs) embedded on a common infrastructure. The major challenge in network virtualization is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Haitao Wu , Fen Zhou , Yaojun Chen , Ran Zhang

In recent years, network embedding methods have garnered increasing attention because of their effectiveness in various information retrieval tasks. The goal is to learn low-dimensional representations of vertexes in an information network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Chih-Ming Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Yian Chen , Ming-Feng Tsai

Neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions, such as rectified linear units (ReLU) or maxout, are among the most fundamental models in modern machine learning. We make a step towards proving lower bounds on the size of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Christoph Hertrich , Georg Loho

In the vertex connectivity augmentation problem, we are given an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$, a set of links $L \subseteq \binom{V(G)}{2} \setminus E(G)$, and integers $\lambda$ and $k$. The task is to insert at most $k$ links from $L$…

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