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It is well-known that the height profile of a critical conditioned Galton-Watson tree with finite offspring variance converges, after a suitable normalization, to the local time of a standard Brownian excursion. In this work, we study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda , Svante Janson

Computing bounded depth decompositions is a bottleneck in many applications of the treedepth parameter. The fastest known algorithm, which is due to Reidl, Rossmanith, S\'{a}nchez Villaamil, and Sikdar [ICALP 2014], runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. de Lima , Wojciech Nadara , Emmanuel Sam

In Athreya, L\"ohr, Winter (2016), an invariance principle is stated for a class of strong Markov processes on tree-like metric measure spaces. It is shown that if the underlying spaces converge Gromov vaguely, then the processes converge…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Siva Athreya , Wolfgang Löhr , Anita Winter

This paper presents a unified computational framework for the estimation of distances, geodesics and barycenters of merge trees. We extend recent work on the edit distance [106] and introduce a new metric, called the Wasserstein distance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Mathieu Pont , Jules Vidal , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

We design a 3/2 approximation algorithm for the Generalized Steiner Tree problem (GST) in metrics with distances 1 and 2. This is the first polynomial time approximation algorithm for a wide class of non-geometric metric GST instances with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-12 Piotr Berman , Marek Karpinski , Alex Zelikovsky

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance is a powerful tool for comparing metric measure spaces which has found broad applications in data science and machine learning. Driven by the need to analyze datasets whose objects have increasingly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Martin Bauer , Facundo Mémoli , Tom Needham , Mao Nishino

We present two algorithms for computing the geodesic distance between phylogenetic trees in tree space, as introduced by Billera, Holmes, and Vogtmann (2001). We show that the possible combinatorial types of shortest paths between two trees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-08 Megan Owen

Let $G$ be an $n$-node and $m$-edge positively real-weighted undirected graph. For any given integer $f \ge 1$, we study the problem of designing a sparse \emph{f-edge-fault-tolerant} ($f$-EFT) $\sigma${\em -approximate single-source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Davide Bilò , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

Finding a minimum spanning tree (MST) for $n$ points in an arbitrary metric space is a fundamental primitive for hierarchical clustering and many other ML tasks, but this takes $\Omega(n^2)$ time to even approximate. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Geoffrey Sanders

The tree-cut width of a graph is a graph parameter defined by Wollan [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B, 110:47-66, 2015] with the help of tree-cut decompositions. In certain cases, tree-cut width appears to be more adequate than treewidth as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Eunjung Kim , Sang-il Oum , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

This paper presents a novel approach, named the Group Marching Tree (GMT*) algorithm, to planning on GPUs at rates amenable to application within control loops, allowing planning in real-world settings via repeated computation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Marco Pavone

For each given $p\in[1,\infty]$ we investigate certain sub-family $\mathcal{M}_p$ of the collection of all compact metric spaces $\mathcal{M}$ which are characterized by the satisfaction of a strengthened form of the triangle inequality…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Facundo Mémoli , Zhengchao Wan

There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sawyer Jack Robertson

A homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (HIST) is a spanning tree with no degree-2 vertices, serving as a structurally minimal backbone of a graph. While the existence of HISTs has been widely studied from a structural perspective, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tesshu Hanaka , Hironori Kiya , Hirotaka Ono

This work is related to PHG (Parallel Hierarchical Grid). PHG is a toolbox for developing parallel adaptive finite element programs, which is under active development at the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Hui Liu

We study the problem of distance-preserving graph compression for weighted paths and trees. The problem entails a weighted graph $G = (V, E)$ with non-negative weights, and a subset of edges $E^{\prime} \subset E$ which needs to be removed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Amirali Madani , Anil Maheshwari

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distances define a family of metrics, based on ideas from optimal transport, which enable comparisons between probability measures defined on distinct metric spaces. They are particularly useful in areas such as…

Graph similarity metrics serve far-ranging purposes across many domains in data science. As graph datasets grow in size, scientists need comparative tools that capture meaningful differences, yet are lightweight and scalable. Graph Relative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Sinan G. Aksoy , Kathleen E. Nowak , Stephen J. Young

The Fermat-Steiner problem consists in finding all points in a metric space $Y$ such that the sum of distances from each of them to the points from some fixed finite subset of $Y$ is minimal. This problem is investigated for the metric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-18 Alexandr Ivanov , Alexandr Tropin , Alexey Tuzhilin

A \emph{metric tree embedding} of expected \emph{stretch~$\alpha \geq 1$} maps a weighted $n$-node graph $G = (V, E, \omega)$ to a weighted tree $T = (V_T, E_T, \omega_T)$ with $V \subseteq V_T$ such that, for all $v,w \in V$,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Stephan Friedrichs , Christoph Lenzen