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We consider Colouring on graphs that are $H$-subgraph-free for some fixed graph $H$, which are graphs that do not contain $H$ as a subgraph. To classify the complexity of Colouring on $H$-subgraph-free graphs for connected $H$, it remains…

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We contribute to the theoretical understanding of randomized search heuristics for dynamic problems. We consider the classical vertex coloring problem on graphs and investigate the dynamic setting where edges are added to the current graph.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann , Pan Peng , Dirk Sudholt

A circle graph is a graph in which the adjacency of vertices can be represented as the intersection of chords of a circle. The problem of calculating the chromatic number is known to be NP-complete, even on circle graphs. In this paper, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Masato Tanaka , Tomomi Matsui

In graph theory, Graph Colouring Problem (GCP) is an assignment of colours to vertices of any given graph such that the colours on adjacent vertices are different. The GCP is known to be an optimization and NP-hard problem. Imperialist…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Hojjat Emami , Shahriar Lotfi

A split graph is a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. A connected graph $G$ is said to be $t$-admissible if admits a spanning tree in which the distance between any two adjacent vertices of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Fernanda Couto , Diego Amaro Ferraz , Sulamita Klein

We provide novel deterministic distributed vertex coloring algorithms. As our main result, we give a deterministic distributed algorithm to compute a $(\Delta+1)$-coloring of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Fabian Kuhn

Coloring a graph $G$ consists in finding an assignment of colors $c: V(G)\to\{1,\ldots,p\}$ such that any pair of adjacent vertices receives different colors. The minimum integer $p$ such that a coloring exists is called the chromatic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Théo Pierron

The generalized coloring numbers of Kierstead and Yang (Order 2003) offer an algorithmically-useful characterization of graph classes with bounded expansion. In this work, we consider the hardness and approximability of these parameters.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Michael Breen-McKay , Brian Lavallee , Blair D. Sullivan

The Steiner tree problem aims to determine a minimum edge-weighted tree that spans a given set of terminal vertices from a given graph. In the past decade, a considerable number of algorithms have been developed to solve this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ming Sun , Xinyu Wu , Yi Zhou , Jin-Kao Hao , Zhang-Hua Fu

The coloring problem is studied in the paper for graph classes defined by two small forbidden induced subgraphs. We prove some sufficient conditions for effective solvability of the problem in such classes. As their corollary we determine…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Dmitriy Malyshev

The List-3-Coloring Problem is to decide, given a graph $G$ and a list $L(v)\subseteq \{1,2,3\}$ of colors assigned to each vertex $v$ of $G$, whether $G$ admits a proper coloring $\phi$ with $\phi(v)\in L(v)$ for every vertex $v$ of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Sepehr Hajebi , Yanjia Li , Sophie Spirkl

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Sergey Pupyrev , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

In the era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing, available quantum resources are limited. Many NP-hard problems can be efficiently addressed using hybrid classical and quantum computational methods. This paper proposes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Dongmei Liu , Jian Li , Xiubo Cheng , Shibing Zhang , Yan Chang , Lili Yan

We continue research into a well-studied family of problems that ask whether the vertices of a graph can be partitioned into sets $A$ and~$B$, where $A$ is an independent set and $B$ induces a graph from some specified graph class ${\cal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Marthe Bonamy , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Carl Feghali , Matthew Johnson , Daniel Paulusma

In this paper we deal with the Bin Packing Problem with Conflicts on interval graphs: given an interval graph, a nonnegative integer weight for each vertex, and a nonnegative integer B, find a partition of the vertex set of the graph into k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Tiziano Bacci , Sara Nicoloso

In this paper, we study the (weighted) bichromatic two-center problem on graphs. The input consists of a graph $G$ of $n$ (weighted) vertices and $m$ edges, and a set $\mathcal{P}$ of pairs of distinct vertices, where no vertex appears in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Qi Sun , Jingru Zhang

Given a connected undirected weighted graph, we are concerned with problems related to partitioning the graph. First of all we look for the closest disconnected graph (the minimum cut problem), here with respect to the Euclidean norm. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Eleonora Andreotti , Dominik Edelmann , Nicola Guglielmi , Christian Lubich

In this paper, we investigate the $k$-path coloring problem, a variant of vertex coloring arising in the context of integrated circuit manufacturing. In this setting, typical industrial instances exhibit a `tree-like' structure. We exploit…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Dehia Ait-Ferhat , Vincent Juliard , Gautier Stauffer , Andres Torres

An independent transversal (IT) in a graph with a given vertex partition is an independent set consisting of one vertex in each partition class. Several sufficient conditions are known for the existence of an IT in a given graph with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Alessandra Graf , David G. Harris , Penny Haxell

The graph colouring problem consists of assigning labels, or colours, to the vertices of a graph such that no two adjacent vertices share the same colour. In this work we investigate whether deep reinforcement learning can be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 George Watkins , Giovanni Montana , Juergen Branke