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The $k$-Colouring problem is to decide if the vertices of a graph can be coloured with at most $k$ colours for a fixed integer $k$ such that no two adjacent vertices are coloured alike. If each vertex u must be assigned a colour from a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Tereza Klimošová , Josef Malík , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Daniël Paulusma , Veronika Slívová

In metabolomics, small molecules are structurally elucidated using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS); this resulted in the computational Maximum Colorful Subtree problem, which is NP-hard. Unfortunately, data from a single metabolite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Kai Dührkop , Marie Anne Lataretu , W. Timothy J. White , Sebastian Böcker

With the evolution of quantum computing, researchers now-a-days tend to incline to find solutions to NP-complete problems by using quantum algorithms in order to gain asymptotic advantage. In this paper, we solve $k$-coloring problem…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Amit Saha , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Many practical problems in almost all scientific and technological disciplines have been classified as computationally hard (NP-hard or even NP-complete). In life sciences, combinatorial optimization problems frequently arise in molecular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 H. Jose Antonio Martin

We consider the distributed complexity of the (degree+1)-list coloring problem, in which each node $u$ of degree $d(u)$ is assigned a palette of $d(u)+1$ colors, and the goal is to find a proper coloring using these color palettes. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies , Gopinath Mishra

The design of a good algorithm to solve NP-hard combinatorial approximation problems requires specific domain knowledge about the problems and often needs a trial-and-error problem solving approach. Graph coloring is one of the essential…

For a positive integer $k$, a $k$-colouring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a mapping $c: V\rightarrow\{1,2,...,k\}$ such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ whenever $uv\in E$. The Colouring problem is to decide, for a given $G$ and $k$, whether a $k$-colouring…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Petr A. Golovach , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma , Jian Song

The vertex coloring problem has received a lot of attention in the context of synchronous round-based systems where, at each round, a process can send a message to all its neighbors, and receive a message from each of them. Hence, this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Hicham Lakhlef , Michel Raynal , François Taïani

A quantum algorithm for combinatorial search is presented that provides a simple framework for utilizing search heuristics. The algorithm is evaluated in a new case that is an unstructured version of the graph coloring problem. It performs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Tad Hogg

This chapter presents an introduction to graph colouring algorithms. The focus is on vertex-colouring algorithms that work for general classes of graphs with worst-case performance guarantees in a sequential model of computation. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Thore Husfeldt

Hypergraph $2$-colorability is one of the classical NP-hard problems. Person and Schacht [SODA'09] designed a deterministic algorithm whose expected running time is polynomial over a uniformly chosen $2$-colorable $3$-uniform hypergraph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Cassandra Marcussen , Edward Pyne , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Asaf Shapira , Shlomo Tauber

In this paper we describe a new efficient (in fact optimal) data structure for the {\em top-$K$ color problem}. Each element of an array $A$ is assigned a color $c$ with priority $p(c)$. For a query range $[a,b]$ and a value $K$, we have to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Marek Karpinski , Yakov Nekrich

In a vertex-colored graph, an edge is happy if its endpoints have the same color. Similarly, a vertex is happy if all its incident edges are happy. Motivated by the computation of homophily in social networks, we consider the algorithmic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 N. R. Aravind , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Anjeneya Swami Kare , Juho Lauri

The classic greedy coloring (first-fit) algorithm considers the vertices of an input graph $G$ in a given order and assigns the first available color to each vertex $v$ in $G$. In the {\sc Grundy Coloring} problem, the task is to find an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Akanksha Agrawal , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Shaily Verma

We study a version of online edge coloring, where the goal is to color as many edges as possible using only a given number, $k$, of available colors. All of our results are with regard to competitive analysis. Previous attempts to identify…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Lene M. Favrholdt , Jesper W. Mikkelsen

The container relocation problem is a challenging combinatorial optimisation problem tasked with finding a sequence of container relocations required to retrieve all containers by a given order. Due to the complexity of this problem,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Mrko Đurasević , Mateja Đumić

Coloring is one of the most famous problems in graph theory. The coloring problem on undirected graphs has been well studied, whereas there are very few results for coloring problems on directed graphs. An oriented k-coloring of an oriented…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

We consider the red-blue-yellow matching problem: given two natural numbers $k_R$, $k_B$ and a graph $G$ whose edges are colored red, blue or yellow, the goal is to find a matching of $G$ that contains exactly $k_R$ red edges and exactly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Manuel Aprile , Marco Di Summa

We present a novel neural architecture to solve graph optimization problems where the solution consists of arbitrary node labels, allowing us to solve hard problems like graph coloring. We train our model using reinforcement learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Lukas Gianinazzi , Maximilian Fries , Nikoli Dryden , Tal Ben-Nun , Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler

We study Kaczmarz type methods to solve consistent linear matrix equations. We first present a block Kaczmarz (BK) method that employs a deterministic cyclic row selection strategy. Assuming that the associated coefficient matrix has full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Wenli Wang , Duo Liu , Gangrong Qu , Michiel E. Hochstenbach