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We design a deterministic algorithm that, given $n$ points in a \emph{typical} constant degree regular~graph, queries $O(n)$ distances to output a constant factor approximation to the average distance among those points, thus answering a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Alexandros Eskenazis , Manor Mendel , Assaf Naor

We consider the task of drawing a graph on multiple horizontal layers, where each node is assigned a layer, and each edge connects nodes of different layers. Known algorithms determine the orders of nodes on each layer to minimize crossings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Alexander Dobler , Jakob Roithinger

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Mapper graphs are widely used tools in topological data analysis and visualization. They can be understood as discrete approximations of Reeb graphs, providing insight into the shape and connectivity of complex data. Given a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Erin Wolf Chambers , Ishika Ghosh , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

We study the computational complexity of the graph modification problems Threshold Editing and Chain Editing, adding and deleting as few edges as possible to transform the input into a threshold (or chain) graph. In this article, we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Pål Grønås Drange , Markus Sortland Dregi , Daniel Lokshtanov , Blair D. Sullivan

We propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

A number of inference problems with sensor networks involve projecting a measured signal onto a given subspace. In existing decentralized approaches, sensors communicate with their local neighbors to obtain a sequence of iterates that…

The average distance of a vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$. The proximity $\pi(G)$ and the remoteness $\rho(G)$ of $G$ are the minimum and the maximum of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Peter Dankelmann , Sonwabile Mafunda , Sufiyan Mallu

Graph-structured data is central to many scientific and industrial domains, where the goal is often to optimize objectives defined over graph structures. Given the combinatorial complexity of graph spaces, such optimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Shiqiang Zhang , Ruth Misener

The \emph{$k$-restricted edge-connectivity} of a graph $G$, denoted by $\lambda_k(G)$, is defined as the minimum size of an edge set whose removal leaves exactly two connected components each containing at least $k$ vertices. This graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Luis Pedro Montejano , Ignasi Sau

Flip graphs are a ubiquitous class of graphs, which encode relations induced on a set of combinatorial objects by elementary, local changes. Skeletons of associahedra, for instance, are the graphs induced by quadrilateral flips in…

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a general and domain-agnostic metric to measure graph similarity, widely used in graph search or retrieving tasks. However, the exact GED computation is known to be NP-complete. For instance, the widely used A*…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Junfeng Liu , Min Zhou , Shuai Ma , Lujia Pan

We show that for various classes C of sparse graphs, and several measures of distance to such classes (such as edit distance and elimination distance), the problem of determining the distance of a given graph G to C is fixed-parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Jannis Bulian , Anuj Dawar

We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an intractable estimation problem as one defined on a more tractable graph,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-10-02 Jason K. Johnson , Dmitry M. Malioutov , Alan S. Willsky

In graph modification problems, one is given a graph G and the goal is to apply a minimum number of modification operations (such as edge deletions) to G such that the resulting graph fulfills a certain property. For example, the Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

A popular method of force-directed graph drawing is multidimensional scaling using graph-theoretic distances as input. We present an algorithm to minimize its energy function, known as stress, by using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Jonathan X. Zheng , Samraat Pawar , Dan F. M. Goodman

An instance of the graph-constrained max-cut (GCMC) problem consists of (i) an undirected graph G and (ii) edge-weights on a complete undirected graph on the same vertex set. The objective is to find a subset of vertices satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Jon Lee , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

We consider the problem of computing identifying codes of graphs and its fractional relaxation. The ratio between the size of optimal integer and fractional solutions is between 1 and 2 ln(|V|)+1 where V is the set of vertices of the graph.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Sylvain Gravier , Aline Parreau , Sara Rottey , Leo Storme , Elise Vandomme

Subgraph similarity search, one of the core problems in graph search, concerns whether a target graph approximately contains a query graph. The problem is recently touched by neural methods. However, current neural methods do not consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Linfeng Liu , Xu Han , Dawei Zhou , Li-Ping Liu

Distance measures between graphs are important primitives for a variety of learning tasks. In this work, we describe an unsupervised, optimal transport based approach to define a distance between graphs. Our idea is to derive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Michael Scholkemper , Damin Kühn , Gerion Nabbefeld , Simon Musall , Björn Kampa , Michael T. Schaub