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We investigate structural and algorithmic advantages of a directed version of the well-researched class of distance-hereditary graphs. Since the previously defined distance-hereditary digraphs do not permit a recursive structure, we define…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Dominique Komander , Carolin Rehs

An instance of Hamiltonian cycle problem can be solved by converting it to an instance of Travelling salesman problem, assigning any choice of weights to edges of the underlying graph. In this note we demonstrate that, for difficult…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Vladimir Ejov , Jerzy A Filar , Michael Haythorpe , John F Roddick , Serguei Rossomakhine

Large unweighted directed graphs are commonly used to capture relations between entities. A fundamental problem in the analysis of such networks is to properly define the similarity or dissimilarity between any two vertices. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-03 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Yi Sun , Tommi S. Jaakkola

The problem of node-similarity in networks has motivated a plethora of such measures between node-pairs, which make use of the underlying graph structure. However, higher-order relations cannot be losslessly captured by mere graphs and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Govind Sharma , Paarth Gupta , M. Narasihma Murty

We introduce the tree distance, a new distance measure on graphs. The tree distance can be computed in polynomial time with standard methods from convex optimization. It is based on the notion of fractional isomorphism, a characterization…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Jan Böker

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

In this paper, the problem of matching pairs of correlated random graphs with multi-valued edge attributes is considered. Graph matching problems of this nature arise in several settings of practical interest including social network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 F. Shirani , S. Garg , E. Erkip

Suppose that $[n]=\left\{0,1,2,...,n\right\}$ is a set of non-negative integers and $h,k \in [n]$. The $L(h,k)$-labeling of graph $G$ is the function $l:V(G)\rightarrow[n]$ such that $\left|l(u)-l(v)\right|\geq h$ if the distance $d(u,v)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Deborah O. A. Ajayi , Tayo C. Adefokun

We propose a novel method for comparing non-aligned graphs of different sizes, based on the Wasserstein distance between graph signal distributions induced by the respective graph Laplacian matrices. Specifically, we cast a new formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille El Gheche , Matthias Minder , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

We study the linearization of a discrete transportation distance between probability distributions on finite weighted graphs originally due to Maas (``Gradient flows of the entropy for finite {M}arkov chains,'' J. Funct. Anal. 261(8), 2011)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Sawyer Robertson , Zhengchao Wan , Alexander Cloninger

The average distance from a node to all other nodes in a graph, or from a query point in a metric space to a set of points, is a fundamental quantity in data analysis. The inverse of the average distance, known as the (classic) closeness…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Shiri Chechik , Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan

We are given the adjacency matrix of a geometric graph and the task of recovering the latent positions. We study one of the most popular approaches which consists in using the graph distances and derive error bounds under various…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Ery Arias-Castro , Antoine Channarond , Bruno Pelletier , Nicolas Verzelen

We study the problem of finding the $k$ most similar trajectories to a given query trajectory. Our work is inspired by the work of Grossi et al. [6] that considers trajectories as walks in a graph. Each visited vertex is accompanied by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Lutz Oettershagen , Anne Driemel , Petra Mutzel

The $d$-distance $p$-packing domination number $\gamma_d^p(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the cardinality of a smallest set of vertices of $G$ which is both a $d$-distance dominating set and a $p$-packing. If no such set exists, then we set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Csilla Bujtás , Vesna Iršič Chenoweth , Sandi Klavžar , Gang Zhang

The edit distance between two graphs on the same vertex set is defined to be size of the symmetric difference of their edge sets. The edit distance function of a hereditary property, $\mathcal{H}$, is a function of $p$ and measures,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Ryan Martin , Tracy McKay

For a given homogeneous Poisson point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ two points are connected by an edge if their distance is bounded by a prescribed distance parameter. The behaviour of the resulting random graph, the Gilbert graph or random…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Matthias Reitzner , Matthias Schulte , Christoph Thaele

Social network extensions of Heider's balance theory have not always been consistent. Structural balance theory primarily focuses on graph partitioning, thereby assuming, homogeneity in balance-driven behavior of nodes. We present a general…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-15 David Dekker , David Krackhardt , Patrick Doreian , Pavel N. Krivitsky

We introduce probability-graphons which are probability kernels that generalize graphons to the case of weighted graphs. Probability-graphons appear as the limit objects to study sequences of large weighted graphs whose distribution of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Romain Abraham , Jean-François Delmas , Julien Weibel

A graph homomorphism from the rooted $d$-branching tree $\phi: T^d \to H$ is said to be cold if the values of $\phi$ for vertices arbitrarily far away from the root can restrict the value of $\phi$ at the root. Warmth is a graph parameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Sukhada Fadnavis , Matthew Kahle , Francisco Martinez-Figueroa

A directed graph $D$ is singly connected if for every ordered pair of vertices $(s,t)$, there is at most one path from $s$ to $t$ in $D$. Graph orientation problems ask, given an undirected graph $G$, to find an orientation of the edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Tim A. Hartmann , Komal Muluk