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The maximum independent set problem is a classic optimization problem that has also been studied quite intensively in the distributed setting. While the problem is hard to approximate in general, there are good approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Salwa Faour , Fabian Kuhn

The problem Hamiltonian of the adiabatic quantum algorithm for the maximum-weight independent set problem (MIS) that is based on the reduction to the Ising problem (as described in [Choi08]) has flexible parameters. We show that by choosing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 Vicky Choi

The problem of distributed maximal independent set (MIS) is investigated on inhomogeneous random graphs with power-law weights by which the scale-free networks can be produced. Such a particular problem has been solved on graphs with $n$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Hasan Heydari , S. Mahmoud Taheri , Kaveh Kavousi

We address the realization of Maximum Weighted Independent Set (MWIS) and quantum Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problems under Pasqal's neutral-atom QPU constraints: limited qubit number, bounds on {\Omega} and {\Delta}, sequence duration,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Sem Saada Khelkhal , Louis Barcikowsky

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. MWIS is known to be $NP$-complete in general, even under various restrictions. Let…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-16 T. Karthick

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm can naturally be applied to combinatorial search problems on graphs. The quantum circuit has p applications of a unitary operator that respects the locality of the graph. On a graph with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Edward Farhi , David Gamarnik , Sam Gutmann

In algorithmic graph theory, a classic open question is to determine the complexity of the Maximum Independent Set problem on $P_t$-free graphs, that is, on graphs not containing any induced path on $t$ vertices. So far, polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Gábor Bacsó , Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Zsolt Tuza , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on finite undirected graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum weight sum. MWIS is one of the most investigated and most important algorithmic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

The greedy sequential algorithm for maximal independent set (MIS) loops over the vertices in arbitrary order adding a vertex to the resulting set if and only if no previous neighboring vertex has been added. In this loop, as in many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Guy Blelloch , Jeremy Fineman , Julian Shun

In the Maximum Independent Set problem we are asked to find a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices in a given graph with the maximum possible cardinality. In general graphs, this classical problem is known to be NP-hard and hard to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Maria Chudnovsky , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Stéphan Thomassé

We introduce a novel evolutionary formulation of the problem of finding a maximum independent set of a graph. The new formulation is based on the relationship that exists between a graph's independence number and its acyclic orientations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 V. C. Barbosa , L. C. D. Campos

Given a graph $G$, a non-negative integer $k$, and a weight function that maps each vertex in $G$ to a positive real number, the \emph{Maximum Weighted Budgeted Independent Set (MWBIS) problem} is about finding a maximum weighted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Tushar Kalra , Rogers Mathew , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal , Vijay Pandey

We present a simple distributed $\Delta$-approximation algorithm for maximum weight independent set (MaxIS) in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model which completes in $O(\texttt{MIS}(G)\cdot \log W)$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Gregory Schwartzman

We introduce a method to solve the MaxCut problem efficiently based on quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE). We employ a linear Ansatz for unitary updates and an initial state involving no entanglement, as well as an…

The success of modern parallel paradigms such as MapReduce, Hadoop, or Spark, has attracted a significant attention to the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model over the past few years, especially on graph problems. In this work, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Richard M. Karp

The Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (QAOA) represents a branch of quantum algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems. A specific variant, the Grover-Mixer Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (GM-QAOA), ensures uniform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-27 Ningyi Xie , Jiahua Xu , Tiejin Chen , Xinwei Lee , Yoshiyuki Saito , Nobuyoshi Asai , Dongsheng Cai

The complexity of classical computational problems in graph classes defined by forbidding induced subgraphs is one of the central topics of algorithmic graph theory. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the complexity of such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Paweł Rafał Bieliński , Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski

We present improved results for approximating maximum-weight independent set ($\MaxIS$) in the CONGEST and LOCAL models of distributed computing. Given an input graph, let $n$ and $\Delta$ be the number of nodes and maximum degree,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Seri Khoury , Aaron Schild , Gregory Schwartzman

We revisit the recent polynomial-time algorithm for the MAX WEIGHT INDEPENDENT SET (MWIS) problem in bounded-degree graphs that do not contain a fixed graph whose every component is a subdivided claw as an induced subgraph [Abrishami,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek , Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the promising variational approaches of quantum computing to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In QAOA, variational parameters need to be optimized by solving a series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Hanjing Xu , Xiaoyuan Liu , Alex Pothen , Ilya Safro