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In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based approach for semi-supervised learning problems, which considers an adaptive adjacency of the examples throughout the unsupervised portion of the training. Adjacency of the examples is inferred…

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Learning node representations is a fundamental problem in graph machine learning. While existing embedding methods effectively preserve local similarity measures, they often fail to capture global functions like graph distances. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 My Le , Luana Ruiz , Souvik Dhara

Graph coloring is a fundamental problem in combinatorics with many applications in practice. In this problem, the vertices in a given graph must be colored by using the least number of colors in such a way that a vertex has a different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Arda Asik , Ibrahim Bugra Demir , Berker Demirel , Baris Batuhan Topal , Kamer Kaya

We present a novel approach to graph drawing based on reinforcement learning for minimizing the global and the local crossing number, that is, the total number of edge crossings and the maximum number of crossings on any edge, respectively.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Timo Brand , Henry Förster , Stephen Kobourov , Robin Schukrafft , Markus Wallinger , Johannes Zink

We consider the query complexity of finding a local minimum of a function defined on a graph. This abstract problem is fundamental to many optimization tasks, such as finding a local minimum of the loss function when training deep neural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Simina Brânzei , Jiawei Li

Given a graph $G$, a vertex switch of $v \in V(G)$ results in a new graph where neighbors of $v$ become nonneighbors and vice versa. This operation gives rise to an equivalence relation over the set of labeled digraphs on $n$ vertices. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Nathan Lindzey

The widespread relevance of complex networks is a valuable tool in the analysis of a broad range of systems. There is a demand for tools which enable the extraction of meaningful information and allow the comparison between different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-30 Kathryn Cooper , Mauricio Barahona

A highly successful approach to route planning in networks (particularly road networks) is to identify a hierarchy in the network that allows faster queries after some preprocessing that basically inserts additional "shortcut"-edges into a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Demian Hespe , Peter Sanders

In the 1960s, the social scientist Stanley Milgram performed his famous "small-world" experiments where he found that people in the US who are far apart geographically are nevertheless connected by remarkably short chains of acquaintances.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ofek Gila , Michael T. Goodrich , Abraham M. Illickan , Vinesh Sridhar

This paper addresses the challenging problem of retrieval and matching of graph structured objects, and makes two key contributions. First, we demonstrate how Graph Neural Networks (GNN), which have emerged as an effective model for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yujia Li , Chenjie Gu , Thomas Dullien , Oriol Vinyals , Pushmeet Kohli

With the growing popularity of mobile smart devices, the existing networks are unable to meet the requirement of many complex scenarios; current network architectures and protocols do not work well with the network with high latency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Huijuan Zhang , Kai Liu

We demonstrate that a graph-based search algorithm-relying on the construction of an approximate neighborhood graph-can directly work with challenging non-metric and/or non-symmetric distances without resorting to metric-space mapping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Leonid Boytsov , Eric Nyberg

Suppose a target is hidden in one of the vertices of an edge-weighted graph according to a known probability distribution. The expanding search problem asks for a search sequence of the vertices so as to minimize the expected time for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Jannik Matuschke

As a fundamental problem in pattern recognition, graph matching has applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to computational biology. In graph matching, patterns are modeled as graphs and pattern recognition amounts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-06-19 Tiberio S. Caetano , Julian J. McAuley , Li Cheng , Quoc V. Le , Alex J. Smola

Path finding in graphs is one of the most studied classes of problems in computer science. In this context, search algorithms are often extended with heuristics for a more efficient search of target nodes. In this work we combine recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Danilo Numeroso , Davide Bacciu , Petar Veličković

The emergence of massive graph data sets requires fast mining algorithms. Centrality measures to identify important vertices belong to the most popular analysis methods in graph mining. A measure that is gaining attention is forest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Alexander van der Grinten , Eugenio Angriman , Maria Predari , Henning Meyerhenke

We investigate searching efficiency of different kinds of random walk on complex networks which rely on local information and one-step memory. For the studied navigation strategies we obtained theoretical and numerical values for the graph…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Miroslav Mirchev , Lasko Basnarkov , Igor Mishkovski

Vertex similarity is a major problem in network science with a wide range of applications. In this work we provide novel perspectives on finding (dis)similar vertices within a network and across two networks with the same number of vertices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We implement and test the performances of several approximation algorithms for computing the minimum dominating set of a graph. These algorithms are the standard greedy algorithm, the recent LP rounding algorithms and a hybrid algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Jonathan S. Li , Rohan Potru , Farhad Shahrokhi

Graph search planning algorithms for navigation typically rely heavily on heuristics to efficiently plan paths. As a result, while such approaches require no training phase and can directly plan long horizon paths, they often require…

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