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We show that the problem of recovering the topology and admittance of an electrical network from power and voltage data at all vertices is often ill-posed, and sometimes it even has multiple solutions. We reformulate the problem to seek for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Álvaro Samperio

The fully dynamic transitive closure problem asks to maintain reachability information in a directed graph between arbitrary pairs of vertices, while the graph undergoes a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Christian Schulz

Many practical data analysis tasks reduce to learning, from observed samples, how a collection of variables depend on each other. A widely used approach is to fit a Gaussian graphical model, which represents the dependence structure as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Ignacio Echave-Sustaeta Rodríguez , Aida Abiad , Frank Röttger

In this paper we study the Steiner tree problem over a dynamic set of terminals. We consider the model where we are given an $n$-vertex graph $G=(V,E,w)$ with positive real edge weights, and our goal is to maintain a tree which is a good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Jakub Łącki , Jakub Oćwieja , Marcin Pilipczuk , Piotr Sankowski , Anna Zych

Truss structures at macro-scale are common in a number of engineering applications and are now being increasingly used at the micro-scale to construct metamaterials. In analyzing the properties of a given truss structure, it is often…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Sean Fancher , Prashant Purohit , Eleni Katifori

Graphs arising in statistical problems, signal processing, large networks, combinatorial optimization, and data analysis are often dense, which causes both computational and storage bottlenecks. One way of \textit{sparsifying} a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Neophytos Charalambides , Alfred O. Hero

Graphs are central to modeling complex systems in domains such as social networks, molecular chemistry, and neuroscience. While Graph Neural Networks, particularly Graph Convolutional Networks, have become standard tools for graph learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Angelica Liguori , Ettore Ritacco , Pietro Sabatino , Annalisa Socievole

Graphs with diverse structural characteristics play a central role in modelling and optimization tasks. The ability to generate different types of graphs that exhibit shared properties is likewise essential for algorithm selection and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hendrik Richter , Frank Neumann

Effective graph resistance is a fundamental structural metric in network science, widely used to quantify global connectivity, compare network architectures, and assess robustness in flow-based systems. Despite its importance, current…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-05 Xiangrong Wang , Xin Yu , Zongze Wu , Yamir Moreno

In this paper, we develop a novel weighted Laplacian method, which is partially inspired by the theory of graph Laplacian, to study recent popular graph problems, such as multilevel graph partitioning and balanced minimum cut problem, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijie Xu , Jiayan Fang , Xiang-Yang Li

Compression and sparsification algorithms are frequently applied in a preprocessing step before analyzing or optimizing large networks/graphs. In this paper we propose and study a new framework contracting edges of a graph (merging vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Aaron Bernstein , Karl Däubel , Yann Disser , Max Klimm , Torsten Mütze , Frieder Smolny

We examine discrete vortex dynamics in two-dimensional flow through a network-theoretic approach. The interaction of the vortices is represented with a graph, which allows the use of network-theoretic approaches to identify key…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-24 Aditya G. Nair , Kunihiko Taira

Graph sparsification underlies a large number of algorithms, ranging from approximation algorithms for cut problems to solvers for linear systems in the graph Laplacian. In its strongest form, "spectral sparsification" reduces the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Simon Apers , Ronald de Wolf

A non-trivial minimum cut (NMC) sparsifier is a multigraph $\hat{G}$ that preserves all non-trivial minimum cuts of a given undirected graph $G$. We introduce a flexible data structure for fully dynamic graphs that can efficiently provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Monika Henzinger , Evangelos Kosinas , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

This paper tackles the challenging problem of jointly inferring time-varying network topologies and imputing missing data from partially observed graph signals. We propose a unified non-convex optimization framework to simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Chuansen Peng , Xiaojing Shen

Designing dynamic graph algorithms against an adaptive adversary is a major goal in the field of dynamic graph algorithms. While a few such algorithms are known for spanning trees, matchings, and single-source shortest paths, very little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Aaron Bernstein , Jan van den Brand , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , He Sun

We introduce a new dynamic data structure for maintaining the strongly connected components (SCCs) of a directed graph (digraph) under edge deletions, so as to answer a rich repertoire of connectivity queries. Our main technical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Loukas Georgiadis , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sebastian Krinninger , Nikos Parotsidis

The formation trajectory planning using complete graphs to model collaborative constraints becomes computationally intractable as the number of drones increases due to the curse of dimensionality. To tackle this issue, this paper presents a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yuan Zhou , Lun Quan , Chao Xu , Guangtong Xu , Fei Gao

We study the problem of compressing a weighted graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, building a "sketch" $H$ of $G$, so that given any vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$, the value $x^T L_G x$ can be approximated up to a multiplicative $1+\epsilon$ factor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Jiecao Chen , Bo Qin , David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

The paper deals with two interrelated topics, identifying transient amplifiers in an iterative process and analyzing the process by its spectral dynamics, which is the change in the graph spectra by edge manipulations. Transient amplifiers…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-28 Hendrik Richter