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The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

In the $k$-edge-connected spanning subgraph ($k$ECSS) problem, our goal is to compute a minimum-cost sub-network that is resilient against up to $k$ link failures: Given an $n$-node $m$-edge graph with a cost function on the edges, our goal…

The network unreliability problem asks for the probability that a given undirected graph gets disconnected when every edge independently fails with a given probability $p$. Valiant (1979) showed that this problem is \#P-hard; therefore, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ruoxu Cen , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

Network structure optimization is a fundamental task in complex network analysis. However, almost all the research on Bayesian optimization is aimed at optimizing the objective functions with vectorial inputs. In this work, we first present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Jiaxu Cui , Bo Yang

In the spanning-tree congestion problem ($\mathsf{STC}$), we are given a graph $G$, and the objective is to compute a spanning tree of $G$ that minimizes the maximum edge congestion. While $\mathsf{STC}$ is known to be $\mathbb{NP}$-hard,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sunny Atalig , Marek Chrobak , Christoph Dürr , Petr Kolman , Huong Luu , Jiří Sgall , Gregory Zhu

Graph comparison deals with identifying similarities and dissimilarities between graphs. A major obstacle is the unknown alignment of graphs, as well as the lack of accurate and inexpensive comparison metrics. In this work we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hermina Petric Maretic , Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Driven by many applications in graph analytics, the problem of computing $k$-edge connected components ($k$-ECCs) of a graph $G$ for a user-given $k$ has been extensively studied recently. In this paper, we investigate the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Lijun Chang

We consider a variety of NP-Complete network connectivity problems. We introduce a novel dual-based approach to approximating network design problems with cut-based linear programming relaxations. This approach gives a $3/2$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Benjamin Grimmer

We consider network structures that optimize the $\mathcal{H}_2$ norm of weighted, time scaled consensus networks, under a minimal representation of such consensus networks described by the edge Laplacian. We show that a greedy algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Dillon R. Foight , Daniel Calderone , Mehran Mesbahi , Roy S. Smith

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem with predictions, using the weight-arrival model, i.e., the graph is given, together with predictions for the weights of all edges. Then the actual weights arrive one at a time and an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Magnus Berg , Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

The minimum cost multicut problem is the NP-hard/APX-hard combinatorial optimization problem of partitioning a real-valued edge-weighted graph such as to minimize the total cost of the partition. While graph convolutional neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

We study a core algorithmic problem in network design called ${F}$-augmentation that involves increasing the connectivity of a given family of cuts ${F}$. Over 30 years ago, Williamson et al. (STOC `93) provided a 2-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ishan Bansal

In the Maximum Connectivity Improvement (MCI) problem, we are given a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ and an integer $B$ and we are asked to find $B$ new edges to be added to $G$ in order to maximize the number of connected pairs of vertices in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Federico Corò , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Vahan Mkrtchyan

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

A Graph of Convex Sets (GCS) is a graph in which vertices are associated with convex programs and edges couple pairs of programs through additional convex costs and constraints. Any optimization problem over an ordinary weighted graph…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Tobia Marcucci

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

Graph partitioning is the problem of dividing the nodes of a graph into balanced partitions while minimizing the edge cut across the partitions. Due to its combinatorial nature, many approximate solutions have been developed, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Azade Nazi , Will Hang , Anna Goldie , Sujith Ravi , Azalia Mirhoseini

The MEG (minimum equivalent graph) problem is, given a directed graph, to find a small subset of the edges that maintains all reachability relations between nodes. The problem is NP-hard. This paper gives an approximation algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Samir Khuller , Balaji Raghavachari , Neal E. Young

In this paper we introduce and study the Minimum Edge Compact Spanner~(MECS) problem. We prove hardness results related to the problem, design exact and greedy algorithms for solving the problem, and show related experimental results. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Tathagata Mukherjee , Alexander Veremyev , Piyush Kumar , Eduardo Pasiliao

An overarching issue in resource management of wireless networks is assessing their capacity: How much communication can be achieved in a network, utilizing all the tools available: power control, scheduling, routing, channel assignment and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Magnus M. Halldorsson , Tigran Tonoyan