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We study the fine-grained complexity of graph connectivity problems in unweighted undirected graphs. Recent development shows that all variants of edge connectivity problems, including single-source-single-sink, global, Steiner,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zhiyi Huang , Yaowei Long , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

We consider the optimisation problem of adding $k$ links to a given network, such that the resulting effective graph resistance is as small as possible. The problem was recently proven to be NP-hard, such that optimal solutions obtained…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Massimo A. Achterberg , Robert E. Kooij

We study the classical Node-Disjoint Paths (NDP) problem: given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a collection $M=\{(s_1,t_1),\ldots,(s_k,t_k)\}$ of pairs of vertices of $G$ called demand pairs, find a maximum-cardinality set of node-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Julia Chuzhoy , David H. K. Kim , Shi Li

We study the problem of extracting a selective connector for a given set of query vertices $Q \subseteq V$ in a graph $G = (V,E)$. A selective connector is a subgraph of $G$ which exhibits some cohesiveness property, and contains the query…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Natali Ruchansky , Francesco Bonchi , David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Gullo , Nicolas Kourtellis

In the Network Flow Interdiction problem an adversary attacks a network in order to minimize the maximum s-t-flow. Very little is known about the approximatibility of this problem despite decades of interest in it. We present the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Stephen R. Chestnut , Rico Zenklusen

We study a general class of problems called F-deletion problems. In an F-deletion problem, we are asked whether a subset of at most $k$ vertices can be deleted from a graph $G$ such that the resulting graph does not contain as a minor any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Neeldhara Misra , Geevarghese Philip , Saket Saurabh

Given a linear ordering of the vertices of a graph, the cutwidth of a vertex $v$ with respect to this ordering is the number of edges from any vertex before $v$ (including $v$) to any vertex after $v$ in this ordering. The cutwidth of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Elisabeth Gaar , Diane Puges , Angelika Wiegele

One of the most important and well-studied settings for network design is edge-connectivity requirements. This encompasses uniform demands such as the Minimum $k$-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem as well as nonuniform demands such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Michael Dinitz , Ama Koranteng , Guy Kortsarz , Zeev Nutov

In modern applications of graphs algorithms, where the graphs of interest are large and dynamic, it is unrealistic to assume that an input representation contains the full information of a graph being studied. Hence, it is desirable to use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Nithin Varma , Yuichi Yoshida

The computational complexity of multicut-like problems may vary significantly depending on whether the terminals are fixed or not. In this work we present a comprehensive study of this phenomenon in two types of cut problems in directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Kristóf Bérczi , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Tamás Király , Euiwoong Lee , Chao Xu

Given an undirected graph, one can assign directions to each of the edges of the graph, thus orienting the graph. To be as egalitarian as possible, one may wish to find an orientation such that no vertex is unfairly hit with too many arcs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Glencora Borradaile , Jennifer Iglesias , Theresa Migler , Antonio Ochoa , Gordon Wilfong , Lisa Zhang

We study the vertex-decremental Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with lengths $\ell(e)\geq 1$ on its edges and a source vertex $s$, we need to support (approximate) shortest-path queries in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

Monitoring edge-geodetic sets in a graph are subsets of vertices such that every edge of the graph must lie on all the shortest paths between two vertices of the monitoring set. These objects were introduced in a work by Foucaud, Krishna…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Tapas Das , Florent Foucaud , Clara Marcille , PD Pavan , Sagnik Sen

As graph data becomes more ubiquitous, the need for robust inferential graph algorithms to operate in these complex data domains is crucial. In many cases of interest, inference is further complicated by the presence of adversarial data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Sheyda Peyman , Minh Tang , Vince Lyzinski

This paper investigates the problem of single-source multicasting over a communication network in the presence of restricted adversaries. When the adversary is constrained to operate only on a prescribed subset of edges, classical cut-set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kılıç , Sascha Kurz , Alberto Ravagnani

The graph partitioning problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. In this paper, we formulate a 0-1 quadratic integer programming model for the graph partitioning problem with vertex weight constraints and fixed vertex constraints, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Wumwi Sun , Hongwei Liu , Xiaoyu Wang

Semi-supervised clustering is a basic problem in various applications. Most existing methods require knowledge of the ideal cluster number, which is often difficult to obtain in practice. Besides, satisfying the must-link constraints is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Wei Liu , Xin Liu , Michael K. Ng , Zaikun Zhang

The graph bisection problem is the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into two sets of given sizes such that the sum of weights of edges joining these two sets is optimized. We present a semidefinite programming relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Renata Sotirov

We consider the fundamental problems of determining the rooted and global edge and vertex connectivities (and computing the corresponding cuts) in directed graphs. For rooted (and hence also global) edge connectivity with small integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

We study the problem of deleting the smallest set $S$ of vertices (resp. edges) from a given graph $G$ such that the induced subgraph (resp. subgraph) $G \setminus S$ belongs to some class $\mathcal{H}$. We consider the case where graphs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Anupam Gupta , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Pasin Manurangsi , Michał Włodarczyk