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In this work, we propose a fully differentiable iterative decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed algorithm is composed of classical belief propagation (BP) decoding stages and intermediate graph neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Anqi Gong , Sebastian Cammerer , Joseph M. Renes

Recent works on machine learning for combinatorial optimization have shown that learning based approaches can outperform heuristic methods in terms of speed and performance. In this paper, we consider the problem of finding an optimal…

In this letter, we develop an efficient linear programming (LP) decoding algorithm for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We first relax the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding problem to a LP problem by using check-node decomposition.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Jing Bai , Yongchao Wang , Francis C. M. Lau

We study the problem of graph clustering where the goal is to partition a graph into clusters, i.e. disjoint subsets of vertices, such that each cluster is well connected internally while sparsely connected to the rest of the graph. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Thatchaphol Saranurak , Di Wang

For given a pair of nodes in a graph, the minimum non-separating path problem looks for a minimum weight path between the two nodes such that the remaining graph after removing the path is still connected. The balanced connected bipartition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Bang Ye Wu

In numerical linear algebra, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining faster algorithms for linear systems whose underlying matrices exhibit structural properties. A prominent success story is the method of generalized nested…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sally Dong , Gramoz Goranci , Lawrence Li , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

Graph-based machine learning has seen an increased interest over the last decade with many connections to other fields of applied mathematics. Learning based on partial differential equations, such as the phase-field Allen-Cahn equation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Chiara Faccio , Margherita Porcelli , Francesco Rinaldi , Martin Stoll

Graph separation is a central tool in parameterized algorithm design, and important separators are among its most successful ingredients. They yield small, structured families of separators that can be enumerated efficiently, and underlie…

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We present a factor $14D^2$ approximation algorithm for the minimum linear arrangement problem on series-parallel graphs, where $D$ is the maximum degree in the graph. Given a suitable decomposition of the graph, our algorithm runs in time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Martina Eikel , Christian Scheideler , Alexander Setzer

Let $G$ be a graph and $a,b$ vertices of $G$. A minimal $a,b$-separator of $G$ is an inclusion-wise minimal vertex set of $G$ that separates $a$ and $b$. We consider the problem of enumerating the minimal $a,b$-separators of $G$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Tuukka Korhonen

Identifying the connected components of a graph, apart from being a fundamental problem with countless applications, is a key primitive for many other algorithms. In this paper, we consider this problem in parallel settings. Particularly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni

We consider the task of estimating a high-dimensional directed acyclic graph, given observations from a linear structural equation model with arbitrary noise distribution. By exploiting properties of common random graphs, we develop a new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-30 Arjun Sondhi , Ali Shojaie

Minimal separators in graphs are an important concept in algorithmic graph theory. In particular, many problems that are NP-hard for general graphs are known to become polynomial-time solvable for classes of graphs with a polynomially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Martin Milanič , Nevena Pivač

The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang

This paper treats a blind detection problem to identify the central nodes in a graph from filtered graph signals. Unlike prior works which impose strong restrictions on the data model, we only require the underlying graph filter to satisfy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Yiran He , Hoi-To Wai

We consider the problem of learning causal networks with interventions, when each intervention is limited in size under Pearl's Structural Equation Model with independent errors (SEM-IE). The objective is to minimize the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Murat Kocaoglu , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sriram Vishwanath

We give deterministic distributed $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for Minimum Vertex Coloring and Maximum Independent Set on chordal graphs in the LOCAL model. Our coloring algorithm runs in $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon} \log n)$ rounds,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Christian Konrad , Viktor Zamaraev

Learning the Markov network structure from data is a problem that has received considerable attention in machine learning, and in many other application fields. This work focuses on a particular approach for this purpose called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Alejandro Edera , Federico Schlüter , Facundo Bromberg

Learning causal relations from observational data is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications across many fields. Constraint-based methods infer the underlying causal structure by performing conditional independence tests.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Marc Franquesa Monés , Jiaqi Zhang , Caroline Uhler

In this paper, we consider how to partition the parity-check matrices (PCMs) to reduce the hardware complexity and computation delay for the row layered decoding of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes. First, we formulate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Teng Lu , Xuan He , Peng Kang , Jiongyue Xing , Xiaohu Tang