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A graph $G$ is $[a,b]$-covered if for each edge $e$ of $G$ there is an $[a,b]$-factor containing it. For $a=b=1$, an $[a,b]$-covered graph is a matching covered graph. The structural theory of matching covered graphs constitutes a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Qixuan Yuan , Ruifang Liu , Jinjiang Yuan

Let $G$ be an undirected graph. An edge of $G$ dominates itself and all edges adjacent to it. A subset $E'$ of edges of $G$ is an edge dominating set of $G$, if every edge of the graph is dominated by some edge of $E'$. We say that $E'$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Min Chih Lin , Vadim Lozin , Veronica A. Moyano , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

The {\em maximum cardinality} and {\em maximum weight matching} problems can be solved in time $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$, a bound that has resisted improvement despite decades of research. (Here $m$ and $n$ are the number of edges and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Ran Duan , Seth Pettie , Hsin-Hao Su

Approximate subgraph matching (ASM) is a task that determines the approximate presence of a given query graph in a large target graph. Being an NP-hard problem, ASM is critical in graph analysis with a myriad of applications ranging from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kaiyang Li , Shihao Ji , Zhipeng Cai , Wei Li

We present approximation algorithms for several network design problems in the model of Flexible Graph Connectivity (Adjiashvili, Hommelsheim and M\"uhlenthaler, "Flexible Graph Connectivity", Math. Program. pp. 1-33 (2021), and IPCO 2020:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Sylvia Boyd , Joseph Cheriyan , Arash Haddadan , Sharat Ibrahimpur

This paper presents an algorithm for estimating the weight of a maximum weighted matching by augmenting any estimation routine for the size of an unweighted matching. The algorithm is implementable in any streaming model including dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We present improved approximation algorithms for some problems in the related areas of Capacitated Network Design and Flexible Graph Connectivity. In the Cap-$k$-ECSS problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges have non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ishan Bansal , Joseph Cheriyan , Sanjeev Khanna , Miles Simmons

The planted densest subgraph detection problem refers to the task of testing whether in a given (random) graph there is a subgraph that is unusually dense. Specifically, we observe an undirected and unweighted graph on $n$ vertices. Under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Wasim Huleihel , Arya Mazumdar , Soumyabrata Pal

Given an undirected graph $G$ and an error parameter $\epsilon > 0$, the {\em graph sparsification} problem requires sampling edges in $G$ and giving the sampled edges appropriate weights to obtain a sparse graph $G_{\epsilon}$ with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-06 Ramesh Hariharan , Debmalya Panigrahi

We study the classical weighted perfect matchings problem for bipartite graphs or sometimes referred to as the assignment problem, i.e., given a weighted bipartite graph $G = (U\cup V,E)$ with weights $w : E \rightarrow \mathcal{R}$ we are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Megha Khosla , Avishek Anand

We consider the edge-weighted online stochastic matching problem, in which an edge-weighted bipartite graph G=(I\cup J, E) with offline vertices J and online vertex types I is given. The online vertices have types sampled from I with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yilong Feng , Guoliang Qiu , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

We study a generalization of the classical hidden clique problem to graphs with real-valued edge weights. Formally, we define a hypothesis testing problem. Under the null hypothesis, edges of a complete graph on $n$ vertices are associated…

We consider the \emph{Budgeted} version of the classical \emph{Connected Dominating Set} problem (BCDS). Given a graph $G$ and a budget $k$, we seek a connected subset of at most $k$ vertices maximizing the number of dominated vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Ioannis Lamprou , Ioannis Sigalas , Vassilis Zissimopoulos

Let $G_{n,p}$ be the standard Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi-Gilbert random graph and let $G_{n,n,p}$ be the random bipartite graph on $n+n$ vertices, where each $e\in [n]^2$ appears as an edge independently with probability $p$. For a graph $G=(V,E)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Alan Frieze , Tony Johansson

A $1$-factorization of a graph $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint perfect matchings whose union is $E(G)$. A trivial necessary condition for $G$ to admit a $1$-factorization is that $|V(G)|$ is even and $G$ is regular; the converse is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Asaf Ferber , Vishesh Jain

This paper studies the problem of matching two complete graphs with edge weights correlated through latent geometries, extending a recent line of research on random graph matching with independent edge weights to geometric models.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Haoyu Wang , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Israel Yolou

We develop new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for finding the global minimum edge-cut in a directed edge-weighted graph, and for finding the global minimum vertex-cut in a directed vertex-weighted graph. Our algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ron Mosenzon

In $k$-hypergraph matching, we are given a collection of sets of size at most $k$, each with an associated weight, and we seek a maximum-weight subcollection whose sets are pairwise disjoint. More generally, in $k$-hypergraph $b$-matching,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Ojas Parekh , David Pritchard

A large number of applications such as querying sensor networks, and analyzing protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, rely on mining uncertain graph and hypergraph databases. In this work we study the following problem: given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Shreyas Sekar , Johnson Lam , Liu Yang

Given an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ and a weight function $w:E \to \mathbb{R}$, the \textsc{Minimum Dominating Tree} problem asks to find a minimum weight sub-tree of $G$, $T = (U, F)$, such that every $v \in V \setminus U$ is adjacent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Gilad Kutiel