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For an edge-weighted connected undirected graph, the minimum $k$-way cut problem is to find a subset of edges of minimum total weight whose removal separates the graph into $k$ connected components. The problem is NP-hard when $k$ is part…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Mingyu Xiao , Leizhen Cai , Andrew C. Yao

Given a simple connected graph $G = (V, E)$, we seek to partition the vertex set $V$ into $k$ non-empty parts such that the subgraph induced by each part is connected, and the partition is maximally balanced in the way that the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yong Chen , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Yao Xu , An Zhang

We consider an optimization problem posed by an actual newspaper company, which consists of computing a minimum length route for a delivery truck, such that the driver only stops at street crossings, each time delivering copies to all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Diego Delle Donne , Guido Tagliavini

Many application areas collect unstructured trajectory data. In subtrajectory clustering, one is interested to find patterns in this data using a hybrid combination of segmentation and clustering. We analyze two variants of this problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jacobus Conradi , Anne Driemel

This paper studies clustering algorithms for dynamically evolving graphs $\{G_t\}$, in which new edges (and potential new vertices) are added into a graph, and the underlying cluster structure of the graph can gradually change. The paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

In the Minimum Bisection problem, input is a graph $G$ and the goal is to partition the vertex set into two parts $A$ and $B$, such that $||A|-|B|| \le 1$ and the number $k$ of edges between $A$ and $B$ is minimized. This problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tanmay Inamdar , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan

Graph algorithms are central to large-scale applications such as navigation systems, social networks, and data analysis platforms. This thesis studies two important challenges in such systems: robustness to failures and fairness in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kushagra Chatterjee

Given a weighted and complete graph G = (V, E), V denotes the set of n objects to be clustered, and the weight d(u, v) associated with an edge (u, v) belonging to E denotes the dissimilarity between objects u and v. The diameter of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Jiabing Wang , Jiaye Chen

In this paper, we provide an algorithm for traversing geometric graphs which visits all vertices, and reports every vertex and edge exactly once. To achieve this, we combine a given geometric graph $G$ with the integer lattice, seen as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Sahand Khakabimamaghani , Masood Masjoody , Ladislav Stacho

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

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a complete weighted graph $G$ with its edges labeled as "similar" and "dissimilar" by a noisy binary classifier. For a clustering $\mathcal{C}$ of graph $G$, a similar edge is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jafar Jafarov , Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

Motivated by applications in social and biological network analysis, we introduce a new form of agnostic clustering termed~\emph{motif correlation clustering}, which aims to minimize the cost of clustering errors associated with both edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pan Li , Gregory J. Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Correlation clustering is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem arising in many contexts and applications that has been the subject of dozens of papers in the literature. In this problem we are given a general weighted graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Samir Khuller , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph and the goal is to partition it to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Nikos Parotsidis , Jakub Tarnawski

The edges of a graph are assigned weights and passage times which are assumed to be positive integers. We present a parallel algorithm for finding the shortest path whose total weight is smaller than a pre-determined value. In each step the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Ivan Matic

We consider a special case of the generalized minimum spanning tree problem (GMST) and the generalized travelling salesman problem (GTSP) where we are given a set of points inside the integer grid (in Euclidean plane) where each grid cell…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Binay Bhattacharya , Ante Ćustić , Akbar Rafiey , Arash Rafiey , Vladyslav Sokol

The graph invariant EPT-sum has cropped up in several unrelated fields in later years: As an objective function for hierarchical clustering, as a more fine-grained version of the classical edge ranking problem, and, specifically when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Svein Høgemo

In the Correlation Clustering problem, we are given a set of objects with pairwise similarity information. Our aim is to partition these objects into clusters that match this information as closely as possible. More specifically, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jafar Jafarov

Correlation clustering provides a method for separating the vertices of a signed graph into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance. The main goal in this type of clustering is to minimize the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Leila Parsaei-Majd

Diverse facets Of the Theory of Quantum Walks on Graph are reviewed Till now .In specific, Quantum network routing, Quantum Walk Search Algorithm, Element distinctness associated to the eigenvalues of Graphs and the use of these relation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Tewabe Chekole