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We consider the classic problem of Network Reliability. A network is given together with a source vertex, one or more target vertices, and probabilities assigned to each of the edges. Each edge appears in the network with its associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Fatemeh Mohammadi

Learning on large graphs presents significant challenges, with traditional Message Passing Neural Networks suffering from computational and memory costs scaling linearly with the number of edges. We introduce the Intersecting Block Graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jonathan Kouchly , Ben Finkelshtein , Michael Bronstein , Ron Levie

A main challenge in mining network-based data is finding effective ways to represent or encode graph structures so that it can be efficiently exploited by machine learning algorithms. Several methods have focused in network representation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez , Jean-Charles Delvenne

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly applied to hard optimization problems, often claiming superiority over classical heuristics. However, such claims risk being unsolid due to a lack of standard benchmarks on truly hard instances.…

We derive a new lower bound for the bandwidth of a graph that is based on a new lower bound for the minimum cut problem. Our new semidefinite programming relaxation of the minimum cut problem is obtained by strengthening the known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Edwin R. van Dam , Renata Sotirov

Several modern applications involve huge graphs and require fast answers to reachability queries. In more than two decades since first proposals, several approaches have been presented adopting on-line searches, hop labelling or transitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Nicolas Boria , Gianpiero Cabodi , Paolo Camurati , Marco Palena , Paolo Pasini , Stefano Quer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have extended the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) to non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various tasks such as node classification and graph property prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Tianfeng Liu , Yangrui Chen , Dan Li , Chuan Wu , Yibo Zhu , Jun He , Yanghua Peng , Hongzheng Chen , Hongzhi Chen , Chuanxiong Guo

The graph partitioning problem has many applications in scientific computing such as computer aided design, data mining, image compression and other applications with sparse-matrix vector multiplications as a kernel operation. In many cases…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Foad Lotfifar , Matthew Johnson

Edge intelligence has arisen as a promising computing paradigm for supporting miscellaneous smart applications that rely on machine learning techniques. While the community has extensively investigated multi-tier edge deployment for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liekang Zeng , Chongyu Yang , Peng Huang , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu , Xu Chen

We study a large family of graph covering problems, whose definitions rely on distances, for graphs of bounded cyclomatic number (that is, the minimum number of edges that need to be removed from the graph to destroy all cycles). These…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Anni Hakanen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a notorious alternative to address learning problems dealing with non-Euclidean datasets. However, although most works assume that the graph is perfectly known, the observed topology is prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Victor M. Tenorio , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques

Combinatorial optimization problems near algorithmic phase transitions represent a fundamental challenge for both classical algorithms and machine learning approaches. Among them, graph coloring stands as a prototypical constraint…

Fixed parameter tractable algorithms for bounded treewidth are known to exist for a wide class of graph optimization problems. While most research in this area has been focused on exact algorithms, it is hard to find decompositions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Thomas Bosman

Graph learning is often a necessary step in processing or representing structured data, when the underlying graph is not given explicitly. Graph learning is generally performed centrally with a full knowledge of the graph signals, namely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre , Mireille El Gheche , Pascal Frossard

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

For both the edge deletion heuristic and the maximum-degree greedy heuristic, we study the problem of recognizing those graphs for which that heuristic can approximate the size of a minimum vertex cover within a constant factor of r, where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Edith Hemaspaandra , Jörg Rothe , Holger Spakowski

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great successes in many learning tasks performed on graph structures. Nonetheless, to propagate information GNNs rely on a message passing scheme which can become prohibitively expensive when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Ariel R. Ramos Vela , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Anastasios Giovanidis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Inspired by artistic practices such as beadwork and himmeli, we study the problem of threading a single string through a set of tubes, so that pulling the string forms a desired graph. More precisely, given a connected graph (where edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Erik D. Demaine , Yael Kirkpatrick , Rebecca Lin

The problem of influence maximization is to select the most influential individuals in a social network. With the popularity of social network sites, and the development of viral marketing, the importance of the problem has been increased.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Maryam Adineh , Mostafa Nouri-Baygi

Graph neural network (GNN) has gained increasing popularity in recent years owing to its capability and flexibility in modeling complex graph structure data. Among all graph learning methods, hypergraph learning is a technique for exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Tiehua Zhang , Yuze Liu , Zhishu Shen , Xingjun Ma , Peng Qi , Zhijun Ding , Jiong Jin