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Biharmonic distance (\bd) is a powerful graph distance metric with many applications, including identifying critical links in road networks and mitigating over-squashing problem in \gnn. However, computing \bd\ is extremely difficult,…

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The approximate single-source shortest-path problem is as follows: given a graph with nonnegative edge weights and a designated source vertex $s$, return estimates of the distances from~$s$ to each other vertex such that the estimate falls…

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An extremity is a vertex such that the removal of its closed neighbourhood does not increase the number of connected components. Let $Ext_{\alpha}$ be the class of all connected graphs whose quotient graph obtained from modular…

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Motivated by an application from geodesy, we introduce a novel clustering problem which is a $k$-center (or k-diameter) problem with a side constraint. For the side constraint, we are given an undirected connectivity graph $G$ on the input…

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We show that large subsets of vector spaces over finite fields determine certain point configurations with prescribed distance structure. More specifically, we consider the complete graph with vertices as the points of $A \subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Alex Iosevich , Hans Parshall

Hypergraphs that can depict interactions beyond pairwise edges have emerged as an appropriate representation for modeling polyadic relations in complex systems. With the recent surge of interest in researching hypergraphs, the centrality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-10 Xiao-Wen Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu

The physical design process of large-scale designs is a time-consuming task, often requiring hours to days to complete, with routing being the most critical and complex step. As the the complexity of Integrated Circuits (ICs) increases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Biao Liu , Congyu Qiao , Ning Xu , Xin Geng , Ziran Zhu , Jun Yang

A vertex labeling of a hypergraph is sum distinguishing if it uses positive integers and the sums of labels taken over the distinct hyperedges are distinct. Let s(H) be the smallest integer N such that there is a sum-distinguishing labeling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Maria Axenovich , Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster

The central path problem is a variation on the single facility location problem. The aim is to find, in a given connected graph $G$, a path $P$ minimizing its eccentricity, which is the maximal distance from $P$ to any vertex of the graph…

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In the weighted (minimum) {\sf Label $s$-$t$ Cut} problem, we are given a (directed or undirected) graph $G=(V,E)$, a label set $L = \{\ell_1, \ell_2, \dots, \ell_q \}$ with positive label weights $\{w_\ell\}$, a source $s \in V$ and a sink…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Peng Zhang

The subgraph isomorphism finding problem is a well-studied problem in the field of computer science and graph theory, and it aims to enumerate all instances of a query graph in the respective data graph. In this paper, we propose an…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zubair Ali Ansari , Muhammad Abulaish , Irfan Rashid Thoker , Jahiruddin

In the $k$-Center problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with positive edge weights and an integer $k$ and the goal is to select $k$ center vertices $C \subseteq V$ such that the maximum distance from any vertex to the closest center…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Johannes Blum

The total eccentricity index of a connected graph is defined as sum of the eccentricities of all its vertices. We denote the set of all connected graphs on $n$ vertices with $k$ pendant vertices by $\mathfrak{H}_{n,k}$ and denote the set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Dinesh Pandey , Kamal Lochan Patra

Diagnosing and cleaning data is a crucial step for building robust machine learning systems. However, identifying problems within large-scale datasets with real-world distributions is challenging due to the presence of complex issues such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jang-Hyun Kim , Sangdoo Yun , Hyun Oh Song

Computing the shortest-path distance between any two given vertices in road networks is an important problem. A tremendous amount of research has been conducted to address this problem, most of which are limited to static road networks.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Muhammad Farhan , Henning Koehler , Qing Wang

Grouping the nodes of a graph into clusters is a standard technique for studying networks. We study a problem where we are given a directed network and are asked to partition the graph into a sequence of coherent groups. We assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Iiro Kumpulainen , Nikolaj Tatti

Clustering is a fundamental task in unsupervised learning. Previous research has focused on learning-augmented $k$-means in Euclidean metrics, limiting its applicability to complex data representations. In this paper, we generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglin Fan , Kijun Shin

Label spreading is a general technique for semi-supervised learning with point cloud or network data, which can be interpreted as a diffusion of labels on a graph. While there are many variants of label spreading, nearly all of them are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Francesco Tudisco , Austin R. Benson , Konstantin Prokopchik

A graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices is said to be \emph{distance exceptional} if the equation $D\vec{x} = \vec{1}$ admits no solution $\vec{x}\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, where $D\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is the shortest path distance matrix of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Sawyer Jack Robertson , Finn Southerland , Erlang Surya

The shortest-path distance is a fundamental concept in graph analytics and has been extensively studied in the literature. In many real-world applications, quality constraints are naturally associated with edges in the graphs and finding…

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