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The search is based on the preliminary transformation of matrices or adjacency lists traditionally used in the study of graphs into projections cleared of redundant information (refined) followed by the selection of the desired shortest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 V. A. Melent'ev

In this paper we present improved bounds for approximating maximum matchings in bipartite graphs in the streaming model. First, we consider the question of how well maximum matching can be approximated in a single pass over the input using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Michael Kapralov

We study the number of lines in hypergraphs in a more symmetric setting, where both the hypergraph and its complement are considered. In the general case and in some special cases, the lower bounds on the number of lines are much higher…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Xiaomin Chen , Peihan Miao

We develop an efficient parallel algorithm for answering shortest-path queries in planar graphs and implement it on a multi-node CPU/GPU clusters. The algorithm uses a divide-and-conquer approach for decomposing the input graph into small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Guillaume Chapuis , Hristo Djidjev

The bloom of complex network study, in particular, with respect to scale-free ones, is considerably triggering the research of scale-free graph itself. Therefore, a great number of interesting results have been reported in the past,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Fei Ma , Ping Wang , Bing Yao

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

In this paper, we study the problem of constructing a network by observing ordered connectivity constraints, which we define herein. These ordered constraints are made to capture realistic properties of real-world problems that are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Yi Huang , Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Lev Reyzin

Computing shortest paths is a fundamental operation in processing graph data. In many real-world applications, discovering shortest paths between two vertices empowers us to make full use of the underlying structure to understand how…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Ye Wang , Qing Wang , Henning Koehler , Yu Lin

The following \textit{network computing} problem is considered. Source nodes in a directed acyclic network generate independent messages and a single receiver node computes a target function $f$ of the messages. The objective is to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Massimo Franceschetti , Nikhil Karamchandani , Ken Zeger

In this paper, we introduce the Fixed Topology Minimum-Length Tree with Neighborhood Problem, which aims to embed a rooted tree-shaped graph into a $d$-dimensional metric space while minimizing its total length provided that the nodes must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Víctor Blanco , Gabriel González , Justo Puerto

We study the complexity of fundamental distributed graph problems in the recently popular setting where information about the input graph is available to the nodes before the start of the computation. We focus on the most common such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti

We study the space complexity of four variants of the standard subgraph finding problem in the streaming model. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex input graph and a fixed-size pattern graph, we consider two settings: undirected simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu-Sheng Shih , Meng-Tsung Tsai , Yen-Chu Tsai , Ying-Sian Wu

We give an iterative algorithm for finding the maximum flow between a set of sources and sinks that lie on the boundary of a planar graph. Our algorithm uses only O(n) queries to simple data structures, achieving an O(n log n) running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Glencora Borradaile , Anna Harutyunyan

Multi-layered social networks consist of the fixed set of nodes linked by multiple connections. These connections may be derived from different types of user activities logged in the IT system. To calculate any structural measures for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Piotr Bródka , Paweł Stawiak , Przemysław Kazienko

In this paper, we present a novel learning framework for finding shortest paths in graphs utilizing Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets). First, we examine theoretical properties of GFlowNets in non-acyclic environments in relation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nikita Morozov , Ian Maksimov , Daniil Tiapkin , Sergey Samsonov

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

We consider the design of sublinear space and query complexity algorithms for estimating the cost of a minimum spanning tree (MST) and the cost of a minimum traveling salesman (TSP) tour in a metric on $n$ points. We first consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Zihan Tan

We study the $k$-connectivity augmentation problem ($k$-CAP) in the single-pass streaming model. Given a $(k-1)$-edge connected graph $G=(V,E)$ that is stored in memory, and a stream of weighted edges $L$ with weights in $\{0,1,\dots,W\}$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ce Jin , Michael Kapralov , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ali Vakilian

Finding min $s$-$t$ cuts in graphs is a basic algorithmic tool with applications in image segmentation, community detection, reinforcement learning, and data clustering. In this problem, we are given two nodes as terminals, and the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Slobodan Mitrović , Yuriy Nevmyvaka

We present streaming algorithms for the graph $k$-matching problem in both the insert-only and dynamic models. Our algorithms, with space complexity matching the best upper bounds, have optimal or near-optimal update time, significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Qian Li , Ge Xia