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Advancing towards generalist agents necessitates the concurrent processing of multiple tasks using a unified model, thereby underscoring the growing significance of simultaneous model training on multiple downstream tasks. A common issue in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zhi Zhang , Jiayi Shen , Congfeng Cao , Gaole Dai , Shiji Zhou , Qizhe Zhang , Shanghang Zhang , Ekaterina Shutova

This paper investigates concurrency-constrained scheduling problems, where the objective is to construct a schedule for a set of jobs subject to concurrency restrictions. Formally, we are given a conflict graph $G$ defined over a set of $n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hans L. Bodlaender , Danny Hermelin , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The Minimum Cost Multicut Problem (MP) is a popular way for obtaining a graph decomposition by optimizing binary edge labels over edge costs. While the formulation of a MP from independently estimated costs per edge is highly flexible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Steffen Jung , Sebastian Ziegler , Amirhossein Kardoost , Margret Keuper

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

Identifying shortest paths between nodes in a network is a common graph analysis problem that is important for many applications involving routing of resources. An adversary that can manipulate the graph structure could alter traffic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

We study stochastic graph optimization problems in a novel distributed setting. As in the standard centralized setting, a random subgraph $G^*$ of a known base graph $G$ is realized by including each edge $e$ independently with a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Aditi Dudeja , George Giakkoupis

Numerous approximation algorithms for problems on unit disk graphs have been proposed in the literature, exhibiting a sharp trade-off between running times and approximation ratios. We introduce a variation of the known shifting strategy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Guilherme D. da Fonseca , Vinícius G. Pereira de Sá , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo

Path cover is a well-known intractable problem that finds a minimum number of vertex disjoint paths in a given graph to cover all the vertices. We show that a variant, where the objective function is not the number of paths but the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yinhui Cai , Guangting Chen , Yong Chen , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin , Longcheng Liu , An Zhang

Distributed systems that manage and process graph-structured data internally solve a graph partitioning problem to minimize their communication overhead and query run-time. Besides computational complexity -- optimal graph partitioning is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Correlation Clustering is a powerful graph partitioning model that aims to cluster items based on the notion of similarity between items. An instance of the Correlation Clustering problem consists of a graph $G$ (not necessarily complete)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Sanchit Kalhan , Konstantin Makarychev , Timothy Zhou

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ with vertex weights $w(v)$ and a desired number of parts $k$, the goal in graph partitioning problems is to partition the vertex set V into parts $V_1,\ldots,V_k$. Metrics for compactness, contiguity, and balance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Cyrus Hettle , Shixiang Zhu , Swati Gupta , Yao Xie

A conflict graph represents logical relations between binary variables, and effective use of the graph can significantly accelerate branch-and-cut solvers for mixed-integer programming (MIP). In this paper we develop efficient parallel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Yongzheng Dai , Chen Chen

Temporal graphs (in which edges are active at specified times) are of particular relevance for spreading processes on graphs, e.g.~the spread of disease or dissemination of information. Motivated by real-world applications, modification of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

A {\em dominating set} of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset of vertices $S\subseteq V$ such that every vertex $v\in V\setminus S$ has at least one neighbor in $S$. Finding a dominating set with the minimum cardinality in a connected graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Frank Hernandez , Ernesto Parra , Jose Maria Sigarreta , Nodari Vakhania

A variant of the well-known Assignment Problem is studied in this paper, where pairs of assignments are conflicting, and cannot be selected at the same time. This configures a set of hard constraints. The problem, which models real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

Suppose we are given a bipartite graph that admits a perfect matching and an adversary may delete any edge from the graph with the intention of destroying all perfect matchings. We consider the task of adding a minimum cost edge-set to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Felix Hommelsheim , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Oliver Schaudt

An exact algorithm is presented for solving edge weighted graph partitioning problems. The algorithm is based on a branch and bound method applied to a continuous quadratic programming formulation of the problem. Lower bounds are obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-10 William Hager , Dzung Phan , Hongchao Zhang

Temporal Interaction Graphs (TIGs) are widely employed to model intricate real-world systems such as financial systems and social networks. To capture the dynamism and interdependencies of nodes, existing TIG embedding models need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Xi Chen , Yongxiang Liao , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Siwei Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Yiheng Sun

We present a novel method for graph partitioning, based on reinforcement learning and graph convolutional neural networks. Our approach is to recursively partition coarser representations of a given graph. The neural network is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Alice Gatti , Zhixiong Hu , Tess Smidt , Esmond G. Ng , Pieter Ghysels

An instance of the graph-constrained max-cut (GCMC) problem consists of (i) an undirected graph G and (ii) edge-weights on a complete undirected graph on the same vertex set. The objective is to find a subset of vertices satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Jon Lee , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen