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We consider the probability that a spanning tree chosen uniformly at random from a graph can be partitioned into a fixed number $k$ of trees of equal size by removing $k-1$ edges. In that case, the spanning tree is called {\em splittable}.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-25 David Gillman , Jacob Platnick , Dana Randall

We study the weighted token swapping problem, in which we are given a graph on $n$ vertices, $n$ weighted tokens, an initial assignment of one token to each vertex, and a final assignment of one token to each vertex. The goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Nicole Wein , Guanyu Tony Zhang

We consider a graph-structured change point problem in which we observe a random vector with piecewise constant but unknown mean and whose independent, sub-Gaussian coordinates correspond to the $n$ nodes of a fixed graph. We are interested…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Yi Yu , Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Alessandro Rinaldo

In this paper, we introduce GrAVITree, a tree- and sampling-based algorithm to compute a near-optimal value function and corresponding feedback policy for indefinite time-horizon, terminal state-constrained nonlinear optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Patrick H. Washington , David Fridovich-Keil , Mac Schwager

In the Steiner Tree Augmentation Problem (STAP), we are given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a set of terminals $R \subseteq V$, and a Steiner tree $T$ spanning $R$. The edges $L := E \setminus E(T)$ are called links and have non-negative costs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 R. Ravi , Weizhong Zhang , Michael Zlatin

In this paper, we consider different aspects of the network functional compression problem where computation of a function (or, some functions) of sources located at certain nodes in a network is desired at receiver(s). The rate region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

We consider the problem of approximating the arboricity of a graph $G= (V,E)$, which we denote by $\mathsf{arb}(G)$, in sublinear time, where the arboricity of a graph is the minimal number of forests required to cover its edges. An…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Talya Eden , Saleet Mossel , Dana Ron

Bounded-angle (minimum) spanning trees were first introduced in the context of wireless networks with directional antennas. They are reminiscent of bounded-degree spanning trees, which have received significant attention. Let $P =…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Stav Ashur , Matthew J. Katz

$k$ Nearest Neighbors ($k$NN) is one of the most widely used supervised learning algorithms to classify Gaussian distributed data, but it does not achieve good results when it is applied to nonlinear manifold distributed data, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Enmei Tu , Yaqian Zhang , Lin Zhu , Jie Yang , Nikola Kasabov

In probability theory, the partition function is a factor used to reduce any probability function to a density function with total probability of one. Among other statistical models used to represent joint distribution, Markov random fields…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Timothe Presles , Cyrille Enderli , Gilles Burel , El Houssain Baghious

Generalised hypertree width ($ghw$) is a hypergraph parameter that is central to the tractability of many prominent problems with natural hypergraph structure. Computing $ghw$ of a hypergraph is notoriously hard. The decision version of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Matthias Lanzinger , Igor Razgon

We give polynomial time logarithmic approximation guarantees for the budget minimization, as well as for the profit maximization versions of minimum spanning tree interdiction. In this problem, the goal is to remove some edges of an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rafail Ostrovsky , Yuval Rabani , Yoav Siman Tov

We introduce a variant of the multiway cut that we call the min-max connected multiway cut. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $\Gamma\subseteq V$ of $t$ terminals, partition $V$ into $t$ parts such that each part is connected and contains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hans Raj Tiwary , Petr Kolman

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a predominant method for graph representation learning. However, beyond subgraph frequency estimation, their application to network motif significance-profile (SP) prediction remains under-explored, with no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Pedro C. Vieira , Miguel E. P. Silva , Pedro Manuel Pinto Ribeiro

Branchwidth determines how graphs, and more generally, arbitrary connectivity (basically symmetric and submodular) functions could be decomposed into a tree-like structure by specific cuts. We develop a general framework for designing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Tuukka Korhonen

We consider the ``minimum degree spanning tree'' problem. As input, we receive an undirected, connected graph $G=(V, E)$ with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, and our task is to find a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ that minimizes $\max_{u \in V}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sayan Bhattacharya , Ermiya Farokhnejad , Haoze Wang

In this paper, we study the complexity of the periodic temporal graph realization problem with respect to upper bounds on the fastest path durations among its vertices. This constraint with respect to upper bounds appears naturally in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis

We study the problem of maximizing the number of spanning trees in a connected graph by adding at most $k$ edges from a given candidate edge set. We give both algorithmic and hardness results for this problem: - We give a greedy algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huan Li , Stacy Patterson , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang

We focus on the study of dynamics of two kinds of random walk: generic random walk (GRW) and maximal entropy random walk (MERW) on two model networks: Cayley trees and ladder graphs. The stationary probability distribution for MERW is given…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-01 Jeremi K. Ochab

Comparing structured data from possibly different metric-measure spaces is a fundamental task in machine learning, with applications in, e.g., graph classification. The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) discrepancy formulates a coupling between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hongwei Jin , Zishun Yu , Xinhua Zhang