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Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-15 Vincent Y. F. Tan , Animashree Anandkumar , Lang Tong , Alan S. Willsky

The global structure of the minimal spanning tree (MST) is expected to be universal for a large class of underlying random discrete structures. However, very little is known about the intrinsic geometry of MSTs of most standard models, and…

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Despite the strong predictive performance achieved by machine learning models across many application domains, assessing their trustworthiness through reliable estimates of predictive confidence remains a critical challenge. This issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Abolfazl Mohammadi-Seif , Carlos Soares , Rita P. Ribeiro , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

A spanning tree of a network or graph is a subgraph that connects all nodes with the least number or weight of edges. The spanning tree is one of the most straightforward techniques for network simplification and sampling, and for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lovro Šubelj

The idea of minimum curvilinearity (MC) is that the hidden geometry of complex networks, in particular when they are sufficiently sparse, clustered, small-world and heterogeneous, can be efficiently navigated using the minimum spanning tree…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-06 Alessandro Muscoloni , Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

A mobile sensor network is a wireless network of sensor nodes that move arbitrarily. In this paper, we explore the use of a maximum stability spanning tree-based data gathering (Max.Stability-DG) algorithm and a minimum-distance spanning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Natarajan Meghanathan , Philip Mumford

Finding the minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph is an important task in computer vision, as it enables a sparse and low-cost representation of connectivity among elements (such as superpixels, points, or regions), which is useful for…

We consider the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem under the restriction that for every vertex v, the edges of the tree that are adjacent to v satisfy a given family of constraints. A famous example thereof is the classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Rico Zenklusen

The false discovery rate (FDR) and false nondiscovery rate (FNDR) have received considerable attention in the literature on multiple testing. These performance measures are also appropriate for classification, and in this work we develop…

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Statistical uncertainty of different filtration techniques for market network analysis is studied. Two measures of statistical uncertainty are discussed. One is based on conditional risk for multiple decision statistical procedures and…

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Variable selection on the large-scale networks has been extensively studied in the literature. While most of the existing methods are limited to the local functionals especially the graph edges, this paper focuses on selecting the discrete…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-18 Lu Zhang , Junwei Lu

The Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with Conflicts consists in finding the minimum conflict-free spanning tree of a graph, i.e., the spanning tree of minimum cost, including no pairs of edges that are in conflict. In this paper, we solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Francesco Carrabs , Martina Cerulli , Domenico Serra

Decision Trees are prominent prediction models for interpretable Machine Learning. They have been thoroughly researched, mostly in the batch setting with a fixed labelled dataset, leading to popular algorithms such as C4.5, ID3 and CART.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ayman Chaouki , Jesse Read , Albert Bifet

We investigate a factor that can affect the number of links of a specific stock in a network between stocks created by the minimal spanning tree (MST) method, by using individual stock data listed on the S&P500 and KOSPI. Among the common…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-26 Cheoljun Eom , Gabjin Oh , Seunghwan Kim

In the Steiner Tree problem we are given an edge weighted undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and a set of terminals $R \subseteq V$. The task is to find a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $R$ and minimizing the sum of weights of its edges. We…

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We present a uniform self-stabilizing algorithm, which solves the problem of distributively finding a minimum diameter spanning tree of an arbitrary positively real-weighted graph. Our algorithm consists in two stages of stabilizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Franck Butelle , Christian Lavault , Marc Bui

Using a portfolio of stocks from the London Stock Exchange FTSE100 index (FTSE), we study both the time dependence of their correlations and the normalized tree length of the associated minimal spanning tree (MST). The first four moments of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Coelho , S. Hutzler , P. Repetowicz , P. Richmond

We study the classic Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. Given a set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points, the goal is to produce a spanning tree for $X$ with weight within a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rajesh Jayaram , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan , Peilin Zhong

Fast multiple change-point segmentation methods, which additionally provide faithful statistical statements on the number, locations and sizes of the segments, have recently received great attention. In this paper, we propose a multiscale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Housen Li , Axel Munk , Hannes Sieling

Reliability estimation of Machine Learning (ML) models is becoming a crucial subject. This is particularly the case when such \mbox{models} are deployed in safety-critical applications, as the decisions based on model predictions can result…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mohammed Naveed Akram , Akshatha Ambekar , Ioannis Sorokos , Koorosh Aslansefat , Daniel Schneider