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We introduce merge-width, a family of graph parameters that unifies several structural graph measures, including treewidth, degeneracy, twin-width, clique-width, and generalized coloring numbers. Our parameters are based on new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Jan Dreier , Szymon Toruńczyk

A foundation model like GPT elicits many emergent abilities, owing to the pre-training with broad inclusion of data and the use of the powerful Transformer architecture. While foundation models in natural languages are prevalent, can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziyuan Tang , Jie Chen

Graph theory provides fundamental concepts for many fields of science like statistical physics, network analysis and theoretical computer science. Here we give a pedagogical introduction to graph theory, divided into three sections. In the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander K. Hartmann , Martin Weigt

Graph-based semantic representations are valuable in natural language processing, where it is often simple and effective to represent linguistic concepts as nodes, and relations as edges between them. Several attempts has been made to find…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Johanna Björklund , Frank Drewes , Anna Jonsson

In this paper, we give precise mathematical form to the idea of a structure whose data and axioms are faithfully represented by a graphical calculus; some prominent examples are operads, polycategories, properads, and PROPs. Building on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Richard Garner , Tom Hirschowitz

We provide a framework for abstract reconstruction problems using the $K$-theory of categories with covering families, which we then apply to reformulate the edge reconstruction conjecture in graph theory. Along the way, we state some…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Maxine E. Calle , Julian J. Gould

In this paper we study self-similar and fractal networks from the combinatorial perspective. We establish analogues of topological (Lebesgue) and fractal (Hausdorff) dimensions for graphs and demonstrate that they are naturally related to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Pavel Skums , Leonid Bunimovich

Graph traversals are a basic but fundamental ingredient for a variety of graph algorithms and graph-oriented queries. To achieve the best possible query performance, they need to be implemented at the core of a database management system…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Marcus Paradies , Wolfgang Lehner , Christof Bornhoevd

Many mathematical objects can be represented as functors from finitely-presented categories $\mathsf{C}$ to $\mathsf{Set}$. For instance, graphs are functors to $\mathsf{Set}$ from the category with two parallel arrows. Such functors are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Evan Patterson , Owen Lynch , James Fairbanks

Two fundamental algorithm-design paradigms are Tree Search and Dynamic Programming. The techniques used therein have been shown to complement one another when solving the complete set partitioning problem, also known as the coalition…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Talal Rahwan , Tomasz P. Michalak

We introduce the notion of a diagram category and discuss its application to the invariant theory of classical groups and super groups, with some indications concerning extensions to quantum groups and quantum super groups. Tensor functors…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-09 G. I. Lehrer , R. B. Zhang

We present a new approach, the Topograph, which reconstructs underlying physics processes, including the intermediary particles, by leveraging underlying priors from the nature of particle physics decays and the flexibility of message…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Lukas Ehrke , John Andrew Raine , Knut Zoch , Manuel Guth , Tobias Golling

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in developing deep learning methods for non-Euclidean structured data such as graphs. In this paper, we propose Dual-Primal Graph CNN, a graph convolutional architecture that alternates…

We introduce a categorical formalism for rewriting surface-embedded graphs. Such graphs can represent string diagrams in a non-symmetric setting where we guarantee that the wires do not intersect each other. The main technical novelty is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Malin Altenmüller , Ross Duncan

Conventional vision backbones, despite their success, often construct features through a largely uniform cascade of operations, offering limited explicit pathways for adaptive, iterative refinement. This raises a compelling question: can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Bin Guo , John H. L. Hansen

The notion of a categorical quotient can be generalized since its standard categorical concept does not recover the expected quotients in certain categories. We present a more general formulation in the form of $\mathcal{F}$-quotients in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Jordan Mitchell Barrett , Valentino Vito

A categorical formalism for directed graphs is introduced, featuring natural notions of morphisms and subgraphs, and leading to two elementary descriptions of the free-properad monad, first in terms of presheaves on elementary graphs,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Joachim Kock

We consider weighted, directed graphs with a notion of absorption on the vertices, related to absorbing random walks on graphs. We define a generalized inverse of the graph Laplacian, called the absorption inverse, that reflects both the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Karly Jacobsen , Joseph Tien

We establish connections between the Transformer architecture, originally introduced for natural language processing, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning on graphs. We show how Transformers can be viewed as message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Chaitanya K. Joshi

On one hand, we study the class of graphs on surfaces, satisfying tessellation properties, with positive Forman curvature on each edge. Via medial graphs, we provide a new proof for the finiteness of the class, and give a complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Yohji Akama , Bobo Hua , Yanhui Su , Haohang Zhang