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In Clique Cover, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the task is to partition the vertices of $G$ into $k$ cliques. Clique Cover on unit ball graphs has a natural interpretation as a clustering problem, where the objective function is the…

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We study the \emph{{interval completion}} problem, which asks for the insertion of a set of at most $k$ edges to make a graph of $n$ vertices into an interval graph. We focus on chordal graphs with no small obstructions, where every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Yixin Cao

The minimum degree algorithm is one of the most widely-used heuristics for reducing the cost of solving large sparse systems of linear equations. It has been studied for nearly half a century and has a rich history of bridging techniques…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Robert Cummings , Matthew Fahrbach , Animesh Fatehpuria

Boxicity of a graph $G(V,$ $E)$, denoted by $box(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that $G$ can be represented as the intersection graph of axis parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^k$. The problem of computing boxicity is inapproximable even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Abhijin Adiga , Jasine Babu , L. Sunil Chandran

The problem of sparsifying a graph or a hypergraph while approximately preserving its cut structure has been extensively studied and has many applications. In a seminal work, Bencz\'ur and Karger (1996) showed that given any $n$-vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna , Ansh Nagda

We give the first deterministic algorithm that makes sub-quadratic queries to find the global min-cut of a simple graph in the cut query model. Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, our algorithm makes $\widetilde{O}(n^{5/3})$ queries to compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Aditya Anand , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Yunfan Wang

We consider the classical Minimum Balanced Cut problem: given a graph $G$, compute a partition of its vertices into two subsets of roughly equal volume, while minimizing the number of edges connecting the subsets. We present the first {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Julia Chuzhoy , Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider the problem of enumerating all minimal transversals (also called minimal hitting sets) of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$. An equivalent formulation of this problem known as the \emph{transversal hypergraph} problem (or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Arnaud Mary

We consider the problem of testing graph cluster structure: given access to a graph $G=(V, E)$, can we quickly determine whether the graph can be partitioned into a few clusters with good inner conductance, or is far from any such graph?…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Ashish Chiplunkar , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna , Aida Mousavifar , Yuval Peres

Boolean-width is a recently introduced graph parameter. Many problems are fixed parameter tractable when parametrized by boolean-width, for instance "Minimum Weighted Dominating Set" (MWDS) problem can be solved in $O^*(2^{3k})$ time given…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Rémy Belmonte , Martin Vatshelle

Constructing a sparse spanning subgraph is a fundamental primitive in graph theory. In this paper, we study this problem in the Centralized Local model, where the goal is to decide whether an edge is part of the spanning subgraph by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Christoph Lenzen , Reut Levi

The subgraph isomorphism finding problem is a well-studied problem in the field of computer science and graph theory, and it aims to enumerate all instances of a query graph in the respective data graph. In this paper, we propose an…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zubair Ali Ansari , Muhammad Abulaish , Irfan Rashid Thoker , Jahiruddin

In this paper, we provide faster algorithms for computing various fundamental quantities associated with random walks on a directed graph, including the stationary distribution, personalized PageRank vectors, hitting times, and escape…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Michael B. Cohen , Jon Kelner , John Peebles , Richard Peng , Aaron Sidford , Adrian Vladu

Let $G=(V, E)$ be an undirected $n$-vertices $m$-edges graph with non-negative edge weights. In this paper, we present three new algorithms for constructing a $(2k-1)$-stretch distance oracle with $O(n^{1+\frac{1}{k}})$ space. The first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Avi Kadria , Liam Roditty

The maximum bipartite matching problem is among the most fundamental and well-studied problems in combinatorial optimization. A beautiful and celebrated combinatorial algorithm of Hopcroft and Karp (1973) shows that maximum bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

This paper presents an $O^{*}(1.42^{n})$ time algorithm for the Maximum Cut problem on split graphs, along with a subexponential time algorithm for its decision variant.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Marko Lalovic

Given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G$ with non negative edge-weights, the girth of $G$ is the weight of a shortest cycle in $G$. For any graph $G$ with polynomially bounded integer weights, we present a deterministic algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Guillaume Ducoffe

Karger (STOC 1995) gave the first FPTAS for the network (un)reliability problem, setting in motion research over the next three decades that obtained increasingly faster running times, eventually leading to a $\tilde{O}(n^2)$-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ruoxu Cen , William He , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

We consider the Global Minimum Vertex-Cut problem: given an undirected vertex-weighted graph $G$, compute a minimum-weight subset of its vertices whose removal disconnects $G$. The problem is closely related to Global Minimum Edge-Cut,…

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