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In the $k$-Edge Connected Spanning Subgraph ($k$-ECSS) problem we are given a (multi-)graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge costs and an integer $k$, and seek a min-cost $k$-edge-connected spanning subgraph of $G$. The problem admits a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zeev Nutov , Reut Cohen

Testing a graph on 2-vertex- and 2-edge-connectivity are two fundamental algorithmic graph problems. For both problems, different linear-time algorithms with simple implementations are known. Here, an even simpler linear-time algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Jens M. Schmidt

This paper presents a graph signal processing algorithm to uncover the intrinsic low-rank components and the underlying graph of a high-dimensional, graph-smooth and grossly-corrupted dataset. In our problem formulation, we assume that the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Rui Liu , Hossein Nejati , Ngai-Man Cheung

We present a dynamic algorithm for maintaining the connected and 2-edge-connected components in an undirected graph subject to edge deletions. The algorithm is Monte-Carlo randomized and processes any sequence of edge deletions in $O(m + n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Anders Aaman , Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Łącki , Nikos Parotsidis , Peter M. R. Rasmussen , Mikkel Thorup

The $k$-cut problem asks, given a connected graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal splits $G$ into $k$ connected components. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm with approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 MohammadHossein Bateni , Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

This work proposes a general learned proximal alternating minimization algorithm, LPAM, for solving learnable two-block nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problems. We tackle the nonsmoothness by an appropriate smoothing technique with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yunmei Chen , Lezhi Liu , Lei Zhang

Typical behavior of the linear programming (LP) problem is studied as a relaxation of the minimum vertex cover, a type of integer programming (IP) problem. A lattice-gas model on the Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs of $\alpha$-uniform…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-01 Satoshi Takabe , Koji Hukushima

We study the Neighbor Aided Network Installation Problem (NANIP) introduced previously which asks for a minimal cost ordering of the vertices of a graph, where the cost of visiting a node is a function of the number of neighbors that have…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Alexander Gutfraind , Jeremy Kun , Ádám D. Lelkes , Lev Reyzin

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is widely acknowledged as one of the most effective methods for deriving the tightest lower bounds of the optimal power flow (OPF) problems. In this paper, an enhanced semidefinite relaxation model that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Zhaojun Ruan , Libao Shi

We study the NP-hard problem of approximating a Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Tree in the message passing model with limited bandwidth (CONGEST model). In this problem one tries to find a spanning tree of a graph $G$ over $n$ nodes that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alexandra Hochuli , Stephan Holzer , Roger Wattenhofer

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the algorithmic foundations of distributed large-scale graph computations, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

We consider the minimum cost intervention design problem: Given the essential graph of a causal graph and a cost to intervene on a variable, identify the set of interventions with minimum total cost that can learn any causal graph with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Erik M. Lindgren , Murat Kocaoglu , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sriram Vishwanath

We investigate relaxations for a class of discrete bilevel programs where the interaction constraints linking the leader and the follower are linear. Our approach reformulates the upper-level optimality constraints by projecting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Leonardo Lozano , David Bergman , Andre Augusto Cire

In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

The minimum-cost subset $k$-connected subgraph problem is a cornerstone problem in the area of network design with vertex connectivity requirements. In this problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with costs on edges and a set of terminals…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Bundit Laekhanukit

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem on a weighted complete bipartite graph $K_{n_R, n_B}$ whose $n=n_R+n_B$ vertices are random, i.i.d. uniformly distributed points in the unit cube in $d$ dimensions and edge weights are the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Mario Correddu , Dario Trevisan

Connectivity related concepts are of fundamental interest in graph theory. The area has received extensive attention over four decades, but many problems remain unsolved, especially for directed graphs. A directed graph is 2-edge-connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Shiri Chechik , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Veronika Loitzenbauer , Nikos Parotsidis

The weighted tree augmentation problem (WTAP) is a fundamental network design problem. We are given an undirected tree $G = (V,E)$, an additional set of edges $L$ called links and a cost vector $c \in \mathbb{R}^L_{\geq 1}$. The goal is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Samuel Fiorini , Martin Groß , Jochen Könemann , Laura Sanità

We propose a novel graph visualization method leveraging random walk-based embeddings to replace costly graph-theoretical distance computations. Using word2vec-inspired embeddings, our approach captures both structural and semantic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Minglai Yang , Reyan Ahmed

We present approximation algorithms for the following NP-hard optimization problems related to bottleneck spanning trees in metric spaces. 1. The disjoint bottleneck spanning tree problem: Given $n$ pairs of points in a metric space, find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid