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Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) -- the problem of finding a minimum set of weighted source-to-sink paths that perfectly decomposes a flow -- is a classical problem in Computer Science, and variants of it are powerful models in different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Fernando H. C. Dias , Lucia Williams , Brendan Mumey , Alexandru I. Tomescu

In this paper we consider random access wireless multi-hop mesh networks with multi-packet reception capabilities where multiple flows are forwarded to the gateways through node disjoint paths. We address the issue of aggregate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Manolis Ploumidis , Nikolaos Pappas , Apostolos Traganitis

We give faster algorithms for weak expander decompositions and approximate max flow on undirected graphs. First, we show that it is possible to "warm start" the cut-matching game when computing weak expander decompositions, avoiding the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li

A useful approach to the mathematical analysis of large-scale biological networks is based upon their decompositions into monotone dynamical systems. This paper deals with two computational problems associated to finding decompositions…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Bhaskar DasGupta , German Andres Enciso , Eduardo Sontag , Yi Zhang

Genome assembly is a fundamental problem in Bioinformatics, requiring to reconstruct a source genome from an assembly graph built from a set of reads (short strings sequenced from the genome). A notion of genome assembly solution is that of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Massimo Cairo , Shahbaz Khan , Romeo Rizzi , Sebastian Schmidt , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Elia C. Zirondelli

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

We introduce the Circular Directional Flow Decomposition (CDFD), a new framework for analyzing circularity in weighted directed networks. CDFD separates flow into two components: a circular (divergence-free) component and an acyclic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-17 Marc Homs-Dones , Robert S. MacKay , Bazil Sansom , Yijie Zhou

The problem of finding the densest subgraph in a given graph has several applications in graph mining, particularly in areas like social network analysis, protein and gene analyses etc. Depending on the application, finding dense subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci

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

Collective communications are ubiquitous in parallel applications. We present two new algorithms for performing a reduction. The operation associated with our reduction needs to be associative and commutative. The two algorithms are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Bradley R. Lowery , Julien Langou

Multi-assembly methods rely at their core on a flow decomposition problem, namely, decomposing a weighted graph into weighted paths or walks. However, most results over the past decade have focused on decompositions over directed acyclic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Francisco Sena , Alexandru I. Tomescu

In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source $s$ to every vertex $v$ in an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge deletions. In this paper, we conclude a long line of research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Temporal interaction networks capture the history of activities between entities along a timeline. At each interaction, some quantity of data (money, information, kbytes, etc.) flows from one vertex of the network to another. Flow-based…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

In this report paper we first present a report of the Advanced Machine Learning Course Project on the provided data set and then present a novel heuristic algorithm for exact Bayesian network (BN) structure discovery that uses decomposable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Amir Arsalan Soltani

Densest Subgraph Problem (DSP) is an important primitive problem with a wide range of applications, including fraud detection, community detection and DNA motif discovery. Edge-based density is one of the most common metrics in DSP.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yugao Zhu , Shenghua Liu , Wenjie Feng , Xueqi Cheng

The coflow scheduling problem has emerged as a popular abstraction in the last few years to study data communication problems within a data center. In this basic framework, each coflow has a set of communication demands and the goal is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mosharaf Chowdhury , Samir Khuller , Manish Purohit , Sheng Yang , Jie You

The future of main memory appears to lie in the direction of new technologies that provide strong capacity-to-performance ratios, but have write operations that are much more expensive than reads in terms of latency, bandwidth, and energy.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Naama Ben-David , Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Phillip B. Gibbons , Yan Gu , Charles McGuffey , Julian Shun

The decode-forward achievable region is studied for general networks. The region is subject to a fundamental tension in which nodes individually benefit at the expense of others. The complexity of the region depends on all the ways of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jonathan Ponniah , Liang-Liang Xie

The VertexCover problem is proven to be computationally hard in different ways: It is NP-complete to find an optimal solution and even NP-hard to find an approximation with reasonable factors. In contrast, recent experiments suggest that on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Thomas Bläsius , Philipp Fischbeck , Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann

We investigate the minimum line-distortion and the minimum bandwidth problems on unweighted graphs and their relations with the minimum length of a Robertson-Seymour's path-decomposition. The length of a path-decomposition of a graph is the…

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