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We investigate the relationship between two kinds of vertex colorings of graphs: unique-maximum colorings and conflict-free colorings. In a unique-maximum coloring, the colors are ordered, and in every path of the graph the maximum color…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-17 Panagiotis Cheilaris , Geza Toth

Neutral atom arrays have emerged as a versatile candidate for the embedding of hard classical optimization problems. Prior work has focused on mapping problems onto finding the maximum independent set of weighted or unweighted unit disk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Toonyawat Angkhanawin , Aydin Deger , Jonathan D. Pritchard , C. Stuart Adams

We consider the problem of learning a graph from a finite set of noisy graph signal observations, the goal of which is to find a smooth representation of the graph signal. Such a problem is motivated by the desire to infer relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaolu Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So

Graph colouring is a fundamental problem for networks, serving as a tool for avoiding conflicts via symmetry breaking, for example, avoiding multiple computer processes simultaneously updating the same resource. This paper considers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Duncan Adamson , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis

In the $\ell$-Coloring Problem, we are given a graph on $n$ nodes, and tasked with determining if its vertices can be properly colored using $\ell$ colors. In this paper we study below-guarantee graph coloring, which tests whether an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shyan Akmal , Tomohiro Koana

Irregular computations on unstructured data are an important class of problems for parallel programming. Graph coloring is often an important preprocessing step, e.g. as a way to perform dependency analysis for safe parallel execution. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Georgios Rokos , Gerard Gorman , Paul H J Kelly

An equitable coloring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a (proper) vertex-coloring of $G$, such that the sizes of any two color classes differ by at most one. In this paper, we consider the equitable coloring problem in block graphs. Recall that the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Hanna Furmańczyk , Vahan Mkrtchyan

Many practical problems in almost all scientific and technological disciplines have been classified as computationally hard (NP-hard or even NP-complete). In life sciences, combinatorial optimization problems frequently arise in molecular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 H. Jose Antonio Martin

In this paper, we initiate the study of the vertex coloring problem of a graph in the semi streaming model. In this model, the input graph is defined by a stream of edges, arriving in adversarial order and any algorithm must process the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suman Kalyan Bera , Prantar Ghosh

One of the fundamental and most-studied algorithmic problems in distributed computing on networks is graph coloring, both in bounded-degree and in general graphs. Recently, the study of this problem has been extended in two directions.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nicolas Bousquet , Laurent Feuilloley , Marc Heinrich , Mikaël Rabie

One of the most important combinatorial optimization problems is graph coloring. There are several variations of this problem involving additional constraints either on vertices or edges. They constitute models for real applications, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Rosiane de Freitas , Bruno Dias , Nelson Maculan , Jayme Szwarcfiter

In this paper, we study two generalizations of Vertex Cover and Edge Cover, namely Colorful Vertex Cover and Colorful Edge Cover. In the Colorful Vertex Cover problem, given an $n$-vertex edge-colored graph $G$ with colors from $\{1,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Aritra Banik , Sujoy Bhore

The generalized coloring numbers of Kierstead and Yang (Order 2003) offer an algorithmically-useful characterization of graph classes with bounded expansion. In this work, we consider the hardness and approximability of these parameters.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Michael Breen-McKay , Brian Lavallee , Blair D. Sullivan

We study graph coloring problems in the streaming model, where the goal is to process an $n$-vertex graph whose edges arrive in a stream, using a limited space that is smaller than the trivial $O(n^2)$ bound. While prior work has largely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan , Helia Yazdanyar

This paper investigates an extremely classic NP-complete problem: How to determine if a graph G, where each vertex has a degree of at most 4, can be 3-colorable(The research in this paper focuses on graphs G that satisfy the condition where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zikang Deng

We introduce a dynamic version of the graph coloring problem and prove its fixed-parameter tractability with respect to the edit-parameter. This is used to present a {\em turbo-charged} heuristic for the problem that works by combining the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Bachir M. Chahine

This paper deals with the complexity of some natural graph problems when parametrized by {measures that are restrictions of} clique-width, such as modular-width and neighborhood diversity. The main contribution of this paper is to introduce…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele Anna Rescigno

We study a graph coloring problem that is otherwise easy but becomes quite non-trivial in the one-pass streaming model. In contrast to previous graph coloring problems in streaming that try to find an assignment of colors to vertices, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anup Bhattacharya , Arijit Bishnu , Gopinath Mishra , Anannya Upasana

Several recent results from dynamic and sublinear graph coloring are surveyed. This problem is widely studied and has motivating applications like network topology control, constraint satisfaction, and real-time resource scheduling. Graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Noam Benson-Tilsen

The design of a good algorithm to solve NP-hard combinatorial approximation problems requires specific domain knowledge about the problems and often needs a trial-and-error problem solving approach. Graph coloring is one of the essential…