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We introduce the partition function of edge-colored graph homomorphisms, of which the usual partition function of graph homomorphisms is a specialization, and present an efficient algorithm to approximate it in a certain domain. Corollaries…

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Many multivariate data such as social and biological data exhibit complex dependencies that are best characterized by graphs. Unlike sequential data, graphs are, in general, unordered structures. This means we can no longer use classic,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mojtaba Abolfazli , Anders Host-Madsen , June Zhang , Andras Bratincsak

Modern deep models have massive parameter sizes, leading to high inference-time memory usage that limits practical deployment. Parameter sharing, a form of structured compression, effectively reduces redundancy, but existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Boyang Zhang , Daning Cheng , Yunquan Zhang

We present a novel upper bound for the optimal index coding rate. Our bound uses a graph theoretic quantity called the local chromatic number. We show how a good local coloring can be used to create a good index code. The local coloring is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Michael Langberg

An $r$-fold analogue of the positive semidefinite zero forcing process that is carried out on the $r$-blowup of a graph is introduced and used to define the fractional positive semidefinite forcing number. Properties of the graph blowup…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Leslie Hogben , Kevin F. Palmowski , David E. Roberson , Michael Young

Node coloring is the task of assigning colors to the nodes of a graph such that no two adjacent nodes have the same color, while using as few colors as possible. It is the most widely studied instance of graph coloring and of central…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Knut Vanderbush , Melanie Weber

We introduce a new method for computing bounds on the independence number and fractional chromatic number of classes of graphs with local constraints, and apply this method in various scenarios. We establish a formula that generates a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-26 François Pirot , Jean-Sébastien Sereni

Inpainting-based image compression is a promising alternative to classical transform-based lossy codecs. Typically it stores a carefully selected subset of all pixel locations and their colour values. In the decoding phase the missing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ferdinand Jost , Vassillen Chizhov , Joachim Weickert

We present a combinatorial characterization of the Bethe entropy function of a factor graph, such a characterization being in contrast to the original, analytical, definition of this function. We achieve this combinatorial characterization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Pascal O. Vontobel

Graphical data is comprised of a graph with marks on its edges and vertices. The mark indicates the value of some attribute associated to the respective edge or vertex. Examples of such data arise in social networks, molecular and systems…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Payam Delgosha , Venkat Anantharam

We devise a new formulation for the vertex coloring problem. Different from other formulations, decision variables are associated with the pairs of vertices. Consequently, colors will be distinguishable. Although the objective function is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Tomomi Matsui , Noriyoshi Sukegawa , Atsushi Miyauchi

Conditional graph entropy is known to be the minimal rate for a natural functional compression problem with side information at the receiver. In this paper we show that it can be formulated as an alternating minimization problem, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Viktor Harangi , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai

In this paper, we consider algorithms for edge-coloring multigraphs $G$ of bounded maximum degree, i.e., $\Delta(G) = O(1)$. Shannon's theorem states that any multigraph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly edge-colored with…

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Graph coloring involves assigning colors to the vertices of a graph such that two vertices linked by an edge receive different colors. Graph coloring problems are general models that are very useful to formulate many relevant applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Olivier Goudet , Béatrice Duval , Jin-Kao Hao

We address the problem of computing the distribution of induced connected subgraphs, aka \emph{graphlets} or \emph{motifs}, in large graphs. The current state-of-the-art algorithms estimate the motif counts via uniform sampling, by…

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We study the maximization version of the fundamental graph coloring problem. Here the goal is to color the vertices of a k-colorable graph with k colors so that a maximum fraction of edges are properly colored (i.e. their endpoints receive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop

There are many variations on partition functions for graph homomorphisms or colorings. The case considered here is a counting or hard constraint problem in which the range or color graph carries a free and vertex transitive Abelian group…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Eric Babson , Matthias Beck

We introduce a new method for generating color images from sketches or edge maps. Current methods either require some form of additional user-guidance or are limited to the "paired" translation approach. We argue that segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Samet Hicsonmez , Nermin Samet , Emre Akbas , Pinar Duygulu

Chromatic polynomials have been studied extensively, giving us results such as the Fundamental Reduction Theorem and closed formulas for the chromatic polynomials of common classes of graphs. Though, none of those extend to the context of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Pedro M. Recuero

We present a general framework for constructing error-correcting codes using distributed graph coloring under the LOCAL model. Building on the correspondence between independent sets in the confusion graph and valid codes, we show that the…

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