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Based on a recently proposed $q$-dependent detrended cross-correlation coefficient $\rho_q$, we generalize the concept of minimum spanning tree (MST) by introducing a family of $q$-dependent minimum spanning trees ($q$MST) that are…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-05-19 Jaroslaw Kwapien , Pawel Oswiecimka , Marcin Forczek , Stanislaw Drozdz

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framework called metric forest completion (MFC), where the learned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Grace J. Li , Geoffrey Sanders

The Minimum Weight Steiner Tree (MST) is an important combinatorial optimization problem over networks that has applications in a wide range of fields. Here we discuss a general technique to translate the imposed global connectivity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bayati , C. Borgs , A. Braunstein , J. Chayes , A. Ramezanpour , R. Zecchina

Algorithms for dynamically maintaining minimum spanning trees (MSTs) have received much attention in both the parallel and sequential settings. While previous work has given optimal algorithms for dense graphs, all existing parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Daniel Anderson , Guy E. Blelloch , Kanat Tangwongsan

We study smoothed analysis of distributed graph algorithms, focusing on the fundamental minimum spanning tree (MST) problem. With the goal of studying the time complexity of distributed MST as a function of the "perturbation" of the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Gopal Pandurangan , Nguyen Dinh Pham

We study the {\em min-cost chain-constrained spanning-tree} (abbreviated \mcst) problem: find a min-cost spanning tree in a graph subject to degree constraints on a nested family of node sets. We devise the {\em first} polytime algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Andre Linhares , Chaitanya Swamy

A fundamental problem in wireless networks is the \emph{minimum spanning tree} (MST) problem: given a set $V$ of wireless nodes, compute a spanning tree $T$, so that the total cost of $T$ is minimized. In recent years, there has been a lot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Maleq Khan , V. S. Anil Kumar , Gopal Pandurangan , Guanhong Pei

Previous studies has shown that for a weighted undirected graph having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a minimal weight spanning tree can be found with $O^*(\sqrt{mn})$ calls to the weight oracle. The present note shows that a given spanning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-07 Mark Heiligman

We consider two natural variants of the problem of minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph in the parallel setting: MST verification (verifying if a given tree is an MST) and the sensitivity analysis of an MST (finding the lowest cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Sam Coy , Artur Czumaj , Gopinath Mishra , Anish Mukherjee

We address here spanning tree problems on a graph with binary edge weights. For a general weighted graph the minimum spanning tree is solved in super-linear running time, even when the edges of the graph are pre-sorted. A related problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Dorit S. Hochbaum

A spanning tree of an unweighted graph is a minimum average stretch spanning tree if it minimizes the ratio of sum of the distances in the tree between the end vertices of the graph edges and the number of graph edges. We consider the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-15 N. S. Narayanaswamy , G. Ramakrishna

The minimum spanning tree (MST) is a combinatorial optimization problem: given a connected graph with a real weight ("cost") on each edge, find the spanning tree that minimizes the sum of the total cost of the occupied edges. We consider…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-26 T. S. Jackson , N. Read

In this paper, we consider the minimum spanning tree problem (for short, MSTP) on an arbitrary set of $n$ points of $d$-dimensional space in $l_1$-norm. For this problem, for each fixed $d\geq 2$, there is a known algorithm of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 K. V. Kaymakov , D. S. Malyshev

We present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is $O(\log^2n)$ bits and it converges in $O(n^2)$ rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Lélia Blin , Shlomi Dolev , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis

We study the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem in the massively parallel computation (MPC) model. Our focus is particularly on the *strictly sublinear* regime of MPC where the space per machine is $O(n^\delta)$. Here $n$ is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Amir Azarmehr , Soheil Behnezhad , Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki , Vahab Mirrokni , Peilin Zhong

Consider~\(n\) nodes distributed independently across~\(N\) cities contained with the unit square~\(S\) according to a distribution~\(f.\) Each city is modelled as an~\(r_n \times r_n\) square contained within~\(S\) and~\(MSTC_n\) denotes…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

A locally connected spanning tree of a graph $G$ is a spanning tree $T$ of $G$ such that the set of all neighbors of $v$ in $T$ induces a connected subgraph of $G$ for every $v\in V(G)$. The purpose of this paper is to give linear-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ching-Chi Lin , Gerard J. Chang , Gen-Huey Chen

We present a new algorithm, which solves the problem of distributively finding a minimum diameter spanning tree of any (non-negatively) real-weighted graph $G = (V,E,\omega)$. As an intermediate step, we use a new, fast, linear-time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Marc Bui , Franck Butelle , Christian Lavault

Processing graphs with temporal information (the temporal graphs) has become increasingly important in the real world. In this paper, we study efficient solutions to temporal graph applications using new algorithms for Incremental Minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiangyun Ding , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

The run time complexity of state-of-the-art inference algorithms in graph-based dependency parsing is super-linear in the number of input words (n). Recently, pruning algorithms for these models have shown to cut a large portion of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Effi Levi , Roi Reichart , Ari Rappoport