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We present a simple and faster algorithm for computing fair cuts on undirected graphs, a concept introduced in recent work of Li et al. (SODA 2023). Informally, for any parameter $\epsilon>0$, a $(1+\epsilon)$-fair $(s,t)$-cut is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jason Li , Owen Li

We provide a simple new randomized contraction approach to the global minimum cut problem for simple undirected graphs. The contractions exploit 2-out edge sampling from each vertex rather than the standard uniform edge sampling. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mohsen Ghaffari , Krzysztof Nowicki , Mikkel Thorup

In a strongly connected graph $G = (V,E)$, a cut arc (also called strong bridge) is an arc $e \in E$ whose removal makes the graph no longer strongly connected. Equivalently, there exist $u,v \in V$, such that all $u$-$v$ walks contain $e$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Massimo Cairo , Shahbaz Khan , Romeo Rizzi , Sebastian Schmidt , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Elia C. Zirondelli

An instance of the graph-constrained max-cut (GCMC) problem consists of (i) an undirected graph G and (ii) edge-weights on a complete undirected graph on the same vertex set. The objective is to find a subset of vertices satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Jon Lee , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

Computing a minimum $s$-$t$ cut in a graph is a solution to a wide range of computer vision problems, and is often done using the Boykov-Kolmogorov (BK) algorithm. In this paper, we revisit the BK algorithm from both a theoretical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Christian Møller Mikkelstrup , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Philip Bille , Vedrana Andersen Dahl , Inge Li Gørtz

Contour trees offer an abstract representation of the level set topology in scalar fields and are widely used in topological data analysis and visualization. However, applying contour trees to large-scale scientific datasets remains…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mingzhe Li , Hamish Carr , Oliver Rübel , Bei Wang , Gunther H. Weber

In this paper we offer a new perspective on the well established agglomerative clustering algorithm, focusing on recovery of hierarchical structure. We recommend a simple variant of the standard algorithm, in which clusters are merged by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Annie Gray , Alexander Modell , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy , Nick Whiteley

We introduce an algorithm that performs a one-directional mesh overset of a parallel forest of octrees with another distributed mesh of unrelated partition. The forest mesh consists of several adaptively refined octrees. Individual smooth…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hannes Brandt , Carsten Burstedde

A method for considering a weighted directed graph with an accuracy of up to a given partition of the set of vertices is proposed. The resulting digraph (the splitting graph) does not contain arcs inside each partition element, and the arcs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 V. A. Buslov

One of the key problems in tensor network based quantum circuit simulation is the construction of a contraction tree which minimizes the cost of the simulation, where the cost can be expressed in the number of operations as a proxy for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Cameron Ibrahim , Danylo Lykov , Zichang He , Yuri Alexeev , Ilya Safro

Combinatorial optimization problems for clustering are known to be NP-hard. Most optimization methods are not able to find the global optimum solution for all datasets. To solve this problem, we propose a global optimal path-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Qidong Liu , Ruisheng Zhang

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

Given a planar graph G on n vertices and an integer parameter r<n, an r-division of G with few holes is a decomposition of G into O(n/r) regions of size at most r such that each region contains at most a constant number of faces that are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Philip N. Klein , Shay Mozes , Christian Sommer

We propose a general data structure CORoBTS for storing B-tree-like search trees dynamically in a cache-oblivious way combining the van Emde Boas memory layout with packed memory array. In the use of the vEB layout mostly search complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lukáš Ondráček , Ondřej Mička

The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is ${\sf NP}$-hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Andre Droschinsky , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel

In this paper we present novel algorithmic techniques with a O(H(N)+N/H(N)) time complexity for performing several types of queries and updates on general rooted trees, binary search trees and lists of size N. For rooted trees we introduce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

In this paper we describe an algorithm that embeds a graph metric $(V,d_G)$ on an undirected weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ into a distribution of tree metrics $(T,D_T)$ such that for every pair $u,v\in V$, $d_G(u,v)\leq d_T(u,v)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

We initiate the study of coresets for clustering in graph metrics, i.e., the shortest-path metric of edge-weighted graphs. Such clustering problems are essential to data analysis and used for example in road networks and data visualization.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Daniel Baker , Vladimir Braverman , Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Xuan Wu

We study the maximum-flow/minimum-cut problem on scale-free networks, i.e., graphs whose degree distribution follows a power-law. We propose a simple algorithm that capitalizes on the fact that often only a small fraction of such a network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Thomas Bläsius , Tobias Friedrich , Christopher Weyand

We introduce the notion of quota trees in directed graphs. Given a nonnegative integer ``quota'' for each vertex of a directed multigraph $G$, a quota tree is an immersed rooted tree which hits each vertex of $G$ the prescribed number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Tad White