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Kawarabayashi and Sidiropoulos [KS22] obtained an $O(\log^2 n)$-approximation algorithm for Multicut in planar digraphs via a natural LP relaxation, which also establishes a corresponding upper bound on the multicommodity flow-cut gap.…

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We consider directed weighted graphs and define various families of path counting functions. Our main results are explicit formulas for the main term of the asymptotic growth rate of these counting functions, under some irrationality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Avner Kiro , Yotam Smilansky , Uzy Smilansky

Decompositional parameters such as treewidth are commonly used to obtain fixed-parameter algorithms for NP-hard graph problems. For problems that are W[1]-hard parameterized by treewidth, a natural alternative would be to use a suitable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Cornelius Brand , Esra Ceylan , Christian Hatschka , Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

Graph filters are one of the core tools in graph signal processing. A central aspect of them is their direct distributed implementation. However, the filtering performance is often traded with distributed communication and computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-01 Mario Coutino , Elvin Isufi , Geert Leus

Many modern data analysis algorithms either assume or are considerably more efficient if the distances between the data points satisfy a metric. These algorithms include metric learning, clustering, and dimension reduction. As real data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Chenglin Fan , Anna C. Gilbert , Benjamin Raichel , Rishi Sonthalia , Gregory Van Buskirk

Control-flow graphs (CFGs) of structured programs are well known to exhibit strong sparsity properties. Traditionally, this sparsity has been modeled using graph parameters such as treewidth and pathwidth, enabling the development of faster…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xuran Cai , Amir Goharshady , S Hitarth , Chun Kit Lam

Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) is the NP-hard problem of finding a smallest decomposition of a network flow/circulation $X$ on a directed graph $G$ into weighted source-to-sink paths whose superposition equals $X$. We show that, for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Manuel Cáceres , Massimo Cairo , Andreas Grigorjew , Shahbaz Khan , Brendan Mumey , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Lucia Williams

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ be the convex hull of characteristic vectors of its independent sets of size at most $k$. We study extension complexity of $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ with respect to a fixed parameter…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Hans Raj Tiwary

Graph partitioning (GP) is a classic problem that divides the node set of a graph into densely-connected blocks. Following the IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge and recent advances in pre-training techniques (e.g., large-language models), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Meng Qin , Chaorui Zhang , Yu Gao , Yibin Ding , Weipeng Jiang , Weixi Zhang , Wei Han , Bo Bai

Detecting and segmenting dysfluencies is crucial for effective speech therapy and real-time feedback. However, most methods only classify dysfluencies at the utterance level. We introduce StutterCut, a semi-supervised framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Suhita Ghosh , Melanie Jouaiti , Jan-Ole Perschewski , Sebastian Stober

We study the \emph{multiterminal cut} problem, which, given an $n$-vertex graph whose edges are integer-weighted and a set of terminals, asks for a partition of the vertex set such that each terminal is in a distinct part, and the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yixin Cao , Jianer Chen , Jia-Hao Fan

MaxCut is a classical NP-complete problem and a crucial building block in many combinatorial algorithms. The famous Edwards-Erd\H{o}s bound states that any connected graph on n vertices with m edges contains a cut of size at least $m/2 +…

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Unsplittable flow problems cover a wide range of telecommunication and transportation problems and their efficient resolution is key to a number of applications. In this work, we study algorithms that can scale up to large graphs and…

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The Graph Motif problem was introduced in 2006 in the context of biological networks. It consists of deciding whether or not a multiset of colors occurs in a connected subgraph of a vertex-colored graph. Graph Motif has been mostly analyzed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Édouard Bonnet , Florian Sikora

The input in the Minimum-Cost Constraint Satisfaction Problem (MinCSP) over the Point Algebra contains a set of variables, a collection of constraints of the form $x < y$, $x = y$, $x \leq y$ and $x \neq y$, and a budget $k$. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-08 George Osipov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

Federated learning (FL) on graphs shows promise for distributed time-series forecasting. Yet, existing methods rely on static topologies and struggle with client heterogeneity. We propose Fed-GAME, a framework that models personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Li , Han Liu , Mingfeng Fan , Guo Chen , Chaojie Li , Biplab Sikdar

We consider the problem of learning the weighted edges of a balanced mixture of two undirected graphs from epidemic cascades. While mixture models are popular modeling tools, algorithmic development with rigorous guarantees has lagged.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Jessica Hoffmann , Soumya Basu , Surbhi Goel , Constantine Caramanis

A 2-packing set for an undirected, weighted graph G=(V,E,w) is a subset S of the vertices V such that any two vertices are not adjacent and have no common neighbors. The Maximum Weight 2-Packing Set problem that asks for a 2-packing set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

We propose a scalable framework for solving the Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem in large graphs using projected gradient ascent on quadratic objectives. Our approach is differentiable and leverages GPUs for gradient-based optimization. It is…

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We discuss approximability and inapproximability in FPT-time for a large class of subset problems where a feasible solution $S$ is a subset of the input data and the value of $S$ is $|S|$. The class handled encompasses many well-known…

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