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Uniform cost-distance Steiner trees minimize the sum of the total length and weighted path lengths from a dedicated root to the other terminals. They are applied when the tree is intended for signal transmission, e.g. in chip design or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Josefine Foos , Stephan Held , Yannik Kyle Dustin Spitzley

In this article, we study the Euclidean minimum spanning tree problem in an imprecise setup. The problem is known as the \emph{Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with Neighborhoods} in the literature. We study the problem where the neighborhoods…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sanjana Dey , Ramesh K. Jallu , Subhas C. Nandy

The Euclidean Steiner Minimal Tree problem takes as input a set $\mathcal P$ of points in the Euclidean plane and finds the minimum length network interconnecting all the points of $\mathcal P$. In this paper, in continuation to the works…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anubhav Dhar , Soumita Hait , Sudeshna Kolay

The Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree (RSMT) problem is a fundamental problem in VLSI placement and routing and is known to be NP-hard. Traditional RSMT algorithms spend a significant amount of time on finding Steiner points to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Bugra Onal , Eren Dogan , Muhammad Hadir Khan , Matthew R. Guthaus

Given a metric space on n points, an {\alpha}-approximate universal algorithm for the Steiner tree problem outputs a distribution over rooted spanning trees such that for any subset X of vertices containing the root, the expected cost of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-18 Anand Bhalgat , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Sanjeev Khanna

The Angular Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem ($\alpha$-MSTP) is defined in terms of a complete undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and an angle $\alpha \in (0,2\pi]$. Vertices of $G$ define points in the Euclidean plane while edges, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Alexandre Salles da Cunha

The Steiner tree problem can be stated in terms of finding a connected set of minimal length containing a given set of finitely many points. We show how to formulate it as a mass-minimization problem for $1$-dimensional currents with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi

The Steiner tree problem is a classical NP-hard optimization problem with a wide range of practical applications. In an instance of this problem, we are given an undirected graph G=(V,E), a set of terminals R, and non-negative costs c_e for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-12-24 Jochen Konemann , David Pritchard , Kunlun Tan

The Euclidean Steiner tree problem asks to find a min-cost metric graph that connects a given set of \emph{terminal} points $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, possibly using points not in $X$ which are called Steiner points. Even though near-linear…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-01 T-H. Hubert Chan , Gramoz Goranci , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Bo Wang , Quan Xue

The cost-distance Steiner tree problem seeks a Steiner tree that minimizes the total congestion cost plus the weighted sum of source-sink delays. This problem arises as a subroutine in timing-constrained global routing with a linear delay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Stephan Held , Edgar Perner

The Euclidean Steiner tree problem, normally posed in two dimensions, seeks to connect a set of prescribed terminal nodes by placing additional nodes, known as Steiner points, with edges connecting such nodes either to another Steiner point…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Manou Rosenberg , Mengbin Ye , Brian D. O. Anderson

Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST) is a generalization of the Steiner Tree problem, a fundamental problem in computer science. In the classic Steiner Tree problem, we aim to connect a set of vertices known as terminals using the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ali Ahmadi , Iman Gholami , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Mohammad Mahdavi

Constrained Forest Problems (CFPs) as introduced by Goemans and Williamson in 1995 capture a wide range of network design problems with edge subsets as solutions, such as Minimum Spanning Tree, Steiner Forest, and Point-to-Point Connection.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Corinna Coupette , Alipasha Montaseri , Christoph Lenzen

Given a set of colored points in the plane, we ask if there exists a crossing-free straight-line drawing of a spanning forest, such that every tree in the forest contains exactly the points of one color class. We show that the problem is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Philipp Kindermann , Boris Klemz , Ignaz Rutter , Patrick Schnider , André Schulz

Let $P$ and $S$ be two disjoint sets of $n$ and $m$ points in the plane, respectively. We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree whose Steiner vertices belong to $S$, in which each point of $P$ is a leaf, and whose longest edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

We introduce a new variant of the geometric Steiner arborescence problem, motivated by the layout of flow maps. Flow maps show the movement of objects between places. They reduce visual clutter by bundling lines smoothly and avoiding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-09-16 Kevin Buchin , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

The Planar Steiner Tree problem is one of the most fundamental NP-complete problems as it models many network design problems. Recall that an instance of this problem consists of a graph with edge weights, and a subset of vertices (often…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Jesper Nederlof , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

In the classical (min-cost) Steiner tree problem, we are given an edge-weighted undirected graph and a set of terminal nodes. The goal is to compute a min-cost tree S which spans all terminals. In this paper we consider the min-power…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Fabrizio Grandoni

In this paper, we reduce Prize-Collecting Steiner TSP (PCTSP), Prize-Collecting Stroll (PCS), Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree (PCST), Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest (PCSF) and more generally Submodular Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest (SPCSF)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-23 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx

In this work we consider the Metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time model. Given a set $V$ of $n$ points in a metric space where distances are provided by means of query access to an $n\times n$ distance matrix, along with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sepideh Mahabadi , Mohammad Roghani , Jakub Tarnawski , Ali Vakilian