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Learning a well-informed heuristic function for hard task planning domains is an elusive problem. Although there are known neural network architectures to represent such heuristic knowledge, it is not obvious what concrete information is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Leah Chrestien , Tomas Pevny , Antonin Komenda , Stefan Edelkamp

Recently, several studies have explored the use of neural network to solve different routing problems, which is an auspicious direction. These studies usually design an encoder-decoder based framework that uses encoder embeddings of nodes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zongtao Liu , Jing Xu , Jintao Su , Tao Xiao , Yang Yang

Given a network, the critical node detection problem finds a subset of nodes whose removal disrupts the network connectivity. Since many real-world systems are naturally modeled as graphs, assessing the vulnerability of the network is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tuguldur Bayarsaikhan , Altannar Chinchuluun , Ashwin Arulselvan , Panos Pardalos

While numerous approaches have been developed to embed graphs into either Euclidean or hyperbolic spaces, they do not fully utilize the information available in graphs, or lack the flexibility to model intrinsic complex graph geometry. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Shichao Zhu , Shirui Pan , Chuan Zhou , Jia Wu , Yanan Cao , Bin Wang

Getting a labeling of vertices close to the structure of the graph has been proved to be of interest in many applications e.g., to follow smooth signals indexed by the vertices of the network. This question can be related to a graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Ronan Hamon , Pierre Borgnat , Patrick Flandrin , Céline Robardet

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful representational tool for solving problems on graph-structured inputs. In almost all cases so far, however, they have been applied to directly recovering a final solution from raw inputs, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Petar Veličković , Rex Ying , Matilde Padovano , Raia Hadsell , Charles Blundell

Automated driving in urban scenarios requires efficient planning algorithms able to handle complex situations in real-time. A popular approach is to use graph-based planning methods in order to obtain a rough trajectory which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Oliver Speidel , Jona Ruof , Klaus Dietmayer

Unified graph representation learning aims to generate node embeddings, which can be applied to multiple downstream applications of graph analytics. However, existing studies based on graph neural networks and language models either suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenbo Shang , Xuliang Zhu , Xin Huang

Neural Module Network (NMN) is a machine learning model for solving the visual question answering tasks. NMN uses programs to encode modules' structures, and its modularized architecture enables it to solve logical problems more reasonably.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuxuan Wu , Hideki Nakayama

Heuristic-based methods are among the most popular methods in the process discovery area. This category of methods is composed of two main steps: 1) discovering a dependency graph 2) determining the split/join patterns of the dependency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Maryam Tavakoli-Zaniani , Mohammad Reza Gholamian , S. Alireza Hashemi Golpayegani

We demonstrate that a single training trajectory can transform a graph neural network into an unsupervised heuristic for combinatorial optimization. Focusing on the Travelling Salesman Problem, we show that encoding global structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yimeng Min , Carla P. Gomes

Graph problems such as traveling salesman problem, or finding minimal Steiner trees are widely studied and used in data engineering and computer science. Typically, in real-world applications, the features of the graph tend to change over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Udesh Gunarathna , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Shanika Karunasekara , Egemen Tanin

Graphs are widely used as a popular representation of the network structure of connected data. Graph data can be found in a broad spectrum of application domains such as social systems, ecosystems, biological networks, knowledge graphs, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Feng Xia , Ke Sun , Shuo Yu , Abdul Aziz , Liangtian Wan , Shirui Pan , Huan Liu

Graph-based Active Learning (AL) leverages the structure of graphs to efficiently prioritize label queries, reducing labeling costs and user burden in applications like health monitoring, human behavior analysis, and sensor networks. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Maryam Khalid , Akane Sano

Machine learning on graphs is an important and ubiquitous task with applications ranging from drug design to friendship recommendation in social networks. The primary challenge in this domain is finding a way to represent, or encode, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-11 William L. Hamilton , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec

Similarity graphs are an active research direction for the nearest neighbor search (NNS) problem. New algorithms for similarity graph construction are continuously being proposed and analyzed by both theoreticians and practitioners.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Dmitry Baranchuk , Artem Babenko

Graph representation learning plays an important role in many graph mining applications, but learning embeddings of large-scale graphs remains a problem. Recent works try to improve scalability via graph summarization -- i.e., they learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Houquan Zhou , Shenghua Liu , Danai Koutra , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Recently similarity graphs became the leading paradigm for efficient nearest neighbor search, outperforming traditional tree-based and LSH-based methods. Similarity graphs perform the search via greedy routing: a query traverses the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Dmitry Baranchuk , Dmitry Persiyanov , Anton Sinitsin , Artem Babenko

Graph burning is a process of information spreading through the network by an agent in discrete steps. The problem is to find an optimal sequence of nodes which have to be given information so that the network is covered in least number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani

We present a learning-based approach to computing solutions for certain NP-hard problems. Our approach combines deep learning techniques with useful algorithmic elements from classic heuristics. The central component is a graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Zhuwen Li , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun