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As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

For a graph $G$ let $L(G)$ and $l(G)$ denote the size of the largest and smallest maximum matching of a graph obtained from $G$ by removing a maximum matching of $G$. We show that $L(G)\leq 2l(G),$ and $L(G)\leq (3/2)l(G)$ provided that $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-17 Artur Khojabaghyan , Vahan V. Mkrtchyan

In this paper we give a f-approximation algorithm for the minimum unweighted Vertex Cover problem with Hard Capacity constraints (VCHC) on f-hypergraphs. This problem generalizes standard vertex cover for which the best known approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Sam Chiu-wai Wong

We prove that any extended formulation that approximates the matching polytope on $n$-vertex graphs up to a factor of $(1+\varepsilon)$ for any $\frac2n \le \varepsilon \le 1$ must have at least $\binom{n}{{\alpha}/{\varepsilon}}$ defining…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Makrand Sinha

We consider the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model formalized by Feigenbaum, Kannan, McGregor, Suri, and Zhang that is inspired by giant graphs of today. As our main result, we give a two-pass $(1/2 + 1/16)$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Sagar Kale , Sumedh Tirodkar

We present a deterministic distributed $2$-approximation algorithm for the Minimum Weight Vertex Cover problem in the CONGEST model whose round complexity is $O(\log n \log \Delta / \log^2 \log \Delta)$. This improves over the currently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ran Ben-Basat , Guy Even , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

We consider the maximum vertex-weighted matching problem (MVM) for non-bipartite graphs. In earlier work we have described a 2/3-approximation algorithm for the MVM on bipartite graphs (Dobrian, Halappanavar, Pothen and Al-Herz, SIAM J.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Ahmed Al-Herz , Alex Pothen

This study considers the (soft) capacitated vertex cover problem in a dynamic setting. This problem generalizes the dynamic model of the vertex cover problem, which has been intensively studied in recent years. Given a dynamically changing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hao-Ting Wei , Wing-Kai Hon , Paul Horn , Chung-Shou Liao , Kunihiko Sadakane

We continue the study of the area requirement of convex straight-line grid drawings of 3-connected plane graphs, which has been intensively investigated in the last decades. Motivated by applications, such as graph editors, we additionally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Michael A. Bekos , Martin Gronemann , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Antonios Symvonis

The bandwidth of a graph G on n vertices is the minimum b such that the vertices of G can be labeled from 1 to n such that the labels of every pair of adjacent vertices differ by at most b. In this paper, we present a 2-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Martin Fürer , Serge Gaspers , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

We develop a new algorithmic technique that allows to transfer some constant time approximation algorithms for general graphs into random order streaming algorithms. We illustrate our technique by proving that in random order streams with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

We introduce a $2$-approximation algorithm for the minimum total covering number problem.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-20 Pooya Hatami

Minimum vertex cover problem is an NP-Hard problem with the aim of finding minimum number of vertices to cover graph. In this paper, a learning automaton based algorithm is proposed to find minimum vertex cover in graph. In the proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Aylin Mousavian , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

A searcher is tasked with exploring a graph with edge lengths and vertex weights, starting from a designated vertex. Initially, only the starting vertex is considered explored. At each step, the searcher adds an edge to the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Svenja M. Griesbach , Felix Hommelsheim , Max Klimm , Kevin Schewior

Consider a generalization of the classical binary search problem in linearly sorted data to the graph-theoretic setting. The goal is to design an adaptive query algorithm, called a strategy, that identifies an initially unknown target…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Dariusz Dereniowski , Aleksander Łukasiewicz , Przemysław Uznański

The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Anand Louis , Yury Makarychev

A set cover of a hypergraph $H$ is a set of vertices intersecting every hyperedge. In the minimum sum set cover problem, vertices are selected one by one; each edge pays the position of the first vertex that hits it, and the objective is to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhongyi Zhang , Yixin Cao

Generally, a graph G, an independent set is a subset S of vertices in G such that no two vertices in S are adjacent (connected by an edge) and a vertex cover is a subset S of vertices such that each edge of G has at least one of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-02 Kamanashis Biswas , S. A. M. Harun

Optimization problems consist of either maximizing or minimizing an objective function. Instead of looking for a maximum solution (resp. minimum solution), one can find a minimum maximal solution (resp. maximum minimal solution). Such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jerome Monnot , Florian Sikora

We study two related problems: finding a set of k vertices and minimum number of edges (kmin) and finding a graph with at least m' edges and minimum number of vertices (mvms). Goldschmidt and Hochbaum \cite{GH97} show that the mvms problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Rajiv Gandhi , G. Kortsarz