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In this paper we analyze a variant of the pursuit-evasion game on a graph $G$ where the intruder occupies a vertex, is allowed to move to adjacent vertices or remain in place, and is 'invisible' to the searcher, meaning that the searcher…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Anton Bernshteyn , Eugene Lee

A common phenomena in modern recommendation systems is the use of feedback from one user to infer the `value' of an item to other users. This results in an exploration vs. exploitation trade-off, in which items of possibly low value have to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Siddhartha Banerjee , Sujay Sanghavi , Sanjay Shakkottai

Motivated by the controller placement problems in software-defined networks and the fair division principles of classical "cake cutting", we investigate the following two-player zero-sum game. In our model, a defender places a limited…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grzegorz Gutowski , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Antonio Lauerbach , Alexander Wolff

We address the problem of solving parity games with imperfect information on finite graphs of bounded structural complexity. It is a major open problem whether parity games with perfect information can be solved in PTIME. Restricting the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Bernd Puchala , Roman Rabinovich

Nowadays, the analysis of complex phenomena modeled by graphs plays a crucial role in many real-world application domains where decisions can have a strong societal impact. However, numerous studies and papers have recently revealed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Charlotte Laclau , Christine Largeron , Manvi Choudhary

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in games on graphs within the research community, fueled by their relevance in applications such as economics, politics, and epidemiology. This paper aims to comprehensively detail the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Christian Giannetti

We study the computability and complexity of the exploration problem in a class of highly dynamic graphs: periodically varying (PV) graphs, where the edges exist only at some (unknown) times defined by the periodic movements of carriers.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Paola Flocchini , Bernard Mans , Nicola Santoro

Graph searches and their respective search trees are widely used in algorithmic graph theory. The problem whether a given spanning tree can be a graph search tree has been considered for different searches, graph classes and search tree…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Robert Scheffler

The graph exploration problem is to visit all the nodes of a connected graph by a mobile entity, e.g., a robot. The robot has no a priori knowledge of the topology of the graph or of its size. Cohen et al. \cite{Ilcinkas08} introduced label…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Meng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jijun Tang

The Explorer-Director game, first introduced by Nedev and Muthukrishnan, can be described as a game where two players -- Explorer and Director -- determine the movement of a token on the vertices of a graph. At each time step, the Explorer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Pat Devlin , Erin Meger , Abigail Raz , Polymath REU Participants

This paper introduced a pursuit and evasion game to be played on a connected graph. One player moves invisibly around the graph, and the other player must guess his position. At each time step the second player guesses a vertex, winning if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 John Haslegrave

Autonomous exploration of cluttered environments requires efficient exploration strategies that guarantee safety against potential collisions with unknown random obstacles. This paper presents a novel approach combining a graph neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

In the solution discovery problem for a search problem on graphs, we are given an initial placement of $k$ tokens on the vertices of a graph and asked whether this placement can be transformed into a feasible solution by applying a small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rin Saito , Anouk Sommer , Tatsuhiro Suga , Takahiro Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

The search is based on the preliminary transformation of matrices or adjacency lists traditionally used in the study of graphs into projections cleared of redundant information (refined) followed by the selection of the desired shortest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 V. A. Melent'ev

Graph mining workloads aim to extract structural properties of a graph by exploring its subgraph structures. General purpose graph mining systems provide a generic runtime to explore subgraph structures of interest with the help of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kasra Jamshidi , Rakesh Mahadasa , Keval Vora

The online dominating set problem is an online variant of the minimum dominating set problem, which is one of the most important NP-hard problems on graphs. This problem is defined as follows: Given an undirected graph $G = (V, E)$, in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Koji M. Kobayashi

Deep learning models on graphs have achieved remarkable performance in various graph analysis tasks, e.g., node classification, link prediction, and graph clustering. However, they expose uncertainty and unreliability against the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Jiaying Peng , Tao Xie , Zengxu Cao , Kun Xu , Xiangnan He , Zibin Zheng , Bingzhe Wu

With increasing game size, a problem of computational complexity arises. This is especially true in real world problems such as in social systems, where there is a significant population of players involved in the game, and the complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Tatsuya Iwase , Takahiro Shiga

Graph mining algorithms have been playing a significant role in myriad fields over the years. However, despite their promising performance on various graph analytical tasks, most of these algorithms lack fairness considerations. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yushun Dong , Jing Ma , Song Wang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Historically applied exclusively to perfect information games, depth-limited search with value functions has been key to recent advances in AI for imperfect information games. Most prominent approaches with strong theoretical guarantees…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Christopher Solinas , Douglas Rebstock , Nathan R. Sturtevant , Michael Buro