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We investigate graph problems in the following setting: we are given a graph $G$ and we are required to solve a problem on $G^2$. While we focus mostly on exploring this theme in the distributed CONGEST model, we show new results and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Keren Censor-Hillel , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

In this paper, we propose to study on sufficient control of complex networks which is to control a sufficiently large portion of the network, where only the quantity of controllable nodes matters. To the best of our knowledge, this is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Xiang Li , Guoqi Li , Leitao Gao , Beibei Li , Gaoxi Xiao

Vertex connectivity and its variants are among the most fundamental problems in graph theory, with decades of extensive study and numerous algorithmic advances. The directed variants of vertex connectivity are usually solved by manually…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Olivier Fischer , Yonggang Jiang , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is a well-established combinatorial optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. Its NP-hard nature makes it increasingly difficult to obtain exact solutions as the graph size grows.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Enqiang Zhu , Qiqi Bao , Yu Zhang , Pu Wu , Chanjuan Liu

We present improved approximation algorithms for some problems in the related areas of Capacitated Network Design and Flexible Graph Connectivity. In the Cap-$k$-ECSS problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges have non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ishan Bansal , Joseph Cheriyan , Sanjeev Khanna , Miles Simmons

We study fundamental graph parameters such as the Diameter and Radius in directed graphs, when distances are measured using a somewhat unorthodox but natural measure: the distance between $u$ and $v$ is the minimum of the shortest path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein , Yinzhan Xu , Yuancheng Yu

We consider the problem of partitioning the set of vertices of a given unit disk graph (UDG) into a minimum number of cliques. The problem is NP-hard and various constant factor approximations are known, with the current best ratio of 3.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Imran A. Pirwani , Mohammad R. Salavatipour

We consider the fundamental algorithmic problem of finding a cycle of minimum weight in a weighted graph. In particular, we show that the minimum weight cycle problem in an undirected n-node graph with edge weights in {1,...,M} or in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-15 Liam Roditty , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

In the dynamic Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ subject to edge insertions and deletions and a source vertex $s\in V$, and the goal is to maintain the distance $d(s,t)$ for all $t\in V$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

This paper looks at two problems, minimum constrained input selection and minimum cost constrained input selection for state space structured systems. The input matrix is constrained in the sense that the set of states that each input can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Shana Moothedath , Prasanna Chaporkar , Madhu N. Belur

An instance of the Connected Maximum Cut problem consists of an undirected graph G = (V, E) and the goal is to find a subset of vertices S $\subseteq$ V that maximizes the number of edges in the cut \delta(S) such that the induced graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz , Robert MacDavid , Manish Purohit , Kanthi Sarpatwar

Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) is the strongly NP-hard problem of finding a smallest set of integer weighted $s$-$t$ paths in an $s$-$t$ DAG $G$ whose weighted sum is equal to a given flow $f$ on $G$. Despite its many practical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Andreas Grigorjew , Wanchote Jiamjitrak , Brendan Mumey , Alexandru I. Tomescu

The graph retrieval problem is to search in a large corpus of graphs for ones that are most similar to a query graph. A common consideration for scoring similarity is the maximum common subgraph (MCS) between the query and corpus graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Indradyumna Roy , Soumen Chakrabarti , Abir De

Using connected dominating set (CDS) to serve as a virtual backbone in a wireless networks can save energy and reduce interference. Since nodes may fail due to accidental damage or energy depletion, it is desirable that the virtual backbone…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Zhao Zhang , Jiao Zhou , Ker-I Ko , Ding-zhu Du

Given a graph $G$, the longest path problem asks to compute a simple path of $G$ with the largest number of vertices. This problem is the most natural optimization version of the well known and well studied Hamiltonian path problem, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-04-27 George B. Mertzios , Derek G. Corneil

Utilizing graph algorithms is a common activity in computer science. Algorithms that perform computations on large graphs are not always efficient. This work investigates the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, which is considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ahmed Shokry

Finding a minimum-weight strongly connected spanning subgraph of an edge-weighted directed graph is equivalent to the weighted version of the well-known strong connectivity augmentation problem. This problem is NP-hard, and a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ryoma Norose , Yutaro Yamaguchi

APSP with small integer weights in undirected graphs [Seidel'95, Galil and Margalit'97] has an $\tilde{O}(n^\omega)$ time algorithm, where $\omega<2.373$ is the matrix multiplication exponent. APSP in directed graphs with small weights…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Timothy M. Chan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

In a connected simple graph G = (V,E), each vertex of V is colored by a color from the set of colors C={c1, c2,..., c_{\alpha}}$. We take a subset S of V, such that for every vertex v in V\S, at least one vertex of the same color is present…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bubai Manna

Finding the densest subgraph (DS) from a graph is a fundamental problem in graph databases. The DS obtained, which reveals closely related entities, has been found to be useful in various application domains such as e-commerce, social…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yi Yang , Chenhao Ma , Reynold Cheng , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Xiaolin Han