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A routing labeling scheme assigns a binary string, called a label, to each node in a network, and chooses a distinct port number from $\{1,\ldots,d\}$ for every edge outgoing from a node of degree $d$. Then, given the labels of $u$ and $w$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Paweł Gawrychowski , Wojciech Janczewski , Jakub Łopuszański

We give polynomial time logarithmic approximation guarantees for the budget minimization, as well as for the profit maximization versions of minimum spanning tree interdiction. In this problem, the goal is to remove some edges of an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rafail Ostrovsky , Yuval Rabani , Yoav Siman Tov

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

We revisit the issue of low-distortion embedding of metric spaces into the line, and more generally, into the shortest path metric of trees, from the parameterized complexity perspective.Let $M=M(G)$ be the shortest path metric of an edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-21 Michael Fellows , Fedor Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Elena Losievskaja , Frances A. Rosamond , Saket Saurabh

We study the {\em min-cost chain-constrained spanning-tree} (abbreviated \mcst) problem: find a min-cost spanning tree in a graph subject to degree constraints on a nested family of node sets. We devise the {\em first} polytime algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Andre Linhares , Chaitanya Swamy

In this paper, we consider the problem of reconstructing trees from traces in the tree edit distance model. Previous work by Davies et al. (2019) analyzed special cases of reconstructing labeled trees. In this work, we significantly expand…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Thomas Maranzatto

We design an $n^{2+o(1)}$-time algorithm that constructs a cut-equivalent (Gomory-Hu) tree of a simple graph on $n$ nodes. This bound is almost-optimal in terms of $n$, and it improves on the recent $\tilde{O}(n^{2.5})$ bound by the authors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Amir Abboud , Robert Krauthgamer , Ohad Trabelsi

Searching in partially ordered structures has been considered in the context of information retrieval and efficient tree-like indexes, as well as in hierarchy based knowledge representation. In this paper we focus on tree-like partial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Ferdinando Cicalese , Balázs Keszegh , Bernard Lidický , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Tomáš Valla

Dynamic time warping distance (DTW) is a widely used distance measure between time series. The best known algorithms for computing DTW run in near quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds prohibit the existence of significantly faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 William Kuszmaul

We study the problem of low-stretch spanning trees in graphs of bounded width: bandwidth, cutwidth, and treewidth. We show that any simple connected graph $G$ with a linear arrangement of bandwidth $b$ can be embedded into a distribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Glencora Borradaile , Erin Wolf Chambers , David Eppstein , William Maxwell , Amir Nayyeri

We study two fundamental decremental dynamic graph problems. In both problems, we need to maintain a vertex-weighted forest of size $n$ under edge deletions, weight updates, and a certain information-retrieval query. Both problems can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn , Marek Sokołowski

In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm to compute various parameters of a tree such as the process number, the edge search number or the node search number and so the pathwidth. This algorithm requires n steps, an overall…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-12-18 David Coudert , Florian Huc , Dorian Mazauric

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

Given a set of points in the Euclidean plane, the Euclidean \textit{$\delta$-minimum spanning tree} ($\delta$-MST) problem is the problem of finding a spanning tree with maximum degree no more than $\delta$ for the set of points such the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Patrick J. Andersen , Charl J. Ras

The treedepth of a graph $G$ is the least possible depth of an elimination forest of $G$: a rooted forest on the same vertex set where every pair of vertices adjacent in $G$ is bound by the ancestor/descendant relation. We propose an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Wojciech Nadara , Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Smulewicz

We present approximation algorithms for the following NP-hard optimization problems related to bottleneck spanning trees in metric spaces. 1. The disjoint bottleneck spanning tree problem: Given $n$ pairs of points in a metric space, find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

Minimum-weight cut (min-cut) is a basic measure of a network's connectivity strength. While the min-cut can be computed efficiently in the sequential setting [Karger STOC'96], there was no efficient way for a distributed network to compute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Michal Dory , Yuval Efron , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points that are moving in the plane, we consider the problem of computing a spanning tree for these moving points that does not change its combinatorial structure during the point movement. The objective is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Haitao Wang , Yiming Zhao

We study the {\sc multicut on trees} and the {\sc generalized multiway Cut on trees} problems. For the {\sc multicut on trees} problem, we present a parameterized algorithm that runs in time $O^{*}(\rho^k)$, where $\rho = \sqrt{\sqrt{2} +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Iyad Kanj , Guohui Lin , Tian Liu , Weitian Tong , Ge Xia , Jinhui Xu , Boting Yang , Fenghui Zhang , Peng Zhang , Binhai Zhu

We present a comprehensive classical and parameterized complexity analysis of decision tree pruning operations, extending recent research on the complexity of learning small decision trees. Thereby, we offer new insights into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Juha Harviainen , Frank Sommer , Manuel Sorge , Stefan Szeider