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This work concerns the analysis and design of distributed first-order optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs. The goal of such algorithms is to optimize a global function that is the average of local functions using only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Akhil Sundararajan , Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

Metaheuristic search strategies have proven their effectiveness against man-made solutions in various contexts. They are generally effective in local search area exploitation, and their overall performance is largely impacted by the balance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zvezdin Besarabov , Todor Kolev

The growing size of graph-based modeling artifacts in model-driven engineering calls for techniques that enable efficient execution of graph queries. Incremental approaches based on the RETE algorithm provide an adequate solution in many…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Matthias Barkowsky , Holger Giese

Logic-Based Benders Decomposition (LBBD) and its Branch-and-Cut variant, namely Branch-and-Check, enjoy an extensive applicability on a broad variety of problems, including scheduling. Although LBBD offers problem-specific cuts to impose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Ioannis Avgerinos , Ioannis Mourtos , Stavros Vatikiotis , Georgios Zois

We consider the problem of finding a local optimum for Max-Cut with FLIP-neighborhood, in which exactly one node changes the partition. Schaeffer and Yannakakis (SICOMP, 1991) showed PLS-completeness of this problem on graphs with unbounded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-27 Robert Elsaesser , Tobias Tscheuschner

This work presents a parallel variant of the algorithm introduced in [Acceleration of block coordinate descent methods with identification strategies Comput. Optim. Appl. 72(3):609--640, 2019] to minimize the sum of a partially separable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ronaldo Lopes , Sandra A. Santos , Paulo J. S. Silva

The current landscape of balanced graph partitioning is divided into high-quality but expensive multilevel algorithms and cheaper approaches with linear running time, such as single-level algorithms and streaming algorithms. We demonstrate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Lars Gottesbüren , Nikolai Maas , Dominik Rosch , Peter Sanders , Daniel Seemaier

We present linear time {\it in-place} algorithms for several basic and fundamental graph problems including the well-known graph search methods (like depth-first search, breadth-first search, maximum cardinality search), connectivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

Lifelong SLAM considers long-term operation of a robot where already mapped locations are revisited many times in changing environments. As a result, traditional graph-based SLAM approaches eventually become extremely slow due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Gerhard Kurz , Matthias Holoch , Peter Biber

We propose an exact algorithm for solving the longest simple path problem between two given vertices in undirected weighted graphs. By using graph partitioning and dynamic programming, we obtain an algorithm that is significantly faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Kai Fieger , Tomas Balyo , Christian Schulz , Dominik Schreiber

Local search is a successful approach for solving combinatorial optimization and constraint satisfaction problems. With the progressing move toward multi and many-core systems, GPUs and the quest for Exascale systems, parallelism has become…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-05-13 Rui Machado , Salvador Abreu , Daniel Diaz

This paper considers the problem of clustering a partially observed unweighted graph---i.e., one where for some node pairs we know there is an edge between them, for some others we know there is no edge, and for the remaining we do not know…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Yudong Chen , Ali Jalali , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

The maximum labelled clique problem is a variant of the maximum clique problem where edges in the graph are given labels, and we are not allowed to use more than a certain number of distinct labels in a solution. We introduce a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Ciaran McCreesh , Patrick Prosser

We present a probabilistic graphical model formulation for the graph clustering problem. This enables to locally represent uncertainty of image partitions by approximate marginal distributions in a mathematically substantiated way, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Jörg Hendrik Kappes , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy , Tamir Hazan , Christoph Schnörr

Locally-biased graph algorithms are algorithms that attempt to find local or small-scale structure in a large data graph. In some cases, this can be accomplished by adding some sort of locality constraint and calling a traditional graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Kimon Fountoulakis , David Gleich , Michael Mahoney

Acceleration of graph applications on GPUs has found large interest due to the ubiquitous use of graph processing in various domains. The inherent \textit{irregularity} in graph applications leads to several challenges for parallelization.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Ananya Raval , Rupesh Nasre , Vivek Kumar , Vasudevan R , Sathish Vadhiyar , Keshav Pingali

In this work, we present a fast distributed algorithm for local potential problems: these are graph problems where the task is to find a locally optimal solution where no node can unilaterally improve the utility in its local neighborhood…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Francesco d'Amore , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Gustav Schmid , Jukka Suomela

Consider the following "local" cut-detection problem in a directed graph: We are given a starting vertex $s$ and need to detect whether there is a cut with at most $k$ edges crossing the cut such that the side of the cut containing $s$ has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Sebastian Forster , Liu Yang

The Maximum Weight Independent Set problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization with several real-world applications. Given an undirected vertex-weighted graph, the problem is to find a subset of the vertices with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz