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This paper studies infinite graphs produced from a natural unfolding operation applied to finite graphs. Graphs produced via such operations are of finite degree and automatic over the unary alphabet (that is, they can be described by…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-09-22 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Jiamou Liu , Mia Minnes

We study the parameterized complexity of the problems of finding a maximum common (induced) subgraph of two given graphs. Since these problems generalize several NP-complete problems, they are intractable even when parameterized by strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tesshu Hanaka , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi , Lena Volk

This paper presents a robust and comprehensive graph-based rank aggregation approach, used to combine results of isolated ranker models in retrieval tasks. The method follows an unsupervised scheme, which is independent of how the isolated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Icaro Cavalcante Dourado , Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette , Ricardo da Silva Torres

During the past decade, there has been an extensive investigation of the computational complexity of the consistent answers of Boolean conjunctive queries under primary key constraints. Much of this investigation has focused on…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Foto N. Afrati , Phokion G. Kolaitis , Angelos Vasilakopoulos

In this paper, we investigate the complexity of Maximum Independent Set (MIS) in the class of $H$-free graphs, that is, graphs excluding a fixed graph as an induced subgraph. Given that the problem remains $NP$-hard for most graphs $H$, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Bousquet , Pierre Charbit , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

Proximity graph-based methods have emerged as a leading paradigm for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in the system community. This paper presents fresh insights into the theoretical foundation of these methods. We describe an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shangqi Lu , Yufei Tao

Extensions to finite-state automata on strings, such as multi-head automata or multi-counter automata, have been successfully used to encode many infinite-state non-regular verification problems. In this paper, we consider a generalization…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Rayna Dimitrova , Rupak Majumdar

Bayesian network structure learning is the notoriously difficult problem of discovering a Bayesian network that optimally represents a given set of training data. In this paper we study the computational worst-case complexity of exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

We analyze dynamic random network models where younger vertices connect to older ones with probabilities proportional to their degrees as well as a propensity kernel governed by their attribute types. Using stochastic approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Nelson Antunes , Sayan Banerjee , Shankar Bhamidi , Vladas Pipiras

A number of algorithms have been developed to solve probabilistic inference problems on belief networks. These algorithms can be divided into two main groups: exact techniques which exploit the conditional independence revealed when the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Ross D. Shachter , Mark Alan Peot

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph which minimizes the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already when all functions are the same, we show that it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Shmuel Onn

Graph Retrieval has witnessed continued interest and progress in the past few years. In thisreport, we focus on neural network based approaches for Graph matching and retrieving similargraphs from a corpus of graphs. We explore methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Chitrank Gupta , Yash Jain

In this paper, we resolve the computational complexity of a number of outstanding open problems with practical applications. Here is the list of problems we show to be PPAD-complete, along with the domains of practical significance:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-04-10 Shiva Kintali , Laura J. Poplawski , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Ravi Sundaram , Shang-Hua Teng

This paper considers the problem of completing a rating matrix based on sub-sampled matrix entries as well as observed social graphs and hypergraphs. We show that there exists a \emph{sharp threshold} on the sample probability for the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang

Representing graphs by their homomorphism counts has led to the beautiful theory of homomorphism indistinguishability in recent years. Moreover, homomorphism counts have promising applications in database theory and machine learning, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jan Böker , Louis Härtel , Nina Runde , Tim Seppelt , Christoph Standke

The success of graph neural network-based models (GNNs) has significantly advanced recommender systems by effectively modeling users and items as a bipartite, undirected graph. However, many original graph-based works often adopt results…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vito Walter Anelli , Daniele Malitesta , Claudio Pomo , Alejandro Bellogín , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio

Personalized PageRank (PPR) has enormous applications, such as link prediction and recommendation systems for social networks, which often require the fully PPR to be known. Besides, most of real-life graphs are edge-weighted, e.g., the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Wenqing Lin

In this article we consider several probabilistic processes defining random grapha. One of these processes appeared recently in connection with a factorization problem in the symmetric group. For each of the probabilistic processes, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Olivier Bernardi , Alejandro H. Morales

In confirmatory clinical trials, it has been proposed to use a simple iterative graphical approach to construct and perform intersection hypotheses tests with a weighted Bonferroni-type procedure to control type I errors in the strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tianyu Zhan , Alan H Hartford , Jian Kang , Walter W Offen

Keyword search provides ordinary users an easy-to-use interface for querying RDF data. Given the input keywords, in this paper, we study how to assemble a query graph that is to represent user's query intention accurately and efficiently.…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Shuo Han , Lei Zou , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Dongyan Zhao