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The Burning Number Problem (BNP) models the spread of information or contagion in a network through a discrete-time process on a graph. At each step, one new vertex is selected as a burning source, while fire simultaneously spreads from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dhanyamol Antony , L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Shirish Gosavi , Dalu Jacob , Shashanka Kulamarva

Graph burning is a deterministic, discrete-time process that models how influence or contagion spreads in a graph. Associated to each graph is its burning number, which is a parameter that quantifies how quickly the influence spreads. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Anthony Bonato

Graph burning is a graph process that models the spread of social contagion. Initially, all the vertices of a graph $G$ are unburnt. At each step, an unburnt vertex is put on fire and the fire from burnt vertices of the previous step…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Sandip Das , Sk Samim Islam , Ritam M Mitra , Sanchita Paul

In this paper we present a greedy algorithm for solving the problem of the maximum partitioning of graphs with supply and demand (MPGSD). The goal of the method is to solve the MPGSD for large graphs in a reasonable time limit. This is done…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Raka Jovanovic , Abdelkader Bousselham , Stefan Voss

Graph burning is a natural discrete graph algorithm inspired by the spread of social contagion. Despite its simplicity, some open problems remain steadfastly unsolved, notably the burning number conjecture, which says that every connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Ta Sheng Tan , Wen Chean Teh

Graph burning is a discrete-time process that models the spread of social contagion. Initially, all vertices are unburned. In each round, one unburned vertex is selected and burned, while any unburned vertex that has a burned neighbour from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jesper Jansson , Shashanka Kulamarva , Yukihiro Murakami , Nikolaas Verhulst

Motivated by a graph theoretic process intended to measure the speed of the spread of contagion in a graph, Bonato, Janssen, and Roshanbin [Burning a Graph as a Model of Social Contagion, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8882 (2014) 13-22]…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Stéphane Bessy , Anthony Bonato , Jeannette Janssen , Dieter Rautenbach

The Burning Number Conjecture, that a graph on $n$ vertices can be burned in at most $\lceil \sqrt{n} \ \rceil$ rounds, has been of central interest for the past several years. Much of the literature toward its resolution focuses on two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Mohamed Omar , Vibha Rohilla

We study the approximability of the maximum size independent set (MIS) problem in bounded degree graphs. This is one of the most classic and widely studied NP-hard optimization problems. We focus on the well known minimum degree greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Piotr Krysta , Mathieu Mari , Nan Zhi

For both the edge deletion heuristic and the maximum-degree greedy heuristic, we study the problem of recognizing those graphs for which that heuristic can approximate the size of a minimum vertex cover within a constant factor of r, where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Edith Hemaspaandra , Jörg Rothe , Holger Spakowski

Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, the problem of Graph Burning is to find a sequence of nodes from $V$, called a burning sequence, to burn the whole graph. This is a discrete-step process, and at each step, an unburned vertex is selected as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani

Graph burning is a discrete-time process on graphs, where vertices are sequentially burned, and burned vertices cause their neighbours to burn over time. We consider extremal properties of this process in the new setting where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Anthony Bonato , Karen Gunderson , Amy Shaw

A dominating set of a graph $\mathcal{G=(V, E)}$ is a subset of vertices $S\subseteq\mathcal{V}$ such that every vertex $v\in \mathcal{V} \setminus S$ outside the dominating set is adjacent to a vertex $u\in S$ within the set. The minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Abihith Kothapalli , Mudassir Shabbir , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Graph burning is one model for the spread of memes and contagion in social networks. The corresponding graph parameter is the burning number of a graph $G$, written $b(G)$, which measures the speed of the social contagion. While it is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Anthony Bonato , Thomas Lidbetter

The burning process on a graph $G$ starts with a single burnt vertex, and at each subsequent step, burns the neighbors of the currently burnt vertices, as well as one other unburnt vertex. The burning number of $G$ is the smallest number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-28 J. Mark Keil , Debajyoti Mondal , Ehsan Moradi

Graph sparsification is to approximate an arbitrary graph by a sparse graph and is useful in many applications, such as simplification of social networks, least squares problems, numerical solution of symmetric positive definite linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ming-Jun Lai , Jiaxin Xie , Zhiqiang Xu

In this paper, we study a graph parameter that was recently introduced, the burning number, focusing on a few probabilistic aspects of the problem. The original burning number is revisited and analyzed for binomial random graphs G(n,p),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Dieter Mitsche , Pawel Pralat , Elham Roshanbin

The crossing angle of a straight-line drawing $\Gamma$ of a graph $G=(V, E)$ is the smallest angle between two crossing edges in $\Gamma$. Deciding whether a graph $G$ has a straight-line drawing with a crossing angle of $90^\circ$ is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Almut Demel , Dominik Dürrschnabel , Tamara Mchedlidze , Marcel Radermacher , Lasse Wulf

The burning number conjecture states that the burning number of a connected graph is at most $\lceil \sqrt{n} \rceil.$ While the conjecture is unresolved, Land and Lu proved that the burning number of a connected graph is at most $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Anthony Bonato , Shahin Kamali

In Nature Machine Intelligence 4, 367 (2022), Schuetz et al provide a scheme to employ graph neural networks (GNN) as a heuristic to solve a variety of classical, NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. It describes how the network is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-03 Stefan Boettcher