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Designing well-connected graphs is a fundamental problem that frequently arises in various contexts across science and engineering. The weighted number of spanning trees, as a connectivity measure, emerges in numerous problems and plays a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

We introduce the concept of Most, and Least, Compact Spanning Trees - denoted respectively by $T^*(G)$ and $T^\#(G)$ - of a simple, connected, undirected and unweighted graph $G(V, E, W)$. For a spanning tree $T(G) \in \mathcal{T}(G)$ to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Gyan Ranjan , Nishant Saurabh , Amit Ashutosh

The problem of spanning trees is closely related to various interesting problems in the area of statistical physics, but determining the number of spanning trees in general networks is computationally intractable. In this paper, we perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-23 Zhongzhi Zhang , Bin Wu , Yuan Lin

Tree alignment graphs (TAGs) provide an intuitive data structure for storing phylogenetic trees that exhibits the relationships of the individual input trees and can potentially account for nested taxonomic relationships. This paper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Ruchi Chaudhary , David Fernandez-Baca , J. Gordon Burleigh

Graphs provide a universal framework for representing complex relational systems, and inferring their structural properties is a core challenge in graph analysis and reasoning. While large language models have recently demonstrated emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Michal Podstawski

Packing graphs is a combinatorial problem where several given graphs are being mapped into a common host graph such that every edge is used at most once. In the planar tree packing problem we are given two trees T1 and T2 on n vertices and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Markus Geyer , Michael Hoffmann , Michael Kaufmann , Vincent Kusters , Csaba D. Tóth

A complete description is given of how minimal trees on atoms of the algebra of subsets $\mathfrak{A}_k$ generated by minimal spanning $k$-component forests of a weighted digraph $V$ determine the form of these forests and how forests grow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Vasily Buslov

Sparse structures are frequently sought when pursuing tractability in optimization problems. They are exploited from both theoretical and computational perspectives to handle complex problems that become manageable when sparsity is present.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Yuri Faenza , Gonzalo Muñoz , Sebastian Pokutta

We consider the problem of testing properties of graphs underlying high-dimensional graphical models. We adopt the model of covariance queries introduced by Lugosi, Truszkowski, Velona, and Zwiernik (2021). We study the case when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Sofiya Burova , Francisco Calvillo , Gábor Lugosi , Piotr Zwiernik

Graphs are a generalized concept that encompasses more complex data structures than trees, such as difference lists, doubly-linked lists, skip lists, and leaf-linked trees. Normally, these structures are handled with destructive assignments…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jin Sano , Naoki Yamamoto , Kazunori Ueda

The Minimum Branch Vertices Spanning Tree problem aims to find a spanning tree $T$ in a given graph $G$ with the fewest branch vertices, defined as vertices with a degree three or more in $T$. This problem, known to be NP-hard, has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno

We present a link-by-link rule-based method for constructing all members of the ensemble of spanning trees for any recursively generated, finitely articulated graph, such as the DGM net. The recursions allow for many large-scale properties…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-14 C. Tyler Diggans , Erik M. Bollt , Daniel ben-Avraham

Large graphs abound in machine learning, data mining, and several related areas. A useful step towards analyzing such graphs is that of obtaining certain summary statistics - e.g., or the expected length of a shortest path between two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-02 Mikhail Langovoy , Suvrit Sra

Recent advancements in complex network analysis are encouraging and may provide useful insights when applied in software engineering domain, revealing properties and structures that cannot be captured by traditional metrics. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Daniel Henrique Mourão Falci , Orlando Abreu Gomes , Fernando Silva Parreiras

Building on work by Desjarlais, Molina, Faase, and others, a general method is obtained for counting the number of spanning trees of graphs that are a product of an arbitrary graph and either a path or a cycle, of which grid graphs are a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-16 Paul Raff

We study the problem of connecting the parts of a multipartite graph using a minimum number of edges under a matching constraint. We introduce interconnection trees, defined as matchings whose projections onto the quotient graph form a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Noé Demange , Yann Strozecki

Treewidth is a well-known graph invariant with multiple interesting applications in combinatorics. On the practical side, many NP-complete problems are polynomial-time (sometimes even linear-time) solvable on graphs of bounded treewidth. On…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Zoltan A. Kocsis , Benjamin Merlin Bumpus

In this work, we introduce TreeWidzard, an engine for developing dynamic programming algorithms that decide graph-theoretic properties parameterized by treewidth and pathwidth. Besides providing a unified framework for algorithms deciding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveria , Sam Urmian

In real life, it is always an urge to reach our goal in minimum effort i.e., it should have a minimum constrained path. The path may be shortest route in practical life, either physical or electronic medium. The scenario is to represents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Sounak Sadhukhan , Samar Sen Sarma

We continue the study of token sliding reconfiguration graphs of independent sets initiated by the authors in an earlier paper (arXiv:2203.16861). Two of the topics in that paper were to study which graphs $G$ are token sliding graphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-09 David Avis , Duc A. Hoang