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Consider a graph with n nodes and m edges, independent edge weights and lengths, and arbitrary distance demands for node pairs. The spanner problem asks for a minimum-weight subgraph that satisfies these demands via sufficiently short paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fritz Bökler , Markus Chimani , Henning Jasper

In this paper, we focus on solving a distributed convex optimization problem in a network, where each agent has its own convex cost function and the goal is to minimize the sum of the agents' cost functions while obeying the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Shi Pu , Wei Shi , Jinming Xu , Angelia Nedić

We study the problem of edge partitioning, where the goal is to partition the edge set of a graph into several parts. The replication factor of a vertex $v$ is the number of parts that contain edges incident to $v$. The goal is to minimize…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alexander Yakunin , Andrey Kupavskii , Alexander Sushin , Stanislav Moiseev

In this paper we describe an algorithm that embeds a graph metric $(V,d_G)$ on an undirected weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ into a distribution of tree metrics $(T,D_T)$ such that for every pair $u,v\in V$, $d_G(u,v)\leq d_T(u,v)$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Guy E. Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Due to the increasing discovery and implementation of networks within all disciplines of life, the study of subgraph connectivity has become increasingly important. Motivated by the idea of community (or sub-graph) detection within a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Linda Eroh , Henry Escuardo , Ralucca Gera , Samuel Prahlow , Karl R. B. Schmitt

In the context of influence propagation in a social graph, we can identify three orthogonal dimensions - the number of seed nodes activated at the beginning (known as budget), the expected number of activated nodes at the end of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Amit Goyal , Francesco Bonchi , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Reliable propagation of information through large networks, e.g., communication networks, social networks or sensor networks is very important in many applications concerning marketing, social networks, and wireless sensor networks.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Christian Frey , Andreas Züfle , Tobias Emrich , Matthias Renz

Structure and dynamics of complex networks usually deal with degree distributions, clustering, shortest path lengths and other graph properties. Although these concepts have been analysed for graphs on abstract spaces, many networks happen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. O. Hase , J. F. F. Mendes

Let $d,n\in \mathbb{N}$ be such that $d=\omega(1)$, and $d\le n^{1-a}$ for some constant $a>0$. Consider a $d$-regular graph $G=(V, E)$ and the random graph process that starts with the empty graph $G(0)$ and at each step $G(i)$ is obtained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Sahar Diskin , Anna Geisler

Graph theory is increasingly commonly utilised in genetics, proteomics and neuroimaging. In such fields, the data of interest generally constitute weighted graphs. Analysis of such weighted graphs often require the integration of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-09 Cedric E. Ginestet , Andrew Simmons

In this paper we study Eulerian extensions with edge constraints and use the probabilistic method to establish sufficient conditions for a given connected graph to be a subgraph of a Eulerian graph containing $m$ edges, for a given number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

We present approximation algorithms for several network design problems in the model of Flexible Graph Connectivity (Adjiashvili, Hommelsheim and M\"uhlenthaler, "Flexible Graph Connectivity", Math. Program. pp. 1-33 (2021), and IPCO 2020:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Sylvia Boyd , Joseph Cheriyan , Arash Haddadan , Sharat Ibrahimpur

An $(\alpha,\beta)$-ruling set of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set $R\subseteq V$ such that for any node $v\in V$ there is a node $u\in R$ in distance at most $\beta$ from $v$ and such that any two nodes in $R$ are at distance at least $\alpha$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Simon Weidner

The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Anand Louis , Yury Makarychev

We consider the problem of sampling an edge almost uniformly from an unknown graph, $G = (V, E)$. Access to the graph is provided via queries of the following types: (1) uniform vertex queries, (2) degree queries, and (3) neighbor queries.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Talya Eden , Will Rosenbaum

In social networks, a node's position is a form of \it{social capital}. Better-positioned members not only benefit from (faster) access to diverse information, but innately have more potential influence on information spread. Structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Ashkan Bashardoust , Sorelle A. Friedler , Carlos E. Scheidegger , Blair D. Sullivan , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

We present improved approximation algorithms for some problems in the related areas of Capacitated Network Design and Flexible Graph Connectivity. In the Cap-$k$-ECSS problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges have non-negative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ishan Bansal , Joseph Cheriyan , Sanjeev Khanna , Miles Simmons

Preferential attachment graphs are random graphs designed to mimic properties of typical real world networks. They are constructed by a random process that iteratively adds vertices and attaches them preferentially to vertices that already…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Jan Dreier , Philipp Kuinke , Peter Rossmanith

A preferential attachment model for a growing network incorporating deletion of edges is studied and the expected asymptotic degree distribution is analyzed. At each time step $t=1,2,\ldots$, with probability $\pi_1>0$ a new vertex with one…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-30 Maria Deijfen , Mathias Lindholm

In matrix factorization, available graph side-information may not be well suited for the matrix completion problem, having edges that disagree with the latent-feature relations learnt from the incomplete data matrix. We show that removing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jonathan Strahl , Jaakko Peltonen , Hiroshi Mamitsuka , Samuel Kaski