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We prove essentially tight lower bounds, conditionally to the Exponential Time Hypothesis, for two fundamental but seemingly very different cutting problems on surface-embedded graphs: the Shortest Cut Graph problem and the Multiway Cut…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Éric Colin de Verdière , Daniel Marx , Arnaud de Mesmay

We study problems related to connecting multi-interface networks of wireless devices. These problems are modeled using graphs, where vertices represent the devices and edges represent potential communication links. Each vertex can activate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Michał Szyfelbein , Camille Richer

We present near-optimal algorithms for detecting small vertex cuts in the CONGEST model of distributed computing. Despite extensive research in this area, our understanding of the vertex connectivity of a graph is still incomplete,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Merav Parter , Asaf Petruschka

In this paper, we propose a method, based on graph signal processing, to optimize the choice of $k$ in $k$-nearest neighbor graphs ($k$NNGs). $k$NN is one of the most popular approaches and is widely used in machine learning and signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Asuka Tamaru , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka , Antonio Ortega

We consider capacitated vertex cover with hard capacity constraints (VC-HC) on hypergraphs. In this problem we are given a hypergraph $G=(V,E)$ with a maximum edge size $f$. Each edge is associated with a demand and each vertex is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Mong-Jen Kao , Hai-Lun Tu , D. T. Lee

The minimum cost multicut problem is the NP-hard/APX-hard combinatorial optimization problem of partitioning a real-valued edge-weighted graph such as to minimize the total cost of the partition. While graph convolutional neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

In the past decades, many scholars concerned which edge-extremal problems have spectral analogues? Recently, Wang, Kang and Xue showed an interesting result on $F$-free graphs [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 159 (2023) 20--41]. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zhenzhen Lou , Changxiang He

The Tree Augmentation Problem (TAP) is: given a connected graph $G=(V,{\cal E})$ and an edge set $E$ on $V$ find a minimum size subset of edges $F \subseteq E$ such that $(V,{\cal E} \cup F)$ is $2$-edge-connected. In the conference version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Guy Kortsarz , Zeev Nutov

We study the vertex-decremental Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) problem: given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with lengths $\ell(e)\geq 1$ on its edges and a source vertex $s$, we need to support (approximate) shortest-path queries in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

\emph{$K$-best enumeration}, which asks to output $k$-best solutions without duplication, is a helpful tool in data analysis for many fields. In such fields, graphs typically represent data. Thus subgraph enumeration has been paid much…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa

We design an algorithm for approximating the size of \emph{Max Cut} in dense graphs. Given a proximity parameter $\varepsilon \in (0,1)$, our algorithm approximates the size of \emph{Max Cut} of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, within an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Rahul Raychaudhury , Sayantan Sen

We focus on designing combinatorial algorithms for the Capacitated Network Design problem (Cap-SNDP). The Cap-SNDP is the problem of satisfying connectivity requirements when edges have costs and hard capacities. We begin by showing that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Rohit Khandekar , Guy Kortsarz , Zeev Nutov

We study the decremental All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected edge-weighted graphs. The input to the problem is an $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph $G$ with non-negative edge lengths, that undergoes a sequence of edge deletions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Julia Chuzhoy

We revisit the classic broadcast problem, wherein we have $k$ messages, each composed of $O(\log{n})$ bits, distributed arbitrarily across a network. The objective is to broadcast these messages to all nodes in the network. In the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Shashwat Chandra , Yi-Jun Chang , Michal Dory , Mohsen Ghaffari , Dean Leitersdorf

Graph-based nearest neighbor search methods have seen a surge of popularity in recent years, offering state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications. Central to these methods is the task of constructing a sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Alex Conway , Laxman Dhulipala , Martin Farach-Colton , Rob Johnson , Ben Landrum , Christopher Musco , Yarin Shechter , Torsten Suel , Richard Wen

Several important tasks in medical image analysis can be stated in the form of an optimization problem whose feasible solutions are connected subgraphs. Examples include the reconstruction of neural or vascular structures under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Markus Rempfler , Bjoern Andres , Bjoern H. Menze

We present a deterministic near-linear time algorithm that computes the edge-connectivity and finds a minimum cut for a simple undirected unweighted graph G with n vertices and m edges. This is the first o(mn) time deterministic algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup

The Max-Cut problem is a well known combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper we describe a fast approximation method. Given a graph G, we want to find a cut whose size is maximal among all possible cuts. A cut is a partition of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Blaine Keetch , Yves van Gennip

Many resource allocation problems in the cloud can be described as a basic Virtual Network Embedding Problem (VNEP): finding mappings of request graphs (describing the workloads) onto a substrate graph (describing the physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Matthias Rost , Stefan Schmid

We study the problem of extracting a selective connector for a given set of query vertices $Q \subseteq V$ in a graph $G = (V,E)$. A selective connector is a subgraph of $G$ which exhibits some cohesiveness property, and contains the query…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Natali Ruchansky , Francesco Bonchi , David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Gullo , Nicolas Kourtellis