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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for many mathematical problems. However, their performance on graph algorithmic tasks is still unsatisfying, since graphs are naturally more complex in topology and often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Wenjin Li , Jiaming Cui

A total coloring of a simple undirected graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to its vertices and edges such that the colors given to the vertices form a proper vertex coloring, the colors given to the edges form a proper edge coloring, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Diptimaya Behera , Mathew C. Francis , Sreejith K. Pallathumadam

We contribute to the theoretical understanding of randomized search heuristics for dynamic problems. We consider the classical vertex coloring problem on graphs and investigate the dynamic setting where edges are added to the current graph.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann , Pan Peng , Dirk Sudholt

Many variations of the classical graph coloring model have been intensively studied due to their multiple applications; scheduling problems and aircraft assignments, for instance, motivate the robust coloring problem. This model gets to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Rafael Robles

Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaoyang Kang , Tao Yang , Wenqi Ouyang , Peiran Ren , Lingzhi Li , Xuansong Xie

We present a simple randomized algorithm that can efficiently maintain a $(\Delta+1)$ coloring as the graph undergoes edge insertion and deletion updates, where $\Delta$ denotes an upper bound on the maximum degree. A key advantage is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

We study the edge-colouring problem, and give efficient algorithms where the number of colours is parameterised by the graph's arboricity, $\alpha$. In a dynamic graph, subject to insertions and deletions, we give a deterministic algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Eva Rotenberg , Juliette Vlieghe

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

Graph coloring is fundamental to distributed computing. We give the first sub-logarithmic distributed algorithm for coloring cluster graphs. These graphs are obtained from the underlying communication network by contracting nodes and edges,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Maxime Flin , Magnus M. Halldorsson , Alexandre Nolin

In graph theory, Graph Colouring Problem (GCP) is an assignment of colours to vertices of any given graph such that the colours on adjacent vertices are different. The GCP is known to be an optimization and NP-hard problem. Imperialist…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Hojjat Emami , Shahriar Lotfi

Understanding the role of randomness when solving locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model has been one of the top priorities in the research on distributed graph algorithms in recent years. For LCL problems in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Zahra Parsaeian

We revisit asynchronous computing in networks of crash-prone processes, under the asynchronous variant of the standard LOCAL model, recently introduced by Fraigniaud et al. [DISC 2022]. We focus on the vertex coloring problem, and our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Alkida Balliu , Pierre Fraigniaud , Patrick Lambein-Monette , Dennis Olivetti , Mikael Rabie

One of the fundamental and most-studied algorithmic problems in distributed computing on networks is graph coloring, both in bounded-degree and in general graphs. Recently, the study of this problem has been extended in two directions.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nicolas Bousquet , Laurent Feuilloley , Marc Heinrich , Mikaël Rabie

Reconfiguration problems ask whether one feasible solution can be transformed into another by a sequence of local moves while maintaining feasibility throughout. For integers $d \geq 1$ and $k \geq d+1$, the Distance Coloring problem asks…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Niranka Banerjee , Christian Engels , Duc A. Hoang

We present a new technique to efficiently sample and communicate a large number of elements from a distributed sampling space. When used in the context of a recent LOCAL algorithm for $(\operatorname{degree}+1)$-list-coloring (D1LC), this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Alexandre Nolin , Tigran Tonoyan

In parallel computing, a valid graph coloring yields a lock-free processing of the colored tasks, data points, etc., without expensive synchronization mechanisms. However, coloring is not free and the overhead can be significant. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Mustafa Kemal Taş , Kamer Kaya , Erik Saule

We tackle three optimization problems in which a colored graph, where each node is assigned a color, must be partitioned into colorful connected components. A component is defined as colorful if each color appears at most once. The problems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Claudia Archetti , Martina Cerulli , Carmine Sorgente

Let $G$ be an edge-coloured graph. The minimum colour degree $\delta^c(G)$ of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that, for every vertex $v$, there are at least $k$ distinct colours on edges incident to $v$. We say that $G$ is properly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Allan Lo

We present a simple $(1+\varepsilon)\Delta$-edge-coloring algorithm for graphs of maximum degree $\Delta = \Omega(\log n / \varepsilon)$ with running time $O\left(m\,\log^3 n/\varepsilon^3\right)$. Our algorithm improves upon that of [Duan,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Abhishek Dhawan

The work presents some new algorithms realized recently in the package TESTAS. They decide whether or not deterministic finite automaton (DFA) is synchronizing, several procedures find relatively short synchronizing words and a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Avraham N. Trahtman