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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

In the laminar-constrained spanning tree problem, the goal is to find a minimum-cost spanning tree which respects upper bounds on the number of times each cut in a given laminar family is crossed. This generalizes the well-studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Nathan Klein , Neil Olver

Given a set of points in the Euclidean plane, the Euclidean \textit{$\delta$-minimum spanning tree} ($\delta$-MST) problem is the problem of finding a spanning tree with maximum degree no more than $\delta$ for the set of points such the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Patrick J. Andersen , Charl J. Ras

The Multimarginal Schr\"odinger Bridge (MSB) finds the optimal coupling among a collection of random vectors with known statistics and a known correlation structure. In the MSB formulation, this correlation structure is specified \emph{a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgiy A. Bondar , Abhishek Halder

We address here spanning tree problems on a graph with binary edge weights. For a general weighted graph the minimum spanning tree is solved in super-linear running time, even when the edges of the graph are pre-sorted. A related problem,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Dorit S. Hochbaum

Short spanning trees subject to additional constraints are important building blocks in various approximation algorithms. Especially in the context of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), new techniques for finding spanning trees with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Martin Nägele , Rico Zenklusen

Identifying optimal basic feasible solutions to linear programming problems is a critical task for mixed integer programming and other applications. The crossover method, which aims at deriving an optimal extreme point from a suboptimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Dongdong Ge , Chengwenjian Wang , Zikai Xiong , Yinyu Ye

Minimum Spanning Trees are a well-studied subset of graph problems. While classical algorithms have existed to solve these problems for decades, new variations and application areas are constantly being discovered. When dealing with large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Arjun Bhalla

Consider a connected graph $G$ and let $T$ be a spanning tree of $G$. Every edge $e \in G-T$ induces a cycle in $T \cup \{e\}$. The intersection of two distinct such cycles is the set of edges of $T$ that belong to both cycles. We consider…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Manuel Dubinsky , César Massri , Gabriel Taubin

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem in a setting where information about the edge weights of the given graph is uncertain. Initially, for each edge $e$ of the graph only a set $A_e$, called an uncertainty area, that contains the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Danny Krizanc , Matús Mihal'ák , Rajeev Raman

We consider the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem under the restriction that for every vertex v, the edges of the tree that are adjacent to v satisfy a given family of constraints. A famous example thereof is the classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Rico Zenklusen

Due to its broad applications in practice, the minimum spanning tree problem and its all kinds of variations have been studied extensively during the last decades, for which a host of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yang Xu , Lianmin Zhang

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem with predictions, using the weight-arrival model, i.e., the graph is given, together with predictions for the weights of all edges. Then the actual weights arrive one at a time and an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Magnus Berg , Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

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

In this article, we study the Euclidean minimum spanning tree problem in an imprecise setup. The problem is known as the \emph{Minimum Spanning Tree Problem with Neighborhoods} in the literature. We study the problem where the neighborhoods…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sanjana Dey , Ramesh K. Jallu , Subhas C. Nandy

Simultaneous Embedding with Fixed Edges (SEFE) is a problem where given $k$ planar graphs we ask whether they can be simultaneously embedded so that the embedding of each graph is planar and common edges are drawn the same. Problems of SEFE…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Matěj Konečný , Stanislav Kučera , Jana Novotná , Jakub Pekárek , Martin Smolík , Jakub Tětek , Martin Töpfer

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

We propose the reliability constrained k-rooted minimum spanning forest, a relevant optimization problem whose aim is to find a k-rooted minimum cost forest that connects given customers to a number of supply vertices, in such a way that a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Ida Kalateh Ahani , Majid Salari , Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini , Manuel Iori

Iterative rounding and relaxation have arguably become the method of choice in dealing with unconstrained and constrained network design problems. In this paper we extend the scope of the iterative relaxation method in two directions: (1)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Nikhil Bansal , Rohit Khandekar , Jochen Konemann , Viswanath Nagarajan , Britta Peis

We study the {\em min-cost chain-constrained spanning-tree} (abbreviated \mcst) problem: find a min-cost spanning tree in a graph subject to degree constraints on a nested family of node sets. We devise the {\em first} polytime algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-12 Andre Linhares , Chaitanya Swamy