English
Related papers

Related papers: Dynamic Location Search for Identifying Maximum We…

200 papers

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. MWIS is known to be $NP$-complete in general, even under various restrictions. Let…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-16 T. Karthick

The Generalized Independent Set (GIS) problem extends the classical maximum independent set problem by incorporating profits for vertices and penalties for edges. This generalized problem has been identified in diverse applications in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yiping Liu , Yi Zhou , Zhenxiang Xu , Mingyu Xiao , Jin-Kao Hao

We show that the Maximum Weight Independent Set problem (MWIS) can be solved in quasi-polynomial time on $H$-free graphs (graphs excluding a fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph) for every $H$ whose every connected component is a path or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Peter Gartland , Daniel Lokshtanov , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

We design new deterministic CONGEST approximation algorithms for \emph{maximum weight independent set (MWIS)} in \emph{sparse graphs}. As our main results, we obtain new $\Delta(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms as well as algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yuval Gil

Accurate traffic prediction is a key task for intelligent transportation systems. The core difficulty lies in accurately modeling the complex spatial-temporal dependencies in traffic data. In recent years, improvements in network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sen Shi , Zhichao Zhang , Yangfan He

Recent focus on robustness to adversarial attacks for deep neural networks produced a large variety of algorithms for training robust models. Most of the effective algorithms involve solving the min-max optimization problem for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Yasaman Esfandiari , Aditya Balu , Keivan Ebrahimi , Umesh Vaidya , Nicola Elia , Soumik Sarkar

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem, as well as its related problems such as Minimum Weight Vertex Cover, are fundamental NP-hard problems with numerous practical applications. Due to their computational complexity, a variety…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) Problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. Being one of the most investigated and most important problems on graphs, it is well…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

Process Planning and Scheduling (PPS) is an essential and practical topic but a very intractable problem in manufacturing systems. Many research use iterative methods to solve such problems; however, they cannot achieve satisfactory results…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kai Sun

Maximum weight independent set (MWIS) admits a $\frac1k$-approximation in inductively $k$-independent graphs and a $\frac{1}{2k}$-approximation in $k$-perfectly orientable graphs. These are a a parameterized class of graphs that generalize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

Given a graph $G$, a non-negative integer $k$, and a weight function that maps each vertex in $G$ to a positive real number, the \emph{Maximum Weighted Budgeted Independent Set (MWBIS) problem} is about finding a maximum weighted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Tushar Kalra , Rogers Mathew , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal , Vijay Pandey

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem is a well-known NP-hard problem. For graphs $G_1, G_2$, $G_1+G_2$ denotes the disjoint union of $G_1$ and $G_2$, and for a constant $l \ge 2$, $lG$ denotes the disjoint union of $l$ copies…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Andreas Brandstadt , Raffaele Mosca

Realizing relative localization by leveraging inter-robot local measurements is a challenging problem, especially in the presence of measurement noise. Motivated by this challenge, in this paper we propose a novel and systematic 3-D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Chenyang Liang , Liangming Chen , Baoyi Cui , Jie Mei

We consider a very simple dynamical system on weighted graphs which we call Iterative Graph Normalization (IGN) and a variant in which we apply a non-linear activation function to the weights after each normalization. We show that the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Laurent Guigues

Most graphs in real life keep changing with time. These changes can be in the form of insertion or deletion of edges or vertices. Such rapidly changing graphs motivate us to study dynamic graph algorithms. However, three important graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Manoj Gupta , Shahbaz Khan

We present the first unsupervised learning model for Maximum-Independent-Set (MaxIS) in dynamic graphs where edges change over time. Our method combines structural learning from graph neural networks (GNNs) with a learned distributed update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Devendra Parkar , Anya Chaturvedi , Joshua J. Daymude

This paper deals with the maximum independent set (M.I.S.) problem, also known as the stable set problem. The basic mathematical programming model that captures this problem is an Integer Program (I.P.) with zero-one variables $x_j$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Prabhu Manyem

We develop a new Location Verification System (LVS) focussed on network-based Intelligent Transport Systems and vehicular ad hoc networks. The algorithm we develop is based on an information-theoretic framework which uses the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Shihao Yan , Robert Malaney , Ido Nevat , Gareth W. Peters

Maximum Inner Product Search (MIPS) for high-dimensional vectors is pivotal across databases, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. Existing methods either reduce MIPS to Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) while suffering from…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tingyang Chen , Cong Fu , Kun Wang , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao , Wenchao Zhou , Yabo Ni , Anxiang Zeng

The complexity of classical computational problems in graph classes defined by forbidding induced subgraphs is one of the central topics of algorithmic graph theory. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the complexity of such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Paweł Rafał Bieliński , Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski