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We introduce a permutation analogue of the celebrated Szemeredi Regularity Lemma, and derive a number of consequences. This tool allows us to provide a structural description of permutations which avoid a specified pattern, a result that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joshua N. Cooper

Function graphs are graphs representable by intersections of continuous real-valued functions on the interval [0,1] and are known to be exactly the complements of comparability graphs. As such they are recognizable in polynomial time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Pavel Klavík , Jan Kratochvíl , Tomasz Krawczyk , Bartosz Walczak

We organize a table of regular graphs with minimal diameters and minimal mean path lengths, large bisection widths and high degrees of symmetries, obtained by enumerations on supercomputers. These optimal graphs, many of which are newly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yidan Zhang , Xiaolong Huang , Zhipeng Xu , Yuefan Deng

This Letter introduces a generalization of known duplication-divergence models for growing random graphs. This general duplication-divergence model includes a new coupled divergence asymmetry rate, which allows to obtain the structure of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-04 Dario Borrelli

Mapping complex input data into suitable lower dimensional manifolds is a common procedure in machine learning. This step is beneficial mainly for two reasons: (1) it reduces the data dimensionality and (2) it provides a new data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Daniele Zambon , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

We study the complexity of the problem of searching for a set of patterns that separate two given sets of strings. This problem has applications in a wide variety of areas, most notably in data mining, computational biology, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Giuseppe Lancia , Luke Mathieson , Pablo Moscato

In many physical systems, inputs related by intrinsic system symmetries are mapped to the same output. When inverting such systems, i.e., solving the associated inverse problems, there is no unique solution. This causes fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Kshitij Tayal , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Vipin Kumar , Ju Sun

Connectivity is a central notion of graph theory and plays an important role in graph algorithm design and applications. With emerging new applications in networks, a new type of graph connectivity problem has been getting more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Rupei Xu , Warren Shull

Graphs provide a natural way to represent data by encoding information about objects and the relationships between them. With the ever-increasing amount of data collected and generated, locating specific patterns of relationships between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tatyana Benko , Rebecca Jones , Lucas Tate

Recently there has been increased interest in semi-supervised classification in the presence of graphical information. A new class of learning models has emerged that relies, at its most basic level, on classifying the data after first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Aseem Baranwal , Kimon Fountoulakis , Aukosh Jagannath

Symmetry in mathematical programming may lead to a multiplicity of solutions. In nonconvex optimisation, it can negatively affect the performance of the branch-and-bound algorithm. Symmetry may induce large search trees with multiple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Georgia Kouyialis , Ruth Misener

Graph pattern mining methods can extract informative and useful patterns from large-scale graphs and capture underlying principles through the overwhelmed information. Contrast analysis serves as a keystone in various fields and has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Jingbo Shang , Xiyao Shi , Meng Jiang , Liyuan Liu , Timothy Hanratty , Jiawei Han

In the branch of mathematics known as graph theory, graphs are considered as a set of points, called vertices, with connections between these points, called edges. The purpose of this paper is to study mappings between two graphs that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeffrey Beyerl , Cameron Sharpe

Multicriteria Decision Making problems are important both for individuals and groups. Pairwise comparisons have become popular in the theory and practice of preference modelling and quantification. We focus on decision problems where the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Sándor Bozóki , Zsombor Szádoczki , Hailemariam Abebe Tekile

Subgraph pattern detection aims to uncover complex interaction structures in graphs. However, state-of-the-art graph neural network (GNN)-based solutions assume centralized access to the entire graph. When graphs are instead distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Selin Ceydeli , Rui Wang , Kubilay Atasu

In a recent work, we introduced a parametric framework for obtaining obstruction characterizations of graph parameters with respect to a quasi-ordering $\leqslant$ on graphs. Towards this, we proposed the concepts of class obstruction,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Christophe Paul , Evangelos Protopapas , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

An invariant for cospectral graphs is a property shared by all cospectral graphs. In this paper, we establish three novel arithmetic invariants for cospectral graphs, revealing deep connections between spectral properties and combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Yizhe Ji , Quanyu Tang , Wei Wang , Hao Zhang

We study creating and analyzing symmetry and broken symmetry in digital art. Our focus is not so much on computer-generating artistic images, but rather on analyzing concepts and templates for incorporating symmetry and symmetry breaking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hendrik Richter

Graphs are versatile tools for representing structured data. As a result, a variety of machine learning methods have been studied for graph data analysis. Although many such learning methods depend on the measurement of differences between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-18 Tomoki Yoshida , Ichiro Takeuchi , Masayuki Karasuyama

We present an easy structure theorem for graphs which do not admit an immersion of the complete graph. The theorem motivates the definition of a variation of tree decompositions based on edge cuts instead of vertex cuts which we call…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Paul Wollan