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In this paper, we study the Orienteering Aisle-graphs Single-access Problem (OASP), a variant of the orienteering problem for a robot moving in a so-called single-access aisle-graph, i.e., a graph consisting of a set of rows that can be…

The Hop-Constrained Steiner Tree problem (HCST) is challenging NP-hard problem arising in the design of centralized telecommunication networks where the reliability constraints matter. In this paper three iterative greedy algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Farzane Yahyanejad , Bahram Sadeghi Bigham

We study the average performance of online greedy matching algorithms on $G(n,n,p)$, the random bipartite graph with $n$ vertices on each side and edges occurring independently with probability $p=p(n)$. In the online model, vertices on one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Andrew Mastin , Patrick Jaillet

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

In this paper we present a greedy algorithm for solving the problem of the maximum partitioning of graphs with supply and demand (MPGSD). The goal of the method is to solve the MPGSD for large graphs in a reasonable time limit. This is done…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Raka Jovanovic , Abdelkader Bousselham , Stefan Voss

The ubiquity of large-scale graphs in node-classification tasks significantly hinders the real-world applications of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Node sampling, graph coarsening, and dataset condensation are effective strategies for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mucong Ding , Yinhan He , Jundong Li , Furong Huang

Given a connected graph $G$ with some subset of its vertices excited and a fixed target vertex, in the geodesic-biased random walk on $G$, a random walker moves as follows: from an unexcited vertex, she moves to a uniformly random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Mikhail Beliayeu , Petr Chmel , Bhargav Narayanan , Jan Petr

We discuss a new algorithmic type of problem in random graphs studying the minimum number of queries one has to ask about adjacency between pairs of vertices of a random graph $G\sim {\mathcal G}(n,p)$ in order to find a subgraph which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov , Pedro Vieira

Recently, greedy algorithm has received much attention as a cost-effective means to reconstruct the sparse signals from compressed measurements. Much of previous work has focused on the investigation of a single candidate to identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Jaeseok Lee , Suhyuk Kwon , Jun Won Choi , Byonghyo Shim

Consider the following generalization of the classic binary search problem: A searcher is required to find a hidden target vertex $x$ in a graph $G$. To do so, they iteratively perform queries to an oracle, each about a chosen vertex $v$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michał Szyfelbein

This paper focuses on the development of novel greedy techniques for distributed learning under sparsity constraints. Greedy techniques have widely been used in centralized systems due to their low computational requirements and at the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Symeon Chouvardas , Gerasimos Mileounis , Nicholas Kalouptsidis , Sergios Theodoridis

Nearest neighbor search is a fundamental data structure problem with many applications in machine learning, computer vision, recommendation systems and other fields. Although the main objective of the data structure is to quickly report…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Piyush Anand , Piotr Indyk , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sepideh Mahabadi , Vikas C. Raykar , Kirankumar Shiragur , Haike Xu

In dictionary selection, several atoms are selected from finite candidates that successfully approximate given data points in the sparse representation. We propose a novel efficient greedy algorithm for dictionary selection. Not only does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Kaito Fujii , Tasuku Soma

Motivated by sequential budgeted allocation problems, we investigate online matching problems where connections between vertices are not i.i.d., but they have fixed degree distributions -- the so-called configuration model. We estimate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nathan Noiry , Flore Sentenac , Vianney Perchet

Computing a (short) path between two vertices is one of the most fundamental primitives in graph algorithmics. In recent years, the study of paths in temporal graphs, that is, graphs where the vertex set is fixed but the edge set changes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Arnaud Casteigts , Anne-Sophie Himmel , Hendrik Molter , Philipp Zschoche

A new efficient algorithm is presented for finding all simple cycles that satisfy a length constraint in a directed graph. When the number of vertices is non-trivial, most cycle-finding problems are of practical interest for sparse graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Anshul Gupta , Toyotaro Suzumura

Constrained pathfinding is a well-studied, yet challenging network optimisation problem that can be seen in a broad range of real-world applications. Pathfinding with multiple resource limits, which is known as the Resource Constrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Saman Ahmadi , Andrea Raith , Mahdi Jalili

How efficiently can we find an unknown graph using distance or shortest path queries between its vertices? Let $G = (V,E)$ be an unweighted, connected graph of bounded degree. The edge set $E$ is initially unknown, and the graph can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Sampath Kannan , Claire Mathieu , Hang Zhou

In this article, we study a single-machine scheduling problem of minimizing the total tardiness for a set of independent jobs. The processing time of a job is modeled as a step function of its starting time and a specific deteriorating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-16 Peng Guo , Wenming Chen , Yi Wang

It was recently shown that a version of the greedy algorithm gives a construction of fault-tolerant spanners that is size-optimal, at least for vertex faults. However, the algorithm to construct this spanner is not polynomial-time, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Michael Dinitz , Caleb Robelle