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This article reports an algorithm for multi-agent distributed optimization problems with a common decision variable, local linear equality and inequality constraints and set constraints with convergence rate guarantees.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Vivek Khatana , Murti V. Salapaka

In two earlier papers, we designed a distributed deterministic asynchronous algorithm for minimizing the sum of subdifferentiable and proximable functions and a regularizing quadratic on time-varying graphs based on Dykstra's algorithm, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 C. H. Jeffrey Pang

The main result of the paper is motivated by the following two, apparently unrelated graph optimization problems: (A) as an extension of Edmonds' disjoint branchings theorem, characterize digraphs comprising $k$ disjoint branchings $B_i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Kristóf Bérczi , András Frank

We present multiscale graph-based reduction algorithms for upscaling heterogeneous and anisotropic diffusion problems. The proposed coarsening approaches begin by constructing a partitioning of the computational domain into a set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Maria Vasilyeva , James Brannick , Ben S. Southworth

Clustering is an important topic in algorithms, and has a number of applications in machine learning, computer vision, statistics, and several other research disciplines. Traditional objectives of graph clustering are to find clusters with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

The method of types presented by Csiszar and Korner is a central tool used to develop and analyze the basic properties and constraints on sequences of data over finite alphabets. A central problem considered using these tools is that of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ronit Bustin , Ofer Shayevitz

Partial graph matching extends traditional graph matching by allowing some nodes to remain unmatched, enabling applications in more complex scenarios. However, this flexibility introduces additional complexity, as both the subset of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Gathika Ratnayaka , James Nichols , Qing Wang

A minimum dominating set for a digraph (directed graph) is a smallest set of vertices such that each vertex either belongs to this set or has at least one parent vertex in this set. We solve this hard combinatorial optimization problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Yusupjan Habibulla , Jin-Hua Zhao , Hai-Jun Zhou

Balanced partitioning is often a crucial first step in solving large-scale graph optimization problems, e.g., in some cases, a big graph can be chopped into pieces that fit on one machine to be processed independently before stitching the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kevin Aydin , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

We give new, improved bounds for approximating the sparsest cut value or in other words the conductance $\phi$ of a graph in the CONGEST model. As our main result, we present an algorithm running in $O(\log^2 n/\phi)$ rounds in which every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yannic Maus , Tijn de Vos

We study the directed maximum common edge subgraph problem (DMCES) for the class of directed graphs that are finite, weakly connected, oriented, and simple. We use DMCES to define a metric on partially ordered sets that can be represented…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Robert Nerem , Peter Crawford-Kahrl , Bree Cummins , Tomas Gedeon

We study the approximability of multiway partitioning problems, examples of which include Multiway Cut, Node-weighted Multiway Cut, and Hypergraph Multiway Cut. We investigate these problems from the point of view of two possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Alina Ene , Jan Vondrak , Yi Wu

We propose graph-dependent implicit regularisation strategies for distributed stochastic subgradient descent (Distributed SGD) for convex problems in multi-agent learning. Under the standard assumptions of convexity, Lipschitz continuity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini

This paper addresses the behavior of the Lov\'asz number for dense random circulant graphs. The Lov\'asz number is a well-known semidefinite programming upper bound on the independence number. Circulant graphs, an example of a Cayley graph,…

This paper deals with an optimization problem over a network of agents, where the cost function is the sum of the individual objectives of the agents and the constraint set is the intersection of local constraints. Most existing methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Van Sy Mai , Eyad H. Abed

Conductivity reconstruction in an inverse eddy current problem is considered in the present paper. With the electric field measurement on part of domain boundary, we formulate the reconstruction problem to a constrained optimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Junqing Chen , Zehao Long

A natural generalization of the recognition problem for a geometric graph class is the problem of extending a representation of a subgraph to a representation of the whole graph. A related problem is to find representations for multiple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Miriam Münch , Ignaz Rutter , Peter Stumpf

We study the Minimum Submodular-Cost Allocation problem (MSCA). In this problem we are given a finite ground set $V$ and $k$ non-negative submodular set functions $f_1 ,..., f_k$ on $V$. The objective is to partition $V$ into $k$ (possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-12 Chandra Chekuri , Alina Ene

Electrical impedance tomography aims at reconstructing the interior electrical conductivity from surface measurements of currents and voltages. As the current-voltage pairs depend nonlinearly on the conductivity, impedance tomography leads…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Nuutti Hyvönen , Lauri Mustonen