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We study the minimum spanning tree distribution on the space of spanning trees of the $n$-by-$n$ grid for large $n$. We establish bounds on the decay rates of the probability of the most and the least probable spanning trees as…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Kristopher Tapp

A spanning tree $T$ of graph $G$ is a $\rho$-approximate universal Steiner tree (UST) for root vertex $r$ if, for any subset of vertices $S$ containing $r$, the cost of the minimal subgraph of $T$ connecting $S$ is within a $\rho$ factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Costas Busch , Da Qi Chen , Arnold Filtser , Daniel Hathcock , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Rajmohan Rajaraman

SpectralNet is a graph clustering method that uses neural network to find an embedding that separates the data. So far it was only used with $k$-nn graphs, which are usually constructed using a distance metric (e.g., Euclidean distance).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mashaan Alshammari , John Stavrakakis , Adel F. Ahmed , Masahiro Takatsuka

Deciding whether a political districting plan was distorted by a hidden agenda, or whether it dilutes the voting power of some group, requires a neutral baseline for comparison. Remarkably, all nine U.S. Supreme Court justices have now…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Sarah Cannon , Moon Duchin , Dana Randall , Parker Rule

Nearest neighbor (k-NN) graphs are widely used in machine learning and data mining applications, and our aim is to better understand what they reveal about the cluster structure of the unknown underlying distribution of points. Moreover, is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-05-06 Samory Kpotufe , Ulrike von Luxburg

We study a generalization of the classic Spanning Tree problem that allows for a non-uniform failure model. More precisely, edges are either \emph{safe} or \emph{unsafe} and we assume that failures only affect unsafe edges. In Unweighted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Matthias Bentert , Jannik Schestag , Frank Sommer

Given an $H$-minor-free graph $G$ and an integer $k$, our main technical contribution is sampling in randomized polynomial time an induced subgraph $G'$ of $G$ and a tree decomposition of $G'$ of width $\widetilde{O}(k)$ such that for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We give the first polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Steiner forest problem on planar graphs and, more generally, on graphs of bounded genus. As a first step, we show how to build a Steiner forest spanner for such graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-30 MohammadHossein Bateni , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider a relaxed version of this problem in the setting of local algorithms. The relaxation is that the constructed subgraph is a sparse spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

The \emph{spanning tree packing number} of a graph $G$ is the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees contained in $G$. Let $k\geq 1$ be a fixed integer. Palmer and Spencer proved that in almost every random graph process, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Xiaolin Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

Rooted, weighted continuum random trees are used to describe limits of sequences of random discrete trees. Formally, they are random quadruples $(\mathcal{T},d,r,p)$, where $(\mathcal{T},d)$ is a tree-like metric space, $r\in\mathcal{T}$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Noah Forman

A vertex of degree one in a tree is called an end vertex and a vertex of degree at least three is called a branch vertex. For a graph $G$, let $\sigma_2$ be the minimum degree sum of two nonadjacent vertices in $G$. We consider tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Zhora Nikoghosyan

The problem of spanning trees is closely related to various interesting problems in the area of statistical physics, but determining the number of spanning trees in general networks is computationally intractable. In this paper, we perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-23 Zhongzhi Zhang , Bin Wu , Yuan Lin

We propose an algorithm named best-scored random forest for binary classification problems. The terminology "best-scored" means to select the one with the best empirical performance out of a certain number of purely random tree candidates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Hanyuan Hang , Xiaoyu Liu , Ingo Steinwart

A spanning tree $T$ of a connected graph $G$ is a subgraph of $G$ that is a tree covers all vertices of $G$. The leaf distance of $T$ is defined as the minimum of distances between any two leaves of $T$. A fractional matching of a graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Sizhong Zhou

We present an explicit connected spanning structure that appears in a random graph just above the connectivity threshold with high probability.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Yahav Alon , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

We introduce an algorithm that performs a one-directional mesh overset of a parallel forest of octrees with another distributed mesh of unrelated partition. The forest mesh consists of several adaptively refined octrees. Individual smooth…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hannes Brandt , Carsten Burstedde

We prove the following sharp estimate for the number of spanning trees of a graph in terms of its vertex-degrees: a simple graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has at most $(1/n^{2}) \prod_{v \in V(G)} (d(v)+1)$ spanning trees. This result is tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Steven Klee , Bhargav Narayanan , Lisa Sauermann

A method for considering a weighted directed graph with an accuracy of up to a given partition of the set of vertices is proposed. The resulting digraph (the splitting graph) does not contain arcs inside each partition element, and the arcs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 V. A. Buslov

Large tree structures are ubiquitous and real-world relational datasets often have information associated with nodes (e.g., labels or other attributes) and edges (e.g., weights or distances) that need to be communicated to the viewers. Yet,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Kathryn Gray , Mingwei Li , Reyan Ahmed , Md. Khaledur Rahman , Ariful Azad , Stephen Kobourov , Katy Börner