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In this paper, we study the form over the minimum spanning tree problem (MST) from which we will derive an intuitively generalized model and new methods with the upper bound of runtimes of logarithm. The new pattern we made has taken…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Yong Tan

We present a new algorithm for generating a uniformly random spanning tree in an undirected graph. Our algorithm samples such a tree in expected $\tilde{O}(m^{4/3})$ time. This improves over the best previously known bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Aleksander Madry , Damian Straszak , Jakub Tarnawski

Minimum spanning trees are important tools in the analysis and design of networks. Many practical applications require their computation, ranging from biology and linguistics to economy and telecommunications. The set of cycles of a network…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Manuel Dubinsky , Kun-Mao Chao , César Massri , Gabriel Taubin

We present a new algorithm, which solves the problem of distributively finding a minimum diameter spanning tree of any (non-negatively) real-weighted graph $G = (V,E,\omega)$. As an intermediate step, we use a new, fast, linear-time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Marc Bui , Franck Butelle , Christian Lavault

We consider a Min-Power Bounded-Hops Symmetric Connectivity problem that consists in the construction of communication spanning tree on a given graph, where the total energy consumption spent for the data transmission is minimized and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Roman Plotnikov , Adil Erzin

Recent advancements in diffusion bridges for distribution transport problems have heavily relied on matching frameworks, yet existing methods often face a trade-off between scalability and access to optimal pairings during training. Fully…

Minimal spanning trees on infinite vertex sets are investigated. A criterion for minimality of a spanning tree having a finite length is obtained, which generalizes the corresponding classical result for finite sets. It is given an analytic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-18 A. O. Ivanov , A. A. Tuzhilin

Recent years have witnessed a surge of biological interest in the minimum spanning tree (MST) problem for its relevance to automatic model construction using the distances between data points. Despite the increasing use of MST algorithms…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-02 Momoko Hayamizu , Hiroshi Endo , Kenji Fukumizu

The Steiner tree problem aims to determine a minimum edge-weighted tree that spans a given set of terminal vertices from a given graph. In the past decade, a considerable number of algorithms have been developed to solve this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Ming Sun , Xinyu Wu , Yi Zhou , Jin-Kao Hao , Zhang-Hua Fu

Consider the following problem: given a graph with edge costs and a subset Q of vertices, find a minimum-cost subgraph in which there are two edge-disjoint paths connecting every pair of vertices in Q. The problem is a failure-resilient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Glencora Borradaile , Philip Klein

We study the problem of finding a minimum weight connected subgraph spanning at least $k$ vertices on planar, node-weighted graphs. We give a $(4+\eps)$-approximation algorithm for this problem. We achieve this by utilizing the recent LMP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Jarosław Byrka , Mateusz Lewandowski , Joachim Spoerhase

The problem of finding the maximum-weight, planar subgraph of a finite, simple graph with nonnegative real edge weights is well known in industrial and electrical engineering, systems biology, sociology and finance. As the problem is known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Diane Castonguay , Elisângela Silva Dias , Leslie Richard Foulds

This paper is aimed to investigate some computational aspects of different isoperimetric problems on weighted trees. In this regard, we consider different connectivity parameters called {\it minimum normalized cuts}/{\it isoperimteric…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-06 Amir Daneshgar , Ramin Javadi

We present improved learning-augmented algorithms for finding an approximate minimum spanning tree (MST) for points in an arbitrary metric space. Our work follows a recent framework called metric forest completion (MFC), where the learned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nate Veldt , Thomas Stanley , Benjamin W. Priest , Trevor Steil , Keita Iwabuchi , T. S. Jayram , Grace J. Li , Geoffrey Sanders

Generalized Schr\"odinger Bridges (GSBs) are a fundamental mathematical framework used to analyze the most likely particle evolution based on the principle of least action including kinetic and potential energy. In parallel to their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-31 Guan-Horng Liu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this thesis, Minimal Partitioning (MP) algorithm, an innovative algorithm for enumerating all the spanning trees in an undirected graph is presented. While MP algorithm uses a computational tree graph to traverse all possible spanning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Nasr Mohamed

In this work we consider the Metric Steiner Forest problem in the sublinear time model. Given a set $V$ of $n$ points in a metric space where distances are provided by means of query access to an $n\times n$ distance matrix, along with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sepideh Mahabadi , Mohammad Roghani , Jakub Tarnawski , Ali Vakilian

Resampling from a target measure whose density is unknown is a fundamental problem in mathematical statistics and machine learning. A setting that dominates the machine learning literature consists of learning a map from an easy-to-sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Leticia Mattos Da Silva , Silvia Sellán , Francisco Vargas , Justin Solomon

In spatially embedded networks such as transportation and power grids, understanding how edge removals affect connectivity is crucial for robustness analysis. This paper studies a planar graph dismantling problem under an edge-budget…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fangchen You

Multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) has emerged as a useful framework for many applied problems. However, compared to the well-studied classical two-marginal optimal transport theory, analysis of MOT is far more challenging and remains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Pengtao Li , Xiaohui Chen