English
Related papers

Related papers: A Faster Randomized Algorithm for Vertex Cover: An…

200 papers

Near ubiquitous mobile computing has led to intense interest in dynamic graph theory. This provides a new and challenging setting for algorithmics and complexity theory. For any graph-based problem, the rapid evolution of a (possibly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Arnaud Casteigts , Bernard Mans , Luke Mathieson

Let U be a universe on n elements, let k be a positive integer, and let F be a family of (implicitly defined) subsets of U. We consider the problems of partitioning U into k sets from F, covering U with k sets from F, and packing k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Serge Gaspers , Jerry Zirui Li

We review recent progress in the study of the vertex-cover problem (VC). VC belongs to the class of NP-complete graph theoretical problems, which plays a central role in theoretical computer science. On ensembles of random graphs, VC…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander K. Hartmann , Martin Weigt

We consider the problem of detecting a cycle in a directed graph that grows by arc insertions, and the related problems of maintaining a topological order and the strong components of such a graph. For these problems, we give two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Michael A. Bender , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seth Gilbert , Robert E. Tarjan

Maintaining a $k$-core decomposition quickly in a dynamic graph has important applications in network analysis. The main challenge for designing efficient exact algorithms is that a single update to the graph can cause significant global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Quanquan C. Liu , Jessica Shi , Shangdi Yu , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

We study dynamic graph algorithms in the Massively Parallel Computation model, which was inspired by practical data processing systems. Our goal is to provide algorithms that can efficiently handle large batches of edge insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Krzysztof Nowicki , Krzysztof Onak

In this paper, we use a new method to decrease the parameterized complexity bound for finding the minimum vertex cover of connected max-degree-3 undirected graphs. The key operation of this method is reduction of the size of a particular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Weiya Yue , John Franco , Weiwei Cao

Vertex bisection is a graph partitioning problem in which the aim is to find a partition into two equal parts that minimizes the number of vertices in one partition set that have a neighbor in the other set. We are interested in giving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Josep Díaz , Öznur Yaşar Diner , Maria Serna , Oriol Serra

In this paper, we study the maximum clique problem on hyperbolic random graphs. A hyperbolic random graph is a mathematical model for analyzing scale-free networks since it effectively explains the power-law degree distribution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Eunjin Oh , Seunghyeok Oh

To solve the combinatorial optimization problems especially the minimal Vertex-cover problem with high efficiency, is a significant task in theoretical computer science and many other subjects. Aiming at detecting the solution space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Wei Wei , Renquan Zhang , Binghui Guo , Zhiming Zheng

Estimating the average degree of graph is a classic problem in sublinear graph algorithm. Eden, Ron, and Seshadhri (ICALP 2017, SIDMA 2019) gave a simple algorithm for this problem whose running time depended on the graph arboricity, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Talya Eden , C. Seshadhri

In this paper we show that the problem of identifying an edge $(i,j)$ in a graph $G$ such that there exists an optimal vertex cover $S$ of $G$ containing exactly one of the nodes $i$ and $j$ is NP-hard. Such an edge is called a weak edge.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-12-21 Qiaoming Han , Abraham P. Punnen

This paper proposes a novel branch-and-bound(BMWVC) algorithm to exactly solve the minimum weight vertex cover problem (MWVC) in large graphs. The original contribution is several new graph reduction rules, allowing to reduce a graph G and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Luzhi Wang , Chu-Min Li , Junping Zhou , Bo Jin , Minghao Yin

The branch-and-bound algorithm based on decision diagrams introduced by Bergman et al. in 2016 is a framework for solving discrete optimization problems with a dynamic programming formulation. It works by compiling a series of bounded-width…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Vianney Coppé , Xavier Gillard , Pierre Schaus

Reconfiguration schedules, i.e., sequences that gradually transform one solution of a problem to another while always maintaining feasibility, have been extensively studied. Most research has dealt with the decision problem of whether a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Keren Censor-Hillel , Yannic Maus , Shahar Romem-Peled , Tigran Tonoyan

We investigate the statistical properties of cut sizes generated by heuristic algorithms which solve approximately the graph bisection problem. On an ensemble of sparse random graphs, we find empirically that the distribution of the cut…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. R. Schreiber , O. C. Martin

In our paper, we consider the following general problems: check feasibility, count the number of feasible solutions, find an optimal solution, and count the number of optimal solutions in $P \cap Z^n$, assuming that $P$ is a polyhedron,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Dmitry Gribanov , Dmitry Malyshev , Nikolai Zolotykh

An independent dominating set D of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of vertices such that every vertex in V \ D has at least one neighbor in D and D is an independent set, i.e. no two vertices of D are adjacent in G. Finding a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-08 Serge Gaspers , Mathieu Liedloff

We present an accelerated relax-and-round algorithm for concave coverage problems, which generalize the classic maximum coverage problem. Building on the relax-and-round framework of Barman et al. [STACS 2021], we propose two significant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Matthew Fahrbach , Mehraneh Liaee , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We show a method resulting in the improvement of several polynomial-space, exponential-time algorithms. An instance of the problem Max (r,2)-CSP, or simply Max 2-CSP, is parametrized by the domain size r (often 2), the number of variables n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Serge Gaspers , Gregory B. Sorkin