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The densest subgraph of a large graph usually refers to some subgraph with the highest average degree, which has been extended to the family of $p$-means dense subgraph objectives by~\citet{veldt2021generalized}. The $p$-mean densest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li , Hanyu Peng

Let $D$ be a strongly connected digraph. The average distance $\bar{\sigma}(v)$ of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $D$. The remoteness $\rho(D)$ and proximity $\pi(D)$ of $D$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Jiangdong Ai , Stefanie Gerke , Gregory Gutin , Sonwabile Mafunda

We present a simple nonadaptive randomized algorithm that estimates the number of edges in a simple, unweighted, undirected graph, possibly containing isolated vertices, using only degree and random edge queries. For an $n$-vertex graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arijit Bishnu , Debarshi Chanda , Buddha Dev Das , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra

A mobile agent, starting from a node $s$ of a simple undirected connected graph $G=(V,E)$, has to explore all nodes and edges of $G$ using the minimum number of edge traversals. To do so, the agent uses a deterministic algorithm that allows…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Stéphane Devismes , Yoann Dieudonné , Arnaud Labourel

A stable cutset is a set of vertices $S$ of a connected graph, that is pairwise non-adjacent and when deleting $S$, the graph becomes disconnected. Determining the existence of a stable cutset in a graph is known to be NP-complete. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mats Vroon , Hans L. Bodlaender

We demonstrate that a graph-based search algorithm-relying on the construction of an approximate neighborhood graph-can directly work with challenging non-metric and/or non-symmetric distances without resorting to metric-space mapping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Leonid Boytsov , Eric Nyberg

We study the fully dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem in undirected edge-weighted graphs. Given an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with non-negative edge lengths, that undergoes an online sequence of edge insertions and deletions, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Julia Chuzhoy , Ruimin Zhang

Computing the Euler genus of a graph is a fundamental problem in graph theory and topology. It has been shown to be NP-hard by [Thomassen '89] and a linear-time fixed-parameter algorithm has been obtained by [Mohar '99]. Despite extensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Many applications in pattern recognition represent patterns as a geometric graph. The geometric graph distance (GGD) has recently been studied as a meaningful measure of similarity between two geometric graphs. Since computing the GGD is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sushovan Majhi

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic and extensively studied problem with numerous real-world applications in artificial intelligence and operations research. It is well-known that TSP admits a constant approximation ratio on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jingyang Zhao , Zimo Sheng , Mingyu Xiao

In this thesis I propose an algorithm to heuristically calculate different distance measures on uncertain graphs (i.e. graphs where edges only exist with a certain probability) and apply this to the heuristic calculation of harmonic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Daniel Ketels

Let $G$ be a finite, simple connected graph. The average distance of a vertex $v$ of $G$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$. The remoteness $\rho(G)$ of $G$ is the maximum of the average distances…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Peter Dankelmann , Sonwabile Mafunda , Sufiyan Mallu

The diameter of a graph is the maximum distance among all pairs of vertices. Thus a graph $G$ has diameter $d$ if any two vertices are at distance at most $d$ and there are two vertices at distance $d$. We are interested in studying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Laila Loudiki , Mustapha Kchikech , El Hassan Essaky

Max Independent Set (MIS) is a paradigmatic problem in theoretical computer science and numerous studies tackle its resolution by exact algorithms with non-trivial worst-case complexity. The best such complexity is, to our knowledge, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Nicolas Bourgeois , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Johan M. M van Rooij

We initiate the study of approximation algorithms and computational barriers for constructing sparse $\alpha$-navigable graphs [IX23, DGM+24], a core primitive underlying recent advances in graph-based nearest neighbor search. Given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Sanjeev Khanna , Ashwin Padaki , Erik Waingarten

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

A distance-approximation algorithm for a graph property $\mathcal{P}$ in the adjacency-matrix model is given an approximation parameter $\epsilon \in (0,1)$ and query access to the adjacency matrix of a graph $G=(V,E)$. It is required to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Nimrod Fiat , Dana Ron

In this paper we give the first efficient algorithms for the $k$-center problem on dynamic graphs undergoing edge updates. In this problem, the goal is to partition the input into $k$ sets by choosing $k$ centers such that the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Emilio Cruciani , Sebastian Forster , Gramoz Goranci , Yasamin Nazari , Antonis Skarlatos

We develop a framework for algorithms finding the diameter in graphs of bounded distance Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension, in (parameterized) subquadratic time complexity. The class of bounded distance VC-dimension graphs is wide, including,…

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