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The problem Hamiltonian of the adiabatic quantum algorithm for the maximum-weight independent set problem (MIS) that is based on the reduction to the Ising problem (as described in [Choi08]) has flexible parameters. We show that by choosing…

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We study the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on general graphs within the framework of learning-augmented algorithms. The MIS problem is known to be NP-hard and is also NP-hard to approximate to within a factor of $n^{1-\delta}$ for…

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Most graphs in real life keep changing with time. These changes can be in the form of insertion or deletion of edges or vertices. Such rapidly changing graphs motivate us to study dynamic graph algorithms. However, three important graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Manoj Gupta , Shahbaz Khan

Given a graph $G$, a non-negative integer $k$, and a weight function that maps each vertex in $G$ to a positive real number, the \emph{Maximum Weighted Budgeted Independent Set (MWBIS) problem} is about finding a maximum weighted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Tushar Kalra , Rogers Mathew , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal , Vijay Pandey

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the promising variational approaches of quantum computing to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In QAOA, variational parameters need to be optimized by solving a series…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Hanjing Xu , Xiaoyuan Liu , Alex Pothen , Ilya Safro

In this paper, we investigate the complexity of Maximum Independent Set (MIS) in the class of $H$-free graphs, that is, graphs excluding a fixed graph as an induced subgraph. Given that the problem remains $NP$-hard for most graphs $H$, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Édouard Bonnet , Nicolas Bousquet , Pierre Charbit , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem, as well as its related problems such as Minimum Weight Vertex Cover, are fundamental NP-hard problems with numerous practical applications. Due to their computational complexity, a variety…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

The Maximum Weight Independent Set of Polygons problem is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Given a set of weighted polygons in the 2-dimensional plane, the goal is to find a set of pairwise non-overlapping polygons with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Anna Adamaszek , Andreas Wiese

For graphs $G$ and $H$, we say that $G$ is $H$-free if it does not contain $H$ as an induced subgraph. Already in the early 1980s Alekseev observed that if $H$ is connected, then the \textsc{Max Weight Independent Set} problem (MWIS)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek , Paweł Rzążewski

In this paper, we investigate a distributed maximal independent set (MIS) reconfiguration problem, in which there are two maximal independent sets for which every node is given its membership status, and the nodes need to communicate with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mikaël Rabie

Given a graph, finding the distance-2 maximal independent set (MIS-2) of the vertices is a problem that is useful in several contexts such as algebraic multigrid coarsening or multilevel graph partitioning. Such multilevel methods rely on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Brian Kelley , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

We present a simple distributed $\Delta$-approximation algorithm for maximum weight independent set (MaxIS) in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model which completes in $O(\texttt{MIS}(G)\cdot \log W)$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Gregory Schwartzman

Maximal Independent Set (MIS) in a graph is a fundamental problem with applications in resource allocation, scheduling, and network optimization. Although graphs are inherently un-structured and challenging for GPU parallelism due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Prajjwal Nijhara , Dip Sankar Banerjee

While Artificial intelligence (AI), including Generative AI, are effective at generating high-quality traffic data and optimization solutions in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), these techniques often demand significant training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Enqiang Zhu , Chenkai Hao , Chanjuan Liu , Yongsheng Rao

Finding a maximum independent set (MIS) of a given fam- ily of axis-parallel rectangles is a basic problem in computational geom- etry and combinatorics. This problem has attracted significant atten- tion since the sixties, when Wegner…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-25 José R. Correa , Laurent Feuilloley , Pablo Pérez-Lantero , José A. Soto

We prove lower bounds on pure dynamic programming algorithms for maximum weight independent set (MWIS). We model such algorithms as tropical circuits, i.e., circuits that compute with $\max$ and $+$ operations. For a graph $G$, an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Tuukka Korhonen

Process Planning and Scheduling (PPS) is an essential and practical topic but a very intractable problem in manufacturing systems. Many research use iterative methods to solve such problems; however, they cannot achieve satisfactory results…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kai Sun

We propose and implement a comprehensive quantum compilation toolkit for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem on quantum hardware based on Rydberg atom arrays. Our end-to-end pipeline involves three core components to…

The complexity of classical computational problems in graph classes defined by forbidding induced subgraphs is one of the central topics of algorithmic graph theory. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the complexity of such…

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Molecular docking is a critical computational method in drug discovery used to predict the binding conformation and orientation of a ligand within a protein's binding site. Mapping this challenge onto a graph-based problem, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Mathieu Garrigues , Victor Onofre , Wesley Coelho , S. Acheche