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Algorithms which compute properties over graphs have always been of interest in computer science, with some of the fundamental algorithms, such as Dijkstra's algorithm, dating back to the 50s. Since the 70s there as been interest in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Daniel P. Martin

Shortest path search is a core operation in graph-based applications, yet existing methods face important limitations. Classical algorithms such as Dijkstra's and A* become inefficient as graphs grow more complex, while index-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tiantian Liu , Xiao Li , Huan Li , Hua Lu , Christian S. Jensen , Jianliang Xu

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are nowadays becoming mainstream in solving many image processing tasks including skeleton-based recognition. Their general recipe consists in learning convolutional and attention layers that maximize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Hichem Sahbi

Community detection is a ubiquitous problem in applied network analysis, yet efficient techniques do not yet exist for all types of network data. Most techniques have been developed for undirected graphs, and very few exist that handle…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-26 Botond Molnár , Ildikó-Beáta Márton , Szabolcs Horvát , Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

In this paper, we employ the decomposition of a directed network as an undirected graph plus its associated node metadata to characterise the cyclic structure found in directed networks by finding a Minimal Cycle Basis of the undirected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Tim S. Evans , Paul Expert

Let $G$ be an edge-weighted directed graph with $n$ vertices embedded on an orientable surface of genus $g$. We describe a simple deterministic lexicographic perturbation scheme that guarantees uniqueness of minimum-cost flows and shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jeff Erickson , Kyle Fox , Luvsandondov Lkhamsuren

This paper studies reduced-order modeling of dynamic networks with strongly connected topology. Given a graph clustering of an original complex network, we construct a quotient graph with less number of vertices, where the edge weights are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Xiaodong Cheng , Lanlin Yu , Dingchao Ren , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

We design a generic method for reducing the task of finding weighted matchings to that of finding short augmenting paths in unweighted graphs. This method enables us to provide efficient implementations for approximating weighted matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Buddhima Gamlath , Sagar Kale , Slobodan Mitrović , Ola Svensson

We introduce a logic called distance neighborhood logic with acyclicity and connectivity constraints ($\mathsf{A\&C~DN}$ for short) which extends existential $\mathsf{MSO_1}$ with predicates for querying neighborhoods of vertex sets and for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Jan Dreier , Lars Jaffke

We consider the fine-grained complexity of sparse graph problems that currently have $\tilde{O}(mn)$ time algorithms, where m is the number of edges and n is the number of vertices in the input graph. This class includes several important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Udit Agarwal , Vijaya Ramachandran

Community search is a well-studied problem which, given a static graph and a query set of vertices, requires to find a cohesive (or dense) subgraph containing the query vertices. In this paper we study the problem of community search in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ioanna Tsalouchidou , Francesco Bonchi , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Exact computation of shortest paths in weighted graphs has been traditionally studied in one of two settings. First, one can assume that the edge weights are real numbers and all the performed operations on reals (typically comparisons and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Adam Karczmarz , Wojciech Nadara , Marek Sokołowski

Weighted model integration (WMI) extends Weighted model counting (WMC) to the integration of functions over mixed discrete-continuous domains. It has shown tremendous promise for solving inference problems in graphical models and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Zhe Zeng , Guy Van den Broeck

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classical method for solving the shortest path problem on weighted graphs. There are several variations of the Dijkstra algorithm, including algorithms for the widest path problem and for two-player games. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Takahiro Sanada , Yoàv Montacute , Kittiphon Phalakarn , Ichiro Hasuo

Subgraph counting is a fundamental task that underpins several network analysis methodologies, including community detection and graph two-sample tests. Counting subgraphs is a computationally intensive problem. Substantial research has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Feng Yu , Mingao Yuan

We develop new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for finding the global minimum edge-cut in a directed edge-weighted graph, and for finding the global minimum vertex-cut in a directed vertex-weighted graph. Our algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ron Mosenzon

The shortest path problem in graphs is a cornerstone of AI theory and applications. Existing algorithms generally ignore edge weight computation time. We present a generalized framework for weighted directed graphs, where edge weight can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Eyal Weiss , Ariel Felner , Gal A. Kaminka

Sampling is a widely used graph reduction technique to accelerate graph computations and simplify graph visualizations. By comprehensively analyzing the literature on graph sampling, we assume that existing algorithms cannot effectively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Ying Zhao , Haojin Jiang , Qi'an Chen , Yaqi Qin , Huixuan Xie , Yitao Wu Shixia Liu , Zhiguang Zhou , Jiazhi Xia , Fangfang Zhou

We present a memetic algorithm (\maa) approach for finding a Hamiltonian cycle in a Hamiltonian graph. The \ma is based on a proven approach to the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem (\atspp) that, in this contribution, is boosted by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Sarwan Ali , Pablo Moscato