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Optimal transport is widely used to learn distributions, enforce distributional constraints, and model uncertainty. In applications, transport losses are often computed from samples through tractable representations, such as one-dimensional…

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Graph prediction problems prevail in data analysis and machine learning. The inverse prediction problem, namely to infer input data from given output labels, is of emerging interest in various applications. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-22 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

We present new lower bounds that show that a polynomial number of passes are necessary for solving some fundamental graph problems in the streaming model of computation. For instance, we show that any streaming algorithm that finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Sepehr Assadi , Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna

We show fixed-parameter tractability of the Directed Multicut problem with three terminal pairs (with a randomized algorithm). This problem, given a directed graph $G$, pairs of vertices (called terminals) $(s_1,t_1)$, $(s_2,t_2)$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Meike Hatzel , Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Roohani Sharma , Manuel Sorge

Filterless optical transport networks relies on passive optical interconnections between nodes, i.e., on splitters/couplers and amplifiers. While different studies have investigated their design, none of them offer a solution for an optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Brigitte Jaumard , Yan Wang

A traversal of a connected graph is a linear ordering of its vertices all of whose initial segments induce connected subgraphs. Traversals, and their refinements such as breadth-first and depth-first traversals, are computed by various…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Siddharth Bhaskar , Anton Jay Kienzle

In this work, we propose a novel approach for subgraph matching, the problem of finding a given query graph in a large source graph, based on the fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance. We formulate the subgraph matching problem as a partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wen-Xin Pan , Isabel Haasler , Pascal Frossard

We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We study shortest-path routing in large weighted, undirected graphs, where expanding search frontiers raise time and memory costs for exact solvers. We propose \emph{SPHERE}, a query-aware partitioning heuristic that adaptively splits the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Robert Fabian Lindermann , Paul-Niklas Ken Kandora , Simon Caspar Zeller , Adrian Asmund Fessler , Steffen Rebennack

We show that for each fixed $k$, the problem of finding $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint directed paths between given source-sink pairs in a planar directed graph is solvable in polynomial time. In fact, it suffices to fix the number of faces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Alexander Schrijver

In the Time-Windows Unsplittable Flow on a Path problem (twUFP) we are given a resource whose available amount changes over a given time interval (modeled as the edge-capacities of a given path $G$) and a collection of tasks. Each task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

Network visualization is essential for many scientific, societal, technological and artistic domains. The primary goal is to highlight patterns out of nodes interconnected by edges that are easy to understand, facilitate communication and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-18 Fabrizio De Vico Fallani , Thibault Rolland

Deep generative models have recently made a remarkable progress in capturing complex probability distributions over graphs. However, they are intractable and thus unable to answer even the most basic probabilistic inference queries without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Milan Papež , Martin Rektoris , Václav Šmídl , Tomáš Pevný

The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization maximization problem. The single-path routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ying Liu , Hongying Liu , Ke Xu , Meng Shen , Yifeng Zhong

An orientation of a graph is semi-transitive if it contains no directed cycles and has no shortcuts. An undirected graph is semi-transitive if it can be oriented in a semi-transitive manner. The class of semi-transitive graphs includes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Sergey Kitaev , Artem Pyatkin

The Integer Multicommodity Flow problem has been studied extensively in the literature. However, from a parameterised perspective, mostly special cases, such as the Disjoint Paths problem, have been considered. Therefore, we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hans L. Bodlaender , Isja Mannens , Jelle J. Oostveen , Sukanya Pandey , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

We consider the problem of steering a linear stochastic system between two end-point degenerate Gaussian distributions in finite time. This accounts for those situations in which some but not all of the state entries are uncertain at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Valentina Ciccone , Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

We consider the parameterized complexity of the problem of tracking shortest s-t paths in graphs, motivated by applications in security and wireless networks. Given an undirected and unweighted graph with a source s and a destination t,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Banik , Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

We suggest a global perspective on dynamic network flow problems that takes advantage of the similarities to port-Hamiltonian dynamics. Dynamic minimum cost flow problems are formulated as open-loop optimal control problems for general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Onur Tanil Doganay , Kathrin Klamroth , Bruno Lang , Michael Stiglmayr , Claudia Totzeck

In this paper we study the realizability question for commuting graphs of finite groups: Given an undirected graph $X$ is it the commuting graph of a group $G$? And if so, to determine such a group. We seek efficient algorithms for this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-03 V. Arvind , Peter. J. Cameron