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We initiate the study of approximate maximum matching in the vertex partition model, for graphs subject to dynamic changes. We assume that the $n$ vertices of the graph are partitioned among $k$ players, who execute a distributed algorithm…

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We study the problem of optimal traffic prediction and monitoring in large-scale networks. Our goal is to determine which subset of K links to monitor in order to "best" predict the traffic on the remaining links in the network. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Michael Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

We consider the problem of dominating set-based virtual backbone used for routing in asymmetric wireless ad-hoc networks. These networks have non-uniform transmission ranges and are modeled using the well-established disk graphs. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Christine Markarian , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide , Michael Schubert

We show that graphs excluding $K_{2,t}$ as a minor admit a $f(t)$-round $50$-approximation deterministic distributed algorithm for Minimum Dominating Set. The result extends to Minimum Vertex Cover. Though fast and approximate distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Marthe Bonamy , Cyril Gavoille , Timothé Picavet , Alexandra Wesolek

Stochastic optimization algorithms update models with cheap per-iteration costs sequentially, which makes them amenable for large-scale data analysis. Such algorithms have been widely studied for structured sparse models where the sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Baojian Zhou , Feng Chen , Yiming Ying

Minimum vertex cover problem is an NP-Hard problem with the aim of finding minimum number of vertices to cover graph. In this paper, a learning automaton based algorithm is proposed to find minimum vertex cover in graph. In the proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Aylin Mousavian , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

In Nature Machine Intelligence 4, 367 (2022), Schuetz et al provide a scheme to employ graph neural networks (GNN) as a heuristic to solve a variety of classical, NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. It describes how the network is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-03 Stefan Boettcher

Path-planning algorithms are an important part of a wide variety of robotic applications, such as mobile robot navigation and robot arm manipulation. However, in large search spaces in which local traps may exist, it remains challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yuka Ariki , Takuya Narihira

The fully dynamic transitive closure problem asks to maintain reachability information in a directed graph between arbitrary pairs of vertices, while the graph undergoes a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Christian Schulz

Metric graphs are structures obtained by associating edges in a standard graph with segments of the real line and gluing these segments at the vertices of the graph. The resulting structure has a natural metric that allows for the study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Lexing Ying

The message complexity of a distributed algorithm is the total number of messages sent by all nodes over the course of the algorithm. This paper studies the message complexity of distributed algorithms for fundamental graph optimization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Fabien Dufoulon , Shreyas Pai , Gopal Pandurangan , Sriram V. Pemmaraju , Peter Robinson

In this paper we study the dynamic versions of two basic graph problems: Minimum Dominating Set and its variant Minimum Connected Dominating Set. For those two problems, we present algorithms that maintain a solution under edge insertions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Niklas Hjuler , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Nikos Parotsidis , David Saulpic

Stochastic gradient methods are the workhorse (algorithms) of large-scale optimization problems in machine learning, signal processing, and other computational sciences and engineering. This paper studies Markov chain gradient descent, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Tao Sun , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

We study the random graph obtained by random deletion of vertices or edges from a random graph with given vertex degrees. A simple trick of exploding vertices instead of deleting them, enables us to derive results from known results for…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Svante Janson

This paper deals with robust optimization applied to network flows. Two robust variants of the minimum-cost integer flow problem are considered. Thereby, uncertainty in problem formulation is limited to arc unit costs and expressed by a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Marko Špoljarec , Robert Manger

In this paper we deal with the Bin Packing Problem with Conflicts on interval graphs: given an interval graph, a nonnegative integer weight for each vertex, and a nonnegative integer B, find a partition of the vertex set of the graph into k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Tiziano Bacci , Sara Nicoloso

We consider heuristic algorithm for solving graph isomorphism problem. The algorithm based on a successive splitting of the eigenvalues of the matrices which are modifications (to positive defined) of graphs' adjacency matrices.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. T. Faizullin , A. V. Prolubnikov

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

We implement and test the performances of several approximation algorithms for computing the minimum dominating set of a graph. These algorithms are the standard greedy algorithm, the recent LP rounding algorithms and a hybrid algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Jonathan S. Li , Rohan Potru , Farhad Shahrokhi

Network control refers to a very large and diverse set of problems including controllability of linear time-invariant dynamical systems, where the objective is to select an appropriate input to steer the network to a desired state. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Ambuj Tewari , George Michailidis