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We describe a general-purpose method for finding high-quality solutions to hard optimization problems, inspired by self-organized critical models of co-evolution such as the Bak-Sneppen model. The method, called Extremal Optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Boettcher , Allon G. Percus

For distributed graph processing on massive graphs, a graph is partitioned into multiple equally-sized parts which are distributed among machines in a compute cluster. In the last decade, many partitioning algorithms have been developed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Nikolai Merkel , Ruben Mayer , Tawkir Ahmed Fakir , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

This paper presents a novel meta algorithm, Partition-Merge (PM), which takes existing centralized algorithms for graph computation and makes them distributed and faster. In a nutshell, PM divides the graph into small subgraphs using our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Vincent Blondel , Kyomin Jung , Pushmeet Kohli , Devavrat Shah

Current quantum computing devices have different strengths and weaknesses depending on their architectures. This means that flexible approaches to circuit design are necessary. We address this task by introducing a novel space-efficient…

The Graph Pricing problem is among the fundamental problems whose approximability is not well-understood. While there is a simple combinatorial 1/4-approximation algorithm, the best hardness result remains at 1/2 assuming the Unique Games…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Euiwoong Lee

With accelerating urbanization and worsening traffic congestion, optimizing traffic signal systems to improve road throughput and alleviate congestion has become a critical issue. This study proposes a short-term traffic prediction model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-19 Shengda Zhao , Zhekun Liu , Jiaxin Yu , Bocheng Ju , Liang Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Xinghua Zhang

Quantum annealers offer an efficient way to compute high quality solutions of NP-hard problems when expressed in a QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) or an Ising form. This is done by mapping a problem onto the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

We consider the problem of partitioning the edges of a graph into as few paths as possible. This is a~subject of the classic conjecture of Gallai and a recurring topic in combinatorics. Regarding the complexity of partitioning a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Tomáš Masařík , Michał Włodarczyk , Mehmet Akif Yıldız

The dynamic scaling of distributed computations plays an important role in the utilization of elastic computational resources, such as the cloud. It enables the provisioning and de-provisioning of resources to match dynamic resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Masatoshi Hanai , Nikos Tziritas , Toyotaro Suzumura , Wentong Cai , Georgios Theodoropoulos

The question if a given partial solution to a problem can be extended reasonably occurs in many algorithmic approaches for optimization problems. For instance, when enumerating minimal dominating sets of a graph $G=(V,E)$, one usually…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Katrin Casel , Henning Fernau , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jérôme Monnot , Florian Sikora

We consider the problem of discretizing one-dimensional, real-valued functions as graphs. The goal is to find a small set of points, from which we can approximate the remaining function values. The method for approximating the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-01 John Paul Ward

Tensor networks have proven to be a valuable tool, for instance, in the classical simulation of (strongly correlated) quantum systems. As the size of the systems increases, contracting larger tensor networks becomes computationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Manuel Geiger , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

Partition of unity methods (PUMs) on graphs are simple and highly adaptive auxiliary tools for graph signal processing. Based on a greedy-type metric clustering and augmentation scheme, we show how a partition of unity can be generated in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Wolfgang Erb

We survey recent advances in the theory of graph and hypergraph decompositions, with a focus on extremal results involving minimum degree conditions. We also collect a number of intriguing open problems, and formulate new ones.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We study the problem of edge partitioning, where the goal is to partition the edge set of a graph into several parts. The replication factor of a vertex $v$ is the number of parts that contain edges incident to $v$. The goal is to minimize…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alexander Yakunin , Andrey Kupavskii , Alexander Sushin , Stanislav Moiseev

Partitioning a graph into blocks of "roughly equal" weight while cutting only few edges is a fundamental problem in computer science with a wide range of applications. In particular, the problem is a building block in applications that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Lars Gottesbüren , Tobias Heuer , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation in processing graphs. Recently, size, variety, and structural complexity of these networks has grown dramatically.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yaroslav Akhremtsev , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

Sampling technique has become one of the recent research focuses in the graph-related fields. Most of the existing graph sampling algorithms tend to sample the high degree or low degree nodes in the complex networks because of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Junpeng Zhu , Hui Li , Mei Chen , Zhenyu Dai , Ming Zhu

We present a factor $14D^2$ approximation algorithm for the minimum linear arrangement problem on series-parallel graphs, where $D$ is the maximum degree in the graph. Given a suitable decomposition of the graph, our algorithm runs in time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Martina Eikel , Christian Scheideler , Alexander Setzer