Questions tagged [adjacency-matrix]
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When are adjacency lists better than sparse matrices?
I saw several questions discussion the benefits of adjacency lists over matrices to represent a sparse undirected graph. On the other hand, none of them discuss sparse matrix representations such as <...
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Calculate boolean matrix multiplication (BMM) using transitive closure
Let us say I am given an algorithm that calculates the transitive closure of a given graph $G = \{ V, E \}$.
How can I use this algorithm in order to perform the Boolean Matrix Multiplication of two ...
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Decomposition of graph to subgraphs according to parallel edges
I am supposed to calculate all-pair shortest path lengths of a graph. However, I first need the graph to be decomposed/expanded to a simple one based on the presence of parallel edges.
If N parallel ...
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Intuition behind eigenvalues of an adjacency matrix
I am currently working to understand the use of the Cheeger bound and of Cheeger's inequality, and their use for spectral partitioning, conductance, expansion, etc, but I still struggle to have a ...
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How to generate random adjacency matrix with given number of components in graph
I am building a graph package in C and a part of the work involves generating a random graph with a given number of components in the graph.
For example, if I wanted to generate a graph of 50 ...
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How to specify a robot go always right relative to itself from absolute perspective (north west east south)
I have a robot that has a start and goal position within a maze. Each point in the maze-grid is simply a Position object containing x and y. I need an algorithm that specifies the robot only moving to ...
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Manipulating Adjacency matrix
I have created an adjacency matrix which looks something like this
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Advantages (from a mathematical perspective) of representing data as symmetric matrices
From Wikipedia, a symmetric matrix is a square matrix that is equal to its transpose. An example of this (I think) is an adjacency matrix with undirected edges, which is a square matrix representing ...
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Eigenvalues of an induced subgraph of a random graph
Suppose $G$ is a random graph on $n$ vertices where each edge appears with probability half. Suppose someone looks at the resulting graph and chooses an arbitrary subset $W$ of vertices of size $k>\...
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Eigenvalue computation for large graph
Consider a large graph, minimum 1 000 vertices but it can easily go up to 50 000 vertices depending the case. The graph is the result of social relationships (followers, following, friendship) so it ...
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Time complexity of Prim's algorithm
There is this Prim's algorithm I am studying, the time complexity of which is $O(n^2)$ (in the adjacency matrix).
As far as I have understood,that is because we have to ckeck all the nodes per every ...
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Traverse Matrix in Reverse Diagonal strips
I thought this problem had a trivial solution, couple of for loops and some fancy counters, but apparently it is rather more complicated.
So my question is, how would you write (in C) a function ...
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When are adjacency lists or matrices the better choice?
I was told that we would use a list if the graph is sparse and a matrix if the graph is dense. For me, it's just a raw definition. I don't see much beyond it. Can you clarify when would it be the ...
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Adjacency matrix and recognizing hierarchy?
I'm currently learning about graphs and I have some questions regarding adjacency matrices. Given an arbitrary adjacency matrix:
Is there any way to tell if that matrix represents a hierarchal graph ...
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Determining if a digraph has any vertex-disjoint cycle cover
Given a digraph, determine if the graph has any vertex-disjoint cycle cover.
I understand that the permanent of the adjacency matrix will give me the number of cycle covers for the graph, which is 0 ...
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Implement multi-fragment heuristics for the traveling salesman problem
I would like to implement the multi-fragment heuristics algorithm for finding a solution to the traveling salesman problem.
The algorithm is described here as follows:
This seriation method re-...
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Does the order matter in the adjacency matrix?
I have nodes a, b , c,d,N, and e in an adjacency matrix. If I follow the order as a,b,c,d,N,and,e , I get 100010(the question does not matter because I'm asking about the order) for b.But if I follow ...
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Simple Way to Convert an Adjacency Matrix to a CSR Graph and Vice Versa
Let's say for the following weighted, undirected graph:
I am given the adjacency matrix A[5][5]:
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How to Convert a Directed Graph to an Undirected Graph (Adjacency Matrix) [closed]
Given an adjacency matrix, what is an algorithm/pseudo-code to convert a directed graph to an undirected graph without adding additional vertices (does not have to be reversable)?
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Relation between determinant and matrix multiplication
I remember reading somewhere that if matrix multiplication can be done in $O(n^\omega)$ time then determinants can be computed in $O(n^\omega)$ time. I am unable to find the reduction and would it be ...
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Can adjacency lists be used in directed graphs?
I've been reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_list
It says that that graph can be constructed with the list $\{b, c\}, \{a, c\}, \{a, b\}$.
However, what if I wanted to construct a ...
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Remove Edge From Adjacency List
INPUT: weighted undirected graph in the form of adjacency list
OUTPUT: adjacency list without the edge e
Naive approach is:
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SimRank on a weighted directed graph (how to calculate node similarity)
I have a weighted directed graph (it's sparse, 35,000 nodes and 19 million edges) and would like to calculate similarity scores for pairs of nodes. SimRank would be ideal for this purpose, except that ...
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scale-free networks and adjacency matrix
Given a distribution over graphs with $n$ nodes having the "scale-free" property, I would like to compute for a pair of vertices $(a,b)$ the probability that they are connected (or more precisely the ...
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How to find number of paths between 2 nodes of a certain length [duplicate]
Consider the following adjacency matrix:
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Are all adjacency matrices represented by 0 and 1s? [closed]
Are there any cases when adjacency matrix should have entries other than 0 and 1?
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Shortest path with min-sum multiplication and Boltzmann distribution
My professor presented a method to find shortest paths using the min-sum multiplication and Boltzmann distribution.
He multiplies the adjacency matrix many times and takes the $\beta$ of Boltzmann ...
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What is the complexity of this matrix transposition?
I'm working on some exercises regarding graph theory and complexity.
Now I'm asked to give an algorithm that computes a transposed graph of $G$, $G^T$ given the adjacency matrix of $G$. So basically ...
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Generating a adjacency matrix representing a DAG
Does anyone have a pointer to a resource or, even better, a tip to provide on how to efficiently generate a very large matrix representing a connected graph.
Graph can be randomly created although I ...
