Questions tagged [dag]
For questions about the usage and manipulation of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG).
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Minimum Number of Edges Added to a DAG to get Unique Topological Order
The question is simple:
Given an unweighted directed acyclic graph, $G = (V, E)$, what is the minimum number of directed edges we need to add to $E$ such that the resulting graph $G = (V, E')$ has ...
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Has this graph-theoretic problem got a known name? Is it NP-hard?
I am considering the following problem.
We are given a Directed Acyclic Graph. In general, there would be some number of subgraphs that, contracted into one node, would make it a tree. For example, ...
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Can the running time be reduced to something lower than $O(d^4)$?
Imagine I have a weighted complete directed graph $G$ with $d$ vertices(so $d(d-1)$ edges) and I want to do the following:
Set $D$ to be a DAG with the same set of vertices but without any edges
sort ...
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Fastest algorithm for shortest path with atmost k edges on a DAG with non-negative edge weights?
(Please note, this is not a duplicate to Shortest path with exactly $k$ edges OR Shortest path with a fixed number of edges. What I want is a better algorithm)
The problem under consideration is to ...
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How to generate, validate, and invalidate a set/list of numbers in O(1) time and space?
Imagine my server is generating "tokens" of some sort for a client on a regular basis. When a client asks for a token, the server responds with a new value (and any other supplemental information it ...
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Order the vertices to maximize the weights of edges in the induced subgraph
I have a complete directed graph $G:=(V,E)$ with directed edge weights $c_{ij}$ for every distinct nodes $i$ and $j$.
Goal: Find the topological order such that the smallest edge weight of the ...
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Assign weights to the edges in a DAG so that, for all S and T, all paths from S to T have equal weight
I have a DAG, and on each edge, I have a minimum and maximum weight. I would like to assign (or determine it's impossible to assign) exact weights to each edge so that
Each edge's weight is between ...
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Lowest single common ancestor in a Directed Acyclic Graph?
I was reading how to find the Lowest common ancestor in a DAG. A DAG can have scenarios where the LCA yields multiple solutions and I feel the accepted answer explains that pretty well.
However, one ...
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Context-free grammar for DAGs?
I'm looking for a "safe" representation of DAGs. With "safe" representation I mean that it can be described by a context-free grammar. Ideally, this grammar would be suitable for a simple LR parser.
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Ordering of operations in a DAG of git commits
Context: I'm looking for a better state resolution algorithm for https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
Summary of the current algorithm and shortcomings
git-bug is a distributed bug-tracker that ...
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Using vector clocks vs. directed acyclic graph for causality detection in distributed systems
I'm trying to understand how vector clocks compare to DAGs for causality detection in a distributed system.
When trying to detect causality relations in a distributed system, a very commonly proposed ...
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Finding unique topological ordering wrt to another vertex ordering
Given a directed acyclic graph with $n$ nodes labeled from $1$ to $n$, what is an efficient way to produce the unique topological ordering with lower labeled nodes prioritized over higher labeled?
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Transform a DAG to fork-join format
I have a directed acyclic graph where the nodes are tasks and the edges are dependency relations between tasks - the edges go from the dependency to the task that depends on it.
It is possible that ...
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maximally exclusive paths in a DAG
Suppose we have a DAG $G$ with one source node $s$, ie. it has a path to every node, and target node $t$ which every node has a path to it. For a pair of paths from $s$ to $t$ we can define a distance ...
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Find all rooted subgraphs of a DAG
I searched the exchange and couldn't seem to find an answer to this.
I am trying to find an algorithm that, given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) $G = (N,E)$ with a single root node $r\in N$, finds ...
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How do I merge these lists?
I ave a a collection of lists of objects:
$a_1$ $a_2$ $a_3$...
$b_1$ $b_2$ $b_3$...
$c_1$ $c_2$ $c_3$..
I need to merge them into a minimal possible number of lists, each list must be as long as ...
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Max Flow on low depth DAGs
I have a family of acyclic networks in which every path from the source of a given network to its target has length exactly $3$. I'm aware of a publication that in general, finding a max flow in a DAG ...
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Proof that “the last vertex in any postordering (in a DFS) of G lies in a source component of G”
From the book Algorithms (Jeff Erickson), there's a lemma that states:
The last vertex in any postordering of G lies in a source component
of G
My initial reaction to this was that the proof would ...
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Optimally find one of the total orderings for a poset based on some metadata about the elements
Given a finite, partially ordered set with the following two properties:
Every element in the set has one of two types: "A" or "B". The type does not define the total ordering of the set and is ...
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Shortest sequence of jobs, with dependencies, subject to capacity constraints
Suppose I have $n$ courses, some with some prerequisites, and I can take up to $k$ courses in a semester. I want to compute the least number of semesters needed to complete all courses, while ...
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Obtaining a graph with no cycles after removing k edges
I am looking for an algorithm that upon an input of a directed graph G and a natural number k,outputs a set of k edges, that upon removing them, the graph will have no cycles. If there are no such k ...
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Finding all non-comparable nodes in DAG
I have a DAG and I want to list all pairs of vertices that are not comparable (there is no path from the first to the second or the second to the first).
In this image (taken from this StackOverflow ...
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Routing a DAG through 5 consecutive butterfly networks
I have two questions concerning the paper Nearly linear-size holographic proofs. In the second paragraph of section 6, A Graph Coloring Problem, it is claimed that
Using standard packet-routing ...
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Algorithm for finding single input/output sub graphs
I'm running into an interesting directed acyclic graph (DAG) problem and was wondering if this is a known problem and if it has an efficient algorithm for it. I will use 'graph' and 'DAG' ...
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Generating project network graph
I had a problem of generating project network graph (like there and there) from list of activities and their dependencies.
Informal description:
Every activity is represented as edge of directed ...
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DAGs and Equivalence Class of DAGs
I am learning DAGs and Equivalence Class of DAGs, I am reading the material by Prof. Campos Ibáñez here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume18/acid03a-html/node2.html
However, I ...
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Multithreaded algorithm to traverse DAG
I have a DAG of tasks designed as:
DAG {
Dictionary<NodeAddresses,Node>
}
Node {
List<Node> Parents;
List<Node> Children;
Task T;
}
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Compression of a complete Directed Acylcic Graph
Consider a DAG $g$ as a label $l$ with a list of sub-nodes $\bar{g}$:
$g ::= l \enspace \bar{g}$
This is an "unfolded" representation of the DAG, i.e. it contains double entries, when two paths ...
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Maximum weighted antichain over a DAG with cardinality constraint
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a vertex weighted DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph), with positive real valued weights.
Let also $k\leq \left\vert V\right\vert$, is there any way to find a maximum weighted antichain ...
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Problem with update in Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Consider the following Bayesian network:
I want to impose constraints that state that a node can only be true (1) if at least one of its parents are true (1). So, for node $C$, the constraint takes ...
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Fully dynamic k-shortest-path
I have a directed acyclic graph with positive edge weights. It is constantly changing in that nodes are deleted and added. For each change, I need to find the $k$ shortest paths.
My current approach ...
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What exactly are ancestors in DAG
I am new to graph theory and confused with ancestors definition in DAG(or in general graph).
For example in the following DAG
1--->2--->3<---4<---5
If ...
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Given start strings, find simplest DAG that constructs target strings by concatenation
Say we have a number of start strings (green) and a number of target strings (red). Two strings can always be concatenated to a new string which can then be arbitrarily often reused (two arrows in, (1,...
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Transitive reductions of transitive closure
Is there a name for the relationship between two DAGs A,B where B is one of the transitive reductions of the transitive closure <...
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Methods for generating DAG with small Minimum Path Cover
On a directed acyclic graph $G=(V,E)$ the Minimum Path Cover (MPC) is the minimum number of paths that can be constructed on the DAG such that all vertices are covered by at least one path.
If one was ...
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Generating topological sequence from DAG with additional “not appearing before” constraints
DAG specifies the relationship of one node must appear after another. What if I add an additional constraint where one node cannot appear before another on top of the DAG?
Is there an algorithm for ...
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2 Questions about Topological sorting in DAG
$G = (V,E)$ is a directed graph without cycles (DAG). Let $s,t \in V$ two vertices in the graph such that: exists a path from $s$ to any other vertex, and exists a path from any vertex to $t$.
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Least-weight path in a DAG--why not just use Dijkstra?
I have an assignment to find the least-weight path in a DAG from a source to a target. But the class has already discussed Dijkstra's algorithm, so I'm wondering, why not just use that? It seems too ...
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Directed Acyclic Graph partition into minimum subgraphs with a constraint
I have this problem, not sure there is a name for it, wherein a Directed Acyclic Graph has different colored nodes. The idea is to partition it into minimum number of subgraphs with the following 2 ...
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Are these algorithms for detecting cycles in directional graph correct?
I want to detect whether a subset of a directional graph reachable from a given root has a cycle, and print some useful debug information about the cycle. It's not a problem if there's a cycle not ...
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spanning tree of a DAG (directed acyclic graph) with less forward arcs
I am new to this algorithm and graphs. Just started learning. Could someone help me which algorithm is best suited to find the spanning tree of a Directed Acyclic Graph with less forward edges?
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In a DAG, what is the name for a vertex with only one predecessor and one successor?
In a directed acyclic graph (DAG), what is the name for a vertex with only one predecessor and one successor?
