Spin glass approach to the feedback vertex set problem

HJ Zhou - The European Physical Journal B, 2013 - Springer
A feedback vertex set (FVS) of an undirected graph is a set of vertices that contains at least
one vertex of each cycle of the graph. The feedback vertex set problem consists of …

Statistical mechanics of the minimum dominating set problem

JH Zhao, Y Habibulla, HJ Zhou - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2015 - Springer
The minimum dominating set (MDS) problem has wide applications in network science and
related fields. It aims at constructing a node set of smallest size such that any node of the …

Block belief propagation algorithm for two-dimensional tensor networks

C Guo, D Poletti, I Arad - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Belief propagation is a well-studied algorithm for approximating local marginals of
multivariate probability distribution over complex networks, while tensor network states are …

Tensor Network Message Passing

Y Wang, YE Zhang, F Pan, P Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
When studying interacting systems, computing their statistical properties is a fundamental
problem in various fields such as physics, applied mathematics, and machine learning …

Topologically invariant tensor renormalization group method for the Edwards-Anderson spin glasses model

C Wang, SM Qin, HJ Zhou - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Tensor renormalization group (TRG) method is a real space renormalization group
approach. It has been successfully applied to both classical and quantum systems. In this …

Cavity master equation for the continuous time dynamics of discrete-spin models

E Aurell, G Del Ferraro, E Domínguez, R Mulet - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
We present an alternate method to close the master equation representing the continuous
time dynamics of interacting Ising spins. The method makes use of the theory of random …

The directed dominating set problem: Generalized leaf removal and belief propagation

Y Habibulla, JH Zhao, HJ Zhou - … Workshop, FAW 2015, Guilin, China, July …, 2015 - Springer
A minimum dominating set for a digraph (directed graph) is a smallest set of vertices such
that each vertex either belongs to this set or has at least one parent vertex in this set. We …

Generalized minimum dominating set and application in automatic text summarization

YZ Xu, HJ Zhou - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
For a graph formed by vertices and weighted edges, a generalized minimum dominating set
(MDS) is a vertex set of smallest cardinality such that the summed weight of edges from each …

Statistical physics of hard combinatorial optimization: Vertex cover problem

JH Zhao, HJ Zhou - Chinese Physics B, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Typical-case computation complexity is a research topic at the boundary of computer
science, applied mathematics, and statistical physics. In the last twenty years, the replica …

A spin glass approach to the directed feedback vertex set problem

HJ Zhou - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A directed graph (digraph) is formed by vertices and arcs (directed edges) from one vertex to
another. A feedback vertex set (FVS) is a set of vertices that contains at least one vertex of …