The focus of this article is to develop computationally efficient mathematical morphology operators on hypergraphs. To this aim we consider lattice structures on hypergraphs on which we build morphological operators. We develop a pair of dual adjunctions between the vertex set and the hyper edge set of a hypergraph H, by defining a vertex-hyperedge correspondence. This allows us to recover the classical notion of a dilation erosion of a subset of vertices and to extend it to subhypergraphs of H. Afterward, we propose several new openings, closings, granulometries and alternate sequential filters acting (i) on the subsets of the vertex and hyperedge set of H and (ii) on the subhypergraphs of a hypergraph.
The theory of hypergraphs originated as a natural generalisation of graphs in 1960s. In a hypergraph, edges can connect any number of vertices and are called hyperedges. Considering the topological and geometrical aspects of an image, Bretto @cite_14 has proposed a hypergraph model to represent an image. The theory of hypergraphs became an active area of research in image analysis @cite_4 , @cite_17 . The study of mathematical morphology operators on hypergraphs started recently, and little work being reported in this regard. Properties of morphological operators on hypergraphs are studied in @cite_10 , in which subhypergraphs are considered as relations on hypergraphs. Recently, Bloch and Bretto @cite_5 introduced mathematical morphology on hypergraphs by forming various lattices on hypergraphs. Similarity and pseudo-metrics based on mathematical morphology are defined and illustrated in @cite_1 . Based on these morphological operators, similarity measures are used for classification of data represented as hypergraphs @cite_4 .
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In the framework of structural representations for applications in image understanding, we establish links between similarities, hypergraph theory and mathematical morphology. We propose new similarity measures and pseudo-metrics on lattices of hypergraphs based on morphological operators. New forms of these operators on hypergraphs are introduced as well. Some examples based on various dilations and openings on hypergraphs illustrate the relevance of our approach. Non-uniform hypergraphs appear in various domains of computer science as in the satisfiability problems and in data analysis. We analyse a general model where the probability for an edge of size t to belong to the hypergraph depends of a parameter ω t of the model. It is a natural generalization of the models of graphs used by Flajolet, Knuth and Pittel 11] and Janson, Knuth, Łuczak and Pittel 16]. The present paper follows the same general approach based on analytic combinatorics. We show that many analytic tools developed for the analysis of graphs can be extended surprisingly well to non-uniform hypergraphs. More specifically, we analyze their typical structure before and near the birth of the complex components, that are the connected components with more than one cycle. We derive the asymptotic number of sparse connected hypergraphs as their complexity, defined as the excess, increases. Although less natural than the number of edges, this parameter allows a precise description of the structure of hypergraphs. Finally, we compute some statistics of the model to link number of edges and excess. A hypergraph is a generalization of the traditional graph in which the edges are arbitrary non-empty subsets of the vertex set. It has been applied successfully to capture high-order relations in various domains. In this paper, we propose a hypergraph spectral learning formulation for multi-label classification, where a hypergraph is constructed to exploit the correlation information among different labels. We show that the proposed formulation leads to an eigenvalue problem, which may be computationally expensive especially for large-scale problems. To reduce the computational cost, we propose an approximate formulation, which is shown to be equivalent to a least squares problem under a mild condition. Based on the approximate formulation, efficient algorithms for solving least squares problems can be applied to scale the formulation to very large data sets. In addition, existing regularization techniques for least squares can be incorporated into the model for improved generalization performance. We have conducted experiments using large-scale benchmark data sets, and experimental results show that the proposed hypergraph spectral learning formulation is effective in capturing the high-order relations in multi-label problems. Results also indicate that the approximate formulation is much more efficient than the original one, while keeping competitive classification performance. Abstract We show that if a collection of hypergraphs (1) is uniform (every edge contains exactly k vertices, for some fixed k), (2) has minimum degree asymptotic to the maximum degree, and (3) has maximum codegree (the number of edges containing a pair of vertices) asymptotically negligible compared with the maximum degree, then the chromatic index is asymptotic to the maximum degree. This means that the edges can be partitioned into packings (or matchings), almost all of which are almost perfect. We also show that the edges can be partitioned into coverings, almost all of which are almost perfect. The result strengthens and generalizes a result due to Frankl and Rodl concerning the existence of a single almost perfect packing or covering under similar circumstances. In particular, it shows that the chromatic index of a Steiner triple-system on n points is asymptotic to n 2 , resolving a long-standing conjecture.