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We investigate a natural subfamily of twisted linearized Reed--Solomon (TLRS) codes in the sum-rank metric, where the twist is applied only to the constant term. We establish a simple necessary and sufficient condition for these codes to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Sanjit Bhowmick , Kuntal Deka , Edgar Martínez-Moro

Decompositional parameters such as treewidth are commonly used to obtain fixed-parameter algorithms for NP-hard graph problems. For problems that are W[1]-hard parameterized by treewidth, a natural alternative would be to use a suitable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Cornelius Brand , Esra Ceylan , Christian Hatschka , Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

Optimal Morse matchings reveal essential structures of cell complexes which lead to powerful tools to study discrete geometrical objects, in particular discrete 3-manifolds. However, such matchings are known to be NP-hard to compute on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Benjamin A. Burton , Thomas Lewiner , João Paixão , Jonathan Spreer

A low-complexity tree search approach is presented that achieves the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding performance of Reed-Muller (RM) codes. The proposed approach generates a bit-flipping tree that is traversed to find the ML decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Nghia Doan , Warren J. Gross , John Cioffi , Andrea Goldsmith

We present a constraint model for the problem of producing a tree decomposition of a graph. The inputs to the model are a simple graph G, the number of nodes in the desired tree decomposition and the maximum cardinality of each node in that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Benjamin Bumpus , Patrick Prosser , James Trimble

This work presents novel algorithms for learning Bayesian network structures with bounded treewidth. Both exact and approximate methods are developed. The exact method combines mixed-integer linear programming formulations for structure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Siqi Nie , Denis Deratani Maua , Cassio Polpo de Campos , Qiang Ji

Over the past decade, we witness an increasing amount of interest in the design of exact exponential-time and parameterized algorithms for problems in Graph Drawing. Unfortunately, we still lack knowledge of general methods to develop such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

We study the parameterized complexity of computing the tree-partition-width, a graph parameter equivalent to treewidth on graphs of bounded maximum degree. On one hand, we can obtain approximations of the tree-partition-width efficiently:…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Carla Groenland , Hugo Jacob

In 2020, we initiated a systematic study of graph classes in which the treewidth can only be large due to the presence of a large clique, which we call $(\mathrm{tw},\omega)$-bounded. While $(\mathrm{tw},\omega)$-bounded graph classes are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Clément Dallard , Martin Milanič , Kenny Štorgel

Layered treewidth and row treewidth are recently introduced graph parameters that have been key ingredients in the solution of several well-known open problems. It follows from the definitions that the layered treewidth of a graph is at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmović , Mehrnoosh Javarsineh , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

Reduced parameters [BKW, JCTB '26; BKRT, SODA '22] are defined via contraction sequences. Based on this framework, we introduce the reduced component max-leaf, denoted by $\operatorname{cml}^\downarrow$, where component max-leaf is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Édouard Bonnet , Yeonsu Chang , Julien Duron , Colin Geniet , O-joung Kwon

Diestel and M\"uller showed that the connected tree-width of a graph $G$, i.e., the minimum width of any tree-decomposition with connected parts, can be bounded in terms of the tree-width of $G$ and the largest length of a geodesic cycle in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Matthias Hamann , Daniel Weißauer

This work proposes \textsc{H-Td}, a practical linear-time algorithm for computing an optimal-width tree decomposition of Halin graphs. Unlike state-of-the-art methods based on reduction rules or separators, \textsc{H-Td} exploits the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 J. A. Alejandro-Soto , Joel Antonio Trejo-Sanchez , Carlos Segura

Phylogenetic trees and networks are leaf-labelled graphs used to model evolution. Display graphs are created by identifying common leaf labels in two or more phylogenetic trees or networks. The treewidth of such graphs is bounded as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Remie Janssen , Mark Jones , Steven Kelk , Georgios Stamoulis , Taoyang Wu

We continue the study of graph classes in which the treewidth can only be large due to the presence of a large clique, and, more specifically, of graph classes with bounded tree-independence number. In [Dallard, Milani\v{c}, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Martin Milanič , Paweł Rzążewski

Generalized Reed-Solomon codes form the most prominent class of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, codes that are optimal in the sense that their minimum distance cannot be improved for a given length and code size. The study of codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Shengwei Liu , Hongwei Liu , Frederique Oggier

In this paper, we relate the seemingly unrelated concepts of treewidth and boxicity. Our main result is that, for any graph G, boxicity(G) <= treewidth(G) + 2. We also show that this upper bound is (almost) tight. Our result leads to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Sunil Chandran , Naveen Sivadasan

Algorithmic meta-theorems, stating that graph properties expressible in some particular logic can be decided efficiently in graph classes having some specific structural properties, are now standard in sequential graph algorithms. One of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Benjamin Jauregui , Jason Li , Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

The circumference of a graph $G$ is the length of a longest cycle in $G$, or $+\infty$ if $G$ has no cycle. Birmel\'e (2003) showed that the treewidth of a graph $G$ is at most its circumference minus $1$. We strengthen this result for…

We consider a variant of treewidth that we call clique-partitioned treewidth in which each bag is partitioned into cliques. This is motivated by the recent development of FPT-algorithms based on similar parameters for various problems. With…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Thomas Bläsius , Maximilian Katzmann , Marcus Wilhelm