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We study the parameterized complexity of #IndSub($\Phi$), where given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the task is to count the number of induced subgraphs on $k$ vertices that satisfy the graph property $\Phi$. Focke and Roth [STOC 2022]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Simon Döring , Dániel Marx , Philip Wellnitz

We study the computational complexity of the problem $\#\text{IndSub}(\Phi)$ of counting $k$-vertex induced subgraphs of a graph $G$ that satisfy a graph property $\Phi$. Our main result establishes an exhaustive and explicit classification…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jacob Focke , Marc Roth

A graph property is a function $\Phi$ that maps every graph to {0, 1} and is invariant under isomorphism. In the $\#IndSub(\Phi)$ problem, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the task is to count the number of $k$-vertex induced subgraphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Simon Döring , Dániel Marx , Philip Wellnitz

Given a graph property $\Phi$, the problem $\#\mathsf{IndSub}(\Phi)$ asks, on input a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, to compute the number of induced subgraphs of size $k$ in $G$ that satisfy $\Phi$. The search for explicit criteria…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt , Philip Wellnitz

Problems related to finding induced subgraphs satisfying given properties form one of the most studied areas within graph algorithms. Such problems have given rise to breakthrough results and led to development of new techniques both within…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Petr A. Golovach , Pinar Heggernes , Paloma Lima , Pedro Montealegre

We consider the problem of counting, in a given graph, the number of induced k-vertex subgraphs which have an even number of edges, and also the complementary problem of counting the k-vertex induced subgraphs having an odd number of edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Mark Jerrum , Kitty Meeks

Given a graph property $\Phi$, we consider the problem $\mathtt{EdgeSub}(\Phi)$, where the input is a pair of a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, and the task is to decide whether $G$ contains a $k$-edge subgraph that satisfies $\Phi$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt , Philip Wellnitz

We study the problem $\#\mathrm{EdgeSub}(\Phi)$ of counting $k$-edge subgraphs satisfying a given graph property $\Phi$ in a large host graph $G$. Building upon the breakthrough result of Curticapean, Dell and Marx (STOC 17), we express the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Norbert Peyerimhoff , Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt , Jakob Stix , Alina Vdovina

We study the problem #IndSub(P) of counting all induced subgraphs of size k in a graph G that satisfy the property P. This problem was introduced by Jerrum and Meeks and shown to be #W[1]-hard when parameterized by k for some families of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Julian Dörfler , Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt , Philip Wellnitz

We prove that finding a $k$-edge induced subgraph is fixed-parameter tractable, thereby answering an open problem of Leizhen Cai. Our algorithm is based on several combinatorial observations, Gauss' famous \emph{Eureka} theorem [Andrews,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Bingkai Lin , Yijia Chen

We investigate the problem $\#\mathsf{IndSub}(\Phi)$ of counting all induced subgraphs of size $k$ in a graph $G$ that satisfy a given property $\Phi$. This continues the work of Jerrum and Meeks who proved the problem to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt

We consider parameterised subgraph-counting problems of the following form: given a graph G, how many k-tuples of its vertices have a given property? A number of such problems are known to be #W[1]-complete; here we substantially generalise…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Mark Jerrum , Kitty Meeks

The problems studied in this article originate from the Graph Motif problem introduced by Lacroix et al. in the context of biological networks. The problem is to decide if a vertex-colored graph has a connected subgraph whose colors equal a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Sylvain Guillemot , Florian Sikora

We consider the parameterized problem $\#$IndSub$(\Phi)$ for fixed graph properties $\Phi$: Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, this problem asks to count the number of induced $k$-vertex subgraphs satisfying $\Phi$. D\"orfler et al.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Radu Curticapean , Simon Döring , Daniel Neuen

For a fixed graph property $\Phi$ and integer $k \geq 1$, consider the problem of counting the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs satisfying $\Phi$ in an input graph $G$. This problem can be solved by brute-force in time $O(n^{k})$. Under ETH, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Radu Curticapean , Daniel Neuen

We investigate the parameterized complexity of finding subgraphs with hereditary properties on graphs belonging to a hereditary graph class. Given a graph $G$, a non-trivial hereditary property $\Pi$ and an integer parameter $k$, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-26 David Eppstein , Siddharth Gupta , Elham Havvaei

The Graph Motif problem was introduced in 2006 in the context of biological networks. It consists of deciding whether or not a multiset of colors occurs in a connected subgraph of a vertex-colored graph. Graph Motif has been mostly analyzed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Édouard Bonnet , Florian Sikora

Vertex integrity is a graph parameter that measures the connectivity of a graph. Informally, its meaning is that a graph has small vertex integrity if it has a small separator whose removal disconnects the graph into connected components…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Manolis Vasilakis , Kanae Yoshiwatari

Given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the Secluded $\Pi$-Subgraph problem asks you to find a maximum size induced subgraph that satisfies a property $\Pi$ and has at most $k$ neighbors in the rest of the graph. This problem has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jonas Schmidt , Shaily Verma , Nadym Mallek

Parameterised subgraph counting problems are the most thoroughly studied topic in the theory of parameterised counting, and there has been significant recent progress in this area. Many of the existing tractability results for parameterised…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Kitty Meeks
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