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The starting point of our work is a decade-old open question concerning the subexponential parameterized complexity of \textsc{2-Layer Crossing Minimization}. In this problem, the input is an $n$-vertex graph $G$ whose vertices are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

The 3-domatic number problem asks whether a given graph can be partitioned intothree dominating sets. We prove that this problem can be solved by a deterministic algorithm in time 2.695^n (up to polynomial factors). This result improves the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tobias Riege , Jörg Rothe , Holger Spakowski , Masaki Yamamoto

Dynamic programming on various graph decompositions is one of the most fundamental techniques used in parameterized complexity. Unfortunately, even if we consider concepts as simple as path or tree decompositions, such dynamic programming…

I present a single algorithm which solves the clique problems, "What is the largest size clique?", "What are all the maximal cliques?" and the decision problem, "Does a clique of size k exist?" for any given graph in polynomial time. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael LaPlante

A $k$-defective clique is a relaxation of the traditional clique definition, allowing up to $k$ missing edges. This relaxation is crucial in various real-world applications such as link prediction, community detection, and social network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jihoon Jang , Yehyun Nam , Kunsoo Park , Hyunjoon Kim

Capacitated Domination generalizes the classic Dominating Set problem by specifying for each vertex a required demand and an available capacity for covering demand in its closed neighborhood. The objective is to find a minimum-sized set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Amariah Becker

There are many classical problems in P whose time complexities have not been improved over the past decades. Recent studies of "Hardness in P" have revealed that, for several of such problems, the current fastest algorithm is the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yoichi Iwata , Tomoaki Ogasawara , Naoto Ohsaka

We give an algorithm that given a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges and an integer $k$, in time $O_k(n^{1+o(1)}) + O(m)$ either outputs a rank decomposition of $G$ of width at most $k$ or determines that the rankwidth of $G$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tuukka Korhonen , Marek Sokołowski

Vertex Subset Problems (VSPs) are a class of combinatorial optimization problems on graphs where the goal is to find a subset of vertices satisfying a predefined condition. Two prominent approaches for solving VSPs are dynamic programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Wim Van den Broeck

Lettericity is a graph parameter responsible for many attractive structural properties. In particular, graphs of bounded lettericity have bounded linear clique-width and they are well-quasi-ordered by induced subgraphs. The latter property…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Bogdan Alecu , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Vadim Lozin , Viktor Zamaraev

We consider questions that arise from the intersection between the areas of polynomial-time approximation algorithms, subexponential-time algorithms, and fixed-parameter tractable algorithms. The questions, which have been asked several…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Parinya Chalermsook , Marek Cygan , Guy Kortsarz , Bundit Laekhanukit , Pasin Manurangsi , Danupon Nanongkai , Luca Trevisan

There has been recent progress in showing that the exponential dependence on treewidth in dynamic programming algorithms for solving NP-hard problems are optimal under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH). We extend this work to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Glencora Borradaile , Hung Le

We present a data structure that we call a Dynamic Representative Set. In its most basic form, it is given two parameters $0< k < n$ and allows us to maintain a representation of a family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jesper Nederlof

We recently introduced the graph invariant twin-width, and showed that first-order model checking can be solved in time $f(d,k)n$ for $n$-vertex graphs given with a witness that the twin-width is at most $d$, called $d$-contraction sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Édouard Bonnet , Colin Geniet , Eun Jung Kim , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

In Clique Cover, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the task is to partition the vertices of $G$ into $k$ cliques. Clique Cover on unit ball graphs has a natural interpretation as a clustering problem, where the objective function is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Tomohiro Koana , Nidhi Purohit , Kirill Simonov

Finding cohesive subgraphs in a large graph has many important applications, such as community detection and biological network analysis. Clique is often a too strict cohesive structure since communities or biological modules rarely form as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Qihao Cheng , Da Yan , Tianhao Wu , Lyuheng Yuan , Ji Cheng , Zhongyi Huang , Yang Zhou

We study finding and listing $k$-cliques in a graph, for constant $k\geq 3$, a fundamental problem of both theoretical and practical importance. Our main contribution is a new output-sensitive algorithm for listing $k$-cliques in graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Surya Mathialagan , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu

The \textsc{Co-Path/Cycle Packing} problem (resp. The \textsc{Co-Path Packing} problem) asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices from the input graph such that the remaining graph is a collection of induced paths and cycles (resp.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yuxi Liu , Mingyu Xiao

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, the NP-hard Max-Cut problem asks for a node bipartition such that the sum of edge weights joining the different partitions is maximized. We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Markus Chimani , Christine Dahn , Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Alexander Nover

Computing all-pairs shortest paths is a fundamental and much-studied problem with many applications. Unfortunately, despite intense study, there are still no significantly faster algorithms for it than the $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles