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We present four novel approximation algorithms for finding triangulation of minimum treewidth. Two of the algorithms improve on the running times of algorithms by Robertson and Seymour, and Becker and Geiger that approximate the optimum by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Eyal Amir

Typical performance of approximation algorithms is studied for randomized minimum vertex cover problems. A wide class of random graph ensembles characterized by an arbitrary degree distribution is discussed with some theoretical frameworks.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-10 Satoshi Takabe , Koji Hukushima

We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter owing to its use in understanding algorithmic tractability: if the clique-width of a graph class ${\cal G}$ is bounded by a constant, a wide range of problems that are NP-complete in general…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma

In the field of parameterized complexity theory, the study of graph width measures has been intimately connected with the development of width-based model checking algorithms for combinatorial properties on graphs. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Sam Urmian

Algorithms for learning decision trees often include heuristic local-search operations such as (1) adjusting the threshold of a cut or (2) also exchanging the feature of that cut. We study minimizing the number of classification errors by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Juha Harviainen , Frank Sommer , Manuel Sorge

In the past decade, many parameterized algorithms were developed for packing problems. Our goal is to obtain tradeoffs that improve the running times of these algorithms at the cost of computing approximate solutions. Consider a packing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Meirav Zehavi

Planning is a notoriously difficult computational problem of high worst-case complexity. Researchers have been investing significant efforts to develop heuristics or restrictions to make planning practically feasible. Case-based planning is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Ronald de Haan , Anna Roubíčková , Stefan Szeider

This paper investigates the complexity of finding secluded paths in graphs. We focus on the \textsc{Short Secluded Path} problem and a natural new variant we introduce, \textsc{Shortest Secluded Path}. Formally, given an undirected graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tesshu Hanaka , Daisuke Tsuru

Covering problems are fundamental classical problems in optimization, computer science and complexity theory. Typically an input to these problems is a family of sets over a finite universe and the goal is to cover the elements of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-14 Omid Amini , Fedor V. Fomin , Saket Saurabh

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the Isometric Path Partition problem when parameterized by the treewidth ($\mathrm{tw}$) of the input graph, arguably one of the most widely studied parameters. Courcelle's theorem shows that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Oscar Defrain , Florent Foucaud , Mathieu Mari , Prafullkumar Tale

We initiate a systematic study of utilizing predictions to improve over approximation guarantees of classic algorithms, without increasing the running time. We propose a systematic method for a wide class of optimization problems that ask…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Antonios Antoniadis , Marek Eliáš , Adam Polak , Moritz Venzin

The maximum modularity of a graph is a parameter widely used to describe the level of clustering or community structure in a network. Determining the maximum modularity of a graph is known to be NP-complete in general, and in practice a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

Many hard graph problems can be solved efficiently when restricted to graphs of bounded treewidth, and more generally to graphs of bounded clique-width. But there is a price to be paid for this generality, exemplified by the four problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Jan Arne Telle

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

The survey provides an overview of the developing area of parameterized algorithms for graph modification problems. We concentrate on edge modification problems, where the task is to change a small number of adjacencies in a graph in order…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Christophe Crespelle , Pål Grønås Drange , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach

Fixed parameter tractable algorithms for bounded treewidth are known to exist for a wide class of graph optimization problems. While most research in this area has been focused on exact algorithms, it is hard to find decompositions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Thomas Bosman

We develop a framework for applying treewidth-based dynamic programming on graphs with "hybrid structure", i.e., with parts that may not have small treewidth but instead possess other structural properties. Informally, this is achieved by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , O-joung Kwon

Algorithms for computing or approximating optimal decompositions for decompositional parameters such as treewidth or clique-width have so far traditionally been tailored to specific width parameters. Moreover, for mim-width, no efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Lars Jaffke , O-Joung Kwon

The graph matching problem is a significant special case of the Quadratic Assignment Problem, with extensive applications in pattern recognition, computer vision, protein alignments and related fields. As the problem is NP-hard, relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Rongxuan Li