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The task of listing all triangles in an undirected graph is a fundamental graph primitive with numerous applications. It is trivially solvable in time cubic in the number of vertices. It has seen a significant body of work contributing to…

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We present a class of linear programming approximations for constrained optimization problems. In the case of mixed-integer polynomial optimization problems, if the intersection graph of the constraints has bounded tree-width our…

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In this paper, we consider the parameterized quantum query complexity for graph problems. We design parameterized quantum query algorithms for $k$-vertex cover and $k$-matching problems, and present lower bounds on the parameterized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Tatsuya Terao , Ryuhei Mori

The tree-cut width of a graph is a graph parameter defined by Wollan [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B, 110:47-66, 2015] with the help of tree-cut decompositions. In certain cases, tree-cut width appears to be more adequate than treewidth as an…

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The key to reconciling the polynomial-time intractability of many machine learning tasks in the worst case with the surprising solvability of these tasks by heuristic algorithms in practice seems to be exploiting restrictions on real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Todd Wareham

The diameter of a graph is among its most basic parameters. Since a few years, it moreover became a key issue to compute it for massive graphs in the context of complex network analysis. However, known algorithms, including the ones…

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We investigate a relaxation of the notion of fractional treewidth-fragility, namely fractional tree-independence-number-fragility. In particular, we obtain polynomial-time approximation schemes for meta-problems such as finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

Generalised hypertree width ($ghw$) is a hypergraph parameter that is central to the tractability of many prominent problems with natural hypergraph structure. Computing $ghw$ of a hypergraph is notoriously hard. The decision version of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Matthias Lanzinger , Igor Razgon

We present efficient combinatorial parameterized algorithms for several classical graph-based counting problems in computational chemistry, including (i) Kekule structures, (ii) the Hosoya index, (iii) the Merrifield-Simmons index, and (iv)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Giovanna K. Conrado , Amir K. Goharshady , Harshit J. Motwani , Sergei Novozhilov

We consider parametrized versions of metrical task systems and metrical service systems, two fundamental models of online computing, where the constrained parameter is the number of possible distinct requests $m$. Such parametrization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sébastien Bubeck , Yuval Rabani

Network design problems aim to compute low-cost structures such as routes, trees and subgraphs. Often, it is natural and desirable to require that these structures have small hop length or hop diameter. Unfortunately, optimization problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Bernhard Haeupler , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Goran Zuzic

We initiate a systematic study of algorithms that are both differentially private and run in sublinear time for several problems in which the goal is to estimate natural graph parameters. Our main result is a differentially-private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

In this paper we reassess the parameterized complexity and approximability of the well-studied Steiner Forest problem in several graph classes of bounded width. The problem takes an edge-weighted graph and pairs of vertices as input, and…

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This work unifies the analysis of various randomized methods for solving linear and nonlinear inverse problems by framing the problem in a stochastic optimization setting. By doing so, we show that many randomized methods are variants of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Jonathan Wittmer , C. G. Krishnanunni , Hai V. Nguyen , Tan Bui-Thanh

In the constrained planarity setting, we ask whether a graph admits a planar drawing that additionally satisfies a given set of constraints. These constraints are often derived from very natural problems; prominent examples are Level…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Simon D. Fink , Ignaz Rutter

The graph edit distance is used for comparing graphs in various domains. Due to its high computational complexity it is primarily approximated. Widely-used heuristics search for an optimal assignment of vertices based on the distance…

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Tree decompositions were developed by Robertson and Seymour. Since then algorithms have been developed to solve intractable problems efficiently for graphs of bounded treewidth. In this paper we extend tree decompositions to allow cycles to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Melanie J. Agnew , Christopher M. Homan

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

Parameterized complexity attempts to give a more fine-grained analysis of the complexity of problems: instead of measuring the running time as a function of only the input size, we analyze the running time with respect to additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Rajesh Chitnis , Graham Cormode

The clique-width is a measure of complexity of decomposing graphs into certain tree-like structures. The class of graphs with bounded clique-width contains bounded tree-width graphs. We give a polynomial time graph isomorphism algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Bireswar Das , Murali Krishna Enduri , I. Vinod Reddy