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Conditional lower bounds for dynamic graph problems has received a great deal of attention in recent years. While many results are now known for the fully-dynamic case and such bounds often imply worst-case bounds for the partially dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Søren Dahlgaard

We prove that isomorphism of tournaments of twin width at most $k$ can be decided in time $k^{O(\log k)}n^{O(1)}$. This implies that the isomorphism problem for classes of tournaments of bounded or moderately growing twin width is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen

We present an approximation scheme for minimizing certain Quadratic Integer Programming problems with positive semidefinite objective functions and global linear constraints. This framework includes well known graph problems such as Minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop

Our starting point is the observation that if graphs in a class C have low descriptive complexity in first order logic, then the isomorphism problem for C is solvable by a fast parallel algorithm (essentially, by a simple combinatorial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe , Oleg Verbitsky

We generalize the structure theorem of Robertson and Seymour for graphs excluding a fixed graph $H$ as a minor to graphs excluding $H$ as a topological subgraph. We prove that for a fixed $H$, every graph excluding $H$ as a topological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Martin Grohe , Dániel Marx

In recent years, we have seen several approaches to the graph isomorphism problem based on "generic" mathematical programming or algebraic (Gr\"obner basis) techniques. For most of these, lower bounds have been established. In fact, it has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Christoph Berkholz , Martin Grohe

We develop a new approach for approximating large independent sets when the input graph is a one-sided spectral expander - that is, the uniform random walk matrix of the graph has its second eigenvalue bounded away from 1. Consequently, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mitali Bafna , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari

We give an overview of recent advances on the graph isomorphism problem. Our main focus will be on Babai's quasi-polynomial time isomorphism test and subsequent developments that led to the design of isomorphism algorithms with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen

We consider the isomorphism problem for hypergraphs taking as input two hypergraphs over the same set of vertices $V$ and a permutation group $\Gamma$ over domain $V$, and asking whether there is a permutation $\gamma \in \Gamma$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Daniel Neuen

In this paper, we present two main results. First, by only one conjecture (Conjecture 2.9) for recognizing a vertex symmetric graph, which is the hardest task for our problem, we construct an algorithm for finding an isomorphism between two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Caishi Fang

We show a new way to round vector solutions of semidefinite programming (SDP) hierarchies into integral solutions, based on a connection between these hierarchies and the spectrum of the input graph. We demonstrate the utility of our method…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-26 Boaz Barak , Prasad Raghavendra , David Steurer

We devise an algorithm that approximately computes the number of paths of length $k$ in a given directed graph with $n$ vertices up to a multiplicative error of $1 \pm \varepsilon$. Our algorithm runs in time $\varepsilon^{-2} 4^k(n+m)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Cornelius Brand , Holger Dell , Thore Husfeldt

Computing the Euler genus of a graph is a fundamental problem in graph theory and topology. It has been shown to be NP-hard by [Thomassen '89] and a linear-time fixed-parameter algorithm has been obtained by [Mohar '99]. Despite extensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

The $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman ($k$-WL) algorithm is a simple combinatorial algorithm that was originally designed as a graph isomorphism heuristic. It naturally finds applications in Babai's quasipolynomial time isomorphism…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Martin Grohe , Moritz Lichter , Daniel Neuen , Pascal Schweitzer

We show that the Graph Isomorphism (GI) problem and the related problems of String Isomorphism (under group action) (SI) and Coset Intersection (CI) can be solved in quasipolynomial ($\exp((\log n)^{O(1)})$) time. The best previous bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-20 László Babai

In the past decades for more and more graph classes the Graph Isomorphism Problem was shown to be solvable in polynomial time. An interesting family of graph classes arises from intersection graphs of geometric objects. In this work we show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Daniel Neuen

Kolla and Tulsiani [KT07,Kolla11} and Arora, Barak and Steurer [ABS10] introduced the technique of subspace enumeration, which gives approximation algorithms for graph problems such as unique games and small set expansion; the running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Luca Trevisan

We study graph partitioning problems from a min-max perspective, in which an input graph on n vertices should be partitioned into k parts, and the objective is to minimize the maximum number of edges leaving a single part. The two main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-21 Nikhil Bansal , Uriel Feige , Robert Krauthgamer , Konstantin Makarychev , Viswanath Nagarajan , Joseph , Naor , Roy Schwartz

The Colour Refinement algorithm is a classical procedure to detect symmetries in graphs, whose most prominent application is in graph-isomorphism tests. The algorithm and its generalisation, the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm, evaluate local…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Sandra Kiefer , T. Devini de Mel

In recent years, algorithms and neural architectures based on the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm, a well-known heuristic for the graph isomorphism problem, emerged as a powerful tool for (supervised) machine learning with graphs and relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Christopher Morris , Matthias Fey , Nils M. Kriege