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The study of structural graph width parameters like tree-width, clique-width and rank-width has been ongoing during the last five decades, and their algorithmic use has also been increasing [Cygan et al., 2015]. New width parameters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Eric Brandwein , Carolina Lucía González , Agustín Sansone

We prove the following result about approximating the maximum independent set in a graph. Informally, we show that any approximation algorithm with a ``non-trivial'' approximation ratio (as a function of the number of vertices of the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Parinya Chalermsook , Fedor Fomin , Thekla Hamm , Tuukka Korhonen , Jesper Nederlof , Ly Orgo

Vertex Integrity is a graph measure which sits squarely between two more well-studied notions, namely vertex cover and tree-depth, and that has recently gained attention as a structural graph parameter. In this paper we investigate the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

Parameterized complexity seeks to use input structure to obtain faster algorithms for NP-hard problems. This has been most successful for graphs of low treewidth: Many problems admit fast algorithms relative to treewidth and many of them…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

For a given graph G and integers b,f >= 0, let S be a subset of vertices of G of size b+1 such that the subgraph of G induced by S is connected and S can be separated from other vertices of G by removing f vertices. We prove that every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-05-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Yngve Villanger

Huynh, Joret, Micek, Seweryn, and Wollan (Combinatorica, 2022) introduced a graph parameter, later referred to as 2-treedepth and denoted $\mathrm{td}_2(\cdot)$. The parameter is the natural 2-connected version of treedepth. For every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Jędrzej Hodor , Freddie Illingworth , Tomasz Mazur

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

For a graph $G$, the parameter treedepth measures the minimum depth among all forests $F$, called elimination forests, such that $G$ is a subgraph of the ancestor-descendant closure of $F$. We introduce a logic, called neighborhood operator…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Vera Chekan , Giannos Stamoulis

Treewidth is a parameter that emerged from the study of minor closed classes of graphs (i.e. classes closed under vertex and edge deletion, and edge contraction). It in some sense describes the global structure of a graph. Roughly, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković

We present a parallel algorithm for computing the treewidth of a graph on a GPU. We implement this algorithm in OpenCL, and experimentally evaluate its performance. Our algorithm is based on an $O^*(2^{n})$-time algorithm that explores the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Tom C. van der Zanden , Hans L. Bodlaender

We study connectivity problems from a fine-grained parameterized perspective. Cygan et al. (TALG 2022) obtained algorithms with single-exponential running time $\alpha^{tw} n^{O(1)}$ for connectivity problems parameterized by treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

Treewidth is arguably the most important structural graph parameter leading to algorithmically beneficial graph decompositions. Triggered by a strongly growing interest in temporal networks (graphs where edge sets change over time), we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Till Fluschnik , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken , Philipp Zschoche

The Subgraph Isomorphism problem is of considerable importance in computer science. We examine the problem when the pattern graph H is of bounded treewidth, as occurs in a variety of applications. This problem has a well-known algorithm via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Karl Bringmann , Jasper Slusallek

We present an algorithm for min-cost flow in graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, given a tree decomposition of width $\tau$ and size $S$, and polynomially bounded, integral edge capacities and costs, running in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sally Dong , Guanghao Ye

In the PATH COVER problem, one asks to cover the vertices of a graph using the smallest possible number of (not necessarily disjoint) paths. While the variant where the paths need to be pairwise vertex-disjoint, which we call PATH…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Florent Foucaud , Atrayee Majumder , Tobias Mömke , Aida Roshany-Tabrizi

We give algorithms to compute the Fr\'echet distance of trees and graphs with bounded tree width. Our algorithms run in $O(n^2)$ time for trees of bounded degree, and $O(n^2\sqrt{n \log n})$ time for trees of arbitrary degree. For graphs of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Maike Buchin , Amer Krivošija , Alexander Neuhaus

In this paper, we study quantum algorithms for computing the exact value of the treewidth of a graph. Our algorithms are based on the classical algorithm by Fomin and Villanger (Combinatorica 32, 2012) that uses $O(2.616^n)$ time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Vladislavs Kļevickis , Krišjānis Prūsis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

This paper presents a linear FPT algorithm to find a tree decomposition with a 2-approximation of the treewidth with a significantly smaller exponential dependence on the treewidth. The algorithm runs in time $O(\text{poly}(k) 81^k n)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer , Medha Kumar

Branchwidth determines how graphs, and more generally, arbitrary connectivity (basically symmetric and submodular) functions could be decomposed into a tree-like structure by specific cuts. We develop a general framework for designing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Tuukka Korhonen

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi