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We consider algorithms for finding and counting small, fixed graphs in sparse host graphs. In the non-sparse setting, the parameters treedepth and treewidth play a crucial role in fast, constant-space and polynomial-space algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Balagopal Komarath , Anant Kumar , Suchismita Mishra , Aditi Sethia

Decompositional parameters such as treewidth are commonly used to obtain fixed-parameter algorithms for NP-hard graph problems. For problems that are W[1]-hard parameterized by treewidth, a natural alternative would be to use a suitable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Cornelius Brand , Esra Ceylan , Christian Hatschka , Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

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

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

The minimum height of vertex and edge partition trees are well-studied graph parameters known as, for instance, vertex and edge ranking number. While they are NP-hard to determine in general, linear-time algorithms exist for trees.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Svein Høgemo , Benjamin Bergougnoux , Ulrik Brandes , Christophe Paul , Jan Arne Telle

The recent increase of interest in the graph invariant called tree-depth and in its applications in algorithms and logic on graphs led to a natural question: is there an analogously useful "depth" notion also for dense graphs (say; one…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Robert Ganian , Petr Hliněný , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Jan Obdržálek , Patrice Ossona de Mendez

In a recent paper, Kwon and Oum claim that every graph of bounded rank-width is a pivot-minor of a graph of bounded tree-width (while the converse has been known true already before). We study the analogous questions for "depth" parameters…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Petr Hliněný , O-joung Kwon , Jan Obdržálek , Sebastian Ordyniak

It is well known that the treewidth of a graph $G$ corresponds to the node search number where a team of cops is pursuing a robber that is lazy, visible and has the ability to move at infinite speed via unguarded path. In recent papers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Guillaume Mescoff , Christophe Paul , Dimitrios Thilikos

We give two new approximation algorithms to compute the fractional hypertree width of an input hypergraph. The first algorithm takes as input $n$-vertex $m$-edge hypergraph $H$ of fractional hypertree width at most $\omega$, runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Viktoriia Korchemna , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan , Jie Xue

In this work, we introduce TreeWidzard, an engine for developing dynamic programming algorithms that decide graph-theoretic properties parameterized by treewidth and pathwidth. Besides providing a unified framework for algorithms deciding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveria , Sam Urmian

Treewidth is a graph parameter of fundamental importance to algorithmic and structural graph theory. This paper surveys several graph parameters tied to treewidth, including separation number, tangle number, well-linked number and Cartesian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

In this paper we propose, implement, and test the first practical decomposition algorithms for the width parameters treecut width and treedepth. These two parameters have recently gained a lot of attention in the theoretical research…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Robert Ganian , Neha Lodha , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

The {\em edit distance} between two ordered trees with vertex labels is the minimum cost of transforming one tree into the other by a sequence of elementary operations consisting of deleting and relabeling existing nodes, as well as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Erik D. Demaine , Shay Mozes , Benjamin Rossman , Oren Weimann

The circumference of a graph $G$ is the length of a longest cycle in $G$, or $+\infty$ if $G$ has no cycle. Birmel\'e (2003) showed that the treewidth of a graph $G$ is at most its circumference minus $1$. We strengthen this result for…

A strength of parameterized algorithmics is that each problem can be parameterized by an essentially inexhaustible set of parameters. Usually, the choice of the considered parameter is informed by the theoretical relations between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer , Luca Pascal Staus

Dynamic programming over tree decompositions is a common technique in parameterized algorithms. In this paper, we study whether this technique can also be applied to compute Pareto sets of multiobjective optimization problems. We first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Joshua Könen , Heiko Röglin , Tarek Stuck

In this paper, we give a constructive proof of the fact that the treewidth of a graph is at most its divisorial gonality. The proof gives a polynomial time algorithm to construct a tree decomposition of width at most $k$, when an effective…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Hans L. Bodlaender , Josse van Dobben de Bruyn , Dion Gijswijt , Harry Smit

Many computational problems admit fast algorithms on special inputs, however, the required properties might be quite restrictive. E.g., many graph problems can be solved much faster on interval or cographs, or on graphs of small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles

We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter $k$ and two graphs $G_1,G_2$, either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth at least $k$, or determines whether $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic. The running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

Tree-width has been proven to be a useful parameter to design fast and efficient algorithms for intractable problems. However, while tree-width is low on relatively sparse graphs can be arbitrary high on dense graphs. Therefore, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Chris Aronis