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We study the notion of local treewidth in sparse random graphs: the maximum treewidth over all $k$-vertex subgraphs of an $n$-vertex graph. When $k$ is not too large, we give nearly tight bounds for this local treewidth parameter; we also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Hermish Mehta , Daniel Reichman

Dynamic programming is widely used for exact computations based on tree decompositions of graphs. However, the space complexity is usually exponential in the treewidth. We study the problem of designing efficient dynamic programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Martin Furer , Huiwen Yu

The graph parameter treedepth is minor-monotone; hence, the class of graphs with treedepth at most $k$ is minor-closed. By the Graph Minor Theorem, such a class is characterized by a finite set of forbidden minors. A conjecture of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kolja Kühn

We determine if the width of a graph class ${\cal G}$ changes from unbounded to bounded if we consider only those graphs from ${\cal G}$ whose diameter is bounded. As parameters we consider treedepth, pathwidth, treewidth and clique-width,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Tala Eagling-Vose , Noleen Köhler , Sebastian Ordyniak , Daniël Paulusma

An automata network is a network of entities, each holding a state from a finite set and evolving according to a local update rule which depends only on its neighbors in the network's graph. It is freezing if there is an order on states…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Eric Goles , Pedro Montealegre , Martín Ríos-Wilson , Guillaume Theyssier

The problem of deciding the validity (QSAT) of quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) is a vivid research area in both theory and practice. In the field of parameterized algorithmics, the well-studied graph measure treewidth turned out to be a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Johannes Klaus Fichte , Markus Hecher , Andreas Pfandler

Parameterized algorithms are a way to solve hard problems more efficiently, given that a specific parameter of the input is small. In this paper, we apply this idea to the field of answer set programming (ASP). To this end, we propose two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Johannes Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph which minimizes the sum of given functions at vertices evaluated at their subgraph degrees. While the problem is NP-hard already when all functions are the same, we show that it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Shmuel Onn

We study the inference of network archaeology in growing random geometric graphs. We consider the root finding problem for a random nearest neighbor tree in dimension $d \in \mathbb{N}$, generated by sequentially embedding vertices…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Anna Brandenberger , Cassandra Marcussen , Elchanan Mossel , Madhu Sudan

The Hausdorff distance is a relatively new measure of similarity of graphs. The notion of the Hausdorff distance considers a special kind of a common subgraph of the compared graphs and depends on the structural properties outside of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Aleksander Kelenc

This work presents novel algorithms for learning Bayesian network structures with bounded treewidth. Both exact and approximate methods are developed. The exact method combines mixed-integer linear programming formulations for structure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Siqi Nie , Denis Deratani Maua , Cassio Polpo de Campos , Qiang Ji

In the decision tree computation model for Boolean functions, the depth corresponds to query complexity, and size corresponds to storage space. The depth measure is the most well-studied one, and is known to be polynomially related to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yogesh Dahiya , Meena Mahajan

We show a simple generalization of the quantum walk algorithm for search in backtracking trees by Montanaro (ToC 2018) to the case where vertices can have different times of computation. If a vertex $v$ in the tree of depth $D$ is computed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

This work introduces two techniques for the design and analysis of branching algorithms, illustrated through the case study of the Vertex Cover problem. First, we present a method for automatically generating branching rules through a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Katie Clinch , Serge Gaspers , Tao Zixu He , Simon Mackenzie , Tiankuang Zhang

Let $H=(V,F)$ be a simple hypergraph without loops. $H$ is called linear if $|f\cap g|\le 1$ for any $f,g\in F$ with $f\not=g$. The $2$-section of $H$, denoted by $[H]_2$, is a graph with $V([H]_2)=V$ and for any $ u,v\in V([H]_2)$, $uv\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Ke Liu , Mei Lu

The notion of directed treewidth was introduced by Johnson, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas [Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, Vol 82, 2001] as a first step towards an algorithmic metatheory for digraphs. They showed that some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

For all integers $k\geq 3$, we give an $O(n^4)$ time algorithm for the problem whose instance is a graph $G$ of girth at least $k$ together with $k$ vertices and whose question is "Does $G$ contains an induced subgraph containing the $k$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Wei Liu , Nicolas Trotignon

Estimating the average degree of graph is a classic problem in sublinear graph algorithm. Eden, Ron, and Seshadhri (ICALP 2017, SIDMA 2019) gave a simple algorithm for this problem whose running time depended on the graph arboricity, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Talya Eden , C. Seshadhri

A stable or locally-optimal cut of a graph is a cut whose weight cannot be increased by changing the side of a single vertex. In this paper we study Minimum Stable Cut, the problem of finding a stable cut of minimum weight. Since this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Michael Lampis

Tree-decompositions of graphs are of fundamental importance in structural and algorithmic graph theory. The main property of tree-decompositions is the width (the maximum size of a bag minus 1). We show that every graph has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 David R. Wood