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We prove identifiability of parameters for a broad class of random graph mixture models. These models are characterized by a partition of the set of graph nodes into latent (unobservable) groups. The connectivities between nodes are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-07 Elizabeth S. Allman , Catherine Matias , John A. Rhodes

Orienting the edges of an undirected graph such that the resulting digraph satisfies some given constraints is a classical problem in graph theory, with multiple algorithmic applications. In particular, an $st$-orientation orients each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Carla Binucci , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Giacomo Ortali , Tommaso Piselli

A mixed dominating set is a collection of vertices and edges that dominates all vertices and edges of a graph. We study the complexity of exact and parameterized algorithms for \textsc{Mixed Dominating Set}, resolving some open questions.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Louis Dublois , Michael Lampis , Vangelis Th. Paschos

Triangle strips have been widely used for efficient rendering. It is NP-complete to test whether a given triangulated model can be represented as a single triangle strip, so many heuristics have been proposed to partition models into few…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. Gopi , David Eppstein

The workflow satisfiability problem is concerned with determining whether it is possible to find an allocation of authorized users to the steps in a workflow in such a way that all constraints are satisfied. The problem is NP-hard in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-16 J. Crampton , R. Crowston , G. Gutin , M. Jones , M. S. Ramanujan

We present a fast enumeration algorithm for combinatorial 2- and 3-manifolds. In particular, we enumerate all triangulated surfaces with 11 and 12 vertices and all triangulated 3-manifolds with 11 vertices. We further determine all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thom Sulanke , Frank H. Lutz

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

The propositional planning problem is a notoriously difficult computational problem. Downey et al. (1999) initiated the parameterized analysis of planning (with plan length as the parameter) and B\"ackstr\"om et al. (2012) picked up this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Christer Bäckström , Peter Jonsson , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

Inspired by notorious combinatorial optimization problems on graphs, in this paper we consider a series of related problems defined using a metric space and topology determined by a graph. Particularly, we present the Independent Set,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Alexander Grigoriev , Katherine Faulkner

Graph pattern matching is often defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism, an NP-complete problem. To lower its complexity, various extensions of graph simulation have been considered instead. These extensions allow pattern matching to be…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Shuai Ma , Yang Cao , Wenfei Fan , Jinpeng Huai , Tianyu Wo

Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. This framework captures well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Martin Koutecký , Shmuel Onn

We study first-order model checking, by which we refer to the problem of deciding whether or not a given first-order sentence is satisfied by a given finite structure. In particular, we aim to understand on which sets of sentences this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Hubie Chen

The paper studies coincidence points of parameterized set-valued mappings (multifunctions), which provide an extended framework to cover several important topics in variational analysis and optimization that include the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Aram V. Arutyunov , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Sergey E. Zhukovskiy

We show that the following two problems are fixed-parameter tractable with parameter k: testing whether a connected n-vertex graph with m edges has a square root with at most n-1+k edges and testing whether such a graph has a square root…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Manfred Cochefert , Jean-François Couturier , Petr A. Golovach , Dieter Kratsch , Daniël Paulusma

We report on the implementation of an algorithm for computing the set of all regular triangulations of finitely many points in Euclidean space. This algorithm, which we call down-flip reverse search, can be restricted, e.g., to computing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Charles Jordan , Michael Joswig , Lars Kastner

In graph modification problems, one is given a graph G and the goal is to apply a minimum number of modification operations (such as edge deletions) to G such that the resulting graph fulfills a certain property. For example, the Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

The multicut problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with diverse applications in fields such as bioinformatics, data mining and computer vision. Graph neural networks have been defined for the multicut problem but can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jannik Irmai , Lucas Fabian Naumann , Bjoern Andres

We study the \textsc{Labeled Contractibility} problem, where the input consists of two vertex-labeled graphs $G$ and $H$, and the goal is to determine whether $H$ can be obtained from $G$ via a sequence of edge contractions. Lafond and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yashaswini Mathur , Prafullkumar Tale

Structural properties of large random maps and lambda-terms may be gleaned by studying the limit distributions of various parameters of interest. In our work we focus on restricted classes of maps and their counterparts in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Olivier Bodini , Alexandros Singh , Noam Zeilberger

Framed combinatorial topology is a recent approach to tame geometry which expresses higher-dimensional stratified spaces via tractable combinatorial data. The resulting theory of spaces is well-behaved and computable. In this paper we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Lukas Heidemann