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We show that the class of strongly connected graphical models with treewidth at most k can be properly efficiently PAC-learnt with respect to the Kullback-Leibler Divergence. Previous approaches to this problem, such as those of Chow ([1]),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Mukund Narasimhan , Jeff A. Bilmes

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ be the convex hull of characteristic vectors of its independent sets of size at most $k$. We study extension complexity of $\mathrm{STAB}_k(G)$ with respect to a fixed parameter…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Hans Raj Tiwary

The \emph{linear vertex arboricity} of a graph is the smallest number of sets into which the vertices of a graph can be partitioned so that each of these sets induces a linear forest. Chaplick et al. [JoCG 2020] showed that, somewhat…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alexander Erhardt , Alexander Wolff

Treewidth is an important graph invariant, relevant for both structural and algorithmic reasons. A necessary condition for a graph class to have bounded treewidth is the absence of large cliques. We study graph classes closed under taking…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Clément Dallard , Martin Milanič , Kenny Štorgel

We propose a universal Graph Neural Network architecture which can be trained as an end-2-end search heuristic for any Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). Our architecture can be trained unsupervised with policy gradient descent to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jan Tönshoff , Berke Kisin , Jakob Lindner , Martin Grohe

A graph has tree-width at most $k$ if it can be obtained from a set of graphs each with at most $k+1$ vertices by a sequence of clique sums. We refine this definition by, for each non-negative integer $\theta$, defining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Jim Geelen , Benson Joeris

We propose reductions to quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) as a new approach to showing fixed-parameter linear algorithms for problems parameterized by treewidth. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by giving new algorithms for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Michael Lampis , Stefan Mengel , Valia Mitsou

We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

We prove that for any fixed $k$, the probability that a random vertex of a random increasing plane tree is of rank $k$, that is, the probability that a random vertex is at distance $k$ from the leaves, converges to a constant $c_k$ as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Miklós Bóna , Boris Pittel

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

We study the problem of testing $C_k$-freeness ($k$-cycle-freeness) for fixed constant $k > 3$ in graphs with bounded arboricity (but unbounded degrees). In particular, we are interested in one-sided error algorithms, so that they must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Talya Eden , Reut Levi , Dana Ron

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

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 study restricted computation models related to the Tree Evaluation Problem}. The TEP was introduced in earlier work as a simple candidate for the (*very*) long term goal of separating L and LogDCFL. The input to the problem is a rooted,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-26 Dustin Wehr

Reduced parameters [BKW, JCTB '26; BKRT, SODA '22] are defined via contraction sequences. Based on this framework, we introduce the reduced component max-leaf, denoted by $\operatorname{cml}^\downarrow$, where component max-leaf is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Édouard Bonnet , Yeonsu Chang , Julien Duron , Colin Geniet , O-joung Kwon

We consider the problem of finding a 1-planar drawing for a general graph, where a 1-planar drawing is a drawing in which each edge participates in at most one crossing. Since this problem is known to be NP-hard we investigate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Michael J. Bannister , Sergio Cabello , David Eppstein

Dynamic programming on various graph decompositions is one of the most fundamental techniques used in parameterized complexity. Unfortunately, even if we consider concepts as simple as path or tree decompositions, such dynamic programming…

We prove that relational structures admitting specific polymorphisms (namely, canonical pseudo-WNU operations of all arities $n \geq 3$) have low relational width. This implies a collapse of the bounded width hierarchy for numerous classes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Antoine Mottet , Tomáš Nagy , Michael Pinsker , Michał Wrona

We prove that if a graph has a tree-decomposition of width at most w, then it has a tree-decomposition of width at most w with certain desirable properties. We will use this result in a subsequent paper to show that every 2-connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Thanh N. Dang , Robin Thomas

For the well-known Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP) we are given an undirected graph $G$ with edge costs, a set $R$ of terminal vertices, and an integer demand $d_{s,t}$ for every terminal pair $s,t\in R$. The task is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Anish Mukherjee , Erik Jan van Leeuwen