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We consider the fundamental problems of determining the rooted and global edge and vertex connectivities (and computing the corresponding cuts) in directed graphs. For rooted (and hence also global) edge connectivity with small integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

We revisit a graph width parameter that we dub bipartite treewidth (btw). Bipartite treewidth can be seen as a common generalization of treewidth and the odd cycle transversal number, and is closely related to odd-minors. Intuitively, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lars Jaffke , Laure Morelle , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Arising from structural graph theory, treewidth has become a focus of study in fixed-parameter tractable algorithms in various communities including combinatorics, integer-linear programming, and numerical analysis. Many NP-hard problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sally Dong , Yin Tat Lee , 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

Treewidth is a useful tool in designing graph algorithms. Although many NP-hard graph problems can be solved in linear time when the input graphs have small treewidth, there are problems which remain hard on graphs of bounded treewidth. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Huairui Chu , Bingkai Lin

In the Weighted Treewidth-$\eta$ Deletion problem we are given a node-weighted graph $G$ and we look for a vertex subset $X$ of minimum weight such that the treewidth of $G-X$ is at most $\eta$. We show that Weighted Treewidth-$\eta$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michał Włodarczyk

For a well-studied family of domination-type problems, in bounded-treewidth graphs, we investigate whether it is possible to find faster algorithms. For sets $\sigma,\rho$ of non-negative integers, a $(\sigma,\rho)$-set of a graph $G$ is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Fionn Mc Inerney , Daniel Neuen , Govind S. Sankar , Philipp Schepper , Philip Wellnitz

Our main result is a full classification, for every connected graph $H$, of the computational complexity of Steiner Forest on $H$-subgraph-free graphs. To obtain this dichotomy, we establish the following new algorithmic, hardness, and…

Bounded treewidth is one of the most cited combinatorial invariants, which was applied in the literature for solving several counting problems efficiently. A canonical counting problem is #SAT, which asks to count the satisfying assignments…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Patrick Thier , Stefan Woltran

Possibly the most famous algorithmic meta-theorem is Courcelle's theorem, which states that all MSO-expressible graph properties are decidable in linear time for graphs of bounded treewidth. Unfortunately, the running time's dependence on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Michael Lampis

The {\sc Directed Maximum Leaf Out-Branching} problem is to find an out-branching (i.e. a rooted oriented spanning tree) in a given digraph with the maximum number of leaves. In this paper, we improve known parameterized algorithms and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-10 Noga Alon , Fedor V. Fomin , Gregory Gutin , Michael Krivelevich , Saket Saurabh

Cohen-Addad, Le, Pilipczuk, and Pilipczuk [CLPP23] recently constructed a stochastic embedding with expected $1+\varepsilon$ distortion of $n$-vertex planar graphs (with polynomial aspect ratio) into graphs of treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Hsien-Chih Chang , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Jonathan Conroy , Hung Le , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We prove that the (divisorial) gonality of a finite connected graph is lower bounded by its treewidth. We show that equality holds for grid graphs and complete multipartite graphs. We prove that the treewidth lower bound also holds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Josse van Dobben de Bruyn , Dion Gijswijt

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

Many hard graph problems, such as Hamiltonian Cycle, become FPT when parameterized by treewidth, a parameter that is bounded only on sparse graphs. When parameterized by the more general parameter clique-width, Hamiltonian Cycle becomes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Sigve Hortemo Sæther

We give a new fpt algorithm testing isomorphism of $n$-vertex graphs of tree width $k$ in time $2^{k\operatorname{polylog} (k)}\operatorname{poly} (n)$, improving the fpt algorithm due to Lokshtanov, Pilipczuk, Pilipczuk, and Saurabh (FOCS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen , Pascal Schweitzer , Daniel Wiebking

Fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms run in time f(p(x)) poly(|x|), where f is an arbitrary function of some parameter p of the input x and poly is some polynomial function. Treewidth, branchwidth, cliquewidth, NLC-width, rankwidth,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jakub Marecek

We consider the convex hull $P_{\varphi}(G)$ of all satisfying assignments of a given MSO formula $\varphi$ on a given graph $G$. We show that there exists an extended formulation of the polytope $P_{\varphi}(G)$ that can be described by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Petr Kolman , Martin Koutecký , Hans Raj Tiwary

We combine integer linear programming and recent advances in Monadic Second-Order model checking to obtain two new algorithmic meta-theorems for graphs of bounded vertex-cover. The first shows that cardMSO1, an extension of the well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Robert Ganian , Jan Obdržálek

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