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Many combinatorial problems involving weights can be formulated as a so-called ranged problem. That is, their input consists of a universe $U$, a (succinctly-represented) set family $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^{U}$, a weight function $\omega:U…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-22 Jesper Nederlof , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Ruben van der Zwaan

The Workflow Satisfiability Problem (WSP) is a problem of practical interest that arises whenever tasks need to be performed by authorized users, subject to constraints defined by business rules. We are required to decide whether there…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Gregory Gutin , Stefan Kratsch , Magnus Wahlström

Kernelization studies polynomial-time preprocessing algorithms. Over the last 20 years, the most celebrated positive results of the field have been linear kernels for classical NP-hard graph problems on sparse graph classes. In this paper,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Christian Bertram , Deborah Haun , Mads Vestergaard Jensen , Tuukka Korhonen

In this work, we study the $k$-median clustering problem with an additional equal-size constraint on the clusters, from the perspective of parameterized preprocessing. Our main result is the first lossy ($2$-approximate) polynomial kernel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Nidhi Purohit , Kirill Simonov

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

Kernelization algorithms in the context of Parameterized Complexity are often based on a combination of reduction rules and combinatorial insights. We will expose in this paper a similar strategy for obtaining polynomial-time approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Cristina Bazgan , Morgan Chopin , Henning Fernau

In this paper, we devise a scheme for kernelizing, in sublinear space and polynomial time, various problems on planar graphs. The scheme exploits planarity to ensure that the resulting algorithms run in polynomial time and use O((sqrt(n) +…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Arindam Biswas , Johannes Meintrup

We prove a number of results around kernelization of problems parameterized by the size of a given vertex cover of the input graph. We provide three sets of simple general conditions characterizing problems admitting kernels of polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Fedor V. Fomin , Bart M. P. Jansen , Michal Pilipczuk

We investigate a series of learning kernel problems with polynomial combinations of base kernels, which will help us solve regression and classification problems. We also perform some numerical experiments of polynomial kernels with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Chen Li , Luca Venturi , Ruitu Xu

Connectivity problems like k-Path and k-Disjoint Paths relate to many important milestones in parameterized complexity, namely the Graph Minors Project, color coding, and the recent development of techniques for obtaining kernelization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

We introduce the cross-composition framework for proving kernelization lower bounds. A classical problem L AND/OR-cross-composes into a parameterized problem Q if it is possible to efficiently construct an instance of Q with polynomially…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

This paper presents an algorithm, Voted Kernel Regularization , that provides the flexibility of using potentially very complex kernel functions such as predictors based on much higher-degree polynomial kernels, while benefitting from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Corinna Cortes , Prasoon Goyal , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Mehryar Mohri

Kernelization algorithms, usually a preprocessing step before other more traditional algorithms, are very special in the sense that they return (reduced) instances, instead of final results. This characteristic excludes the freedom of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Yixin Cao , Jianer Chen

We study kernelization of classic hard graph problems when the input graphs fulfill triadic closure properties. More precisely, we consider the recently introduced parameters closure number $c$ and the weak closure number $\gamma$ [Fox et…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , Frank Sommer

The notion of treewidth plays an important role in theoretical and practical studies of graph problems. It has been recognized that, especially in practical environments, when computing the treewidth of a graph it is invaluable to first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

Object proposals are an ensemble of bounding boxes with high potential to contain objects. In order to determine a small set of proposals with a high recall, a common scheme is extracting multiple features followed by a ranking algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Jing Wang , Jie Shen , Ping Li

Enumerative kernelization is a recent promising at the intersection of parameterized complexity and enumeration algorithms, with two proposed models. The first, known as enum-kernels and due to Creignou et al., was too permissive, leading…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Marin Bougeret , Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Ignasi Sau

A polynomial Turing kernel for some parameterized problem $P$ is a polynomial-time algorithm that solves $P$ using queries to an oracle of $P$ whose sizes are upper-bounded by some polynomial in the parameter. Here the term "polynomial"…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Till Fluschnik , Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin

An increasing number of systems are being designed by gathering significant amounts of data and then optimizing the system parameters directly using the obtained data. Often this is done without analyzing the dataset structure. As task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sarath Shekkizhar , Antonio Ortega

Kernelization is a significant topic in parameterized complexity. Turing kernelization is a general form of kernelization. In the aspect of kernelization, an impressive hardness theory has been established [Bodlaender etc. (ICALP 2008,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Weidong Luo