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Recently, Brand, Ganian and Simonov introduced a parameterized refinement of the classical PAC-learning sample complexity framework. A crucial outcome of their investigation is that for a very wide range of learning problems, there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Robert Ganian , Liana Khazaliya , Kirill Simonov

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in learning from graph-structured data but often struggle on heterophilous graphs, where connected nodes differ in features or class labels. This limitation arises from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhongtian Sun , Anoushka Harit , Alexandra Cristea , Christl A. Donnelly , Pietro Liò

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

Computing a minimum path cover (MPC) of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a fundamental problem with a myriad of applications, including reachability. Although it is known how to solve the problem by a simple reduction to minimum flow,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Manuel Cáceres , Brendan Mumey , Santeri Toivonen , Alexandru I. Tomescu

Despite recent advances in representation learning in hypercomplex (HC) space, this subject is still vastly unexplored in the context of graphs. Motivated by the complex and quaternion algebras, which have been found in several contexts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tuan Le , Marco Bertolini , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Grid graphs, and, more generally, $k\times r$ grid graphs, form one of the most basic classes of geometric graphs. Over the past few decades, a large body of works studied the (in)tractability of various computational problems on grid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

Model-driven software engineering is a suitable method for dealing with the ever-increasing complexity of software development processes. Graphs and graph transformations have proven useful for representing such models and changes to them.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Alexander Lauer

We obtain new parameterized algorithms for the classical problem of determining whether a directed acyclic graph admits an upward planar drawing. Our results include a new fixed-parameter algorithm parameterized by the number of sources, an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Steven Chaplick , Emilio Di Giacomo , Fabrizio Frati , Robert Ganian , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou , Kirill Simonov

The bandwidth of a $n$-vertex graph $G$ is the smallest integer $b$ such that there exists a bijective function $f : V(G) \rightarrow \{1,...,n\}$, called a layout of $G$, such that for every edge $uv \in E(G)$, $|f(u) - f(v)| \leq b$. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Markus Sortland Dregi , Daniel Lokshtanov

We consider combinatorial problems that can be solved in polynomial time for graphs of bounded treewidth but where the order of the polynomial that bounds the running time is expected to depend on the treewidth bound. First we review some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Stefan Szeider

Constraints are powerful declarative constructs that allow users to conveniently restrict variable values that potentially range over an infinite domain. In this paper, we propose a constraint path query language over property graphs, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Heyang Li , Anthony Widjaja Lin , Domagoj Vrgoč

We revisit two well-studied problems, Bounded Degree Vertex Deletion and Defective Coloring, where the input is a graph $G$ and a target degree $\Delta$ and we are asked either to edit or partition the graph so that the maximum degree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Michael Lampis , Manolis Vasilakis

We completely classify the computational complexity of the list H-colouring problem for graphs (with possible loops) in combinatorial and algebraic terms: for every graph H the problem is either NP-complete, NL-complete, L-complete or is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Laszlo Egri , Andrei Krokhin , Benoit Larose , Pascal Tesson

Let $G$ be a graph such that each edge has its list of available colors, and assume that each list is a subset of the common set consisting of $k$ colors. Suppose that we are given two list edge-colorings $f_0$ and $f_r$ of $G$, and asked…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Hiroki Osawa , Akira Suzuki , Takehiro Ito , Xiao Zhou

In the Colored Clustering problem, one is asked to cluster edge-colored (hyper-)graphs whose colors represent interaction types. More specifically, the goal is to select as many edges as possible without choosing two edges that share an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz , Rolf Niedermeier

Exact tight bounds of the complexity of the satisfiability problem for dense modal logics is a difficult question, likely somewhere between $\PSPACE$ and $\EXPSPACE$ depending of the logic under question. For a class of them, called here…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Olivier Gasquet

We study provably effective and efficient data reduction for a class of NP-hard graph modification problems based on vertex degree properties. We show fixed-parameter tractability for NP-hard graph completion (that is, edge addition) cases…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Vincent Froese , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Dealing with the NP-complete Dominating Set problem on undirected graphs, we demonstrate the power of data reduction by preprocessing from a theoretical as well as a practical side. In particular, we prove that Dominating Set restricted to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jochen Alber , Michael R. Fellows , Rolf Niedermeier

The generic homomorphism problem, which asks whether an input graph $G$ admits a homomorphism into a fixed target graph $H$, has been widely studied in the literature. In this article, we provide a fine-grained complexity classification of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Viktoriia Korchemna , Karolina Okrasa , Kirill Simonov

Mim-width and sim-width are among the most powerful graph width parameters, with sim-width more powerful than mim-width, which is in turn more powerful than clique-width. While several $\mathsf{NP}$-hard graph problems become tractable for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang