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We investigate the parameterized complexity of the graph editing problem called Editing to a Graph with a Given Degree Sequence, where the aim is to obtain a graph with a given degree sequence \sigma by at most k vertex or edge deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Petr A. Golovach , George B. Mertzios

In the Cluster Editing problem, sometimes known as (unweighted) Correlation Clustering, we must insert and delete a minimum number of edges to achieve a graph in which every connected component is a clique. Owing to its applications in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Manuel Lafond , Alitzel López Sánchez , Weidong Luo

The design of good heuristics or approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems often requires significant specialized knowledge and trial-and-error. Can we automate this challenging, tedious process, and learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Hanjun Dai , Elias B. Khalil , Yuyu Zhang , Bistra Dilkina , Le Song

This work investigates the parameterized complexity of three related graph modification problems. Given a directed graph, a distinguished vertex, and a positive integer k, Minimum Indegree Deletion asks for a vertex subset of size at most k…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Robert Bredereck

We pursue the study of edge-irregulators of graphs, which were recently introduced in [Fioravantes et al. Parametrised Distance to Local Irregularity. IPEC, 2024]. That is, we are interested in the parameter Ie(G), which, for a given graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Julien Bensmail , Noémie Catherinot , Foivos Fioravantes , Clara Marcille , Nacim Oijid

Optimization over trained machine learning models has applications including: verification, minimizing neural acquisition functions, and integrating a trained surrogate into a larger decision-making problem. This paper formulates and solves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Shiqiang Zhang , Juan S. Campos , Christian Feldmann , David Walz , Frederik Sandfort , Miriam Mathea , Calvin Tsay , Ruth Misener

A common way of partitioning graphs is through minimum cuts. One drawback of classical minimum cut methods is that they tend to produce small groups, which is why more balanced variants such as normalized and ratio cuts have seen more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chakib Fettal , Lazhar Labiod , Mohamed Nadif

Covering problems are fundamental classical problems in optimization, computer science and complexity theory. Typically an input to these problems is a family of sets over a finite universe and the goal is to cover the elements of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-14 Omid Amini , Fedor V. Fomin , Saket Saurabh

Community-based graph clustering is one of the most popular topics in the analysis of complex social networks. This type of clustering involves grouping vertices that are considered to share more connections, whereas vertices in different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wenshun Teng , Qingna Li

Graph modification problems, which aim to find a small set of modifications to a graph so that it satisfies a desired property, have been studied for several special graph classes. The literature is rather rich in NP-completeness results…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Burak Nur Erdem , Tınaz Ekim , Zeki Caner Taşkın

We study the parameterized complexity of the $s$-Club Cluster Edge Deletion problem: Given a graph $G$ and two integers $s \ge 2$ and $k \ge 1$, is it possible to remove at most $k$ edges from $G$ such that each connected component of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Fabrizio Montecchiani , Giacomo Ortali , Tommaso Piselli , Alessandra Tappini

The sparsest cut problem consists of identifying a small set of edges that breaks the graph into balanced sets of vertices. The normalized cut problem balances the total degree, instead of the size, of the resulting sets. Applications of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami

Correlation clustering seeks a partition of the vertex set of a given graph/network into groups of closely related, or just close enough, vertices so that elements of different groups are not close to each other. The problem has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Lucas Isenmann , Sergio Thoumi

Best match graphs (BMGs) are a class of colored digraphs that naturally appear in mathematical phylogenetics and can be approximated with the help of similarity measures between gene sequences, albeit not without errors. The corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-15 David Schaller , Manuela Geiß , Marc Hellmuth , Peter F. Stadler

The NP-complete graph problem Cluster Editing seeks to transform a static graph into a disjoint union of cliques by making the fewest possible edits to the edges. We introduce a natural interpretation of this problem in temporal graphs,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cristiano Bocci , Chiara Capresi , Kitty Meeks , John Sylvester

We study the Induced $H$ Partition problem from the parameterized complexity point of view. In the Induced $H$ Partition problem the task is to partition vertices of a graph $G$ into sets $V_1,V_2,\dots,V_n$ such that the graph $H$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Dušan Knop

We consider the following natural graph cut problem called Critical Node Cut (CNC): Given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, and two positive integers $k$ and $x$, determine whether $G$ has a set of $k$ vertices whose removal leaves $G$ with at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Danny Hermelin , Moshe Kaspi , Christian Komusiewicz , Barak Navon

The problem of finding the densest subgraph in a given graph has several applications in graph mining, particularly in areas like social network analysis, protein and gene analyses etc. Depending on the application, finding dense subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci

Unit disk graphs are intersection graphs of circles of unit radius in the plane. We present simple and provably good heuristics for a number of classical NP-hard optimization problems on unit disk graphs. The problems considered include…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Madhav V. Marathe , H. Breu , Harry B. Hunt , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz

Combining the techniques of approximation algorithms and parameterized complexity has long been considered a promising research area, but relatively few results are currently known. In this paper we study the parameterized approximability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michael Lampis