English
Related papers

Related papers: How much does a treedepth modulator help to obtain…

200 papers

We study a general class of problems called F-deletion problems. In an F-deletion problem, we are asked whether a subset of at most $k$ vertices can be deleted from a graph $G$ such that the resulting graph does not contain as a minor any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Neeldhara Misra , Geevarghese Philip , Saket Saurabh

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 the Selective Coloring problem, we are given an integer $k$, a graph $G$, and a partition of $V(G)$ into $p$ parts, and the goal is to decide whether or not we can pick exactly one vertex of each part and obtain a $k$-colorable induced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos

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 introduce the tree-decomposition-based parameter totally $\Delta$-modular treewidth (TDM-treewidth) for matrices with two nonzero entries per row. We show how to solve integer programs whose matrices have bounded TDM-treewidth in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Caleb McFarland

Vertex deletion to hereditary graph class is well-studied in parameterized complexity. Vertex deletion to the scattered graph classes has gained attention in recent years. In this paper, we consider (Proper-Interval, Tree)-Vertex Deletion,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ashwin Jacob , Arpit Kumar , Diptapriyo Majumdar

We investigate the problem of simultaneously dominating all spanning trees of a given graph. We prove that on 2-connected graphs, a subset of the vertices dominates all spanning trees of the graph if and only if it is a vertex cover. Using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Sebastian S. Johann , Sven O. Krumke , Manuel Streicher

We extend the notion of lossy kernelization, introduced by Lokshtanov et al. [STOC 2017], to approximate Turing kernelization. An $\alpha$-approximate Turing kernel for a parameterized optimization problem is a polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Eva-Maria C. Hols , Stefan Kratsch , Astrid Pieterse

In the Maximum Minimal Vertex Cover (MMVC) problem, we are given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, and the objective is to decide whether $G$ contains a minimal vertex cover of size at least $k$. Motivated by the kernelization of MMVC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Júlio Araújo , Marin Bougeret , Victor A. Campos , Ignasi Sau

We consider the $\Pi$-free Deletion problem parameterized by the size of a vertex cover, for a range of graph properties $\Pi$. Given an input graph $G$, this problem asks whether there is a subset of at most $k$ vertices whose removal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon

For a set of graphs $\mathcal{H}$, the \textsc{$\mathcal{H}$-free Edge Deletion} problem asks to find whether there exist at most $k$ edges in the input graph whose deletion results in a graph without any induced copy of $H\in\mathcal{H}$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-19 N. R. Aravind , R. B. Sandeep , Naveen Sivadasan

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of graphs, and let $p,r$ be nonnegative integers. The \textsc{$(p,r,\mathcal{F})$-Covering} problem asks whether for a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, there exists a set $D$ of at most $k$ vertices in $G$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jungho Ahn , Jinha Kim , O-joung Kwon

Finding dense subgraphs of a large graph is a standard problem in graph mining that has been studied extensively both for its theoretical richness and its many practical applications. In this paper we introduce a new family of dense…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

A graph is $c$-closed when every pair of nonadjacent vertices has at most $c-1$ common neighbors. In $c$-Closed Vertex Deletion, the input is a graph $G$ and an integer $k$ and we ask whether $G$ can be transformed into a $c$-closed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lisa Lehner , Christian Komusiewicz , Luca Pascal Staus

Many computational problems admit fast algorithms on special inputs, however, the required properties might be quite restrictive. E.g., many graph problems can be solved much faster on interval or cographs, or on graphs of small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles

We investigate the parameterized complexity of Binary CSP parameterized by the vertex cover number and the treedepth of the constraint graph, as well as by a selection of related modulator-based parameters. The main findings are as follows:…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Hans L. Bodlaender , Carla Groenland , Michał Pilipczuk

In the Trivially Perfect Editing problem one is given an undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$ and seeks to add or delete at most $k$ edges in $G$ to obtain a trivially perfect graph. In a recent work, Dumas, Perez and Todinca…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Maël Dumas , Anthony Perez

Given a graph G = (V,E) and an integer k, an edge modification problem for a graph property P consists in deciding whether there exists a set of edges F of size at most k such that the graph H = (V,E \vartriangle F) satisfies the property…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Sylvain Guillemot , Christophe Paul , Anthony Perez

It is known that the problem of deleting at most k vertices to obtain a proper interval graph (Proper Interval Vertex Deletion) is fixed parameter tractable. However, whether the problem admits a polynomial kernel or not was open. Here, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Fedor V. Fomin , Saket Saurabh , Yngve Villanger

The Identifying Code (IC) problem seeks a vertex subset whose intersection with every vertex's closed neighborhood is unique, enabling fault detection in multiprocessor systems and practical uses in identity verification, environmental…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Aritra Banik , Praneet Kumar Patra , Adele Anna Rescigno , Abhishek Sahu