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We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree of minimum cost under a hop constraint which requires the depth of the tree to be at most $k$. Our main result is an exact algorithm for metrics induced by graphs with bounded treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Martin Böhm , Ruben Hoeksma , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon

Recent work has pinned down the existentially optimal size bounds for vertex fault-tolerant spanners: for any positive integer $k$, every $n$-node graph has a $(2k-1)$-spanner on $O(f^{1-1/k} n^{1+1/k})$ edges resilient to $f$ vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Greg Bodwin , Michael Dinitz , Caleb Robelle

We give a new general approach for designing exact exponential-time algorithms for subset problems. In a subset problem the input implicitly describes a family of sets over a universe of size n and the task is to determine whether the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Serge Gaspers , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

In Clique Cover, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the task is to partition the vertices of $G$ into $k$ cliques. Clique Cover on unit ball graphs has a natural interpretation as a clustering problem, where the objective function is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Tomohiro Koana , Nidhi Purohit , Kirill Simonov

We prove that there is a randomized polynomial-time algorithm that given an edge-weighted graph $G$ excluding a fixed-minor $Q$ on $n$ vertices and an accuracy parameter $\varepsilon>0$, constructs an edge-weighted graph~$H$ and an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Hung Le , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

The problem of listing the $K$ shortest simple (loopless) $st$-paths in a graph has been studied since the early 1960s. For a non-negatively weighted graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, the most efficient solution is an $O(K(mn + n^2…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Romeo Rizzi , Gustavo Sacomoto , Marie-France Sagot

We give an algorithm for finding the arboricity of a weighted, undirected graph, defined as the minimum number of spanning forests that cover all edges of the graph, in $\sqrt{n} m^{1+o(1)}$ time. This improves on the previous best bound of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruoxu Cen , Henry Fleischmann , George Z. Li , Jason Li , Debmalya Panigrahi

We give an algorithmic and lower-bound framework that facilitates the construction of subexponential algorithms and matching conditional complexity bounds. It can be applied to intersection graphs of similarly-sized fat objects, yielding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mark de Berg , Hans L. Bodlaender , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Dániel Marx , Tom C. van der Zanden

We give the first polynomial-time algorithms on graphs of bounded maximum induced matching width (mim-width) for problems that are not locally checkable. In particular, we give $n^{\mathcal{O}(w)}$-time algorithms on graphs of mim-width at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Jan Arne Telle

In the Directed Steiner Network problem, the input is a directed graph G, a subset T of k vertices of G called the terminals, and a demand graph D on T. The task is to find a subgraph H of G with the minimum number of edges such that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Esther Galby , Sandor Kisfaludi-Bak , Daniel Marx , Roohani Sharma

By a well known result the treewidth of k-outerplanar graphs is at most 3k-1. This paper gives, besides a rigorous proof of this fact, an algorithmic implementation of the proof, i.e. it is shown that, given a k-outerplanar graph G, a tree…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Ioannis Katsikarelis

In the Edge Bipartization problem one is given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the question is whether $k$ edges can be deleted from $G$ so that it becomes bipartite. In 2006, Guo et al. [J. Comput. Syst. Sci.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

Let G be an input graph with n vertices and m edges and let k be a fixed parameter. We provide a single exponential FPT algorithm with running time O(c^kn(n+m)), c= min {18,k} that turns graph G into an interval graph by deleting at most k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Arash Rafiey

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

We investigate the parameterized complexity of Vertex Cover parameterized by the difference between the size of the optimal solution and the value of the linear programming (LP) relaxation of the problem. By carefully analyzing the change…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Daniel Lokshtanov , N. S. Narayanaswamy , Venkatesh Raman , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

In the Hedge Cut problem, the edges of a graph are partitioned into groups called hedges, and the question is what is the minimum number of hedges to delete to disconnect the graph. Ghaffari, Karger, and Panigrahi [SODA 2017] showed that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

We develop efficient parameterized, with additive error, approximation algorithms for the (Connected) $r$-Domination problem and the (Connected) $p$-Center problem for unweighted and undirected graphs. Given a graph $G$, we show how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Arne Leitert , Feodor F. Dragan

Dumas, Foucaud, Perez and Todinca (2024) recently proved that every graph whose edges can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth at most $O(3^k)$. In this paper, we improve this upper bound on the pathwidth to a polynomial one;…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Julien Baste , Lucas De Meyer , Ugo Giocanti , Etienne Objois , Timothé Picavet

We show that every $H$-minor-free graph that also excludes a $(k \times k)$-grid as a minor has treewidth/branchwidth bounded from above by a function $f(t,k)$ that is linear in $k$ and polynomial in $t := |V(H)|$. Such a result was proven…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Maximilian Gorsky , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Sebastian Wiederrecht

Computing bounded depth decompositions is a bottleneck in many applications of the treedepth parameter. The fastest known algorithm, which is due to Reidl, Rossmanith, S\'{a}nchez Villaamil, and Sikdar [ICALP 2014], runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. de Lima , Wojciech Nadara , Emmanuel Sam