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The $2$-admissibility of a graph is a promising measure to identify real-world networks which have an algorithmically favourable structure. In contrast to other related measures, like the weak/strong $2$-colouring numbers or the maximum…

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The complexity class NP of decision problems that can be solved nondeterministically in polynomial time is of great theoretical and practical importance where the notion of polynomial-time reductions between NP-problems is a key concept for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Hans-Jörg Kreowski , Sabine Kuske , Aaron Lye , Aljoscha Windhorst

The burning number of a graph was recently introduced by Bonato et al. Although they mention that the burning number generalises naturally to directed graphs, no further research on this has been done. Here, we introduce graph burning for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Remie Janssen

In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of subgraph reconfiguration problems in directed graphs. More specifically, we focus on the problem of reconfiguring arborescences in a digraph, where an arborescence is a directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Takehiro Ito , Yuni Iwamasa , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yu Nakahata , Yota Otachi , Kunihiro Wasa

The problem of routing in graphs using node-disjoint paths has received a lot of attention and a polylogarithmic approximation algorithm with constant congestion is known for undirected graphs [Chuzhoy and Li 2016] and [Chekuri and Ene…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Timothy Carpenter , Ario Salmasi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

In this paper, we study a hypothesis test to determine the underlying directed graph structure of nodes in a network, where the nodes represent random processes and the direction of the links indicate a causal relationship between said…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

The graph isomorphism problem looks deceptively simple, but although polynomial-time algorithms exist for certain types of graphs such as planar graphs and graphs with bounded degree or eigenvalue multiplicity, its complexity class is still…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Stefan Klus , Patrick Gelß

Minimal separators in graphs are an important concept in algorithmic graph theory. In particular, many problems that are NP-hard for general graphs are known to become polynomial-time solvable for classes of graphs with a polynomially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Martin Milanič , Nevena Pivač

Recent work has shown that not only decision trees (DTs) may not be interpretable but also proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for computing one PI-explanation of a DT. This paper shows that for a wide range of classifiers, globally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xuanxiang Huang , Yacine Izza , Alexey Ignatiev , Joao Marques-Silva

Although NP-Complete problems are the most difficult decisional problems, it is possible to discover in them polynomial (or easy) observables. We study the Graph Partitioning Problem showing that it is possible to recognize in it two…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Marchisio

In graph theory, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. For some small classes of graphs, the problem can be solved in polynomial time [2, 4], but it remains NP-hard on general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Lajos L. Pongrácz

We introduce an NP-complete graph decision problem, the "Multi-stage graph Simple Path" (abbr. MSP) problem, which focuses on determining the existence of specific "global paths" in a graph $G$. We show that the MSP problem can be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xinwen Jiang , Holden Wool

A circular-arc graph is the intersection graph of arcs of a circle. It is a well-studied graph model with numerous natural applications. A certifying algorithm is an algorithm that outputs a certificate, along with its answer (be it…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-13 Mathew Francis , Pavol Hell , Juraj Stacho

The problem of computing all maximal induced subgraphs of a graph G that have a graph property P, also called the maximal P-subgraphs problem, is considered. This problem is studied for hereditary, connected-hereditary and rooted-hereditary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sara Cohen , Yehoshua Sagiv

We study computational and sample complexity of parameter and structure learning in graphical models. Our main result shows that the class of factor graphs with bounded factor size and bounded connectivity can be learned in polynomial time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Pieter Abbeel , Daphne Koller , Andrew Y. Ng

We consider the problem of human-assisted graph search: given a directed acyclic graph with some (unknown) target node(s), we consider the problem of finding the target node(s) by asking an omniscient human questions of the form "Is there a…

Computing the directed path-width of a directed graph is an NP-hard problem. Even for digraphs of maximum semi-degree 3 the problem remains hard. We propose a decomposition of an input digraph G=(V,A) by a number k of sequences with entries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Frank Gurski , Carolin Rehs , Jochen Rethmann

An unweighted, undirected graph $G$ on $n$ nodes is said to have \emph{bandwidth} at most $k$ if its nodes can be labelled from $0$ to $n - 1$ such that no two adjacent nodes have labels that differ by more than $k$. It is known that one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Luis M. B. Varona

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

A total dominating set in a graph is a set of vertices such that every vertex of the graph has a neighbor in the set. We introduce and study graphs that admit non-negative real weights associated to their vertices such that a set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Nina Chiarelli , Martin Milanic