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We present a method for reducing the treewidth of a graph while preserving all the minimal $s-t$ separators. This technique turns out to be very useful for establishing the fixed-parameter tractability of constrained separation and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Dániel Marx , Barry O'Sullivan , Igor Razgon

Disjunctive Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm whose main decision problems are located on the second level of the polynomial hierarchy. Identifying tractable fragments and developing efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Bernhard Bliem , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Woltran

Dynamic programming on various graph decompositions is one of the most fundamental techniques used in parameterized complexity. Unfortunately, even if we consider concepts as simple as path or tree decompositions, such dynamic programming…

Bounded treewidth is one of the most cited combinatorial invariants, which was applied in the literature for solving several counting problems efficiently. A canonical counting problem is #SAT, which asks to count the satisfying assignments…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Patrick Thier , Stefan Woltran

Epistemic logic programs (ELPs) are a popular generalization of standard Answer Set Programming (ASP) providing means for reasoning over answer sets within the language. This richer formalism comes at the price of higher computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Stefan Woltran

In this paper, we introduce a novel algorithm to solve projected model counting (PMC). PMC asks to count solutions of a Boolean formula with respect to a given set of projection variables, where multiple solutions that are identical when…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Johannes K. Fichte , Markus Hecher , Michael Morak , Patrick Thier , Stefan Woltran

Treewidth is a parameter that measures how tree-like a relational instance is, and whether it can reasonably be decomposed into a tree. Many computation tasks are known to be tractable on databases of small treewidth, but computing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Silviu Maniu , Pierre Senellart , Suraj Jog

Fixed parameter tractable algorithms for bounded treewidth are known to exist for a wide class of graph optimization problems. While most research in this area has been focused on exact algorithms, it is hard to find decompositions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Thomas Bosman

In this paper we reassess the parameterized complexity and approximability of the well-studied Steiner Forest problem in several graph classes of bounded width. The problem takes an edge-weighted graph and pairs of vertices as input, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Michael Lampis

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

Parameterised subgraph counting problems are the most thoroughly studied topic in the theory of parameterised counting, and there has been significant recent progress in this area. Many of the existing tractability results for parameterised…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Kitty Meeks

Treewidth is a graph parameter of fundamental importance to algorithmic and structural graph theory. This paper surveys several graph parameters tied to treewidth, including separation number, tangle number, well-linked number and Cartesian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Daniel J. Harvey , David R. Wood

We show that the Minimal Length-Bounded L-But problem can be computed in linear time with respect to L and the tree-width of the input graph as parameters. In this problem the task is to find a set of edges of a graph such that after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Dušan Knop , Pavel Dvořák

The notion of treewidth plays an important role in theoretical and practical studies of graph problems. It has been recognized that, especially in practical environments, when computing the treewidth of a graph it is invaluable to first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

We study the parameterized complexity of computing the tree-partition-width, a graph parameter equivalent to treewidth on graphs of bounded maximum degree. On one hand, we can obtain approximations of the tree-partition-width efficiently:…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Carla Groenland , Hugo Jacob

Decision tree models, including random forests and gradient-boosted decision trees, are widely used in machine learning due to their high predictive performance. However, their complex structures often make them difficult to interpret,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Akihiro Takemura , Masayuki Otani , Katsumi Inoue

Control-flow graphs (CFGs) of structured programs are well known to exhibit strong sparsity properties. Traditionally, this sparsity has been modeled using graph parameters such as treewidth and pathwidth, enabling the development of faster…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xuran Cai , Amir Goharshady , S Hitarth , Chun Kit Lam

Finding a few solutions for a given problem that are diverse, as opposed to finding a single best solution to solve the problem, has recently become a notable topic in theoretical computer science. Recently, Baste, Fellows, Jaffke,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Karolina Drabik , Tomáš Masařík

This chapter compiles a number of results that apply the theory of parameterized algorithmics to the running-time analysis of randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms. The parameterized approach articulates the running…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Frank Neumann , Andrew M. Sutton

Treewidth is a well-studied decompositional parameter to measure the tree-likeness of a graph. While the propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) is known to be tractable when parameterized by the treewidth of the underlying primal graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Robert Ganian , Marlene Gründel