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This paper addresses the problem of sparse recovery with graph constraints in the sense that we can take additive measurements over nodes only if they induce a connected subgraph. We provide explicit measurement constructions for several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Meng Wang , Weiyu Xu , Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

Randomized greedy algorithms form one of the simplest yet most effective approaches for computing approximate matchings in graphs. In this paper, we focus on the class of vertex-iterative (VI) randomized greedy matching algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mahsa Derakhshan , Tao Yu

We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter $k$ and two graphs $G_1,G_2$, either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth at least $k$, or determines whether $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic. The running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

In the analysis of large-scale network data, a fundamental operation is the comparison of observed phenomena to the predictions provided by null models: when we find an interesting structure in a family of real networks, it is important to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Katherine Van Koevering , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Graphlets of order $k$ in a graph $G$ are connected subgraphs induced by $k$ nodes (called $k$-graphlets) or by $k$ edges (called edge $k$-graphlets). They are among the interesting subgraphs in network analysis to get insights on both the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Alessio Conte , Roberto Grossi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Davide Rucci , Takeaki Uno , Kunihiro Wasa

\textsc{Densest $k$-Subgraph} is the problem to find a vertex subset $S$ of size $k$ such that the number of edges in the subgraph induced by $S$ is maximized. In this paper, we show that \textsc{Densest $k$-Subgraph} is fixed parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Tesshu Hanaka

We study the \textsc{Labeled Contractibility} problem, where the input consists of two vertex-labeled graphs $G$ and $H$, and the goal is to determine whether $H$ can be obtained from $G$ via a sequence of edge contractions. Lafond and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yashaswini Mathur , Prafullkumar Tale

We consider the following generalization of dominating sets: Let $G$ be a host graph and $P$ be a pattern graph $P$. A dominating $P$-pattern in $G$ is a subset $S$ of vertices in $G$ that (1) forms a dominating set in $G$ \emph{and} (2)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jonathan Dransfeld , Marvin Künnemann , Mirza Redzic

Let ${\cal G}$ be a minor-closed graph class and let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph. We say that $G$ is a $k$-apex of ${\cal G}$ if $G$ contains a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G\setminus S$ belongs to ${\cal G}$. Our first result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Laure Morelle , Ignasi Sau , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We study the parameterized complexity of the T(h+1)-Free Edge Deletion problem. Given a graph G and integers k and h, the task is to delete at most k edges so that every connected component of the resulting graph has size at most h. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Leeja R

We propose a new algorithm for solving the graph-fused lasso (GFL), a method for parameter estimation that operates under the assumption that the signal tends to be locally constant over a predefined graph structure. Our key insight is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-02 Wesley Tansey , James G. Scott

A graph is reconstructible if it is determined up to isomorphism from the collection of all its one-vertex-deleted subgraphs, known as the deck of G. The Reconstruction Conjecture (RC) posits that every finite simple graph with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 J. Antony Aravind , S. Monikandan

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is called $(k,\ell)$-full if $G$ contains a subgraph $H=(V,F)$ of $k|V|-\ell$ edges such that, for any non-empty $F' \subseteq F$, $|F'| \leq k|V(F')| - \ell$ holds. Here, $V(F')$ denotes the set of vertices incident to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Hiro Ito , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Yuichi Yoshida

The classical Feedback Vertex Set problem asks, for a given undirected graph G and an integer k, to find a set of at most k vertices that hits all the cycles in the graph G. Feedback Vertex Set has attracted a large amount of research in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Marek Cygan , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michal Pilipczuk , Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk

It is not hard to write a first order formula which is true for a given graph G but is false for any graph not isomorphic to G. The smallest number $(G) of nested quantifiers in a such formula can serve as a measure for the ``first order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeong Han Kim , Oleg Pikhurko , Joel Spencer , Oleg Verbitsky

Given a $k$-node pattern graph $H$ and an $n$-node host graph $G$, the subgraph counting problem asks to compute the number of copies of $H$ in $G$. In this work we address the following question: can we count the copies of $H$ faster if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Marco Bressan

In this article, we study parameterized complexity theory from the perspective of logic, or more specifically, descriptive complexity theory. We propose to consider parameterized model-checking problems for various fragments of first-order…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joerg Flum , Martin Grohe

For a finite collection of graphs ${\cal F}$, the \textsc{${\cal F}$-TM-Deletion} problem has as input an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and an integer $k$ and asks whether there exists a set $S \subseteq V(G)$ with $|S| \leq k$ such that $G…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Petr A. Golovach , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

Graph modification problems are typically asked as follows: is there a small set of operations that transforms a given graph to have a certain property. The most commonly considered operations include vertex deletion, edge deletion, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Yixin Cao , Dániel Marx

We study problems connected to first-order logic in graphs of bounded twin-width. Inspired by the approach of Bonnet et al. [FOCS 2020], we introduce a robust methodology of local types and describe their behavior in contraction sequences…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jakub Gajarský , Michał Pilipczuk , Wojciech Przybyszewski , Szymon Toruńczyk