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A tuple (s1,t1,s2,t2) of vertices in a simple undirected graph is 2-linked when there are two vertex-disjoint paths respectively from s1 to t1 and s2 to t2. A graph is 2-linked when all such tuples are 2-linked. We give a new and simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

In the k-partition problem (k-PP), one is given an edge-weighted undirected graph, and one must partition the node set into at most k subsets, in order to minimise (or maximise) the total weight of the edges that have their end-nodes in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Jamie Fairbrother , Adam Letchford , Keith Briggs

The 3-\textsc{Hitting Set} problem is also called the \textsc{Vertex Cover} problem on 3-uniform hypergraphs. In this paper, we address kernelizations of the \textsc{Vertex Cover} problem on 3-uniform hypergraphs. We show that this problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-20 Xuan Cai

For a fixed graph $H$, the $H$-Coloring problem asks whether a given graph admits an edge-preserving function from its vertex set to that of $H$. A seminal theorem of Hell and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il asserts that the $H$-Coloring problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yael Berkman , Ishay Haviv

We determine to within a constant factor the threshold for the property that two random k-uniform hypergraphs with edge probability p have an edge-disjoint packing into the same vertex set. More generally, we allow the hypergraphs to have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Béla Bollobás , Svante Janson , Alex Scott

The cyclability of a graph is the maximum integer $k$ for which every $k$ vertices lie on a cycle. The algorithmic version of the problem, given a graph $G$ and a non-negative integer $k,$ decide whether the cyclability of $G$ is at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Petr A. Golovach , Marcin Kamiński , Spyridon Maniatis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We consider the problem Scattered Cycles which, given a graph $G$ and two positive integers $r$ and $\ell$, asks whether $G$ contains a collection of $r$ cycles that are pairwise at distance at least $\ell$. This problem generalizes the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Aistis Atminas , Marcin Kamiński , Jean-Florent Raymond

We consider the Trivially Perfect Editing problem, where one is given an undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ and a parameter $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and seeks to edit (add or delete) at most $k$ edges from $G$ to obtain a trivially perfect graph. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Maël Dumas , Anthony Perez , Ioan Todinca

We develop a multi-kernel based regression method for graph signal processing where the target signal is assumed to be smooth over a graph. In multi-kernel regression, an effective kernel function is expressed as a linear combination of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Arun Venkitaraman , Saikat Chatterjee , Peter Händel

A permutation graph can be defined as an intersection graph of segments whose endpoints lie on two parallel lines $l_1$ and $l_2$, one on each. A bipartite permutation graph is a permutation graph which is bipartite. In this paper we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Łukasz Bożyk , Jan Derbisz , Tomasz Krawczyk , Jana Novotná , Karolina Okrasa

In the solution discovery problem for a search problem on graphs, we are given an initial placement of $k$ tokens on the vertices of a graph and asked whether this placement can be transformed into a feasible solution by applying a small…

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The accuracy and complexity of machine learning algorithms based on kernel optimization are limited by the set of kernels over which they are able to optimize. An ideal set of kernels should: admit a linear parameterization (for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Brendon K. Colbert , Matthew M. Peet

A proper Helly circular-arc graph is an intersection graph of a set of arcs on a circle such that none of the arcs properly contains any other arc and every set of pairwise intersecting arcs has a common intersection. The Proper Helly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Akanksha Agrawal , Satyabrata Jana , Abhishek Sahu

Motivated by frequency assignment problems in wireless broadcast networks, Goddard, Hedetniemi, Hedetniemi, Harris, and Rall introduced the notion of $S$-packing coloring in 2008. Given a non-decreasing sequence $S = (s_1, s_2, \ldots,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Xin Zhang , Dezhi Zou

We present the first exact polynomial time algorithm for constructing optimal geometric bottleneck 2-connected Steiner networks containing at most $k$ Steiner points, where $k>2$ is a constant. Given a set of $n$ vertices embedded in an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Marcus Brazil , Charl Ras , Doreen Thomas

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

Finding the k-medianin a network involves identifying a subset of k vertices that minimize the total distance to all other vertices in a graph. This problem has been extensively studied in computer science, graph theory, operations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Roldan Pozo

It is shown that one can count $k$-edge paths in an $n$-vertex graph and $m$-set $k$-packings on an $n$-element universe, respectively, in time ${n \choose k/2}$ and ${n \choose mk/2}$, up to a factor polynomial in $n$, $k$, and $m$; in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt , Petteri Kaski , Mikko Koivisto

A vertex subset $I$ of a graph $G$ is called a $k$-path vertex cover if every path on $k$ vertices in $G$ contains at least one vertex from $I$. The \textsc{$k$-Path Vertex Cover Reconfiguration ($k$-PVCR)} problem asks if one can transform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Duc A. Hoang , Akira Suzuki , Tsuyoshi Yagita

We define and study the link prediction problem in bipartite networks, specializing general link prediction algorithms to the bipartite case. In a graph, a link prediction function of two vertices denotes the similarity or proximity of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-27 Jérôme Kunegis , Ernesto W. De Luca , Sahin Albayrak