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One of the most basic techniques in algorithm design consists of breaking a problem into subproblems and then proceeding recursively. In the case of graph algorithms, one way to implement this approach is through separator sets. Given a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Benjamin Jauregui , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport

We investigate preprocessing for vertex-subset problems on graphs. While the notion of kernelization, originating in parameterized complexity theory, is a formalization of provably effective preprocessing aimed at reducing the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon

This paper studies randomized polynomial kernelization for the weighted $d$-matroid intersection problem. While the problem is known to have a kernel of size $O(d^{(k - 1)d})$ where $k$ is the solution size, the existence of a polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura , Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

The theoretical notions of graph classes with bounded expansion and that are nowhere dense are meant to capture structural sparsity of real world networks that can be used to design efficient algorithms. In the area of sparse graphs, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Wojciech Nadara

Enumerative kernelization is a recent and promising area sitting at the intersection of parameterized complexity and enumeration algorithms. Its study began with the paper of Creignou et al. [Theory Comput. Syst., 2017], and development in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Marin Bougeret , Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos , Ignasi Sau

A breakthrough result of Cygan et al. (FOCS 2011) showed that connectivity problems parameterized by treewidth can be solved much faster than the previously best known time $\mathcal{O}^*(2^{\mathcal{O}(tw \log(tw))})$. Using their inspired…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

For some years it was believed that for "connectivity" problems such as Hamiltonian Cycle, algorithms running in time 2^{O(tw)}n^{O(1)} -called single-exponential- existed only on planar and other sparse graph classes, where tw stands for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Julien Baste , Ignasi Sau

Over the past decade, we witness an increasing amount of interest in the design of exact exponential-time and parameterized algorithms for problems in Graph Drawing. Unfortunately, we still lack knowledge of general methods to develop such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

Graph polynomials encode fundamental combinatorial invariants of graphs. Their computation is investigated using tree and path decomposition frameworks, with formal definitions of treewidth, k-trees, and pathwidth establishing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehul Bafna , Shaghik Amirian

We show that problems which have finite integer index and satisfy a requirement we call treewidth-bounding admit linear kernels on the class of $H$-topological-minor free graphs, for an arbitrary fixed graph $H$. This builds on earlier…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Alexander Langer , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

Packing graphs is a combinatorial problem where several given graphs are being mapped into a common host graph such that every edge is used at most once. In the planar tree packing problem we are given two trees T1 and T2 on n vertices and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Markus Geyer , Michael Hoffmann , Michael Kaufmann , Vincent Kusters , Csaba D. Tóth

Tree decompositions of graphs are of fundamental importance in structural and algorithmic graph theory. Planar decompositions generalise tree decompositions by allowing an arbitrary planar graph to index the decomposition. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-13 David R. Wood , Jan Arne Telle

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Perturbed graphic matroids are binary matroids that can be obtained from a graphic matroid by adding a noise of small rank. More precisely, r-rank perturbed graphic matroid M is a binary matroid that can be represented in the form I +P,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In a directed graph, a kernel is a subset of vertices that is both stable and absorbing. Not all digraphs have a kernel, but a theorem due to Boros and Gurvich guarantees the existence of a kernel in every clique-acyclic orientation of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Adèle Pass-Lanneau , Ayumi Igarashi , Frédéric Meunier

Parameterized algorithms are a very useful tool for dealing with NP-hard problems on graphs. Yet, to properly utilize parameterized algorithms it is necessary to choose the right parameter based on the type of problem and properties of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Robert Ganian

We present new approaches to constructing graph sparsifiers --- weighted subgraphs for which every cut has the same value as the original graph, up to a factor of $(1 \pm \epsilon)$. Our first approach independently samples each edge $uv$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Wai Shing Fung , Nicholas J. A. Harvey

We investigate the complexity of several fundamental polynomial-time solvable problems on graphs and on matrices, when the given instance has low treewidth; in the case of matrices, we consider the treewidth of the graph formed by non-zero…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Marcin Wrochna

We study kernelization (a kind of efficient preprocessing) for NP-hard problems on planar graphs. Our main result is a kernel of size at most 9k vertices for the Planar Maximum Nonseparating Independent Set problem. A direct consequence of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Lukasz Kowalik , Marcin Mucha

Uncertain graphs are prevalent in several applications including communications systems, biological databases and social networks. The ever increasing size of the underlying data renders both graph storage and query processing extremely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Panos Parchas , Nikolaos Papailiou , Dimitris Papadias , Francesco Bonchi