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The dynamic programming solution to the traveling salesman problem due to Bellman, and independently Held and Karp, runs in time $O(2^n n^2)$, with no improvement in the last sixty years. We break this barrier for the first time by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mihail Stoian

The width measure treedepth, also known as vertex ranking, centered coloring and elimination tree height, is a well-established notion which has recently seen a resurgence of interest. Since graphs of bounded treedepth are more restricted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Li-Hsuan Chen , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Fernando Sánchez Villaamil

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

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is among the most famous NP-hard optimization problems. We design for this problem a randomized polynomial-time algorithm that computes a (1+eps)-approximation to the optimal tour, for any fixed eps>0,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Yair Bartal , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Robert Krauthgamer

The monography considers the problem of constructing a Hamiltonian cycle in a complete graph. A rule for constructing a Hamiltonian cycle based on isometric cycles of a graph is established. An algorithm for constructing a Hamiltonian cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky , Svetlana Polyuga

Dynamic programming on path and tree decompositions of graphs is a technique that is ubiquitous in the field of parameterized and exponential-time algorithms. However, one of its drawbacks is that the space usage is exponential in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

Given a traveling salesman problem (TSP) tour $H$ in graph $G$ a $k$-move is an operation which removes $k$ edges from $H$, and adds $k$ edges of $G$ so that a new tour $H'$ is formed. The popular $k$-OPT heuristics for TSP finds a local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Marek Cygan , Lukasz Kowalik , Arkadiusz Socala

There are many classical problems in P whose time complexities have not been improved over the past decades. Recent studies of "Hardness in P" have revealed that, for several of such problems, the current fastest algorithm is the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yoichi Iwata , Tomoaki Ogasawara , Naoto Ohsaka

We provide a framework for the design and analysis of dynamic programming algorithms for surface-embedded graphs on n vertices and branchwidth at most k. Our technique applies to general families of problems where standard dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Juanjo Rué , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We present an algorithm for the extensively studied Long Path and Long Cycle problems on unit disk graphs that runs in time $2^{O(\sqrt{k})}(n+m)$. Under the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Long Path and Long Cycle on unit disk graphs cannot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

The paper presents an O^*(1.2312^n)-time and polynomial-space algorithm for the traveling salesman problem in an n-vertex graph with maximum degree 3. This improves the previous time bounds of O^*(1.251^n) by Iwama and Nakashima and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mingyu Xiao , Hiroshi Nagamochi

$H$-Packing is the problem of finding a maximum number of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$ in a given graph $G$. $H$-Partition is the special case of finding a set of vertex-disjoint copies that cover each vertex of $G$ exactly once. Our goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Barış Can Esmer , Dániel Marx

We present a deterministic algorithm for solving a wide range of dynamic programming problems in trees in $O(\log D)$ rounds in the massively parallel computation model (MPC), with $O(n^\delta)$ words of local memory per machine, for any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Chetan Gupta , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Simo Särkkä , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto , Hossein Vahidi

We give unconditional parameterized complexity lower bounds on pure dynamic programming algorithms - as modeled by tropical circuits - for connectivity problems such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem. Our lower bounds are higher than the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Kacper Kluk , Jesper Nederlof

We introduce the problem of hidden Hamiltonian cycle recovery, where there is an unknown Hamiltonian cycle in an $n$-vertex complete graph that needs to be inferred from noisy edge measurements. The measurements are independent and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Vivek Bagaria , Jian Ding , David Tse , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

Tree-width and path-width are widely successful concepts. Many NP-hard problems have efficient solutions when restricted to graphs of bounded tree-width. Many efficient algorithms are based on a tree decomposition. Sometimes the more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Martin Fürer

In this article, we address a class of non convex, integer, non linear mathematical programs using dynamic programming. The mathematical program considered, whose properties are studied in this article, may be used to model the optimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-28 David Nizard , Nicolas Dupin , Dominique Quadri

Arising from structural graph theory, treewidth has become a focus of study in fixed-parameter tractable algorithms in various communities including combinatorics, integer-linear programming, and numerical analysis. Many NP-hard problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sally Dong , Yin Tat Lee , Guanghao Ye

This work proposes \textsc{H-Td}, a practical linear-time algorithm for computing an optimal-width tree decomposition of Halin graphs. Unlike state-of-the-art methods based on reduction rules or separators, \textsc{H-Td} exploits the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 J. A. Alejandro-Soto , Joel Antonio Trejo-Sanchez , Carlos Segura

We propose an improved algorithm for counting the number of Hamiltonian cycles in a directed graph. The basic idea of the method is sequential acceptance/rejection, which is successfully used in approximating the number of perfect matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-23 Jinshan Zhang