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We introduce a variant of modal logic, dubbed EXISTENTIAL COUNTING MODAL LOGIC (ECML), which captures a vast majority of problems known to be tractable in single exponential time when parameterized by treewidth. It appears that all these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Michał Pilipczuk

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

Parametric linear systems are linear systems of equations in which some symbolic parameters, that is, symbols that are not considered to be candidates for elimination or solution in the course of analyzing the problem, appear in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert M. Corless , Mark Giesbrecht , Leili Rafiee Sevyeri , B. David Saunders

Parameterized local search combines classic local search heuristics with the paradigm of parameterized algorithmics. While most local search algorithms aim to improve given solutions by performing one single operation on a given solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Niels Grüttemeier , Nils Morawietz , Frank Sommer

In the Determinant Maximization problem, given an $n\times n$ positive semi-definite matrix $\bf{A}$ in $\mathbb{Q}^{n\times n}$ and an integer $k$, we are required to find a $k\times k$ principal submatrix of $\bf{A}$ having the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoto Ohsaka

Due to the substantial scale of Large Language Models (LLMs), the direct application of conventional compression methodologies proves impractical. The computational demands associated with even minimal gradient updates present challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Arnav Chavan , Nahush Lele , Deepak Gupta

Parameterized algorithms have been subject to extensive research of recent years and allow to solve hard problems by exploiting a parameter of the corresponding problem instances. There, one goal is to devise algorithms, where the runtime…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Markus Hecher

We introduce two-sorted theories in the style of Cook and Nguyen for the complexity classes ParityL and DET, whose complete problems include determinants over GF(2) and Z, respectively. The definable functions in these theories are the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Lila Fontes

In this study, we investigate a robust single-machine scheduling problem under processing time uncertainty. The uncertainty is modeled using the budgeted approach, where each job has a nominal and deviation processing time, and the number…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Noam Goldberg , Dvir Shabtay

We introduce a term algebra as a new formal specification language for the coordinating architectures of distributed systems consisting of a finite yet unbounded number of components. The language allows to describe infinite sets of systems…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Marius Bozga , Radu Iosif

In this paper we introduce and study a new concept of parametrised topological complexity, a topological invariant motivated by the motion planning problem of robotics. In the parametrised setting, a motion planning algorithm has high…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Daniel C. Cohen , Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

Inference about a scalar parameter of interest typically relies on the asymptotic normality of common likelihood pivots, such as the signed likelihood root, the score and Wald statistics. Nevertheless, the resulting inferential procedures…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Ruggero Bellio , Ioannis Kosmidis , Alessandra Salvan , Nicola Sartori

A backdoor in a finite-domain CSP instance is a set of variables where each possible instantiation moves the instance into a polynomial-time solvable class. Backdoors have found many applications in artificial intelligence and elsewhere,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Peter Jonsson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak

We study the parameterized complexity of a generalization of the coordinated motion planning problem on graphs, where the goal is to route a specified subset of a given set of $k$ robots to their destinations with the aim of minimizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , M. S. Ramanujan

Typestate systems ensure many desirable properties of imperative programs, including initialization of object fields and correct use of stateful library interfaces. Abstract sets with cardinality constraints naturally generalize typestate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Bruno Marnette , Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

Combining the techniques of approximation algorithms and parameterized complexity has long been considered a promising research area, but relatively few results are currently known. In this paper we study the parameterized approximability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Michael Lampis

For a class $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, #Sub$(\mathcal{H})$ is the counting problem that, given a graph $H\in \mathcal{H}$ and an arbitrary graph $G$, asks for the number of subgraphs of $G$ isomorphic to $H$. It is known that if $\mathcal{H}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Radu Curticapean , Dániel Marx

In this work, we propose a new framework for reachable set computation through continuous evolution of a set of parameters and offsets which define a parametope, through the intersection of constraints. This results in a dynamical approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan

We study the parameterized complexity of algorithmic problems whose input is an integer set $A$ in terms of the doubling constant $C := |A + A|/|A|$, a fundamental measure of additive structure. We present evidence that this new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tim Randolph , Karol Węgrzycki

A catalytic machine is a space-bounded Turing machine with additional access to a second, much larger work tape, with the caveat that this tape is full, and its contents must be preserved by the computation. Catalytic machines were defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michal Koucký , Ian Mertz , Edward Pyne , Sasha Sami