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In this paper we use several of the key ideas from Bidimensionality to give a new generic approach to design EPTASs and subexponential time parameterized algorithms for problems on classes of graphs which are not minor closed, but instead…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

We show that the Maximum Weight Independent Set problem (MWIS) can be solved in quasi-polynomial time on $H$-free graphs (graphs excluding a fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph) for every $H$ whose every connected component is a path or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Peter Gartland , Daniel Lokshtanov , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

We study the approximate maximum weight matching (MWM) problem in a fully dynamic graph subject to edge insertions and deletions. We design meta-algorithms that reduce the problem to the unweighted approximate maximum cardinality matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aaron Bernstein , Jiale Chen

High-level applications, such as machine learning, are evolving from simple models based on multilayer perceptrons for simple image recognition to much deeper and more complex neural networks for self-driving vehicle control systems.The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Guixiang Ma , Yao Xiao , Theodore L. Willke , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

One of the first application of the recently introduced technique of \emph{flow-augmentation} [Kim et al., STOC 2022] is a fixed-parameter algorithm for the weighted version of \textsc{Directed Feedback Vertex Set}, a landmark problem in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Eun Jung Kim , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Roohani Sharma , Magnus Wahlström

A 2-packing set for an undirected, weighted graph G=(V,E,w) is a subset S of the vertices V such that any two vertices are not adjacent and have no common neighbors. The Maximum Weight 2-Packing Set problem that asks for a 2-packing set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

We consider the max-cut and max-$k$-cut problems under graph-based constraints. Our approach can handle any constraint specified using monadic second-order (MSO) logic on graphs of constant treewidth. We give a $\frac{1}{2}$-approximation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Martin Koutecký , Jon Lee , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

We study the \emph{multiterminal cut} problem, which, given an $n$-vertex graph whose edges are integer-weighted and a set of terminals, asks for a partition of the vertex set such that each terminal is in a distinct part, and the total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yixin Cao , Jianer Chen , Jia-Hao Fan

The multicut problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with diverse applications in fields such as bioinformatics, data mining and computer vision. Graph neural networks have been defined for the multicut problem but can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jannik Irmai , Lucas Fabian Naumann , Bjoern Andres

Many problems are known to be solvable in subexponential parameterized time when the input graph is planar. The bidimensionality framework of Demaine, Fomin, Hajiaghay, and Thilikos [JACM'05] and the treewidth-pattern-covering approach by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach

The \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} problem is a classical graph clustering problem studied since the 70's. Surprisingly, no non-trivial technique for this problem in weighted graphs is known: a very straightforward…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak

This paper shows the weighted matching problem on general graphs can be solved in time $O(n(m + n\log n))$ for $n$ and $m$ the number of vertices and edges, respectively. This was previously known only for bipartite graphs. The crux is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Harold N. Gabow

We consider the classical Minimum Balanced Cut problem: given a graph $G$, compute a partition of its vertices into two subsets of roughly equal volume, while minimizing the number of edges connecting the subsets. We present the first {\em…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Julia Chuzhoy , Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We propose two fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for the weighted Max-Cut problem on embedded 1-planar graphs parameterized by the crossing number $k$ of the given embedding. A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Christine Dahn , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Julian Schilling

We consider the maximum vertex-weighted matching problem (MVM) for non-bipartite graphs. In earlier work we have described a 2/3-approximation algorithm for the MVM on bipartite graphs (Dobrian, Halappanavar, Pothen and Al-Herz, SIAM J.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Ahmed Al-Herz , Alex Pothen

A prototypical graph problem is centered around a graph-theoretic property for a set of vertices and a solution to it is a set of vertices for which the desired property holds. The task is to decide whether, in the given graph, there exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dušan Knop , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

We present a time-optimal deterministic distributed algorithm for approximating a minimum weight vertex cover in hypergraphs of rank $f$. This problem is equivalent to the Minimum Weight Set Cover problem in which the frequency of every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Ran Ben-Basat , Guy Even , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on finite undirected graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum weight sum. MWIS is one of the most investigated and most important algorithmic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

In this paper we investigate the existence of subexponential parameterized algorithms of three fundamental cycle-hitting problems in geometric graph classes. The considered problems, \textsc{Triangle Hitting} (TH), \textsc{Feedback Vertex…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Gaétan Berthe , Marin Bougeret , Daniel Gonçalves , Jean-Florent Raymond

The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is ${\sf NP}$-hard in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Andre Droschinsky , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel