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The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

In Two-Sets Cut-Uncut, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and two terminal sets $S$ and $T$. The task is to find a minimum cut $C$ in $G$ (if there is any) separating $S$ from $T$ under the following ``uncut'' condition. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Fanny Hauser , Saket Saurabh

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden subgraphs, we study $\mathcal{F}$-Free Edge Deletion, where the goal is to remove minimum number of edges such that the resulting graph does not contain any $F\in \mathcal{F}$ as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

We study the following two fixed-cardinality optimization problems (a maximization and a minimization variant). For a fixed $\alpha$ between zero and one we are given a graph and two numbers $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $t \in \mathbb{Q}$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Frank Sommer

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the graph editing problem called Editing to a Graph with a Given Degree Sequence, where the aim is to obtain a graph with a given degree sequence \sigma by at most k vertex or edge deletions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Petr A. Golovach , George B. Mertzios

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a threshold function $t~ :~ V \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ and an integer $k$, we study the Harmless Set problem, where the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V$ of size at least $k$ such that every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

We study the parameterized and kernelization complexity of the s-Club Cluster Edge Deletion problem, a distance-bounded generalization of Cluster Edge Deletion. Given a graph G = (V, E) and integers k and s, the goal is to delete at most k…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad

We study multi-budgeted variants of the classic minimum cut problem and graph separation problems that turned out to be important in parameterized complexity: Skew Multicut and Directed Feedback Arc Set. In our generalization, we assign…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Stefan Kratsch , Shaohua Li , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

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

The Set Packing problem is, given a collection of sets $\mathcal{S}$ over a ground set $\mathcal{U}$, to find a maximum collection of sets that are pairwise disjoint. The problem is among the most fundamental NP-hard optimization problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ameet Gadekar

We study the parameterized problem of satisfying ``almost all'' constraints of a given formula $F$ over a fixed, finite Boolean constraint language $\Gamma$, with or without weights. More precisely, for each finite Boolean constraint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Kratsch , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

In the vertex connectivity augmentation problem, we are given an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$, a set of links $L \subseteq \binom{V(G)}{2} \setminus E(G)$, and integers $\lambda$ and $k$. The task is to insert at most $k$ links from $L$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tuukka Korhonen , Mikkel Thorup

A vertex-subset graph problem Q defines which subsets of the vertices of an input graph are feasible solutions. A reconfiguration variant of a vertex-subset problem asks, given two feasible solutions S and T of size k, whether it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Daniel Lokshtanov , Amer E. Mouawad , Fahad Panolan , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

The $k$-Even Set problem is a parameterized variant of the Minimum Distance Problem of linear codes over $\mathbb F_2$, which can be stated as follows: given a generator matrix $\mathbf A$ and an integer $k$, determine whether the code…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Suprovat Ghoshal , Karthik C. S. , Pasin Manurangsi

In the non-uniform sparsest cut problem, we are given a supply graph G and a demand graph D, both with the same set of nodes V. The goal is to find a cut of V that minimizes the ratio of the total capacity on the edges of G crossing the cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tobias Mömke , Victor Verdugo

Vertex deletion problems for graphs are studied intensely in classical and parameterized complexity theory. They ask whether we can delete at most k vertices from an input graph such that the resulting graph has a certain property.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Max Bannach , Florian Chudigiewitsch , Till Tantau

Given $k$ input graphs $G_1, \dots ,G_k$, where each pair $G_i$, $G_j$ with $i \neq j$ shares the same graph $G$, the problem Simultaneous Embedding With Fixed Edges (SEFE) asks whether there exists a planar drawing for each input graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Simon D. Fink , Matthias Pfretzschner , Ignaz Rutter

In this paper we study the Spanning Tree Congestion problem, where we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and are asked to find a spanning tree $T$ of minimum maximum congestion. Here, the congestion of an edge $e\in T$ is the number of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Edouard Nemery , Yota Otachi , Manolis Vasilakis , Daniel Vaz

We consider the Minimum-$(k,\rho)$-$\mathrm{Shortcut}$ problem ($\min(k,\rho)\text{-}\mathrm{Shortcut}$), where the goal is to find the smallest set of shortcut edges such that every vertex in a given graph can reach its $\rho$ closest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tatiana Rocha Avila , Julian Christoph Brinkmann , Alexander Leonhardt , Conrad Schecker

\textproc{Weighted Vertex Cover} is a variation of an extensively studied NP-complete problem, \textproc{Vertex Cover}, in which we are given a graph, $G = (V,E,w)$, where function $w:V \rightarrow \mathbb{Q}^{+}$ and a parameter $k$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Vishnu Veerathu , Yogesh Tripathi