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In the era of big data, it is desired to develop efficient machine learning algorithms to tackle massive data challenges such as storage bottleneck, algorithmic scalability, and interpretability. In this paper, we develop a novel efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jinshan Zeng , Minrun Wu , Shao-Bo Lin , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Given a planar graph, a subset of its vertices called terminals, and $k \in \mathbb{N}$, the Face Cover Number problem asks whether the terminals lie on the boundaries of at most $k$ faces of some embedding of the input graph. When a plane…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Thekla Hamm , Sukanya Pandey , Krisztina Szilágyi

In the \textsc{Subset Feedback Vertex Set (Subset-FVS)} problem the input is a graph $G$, a subset \(T\) of vertices of \(G\) called the `terminal' vertices, and an integer $k$. The task is to determine whether there exists a subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Geevarghese Philip , Varun Rajan , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale

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

The Chordal Vertex Deletion (ChVD) problem asks to delete a minimum number of vertices from an input graph to obtain a chordal graph. In this paper we develop a polynomial kernel for ChVD under the parameterization by the solution size, as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Bart M. P. Jansen , Marcin Pilipczuk

We study the existence of polynomial kernels, for parameterized problems without a polynomial kernel on general graphs, when restricted to graphs of bounded twin-width. Our main result is that a polynomial kernel for $k$-Dominating Set on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Édouard Bonnet , Eun Jung Kim , Amadeus Reinald , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

{\sc Directed Feedback Vertex Set (DFVS)} is a fundamental computational problem that has received extensive attention in parameterized complexity. In this paper, we initiate the study of a wide generalization, the {\sc ${\cal H}$-free SCC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Rian Neogi , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh , Roohani Sharma

Kernel methods are fundamental tools in machine learning that allow detection of non-linear dependencies between data without explicitly constructing feature vectors in high dimensional spaces. A major disadvantage of kernel methods is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Thomas D. Ahle , Michael Kapralov , Jakob B. T. Knudsen , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker , David Woodruff , Amir Zandieh

In this paper, we study the Eulerian Strong Component Arc Deletion problem, where the input is a directed multigraph and the goal is to delete the minimum number of arcs to ensure every strongly connected component of the resulting digraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Václav Blažej , Satyabrata Jana , M. S. Ramanujan , Peter Strulo

The Subset Feedback Vertex Set problem (SFVS), to delete $k$ vertices from a given graph such that any vertex in a vertex subset (called a terminal set) is not in a cycle in the remaining graph, generalizes the famous Feedback Vertex Set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Tian Bai , Mingyu Xiao

Enumeration kernelization was first proposed by Creignou et al. [TOCS 2017] and was later refined by Golovach et al. [JCSS 2022] into two different variants: fully-polynomial enumeration kernelization and polynomial-delay enumeration…

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Multi-atlas segmentation approach is one of the most widely-used image segmentation techniques in biomedical applications. There are two major challenges in this category of methods, i.e., atlas selection and label fusion. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Heran Yang , Jian Sun , Huibin Li , Lisheng Wang , Zongben Xu

In the $K_t$-free edge deletion problem, the input is a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and the goal is to decide whether there is a set of at most $k$ edges of $G$ whose removal results a graph with no clique of size $t$. In this paper we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Dekel Tsur

Nowhere dense classes of graphs are very general classes of uniformly sparse graphs with several seemingly unrelated characterisations. From an algorithmic perspective, a characterisation of these classes in terms of uniform quasi-wideness,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Stephan Kreutzer , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

For a fixed finite family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, the $\mathcal{F}$-Minor-Free Deletion problem takes as input a graph $G$ and an integer $\ell$ and asks whether there exists a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ of size at most $\ell$ such that $G-X$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Huib Donkers , Bart M. P. Jansen

Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the $H$-free Edge Editing problem is to find whether there exists at most $k$ pairs of vertices in $G$ such that changing the adjacency of the pairs in $G$ results in a graph without any induced copy of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dániel Marx , R. B. Sandeep

We show that Odd Cycle Transversal and Vertex Multiway Cut admit deterministic polynomial kernels when restricted to planar graphs and parameterized by the solution size. This answers a question of Saurabh. On the way to these results, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Bart M. P. Jansen , Marcin Pilipczuk , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

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

We study a general class of problems called F-deletion problems. In an F-deletion problem, we are asked whether a subset of at most $k$ vertices can be deleted from a graph $G$ such that the resulting graph does not contain as a minor any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Neeldhara Misra , Geevarghese Philip , Saket Saurabh

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