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We study how to evaluate MSO queries with free variables on trees, within the framework of enumeration algorithms. Previous work has shown how to enumerate answers with linear-time preprocessing and delay linear in the size of each output,…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Antoine Amarilli , Pierre Bourhis , Stefan Mengel

In this work, we introduce the notion of decisional width of a finite relational structure and the notion of decisional width of a regular class of finite structures. Our main result states that given a first-order formula {\psi} over a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Alexsander Andrade de Melo , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Prompt tuning (PT), where a small amount of trainable soft (continuous) prompt vectors is affixed to the input of language models (LM), has shown promising results across various tasks and models for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhengxiang Shi , Aldo Lipani

We study the task, for a given language $L$, of enumerating the (generally infinite) sequence of its words, without repetitions, while bounding the delay between two consecutive words. To allow for delay bounds that do not depend on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Antoine Amarilli , Mikaël Monet

Research on indefinite causal structures is a rapidly evolving field that has a potential not only to make a radical revision of the classical understanding of space-time but also to achieve enhanced functionalities of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Martin J. Renner , Časlav Brukner

We study the complexity of approximating the number of answers to a small query $\varphi$ in a large database $\mathcal{D}$. We establish an exhaustive classification into tractable and intractable cases if $\varphi$ is a conjunctive query…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jacob Focke , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Marc Roth , Stanislav Živný

We study the fine-grained complexity of evaluating Boolean Conjunctive Queries and their generalization to sum-of-product problems over an arbitrary semiring. For these problems, we present a general semiring-oblivious reduction from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Austen Z. Fan , Paraschos Koutris , Hangdong Zhao

In this paper, we study the complexity of evaluating Conjunctive Queries with negation (\cqneg). First, we present an algorithm with linear preprocessing time and constant delay enumeration for a class of CQs with negation called…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hangdong Zhao , Austen Z. Fan , Xiating Ouyang , Paraschos Koutris

We investigate the query evaluation problem for fixed queries over fully dynamic databases where tuples can be inserted or deleted. The task is to design a dynamic data structure that can immediately report the new result of a fixed query…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Christoph Berkholz , Jens Keppeler , Nicole Schweikardt

Given a directed graph $G$, a set of $k$ terminals and an integer $p$, the \textsc{Directed Vertex Multiway Cut} problem asks if there is a set $S$ of at most $p$ (nonterminal) vertices whose removal disconnects each terminal from all other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Dániel Marx

Graph polynomials which are definable in Monadic Second Order Logic (MSOL) on the vocabulary of graphs are Fixed-Parameter Tractable (FPT) with respect to clique-width. In contrast, graph polynomials which are definable in MSOL on the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Tomer Kotek , Johann A. Makowsky

We study the problem of generating monomials of a polynomial in the context of enumeration complexity. In this setting, the complexity measure is the delay between two solutions and the total time. We present two new algorithms for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Yann Strozecki

In the \emph {barrier resilience} problem (introduced by Kumar {\em et al.}, Wireless Networks 2007), we are given a collection of regions of the plane, acting as obstacles, and we would like to remove the minimum number of regions so that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Matias Korman , Maarten Löffler , Rodrigo I. Silveira , Darren Strash

In this paper, we consider the problem of counting and sampling structures in graphs. We define a class of "edge universal labeling problems"---which include proper $k$-colorings, independent sets, and downsets---and describe simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

Answering Conjunctive Queries (CQs) and solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) are arguably among the most fundamental tasks in Computer Science. They are classical NP-complete problems. Consequently, the search for tractable…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Georg Gottlob , Matthias Lanzinger , Reinhard Pichler

In this paper we study a scheduling problem arising from executing numerical simulations on HPC architectures. With a constant number of parallel machines, the objective is to minimize the makespan under memory constraints for the machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Eric Angel , Sébastien Morais , Damien Regnault

The Kronecker product-based algorithm for context-free path querying (CFPQ) was proposed by Orachev et al. (2020). We reduce this algorithm to operations over Boolean matrices and extend it with the mechanism to extract all paths of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ekaterina Shemetova , Rustam Azimov , Egor Orachev , Ilya Epelbaum , Semyon Grigorev

A regular path query (RPQ) is a regular expression q that returns all node pairs (u, v) from a graph database that are connected by an arbitrary path labelled with a word from L(q). The obvious algorithmic approach to RPQ-evaluation (called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Katrin Casel , Markus L. Schmid

In recent years it has become popular to study dynamic problems in a sensitivity setting: Instead of allowing for an arbitrary sequence of updates, the sensitivity model only allows to apply batch updates of small size to the original input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Monika Henzinger , Andrea Lincoln , Stefan Neumann , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We define a new subclass of nondeterministic finite automata for prefix-closed languages called Flanked Finite Automata (FFA). We show that this class enjoys good complexity properties while preserving the succinctness of nondeterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Florent Avellaneda , Silvano Dal Zilio , Jean-Baptiste Raclet