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In the deletion version of the list homomorphism problem, we are given graphs G and H, a list L(v) that is a subset of V(H) for each vertex v of G, and an integer k. The task is to decide whether there exists a subset W of V(G) of size at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Rajesh Chitnis , Laszlo Egri , Daniel Marx

The paper deals with the Feedback Vertex Set problem parameterized by the solution size. Given a graph $G$ and a parameter $k$, one has to decide if there is a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G-S$ is acyclic. Assuming the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gaétan Berthe , Marin Bougeret , Daniel Gonçalves , Jean-Florent Raymond

A vertex set $U \subseteq V$ of an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $\textit{resolving set}$ for $G$, if for every two distinct vertices $u,v \in V$ there is a vertex $w \in U$ such that the distances between $u$ and $w$ and the distance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Duygu Vietz , Stefan Hoffmann , Egon Wanke

We show that the following two problems are fixed-parameter tractable with parameter k: testing whether a connected n-vertex graph with m edges has a square root with at most n-1+k edges and testing whether such a graph has a square root…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Manfred Cochefert , Jean-François Couturier , Petr A. Golovach , Dieter Kratsch , Daniël Paulusma

We propose a scalable framework for solving the Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem in large graphs using projected gradient ascent on quadratic objectives. Our approach is differentiable and leverages GPUs for gradient-based optimization. It is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ismail Alkhouri , Mian Wu , Cunxi Yu , Jia Liu , Rongrong Wang , Alvaro Velasquez

We study the \textsc{Labeled Contractibility} problem, where the input consists of two vertex-labeled graphs $G$ and $H$, and the goal is to determine whether $H$ can be obtained from $G$ via a sequence of edge contractions. Lafond and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yashaswini Mathur , Prafullkumar Tale

We consider the parameterized complexity of the problem of tracking shortest s-t paths in graphs, motivated by applications in security and wireless networks. Given an undirected and unweighted graph with a source s and a destination t,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aritra Banik , Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

Given a graph $G$ with source and destination vertices $s,t\in V(G)$ respectively, \textsc{Tracking Paths} asks for a minimum set of vertices $T\subseteq V(G)$, such that the sequence of vertices encountered in each simple path from $s$ to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Pratibha Choudhary , Venkatesh Raman

In a large-scale network, we want to choose some influential nodes to make a profit by paying some cost within a limited budget so that we do not have to spend more budget on some nodes adjacent to the chosen nodes; our problem is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Sipra Singh

For a graph class $\mathcal{C}$, the $\mathcal{C}$-Edge-Deletion problem asks for a given graph $G$ to delete the minimum number of edges from $G$ in order to obtain a graph in $\mathcal{C}$. We study the $\mathcal{C}$-Edge-Deletion problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Toshiki Saitoh , Ryo Yoshinaka , Hans L. Bodlaender

In the Minimum Bisection problem, input is a graph $G$ and the goal is to partition the vertex set into two parts $A$ and $B$, such that $||A|-|B|| \le 1$ and the number $k$ of edges between $A$ and $B$ is minimized. This problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tanmay Inamdar , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Vaishali Surianarayanan

For many hard computational problems, simple algorithms that run in time $2^n \cdot n^{O(1)}$ arise, say, from enumerating all subsets of a size-$n$ set. Finding (exponentially) faster algorithms is a natural goal that has driven much of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-30 László Kozma , Junqi Tan

The problem of deciding whether a biconnected planar digraph $G=(V,E)$ can be augmented to become an $st$-planar graph by adding a set of oriented edges $E' \subseteq V \times V$ is known to be NP-complete. We show that the problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Liana Khazaliya , Philipp Kindermann , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Kirill Simonov

Problems of the following kind have been the focus of much recent research in the realm of parameterized complexity: Given an input graph (digraph) on $n$ vertices and a positive integer parameter $k$, find if there exist $k$ edges (arcs)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Prachi Goyal , Pranabendu Misra , Fahad Panolan , Geevarghese Philip , Saket Saurabh

In this paper we consider two above lower bound parameterizations of the Node Multiway Cut problem - above the maximum separating cut and above a natural LP-relaxation - and prove them to be fixed-parameter tractable. Our results imply…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Marek Cygan , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk

We consider the problem of partitioning the node set of a graph into $k$ sets of given sizes in order to \emph{minimize the cut} obtained using (removing) the $k$-th set. If the resulting cut has value $0$, then we have obtained a vertex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Ting Kei Pong , Hao Sun , Ningchuan Wang , Henry Wolkowicz

We study a generalization of the classic Spanning Tree problem that allows for a non-uniform failure model. More precisely, edges are either \emph{safe} or \emph{unsafe} and we assume that failures only affect unsafe edges. In Unweighted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Matthias Bentert , Jannik Schestag , Frank Sommer

Let $G$ be a connected planar (but not yet embedded) graph and $F$ a set of additional edges not yet in $G$. The {multiple edge insertion} problem (MEI) asks for a drawing of $G+F$ with the minimum number of pairwise edge crossings, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Markus Chimani , Petr Hliněný

We study the parameterized complexity of the T(h+1)-Free Edge Deletion problem. Given a graph G and integers k and h, the task is to delete at most k edges so that every connected component of the resulting graph has size at most h. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Leeja R

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable (\FPT) $\rho$-approximation algorithm for a minimization (resp. maximization) parameterized problem $P$ is an FPT algorithm that, given an instance $(x, k)\in P$ computes a solution of cost at most $k \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz