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The Shortest Path Reconfiguration problem has as input a graph G (with unit edge lengths) with vertices s and t, and two shortest st-paths P and Q. The question is whether there exists a sequence of shortest st-paths that starts with P and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Paul Bonsma

We consider combinatorial problems that can be solved in polynomial time for graphs of bounded treewidth but where the order of the polynomial that bounds the running time is expected to depend on the treewidth bound. First we review some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Stefan Szeider

In this note, we consider the problem of finding a step-by-step transformation between two longest increasing subsequences in a sequence, namely Longest Increasing Subsequence Reconfiguration. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yuuki Aoike , Masashi Kiyomi , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

Subgraph complementation is an operation that toggles all adjacencies inside a selected vertex set. Given a graph \(G\) and a target class \(\mathcal{C}\), the Minimum Subgraph Complementation problem asks for a minimum-size vertex set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Juan Gutiérrez , Sagartanu Pal

Reconfiguration problems involve determining whether two given configurations can be transformed into each other under specific rules. The Token Sliding problem asks whether, given two different set of tokens on vertices of a graph $G$, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Niranka Banerjee , Christian Engels , Duc A. Hoang

The reconfiguration problem for homomorphisms of digraphs to a reflexive digraph cycle, which amounts to deciding if a `reconfiguration graph' is connected, is known to by polynomially time solvable via a greedy algorithm based on certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-19 David Emmanuel Pazmiño Pullas , Mark Siggers

We consider two decomposition problems in directed graphs. We say that a digraph is $k$-bounded for some $k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}$ if each of its connected components contains at most $k$ arcs. For the first problem, a directed linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Florian Hörsch , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta

The inference of minimum spanning arborescences within a set of objects is a general problem which translates into numerous application-specific unsupervised learning tasks. We introduce a unified and generic structure called edit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Lucas Gnecco , Nicolas Boria , Sébastien Bougleux , Florian Yger , David B. Blumenthal

Suppose that we are given two dominating sets $D_s$ and $D_t$ of a graph $G$ whose cardinalities are at most a given threshold $k$. Then, we are asked whether there exists a sequence of dominating sets of $G$ between $D_s$ and $D_t$ such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Arash Haddadan , Takehiro Ito , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Hirotaka Ono , Akira Suzuki , Youcef Tebbal

In the present paper, we study algorithmic questions for the arc-intersection graph of directed paths on a tree. Such graphs are known to be perfect (proved by Monma and Wei in 1986). We present faster algorithms than all previously known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Olivier Durand de Gévigney , Frédéric Meunier , Christian Popa , Julien Reygner , Ayrin Romero

We study the perfect matching reconfiguration problem: Given two perfect matchings of a graph, is there a sequence of flip operations that transforms one into the other? Here, a flip operation exchanges the edges in an alternating cycle of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Marc Heinrich , Takehiro Ito , Yusuke Kobayashi , Arnaud Mary , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Kunihiro Wasa

We study the crossing-minimization problem in a layered graph drawing of planar-embedded rooted trees whose leaves have a given total order on the first layer, which adheres to the embedding of each individual tree. The task is then to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Julia Katheder , Stephen G. Kobourov , Axel Kuckuk , Maximilian Pfister , Johannes Zink

We are interested in unsupervised reconstruction of complex near-capillary vasculature with thousands of bifurcations where supervision and learning are infeasible. Unsupervised methods can use many structural constraints, e.g. topology,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhongwen Zhang , Dmitrii Marin , Maria Drangova , Yuri Boykov

We give almost-linear-time algorithms for approximating rooted minimum cut and maximum arborescence packing in directed graphs, two problems that are dual to each other [Edm73]. More specifically, for an $n$-vertex, $m$-edge directed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yonggang Jiang , Yaowei Long , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Benyu Wang

Broadcasting in a computer network is a method of transferring a message to all recipients simultaneously. It is common in this situation to use a tree with many leaves to perform the broadcast, as internal nodes have to forward the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Cristina G. Fernandes , Carla N. Lintzmayer

In this paper, we investigate the problem of generating the spanning trees of a graph $G$ up to the automorphisms or "symmetries" of $G$. After introducing and surveying this problem for general input graphs, we present algorithms that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mithra Karamchedu , Lucas Bang

We consider the problem of finding a subgraph of a given graph which maximizes a given function evaluated at its degree sequence. While the problem is intractable already for convex functions, we show that it can be solved in polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Shmuel Onn

The canonical tree-decomposition theorem, given by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal graph minors series, turns out to be one of the most important tool in structural and algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we provide the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer , O-joung Kwon

In this paper, we consider a transformation of $k$ disjoint paths in a graph. For a graph and a pair of $k$ disjoint paths $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{Q}$ connecting the same set of terminal pairs, we aim to determine whether $\mathcal{P}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Takehiro Ito , Yuni Iwamasa , Naonori Kakimura , Yusuke Kobayashi , Shun-ichi Maezawa , Yuta Nozaki , Yoshio Okamoto , Kenta Ozeki

An out-(in-)branching B_s^+ (B_s^-) rooted at s in a digraph D is a connected spanning subdigraph of D in which every vertex x != s has precisely one arc entering (leaving) it and s has no arcs entering (leaving) it. We settle the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-22 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Sven Simonsen