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The coloring problem is a well-research topic and its complexity is known for several classes of graphs. However, the question of its complexity remains open for the class of antiprismatic graphs, which are the complement of prismatic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Cléophée Robin , Eileen Robinson

A fundamental problem in the design of wireless networks is to efficiently schedule transmission in a distributed manner. The main challenge stems from the fact that optimal link scheduling involves solving a maximum weighted independent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Zhongyuan Zhao , Gunjan Verma , Chirag Rao , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

Boolean-width is a recently introduced graph parameter. Many problems are fixed parameter tractable when parametrized by boolean-width, for instance "Minimum Weighted Dominating Set" (MWDS) problem can be solved in $O^*(2^{3k})$ time given…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Rémy Belmonte , Martin Vatshelle

The 3-coloring of hereditary graph classes has been a deeply-researched problem in the last decade. A hereditary graph class is characterized by a (possibly infinite) list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs $H_1,H_2,\ldots$; the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Vít Jelínek , Tereza Klimošová , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Aneta Pokorná

General factors are a generalization of matchings. Given a graph $G$ with a set $\pi(v)$ of feasible degrees, called a degree constraint, for each vertex $v$ of $G$, the general factor problem is to find a (spanning) subgraph $F$ of $G$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Shuai Shao , Stanislav Živný

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem, as well as its related problems such as Minimum Weight Vertex Cover, are fundamental NP-hard problems with numerous practical applications. Due to their computational complexity, a variety…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

Given an undirected node-weighted graph, the Maximum-Weight Connected Subgraph problem (MWCS) is to identify a subset of nodes of maximalsum of weights that induce a connected subgraph. MWCS is closely related to the well-studied Prize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Mohammed El-Kebir , Gunnar W. Klau

This paper formalizes connections between stability of polynomials and convergence rates of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. We prove that if a (multivariate) partition function is nonzero in a region around a real point…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zongchen Chen , Kuikui Liu , Eric Vigoda

A hole in a graph is an induced cycle of length at least 4. A hole is long if its length is at least 5. By $P_t$ we denote a path on $t$ vertices. In this paper we give polynomial-time algorithms for the following problems: the Maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski , Paul Seymour

In the matching interdiction problem, we are given an undirected graph with weights and interdiction costs on the edges and seek to remove a subset of the edges constrained to some budget, such that the weight of a maximum weight matching…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-04-23 Rico Zenklusen

We present the first unsupervised learning model for Maximum-Independent-Set (MaxIS) in dynamic graphs where edges change over time. Our method combines structural learning from graph neural networks (GNNs) with a learned distributed update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Devendra Parkar , Anya Chaturvedi , Joshua J. Daymude

We study a generalization of the classic Global Min-Cut problem, called Global Label Min-Cut (or sometimes Global Hedge Min-Cut): the edges of the input (multi)graph are labeled (or partitioned into color classes or hedges), and removing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Ueverton S. Souza

We study the \textsc{Max Partial $H$-Coloring} problem: given a graph $G$, find the largest induced subgraph of $G$ that admits a homomorphism into $H$, where $H$ is a fixed pattern graph without loops. Note that when $H$ is a complete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Maria Chudnovsky , Jason King , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski , Sophie Spirkl

We consider hypergraph network design problems where the goal is to construct a hypergraph that satisfies certain connectivity requirements. For graph network design problems where the goal is to construct a graph that satisfies certain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Kristóf Bérczi , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Tamás Király , Shubhang Kulkarni

In this paper, we provide polynomial-time algorithms for different extensions of the matching counting problem, namely maximal matchings, path matchings (linear forest) and paths, on graph classes of bounded clique-width. For maximal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus , Takeaki Uno

For a given graph $G$, a maximum internal spanning tree of $G$ is a spanning tree of $G$ with maximum number of internal vertices. The Maximum Internal Spanning Tree (MIST) problem is to find a maximum internal spanning tree of the given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Gopika Sharma , Arti Pandey , Michael C. Wigal

We propose a consistent polynomial-time method for the unseeded node matching problem for networks with smooth underlying structures. Despite widely conjectured by the research community that the structured graph matching problem to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-24 Yuan Zhang

A (unit) disk graph is the intersection graph of closed (unit) disks in the plane. Almost three decades ago, an elegant polynomial-time algorithm was found for \textsc{Maximum Clique} on unit disk graphs [Clark, Colbourn, Johnson; Discrete…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Édouard Bonnet , Panos Giannopoulos , Eun Jung Kim , Paweł Rzążewski , Florian Sikora

We prove a robust contraction decomposition theorem for $H$-minor-free graphs, which states that given an $H$-minor-free graph $G$ and an integer $p$, one can partition in polynomial time the vertices of $G$ into $p$ sets $Z_1,\dots,Z_p$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , William Lochet , Daniel Lokshtanov , Dániel Marx , Pranabendu Misra , Daniel Neuen , Saket Saurabh , Prafullkumar Tale , Jie Xue

The maximum clique problem is a classical NP-complete problem in graph theory and has important applications in many domains. In this paper we show, in a partially non-constructive way, the existence of an exact polynomial-time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 R. Dharmarajan , D. Ramachandran