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In this paper we continue the study of locally checkable problems under the framework introduced by Bonomo-Braberman and Gonzalez in 2020, by focusing on graphs of bounded mim-width. We study which restrictions on a locally checkable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Carolina Lucía Gonzalez , Felix Mann

The minimum sum-of-squares clustering problem (MSSC) consists of partitioning $n$ observations into $k$ clusters in order to minimize the sum of squared distances from the points to the centroid of their cluster. In this paper, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Veronica Piccialli , Antonio M. Sudoso , Angelika Wiegele

Graph Burning asks, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists $(b_{0},\dots,b_{k-1}) \in V^{k}$ such that every vertex in $G$ has distance at most $i$ from some $b_{i}$. This problem is known to be NP-complete even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

Deciding feasibility of large systems of linear equations and inequalities is one of the most fundamental algorithmic tasks. However, due to data inaccuracies or modeling errors, in practical applications one often faces linear systems that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Kristóf Bérczi , Alexander Göke , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Matthias Mnich

Reachability questions are one of the most fundamental algorithmic primitives in temporal graphs -- graphs whose edge set changes over discrete time steps. A core problem here is the NP-hard Short Restless Temporal Path: given a temporal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Philipp Zschoche

In Two-Sets Cut-Uncut, we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and two terminal sets $S$ and $T$. The task is to find a minimum cut $C$ in $G$ (if there is any) separating $S$ from $T$ under the following ``uncut'' condition. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Fanny Hauser , Saket Saurabh

The geometric $\delta$-minimum spanning tree problem ($\delta$-MST) is the problem of finding a minimum spanning tree for a set of points in a normed vector space, such that no vertex in the tree has a degree which exceeds $\delta$, and the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Patrick J. Andersen , Charl J. Ras

The maximum modularity of a graph is a parameter widely used to describe the level of clustering or community structure in a network. Determining the maximum modularity of a graph is known to be NP-complete in general, and in practice a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman

In this work, we focus on several completion problems for subclasses of chordal graphs: Minimum Fill-In, Interval Completion, Proper Interval Completion, Threshold Completion, and Trivially Perfect Completion. In these problems, the task is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Ivan Bliznets , Marek Cygan , Pawel Komosa , Lukas Mach , Michal Pilipczuk

In the Vertex Planarization problem one asks to delete the minimum possible number of vertices from an input graph to obtain a planar graph. The parameterized complexity of this problem, parameterized by the solution size (the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Marcin Pilipczuk

Given $n$ weighted points (positive or negative) in $d$ dimensions, what is the axis-aligned box which maximizes the total weight of the points it contains? The best known algorithm for this problem is based on a reduction to a related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Arturs Backurs , Nishanth Dikkala , Christos Tzamos

The $d$-Hitting Set problem is a fundamental problem in parameterized complexity, which asks whether a given hypergraph contains a vertex subset $S$ of size at most $k$ that intersects every hyperedge (i.e., $S \cap e \neq \emptyset$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuxi Liu , Mingyu Xiao

In this paper we study the time complexity of the single-source reachability problem and the single-source shortest path problem for directed unweighted graphs in the Broadcast CONGEST model. We focus on the case where the diameter $D$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Shiri Chechik , Doron Mukhtar

Cyclic structures are fundamental topological features in graphs, playing critical roles in network robustness, information flow, community structure, and various dynamic processes. Algorithmic tools that can efficiently probe and analyze…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Heman Shakeri , Torben Amtoft , Behnaz Moradi-Jamei , Nathan Albin , Pietro Poggi-Corradini

The Minimum Path Cover (MPC) problem consists of finding a minimum-cardinality set of node-disjoint paths that cover all nodes in a given graph. We explore a variant of the MPC problem on acyclic digraphs (DAGs) where, given a subset of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Nour ElHouda Tellache , Roberto Baldacci

The problem of covering minimum cost common bases of two matroids is NP-complete, even if the two matroids coincide, and the costs are all equal to 1. In this paper we show that the following special case is solvable in polynomial time:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Attila Bernáth , Gyula Pap

The Minimum Consistent Subset (MCS) problem arises naturally in the context of supervised clustering and instance selection. In supervised clustering, one aims to infer a meaningful partitioning of data using a small labeled subset.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Aritra Banik , Mano Prakash Parthasarathi , Venkatesh Raman , Diya Roy , Abhishek Sahu

A graph is $d$-orientable if its edges can be oriented so that the maximum in-degree of the resulting digraph is at most $d$. $d$-orientability is a well-studied concept with close connections to fundamental graph-theoretic notions and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Tesshu Hanaka , Ioannis Katsikarelis , Michael Lampis , Yota Otachi , Florian Sikora

In this work, we study the computational complexity of the Minimum Distance Code Detection problem. In this problem, we are given a set of noisy codeword observations and we wish to find a code in a set of linear codes $\mathcal{C}$ of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Aris Filos-Ratsikas

The Monotone Min-Plus Product problem is a useful primitive that has seen many algorithmic applications over the past decade. In this problem, we are given two $n\times n$ integer matrices $A$ and $B$, where each row of $B$ is a monotone…

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