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An efficient dominating set (or perfect code) in a graph is a set of vertices the closed neighborhoods of which partition the vertex set of the graph. The minimum weight efficient domination problem is the problem of finding an efficient…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Andreas Brandstädt , Pavel Fičur , Arne Leitert , Martin Milanič

We examine the Maximum Independent Set Problem in an undirected graph. The main result is that this problem can be considered as the solving the same problem in a subclass of the weighted normal twin-orthogonal graphs. The problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

We propose improved exact and heuristic algorithms for solving the maximum weight clique problem, a well-known problem in graph theory with many applications. Our algorithms interleave successful techniques from related work with novel data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Roman Erhardt , Kathrin Hanauer , Nils Kriege , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash

This work addresses the well-known Maximum Independent Set problem in the context of hypergraphs. While this problem has been extensively studied on graphs, we focus on its strong extension to hypergraphs, where edges may connect any number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash , Antonie Wagner

Max Independent Set (MIS) is a paradigmatic problem in theoretical computer science and numerous studies tackle its resolution by exact algorithms with non-trivial worst-case complexity. The best such complexity is, to our knowledge, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Nicolas Bourgeois , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Johan M. M van Rooij

Given a vertex-weighted graph, the maximum weight independent set problem asks for a pair-wise non-adjacent set of vertices such that the sum of their weights is maximum. The branch-and-reduce paradigm is the de facto standard approach to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Alexander Gellner , Sebastian Lamm , Christian Schulz , Darren Strash , Bogdán Zaválnij

The maximum independent set problem is a classical NP-hard problem in theoretical computer science. In this work, we study a special case where the family of graphs considered is restricted to intersection graphs of sets of axis-aligned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Rishi Advani , Abolfazl Asudeh

Independent set is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. While in general graphs the problem is essentially inapproximable, for many important graph classes there are approximation algorithms known in the offline setting.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Andreas Wiese

A recently proposed exact algorithm for the maximum independent set problem is analyzed. The typical running time is improved exponentially in some parameter regions compared to simple binary search. The algorithm also overcomes the core…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-02 Jun Takahashi , Satoshi Takabe , Koji Hukushima

We develop new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for finding the global minimum edge-cut in a directed edge-weighted graph, and for finding the global minimum vertex-cut in a directed vertex-weighted graph. Our algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ron Mosenzon

Computing the size of maximum independent sets is a NP-hard problem for fixed graphs. Characterizing and designing efficient algorithms to estimate this independence number for random graphs are notoriously difficult and still largely open…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Paola Bermolen , Matthieu Jonckheere , Federico Larroca , Manuel Saenz

We show that there is no subexponential time algorithm for computing the exact solution of the maximum independent set problem in d-regular graphs unless ETH fails. We expand our method to show that it helps to provide lower bounds for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri

We study the algorithmic task of finding a large independent set in a sparse Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph with $n$ vertices and average degree $d$. The maximum independent set is known to have size $(2 \log d / d)n$ in the double limit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Alexander S. Wein

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. The complexity of the MWIS problem for $P_6$-free graphs is unknown. In this note, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-27 T. Karthick

An instance of the graph-constrained max-cut (GCMC) problem consists of (i) an undirected graph G and (ii) edge-weights on a complete undirected graph on the same vertex set. The objective is to find a subset of vertices satisfying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Jon Lee , Viswanath Nagarajan , Xiangkun Shen

We present an algorithm that takes as input a graph $G$ with weights on the vertices, and computes a maximum weight independent set $S$ of $G$. If the input graph $G$ excludes a path $P_k$ on $k$ vertices as an induced subgraph, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Peter Gartland , Daniel Lokshtanov

Very recently, Thomass\'e, Trotignon and Vuskovic [WG 2014] have given an FPT algorithm for Weighted Independent Set in bull-free graphs parameterized by the weight of the solution, running in time $2^{O(k^5)} \cdot n^9$. In this article we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Henri Perret du Cray , Ignasi Sau

The Maximum Weight Independent Set (MWIS) Problem on graphs with vertex weights asks for a set of pairwise nonadjacent vertices of maximum total weight. Being one of the most investigated and most important problems on graphs, it is well…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Andreas Brandstädt , Raffaele Mosca

Given an edge-weighted graph $G$ on $n$ nodes, the NP-hard Max-Cut problem asks for a node bipartition such that the sum of edge weights joining the different partitions is maximized. We propose a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Markus Chimani , Christine Dahn , Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Alexander Nover

In this paper, we consider the task of computing an independent set of maximum weight in a given $d$-claw free graph $G=(V,E)$ equipped with a positive weight function $w:V\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^+$. In doing so, $d\geq 2$ is considered a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Meike Neuwohner