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Tree-cut width is a parameter that has been introduced as an attempt to obtain an analogue of treewidth for edge cuts. Unfortunately, in spite of its desirable structural properties, it turned out that tree-cut width falls short as an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

Tree-width has been proven to be a useful parameter to design fast and efficient algorithms for intractable problems. However, while tree-width is low on relatively sparse graphs can be arbitrary high on dense graphs. Therefore, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Chris Aronis

The tree-cut width of a graph is a graph parameter defined by Wollan [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B, 110:47-66, 2015] with the help of tree-cut decompositions. In certain cases, tree-cut width appears to be more adequate than treewidth as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Eunjung Kim , Sang-il Oum , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

In this paper, we address the complexity barrier inherent in Fourier-Motzkin elimination (FME) and cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) when eliminating a block of (existential) quantifiers. To mitigate this, we propose exploiting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Hao Wu , Jiyu Zhu , Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Jie An , Bican Xia , Naijun Zhan

In this paper, we consider tree decompositions, branch decompositions, and clique decompositions. We improve the running time of dynamic programming algorithms on these graph decompositions for a large number of problems as a function of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Johan M. M. van Rooij , Hans L. Bodlaender , Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Peter Rossmanith , Martin Vatshelle

Several problems that are NP-hard on general graphs are efficiently solvable on graphs with bounded treewidth. Efforts have been made to generalize treewidth and the related notion of pathwidth to digraphs. Directed treewidth, DAG-width and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shiva Kintali , Nishad Kothari , Akash Kumar

Given $n$ subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space over a fixed finite field $\mathbb F$, we wish to find a "branch-decomposition" of these subspaces of width at most $k$ that is a subcubic tree $T$ with $n$ leaves mapped bijectively…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jisu Jeong , Eun Jung Kim , Sang-il Oum

Structural measures of graphs, such as treewidth, are central tools in computational complexity resulting in efficient algorithms when exploiting the parameter. It is even known that modern SAT solvers work efficiently on instances of small…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yasir Mahmood , Markus Hecher , Johanna Groven , Johannes K. Fichte

A tree decomposition of a graph facilitates computations by grouping vertices into bags that are interconnected in an acyclic structure, hence their importance in a plethora of problems such as query evaluation over databases and inference…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Noam Ravid , Dori Medini , Benny Kimelfeld

Dynamic programming on various graph decompositions is one of the most fundamental techniques used in parameterized complexity. Unfortunately, even if we consider concepts as simple as path or tree decompositions, such dynamic programming…

We give alternative definitions for maximum matching width, e.g. a graph $G$ has $\operatorname{mmw}(G) \leq k$ if and only if it is a subgraph of a chordal graph $H$ and for every maximal clique $X$ of $H$ there exists $A,B,C \subseteq X$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Jisu Jeong , Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Jan Arne Telle

In the field of parameterized complexity theory, the study of graph width measures has been intimately connected with the development of width-based model checking algorithms for combinatorial properties on graphs. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Sam Urmian

We give an algorithm that takes as input an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and an integer $k$, runs in time $2^{O(k^2)} n^{O(1)}$, and outputs a tree decomposition of $G$ of width at most $k$, if such a decomposition exists. This resolves the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tuukka Korhonen , Daniel Lokshtanov

Despite their high accuracy, complex neural networks demand significant computational resources, posing challenges for deployment on resource constrained devices such as mobile phones and embedded systems. Compression algorithms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ali Aghababaei-Harandi , Massih-Reza Amini

We provide the first algorithm for computing an optimal tree decomposition for a given graph $G$ that runs in single exponential time in the feedback vertex number of $G$, that is, in time $2^{O(\text{fvn}(G))}\cdot n^{O(1)}$, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hendrik Molter , Meirav Zehavi , Amit Zivan

Phylogenetic trees are leaf-labelled trees used to model the evolution of species. In practice it is not uncommon to obtain two topologically distinct trees for the same set of species, and this motivates the use of distance measures to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David Mestel , Steven Chaplick , Steven Kelk , Ruben Meuwese

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) can be seen as the archetypical problem for NP-complete optimization problems, and a wide range of problems in artificial intelligence are solved in practice via a translation to ILP. Despite its huge range…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Robert Ganian , Sebastian Ordyniak

A $(\beta,\delta,\Delta)$-padded decomposition of an edge-weighted graph $G = (V,E,w)$ is a stochastic decomposition into clusters of diameter at most $\Delta$ such that for every vertex $v\in V$, the probability that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Arnold Filtser , Tobias Friedrich , Davis Issac , Nikhil Kumar , Hung Le , Nadym Mallek , Ziena Zeif

The notion of treewidth plays an important role in theoretical and practical studies of graph problems. It has been recognized that, especially in practical environments, when computing the treewidth of a graph it is invaluable to first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

Let F be a finite family of graphs. In the F-Deletion problem, one is given a graph G and an integer k, and the goal is to find k vertices whose deletion results in a graph with no minor from the family F. This may be regarded as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Roohani Sharma , Michał Włodarczyk