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In this paper, we design a framework to obtain efficient algorithms for several problems with a global constraint (acyclicity or connectivity) such as Connected Dominating Set, Node Weighted Steiner Tree, Maximum Induced Tree, Longest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté

We give a first polynomial-time algorithm for (Weighted) Feedback Vertex Set on graphs of bounded maximum induced matching width (mim-width). Explicitly, given a branch decomposition of mim-width $w$, we give an $n^{\mathcal{O}(w)}$-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Jan Arne Telle

For a graph $G$, the parameter treedepth measures the minimum depth among all forests $F$, called elimination forests, such that $G$ is a subgraph of the ancestor-descendant closure of $F$. We introduce a logic, called neighborhood operator…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Benjamin Bergougnoux , Vera Chekan , Giannos Stamoulis

This paper settles the computational complexity of model checking of several extensions of the monadic second order (MSO) logic on two classes of graphs: graphs of bounded treewidth and graphs of bounded neighborhood diversity. A classical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

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

We study connectivity problems from a fine-grained parameterized perspective. Cygan et al. (TALG 2022) obtained algorithms with single-exponential running time $\alpha^{tw} n^{O(1)}$ for connectivity problems parameterized by treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

The mim-width of a graph is a powerful structural parameter that, when bounded by a constant, allows several hard problems to be polynomial-time solvable - with a recent meta-theorem encompassing a large class of problems [SODA2023]. Since…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Max Dupré la Tour , Manuel Lafond , Ndiamé Ndiaye

Solution discovery asks whether a given (infeasible) starting configuration to a problem can be transformed into a feasible solution using a limited number of transformation steps. This paper investigates meta-theorems for solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Nicolas Bousquet , Amer E. Mouawad , Stephanie Maaz , Naomi Nishimura , Sebastian Siebertz

A breakthrough result of Cygan et al. (FOCS 2011) showed that connectivity problems parameterized by treewidth can be solved much faster than the previously best known time $\mathcal{O}^*(2^{\mathcal{O}(tw \log(tw))})$. Using their inspired…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

Algorithmic meta-theorems explain the tractability of large classes of computational problems by linking logical expressibility with structural graph properties. While extensions of first-order logic such as FO+dp admit efficient model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ignasi Sau , Nicole Schirrmacher , Sebastian Siebertz , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Alexandre Vigny

Possibly the most famous algorithmic meta-theorem is Courcelle's theorem, which states that all MSO-expressible graph properties are decidable in linear time for graphs of bounded treewidth. Unfortunately, the running time's dependence on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Michael Lampis

The complexity of problems involving global constraints is usually much more difficult to understand than the complexity of problems only involving local constraints. A natural form of global constraints are connectivity constraints. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

A large number of NP-hard graph problems can be solved in $f(w)n^{O(1)}$ time and space when the input graph is provided together with a tree decomposition of width $w$, in many cases with a modest exponential dependence $f(w)$ on $w$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Stefan Kratsch

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

One of the most important algorithmic meta-theorems is a famous result by Courcelle, which states that any graph problem definable in monadic second-order logic with edge-set quantifications (i.e., MSO2 model-checking) is decidable in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Robert Ganian , Petr Hliněný , Alexander Langer , Jan Obdržálek , Peter Rossmanith , Somnath Sikdar

Mim-width and sim-width are among the most powerful graph width parameters, with sim-width more powerful than mim-width, which is in turn more powerful than clique-width. While several $\mathsf{NP}$-hard graph problems become tractable for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

Algorithmic meta-theorems provide an important tool for showing tractability of graph problems on graph classes defined by structural restrictions. While such results are well established for static graphs, corresponding frameworks for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michelle Döring , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , George Skretas

We generalize the family of $(\sigma, \rho)$-problems and locally checkable vertex partition problems to their distance versions, which naturally captures well-known problems such as distance-$r$ dominating set and distance-$r$ independent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Torstein J. F. Strømme , Jan Arne Telle

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
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