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We study deterministic algorithms for computing graph cuts, with focus on two fundamental problems: balanced sparse cut and $k$-vertex connectivity for small $k$ ($k=O(\polylog n)$). Both problems can be solved in near-linear time with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Yu Gao , Jason Li , Danupon Nanongkai , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai

The network reconfiguration problem seeks to find a rooted tree $T$ such that the energy of the (unique) feasible electrical flow over $T$ is minimized. The tree requirement on the support of the flow is motivated by operational constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Swati Gupta , Ali Khodabakhsh , Hassan Mortagy , Evdokia Nikolova

Dynamic programming on path and tree decompositions of graphs is a technique that is ubiquitous in the field of parameterized and exponential-time algorithms. However, one of its drawbacks is that the space usage is exponential in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Michał Pilipczuk , Marcin Wrochna

We study the problem of finding a spanning forest in an undirected, $n$-vertex multi-graph under two basic query models. One is the Linear query model which are linear measurements on the incidence vector induced by the edges; the other is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Sepehr Assadi , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Sanjeev Khanna

We give an algorithmic and lower-bound framework that facilitates the construction of subexponential algorithms and matching conditional complexity bounds. It can be applied to intersection graphs of similarly-sized fat objects, yielding…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mark de Berg , Hans L. Bodlaender , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Dániel Marx , Tom C. van der Zanden

We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree of minimum cost under a hop constraint which requires the depth of the tree to be at most $k$. Our main result is an exact algorithm for metrics induced by graphs with bounded treewidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Martin Böhm , Ruben Hoeksma , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon

We introduce a new parameter, called stretch-width, that we show sits strictly between clique-width and twin-width. Unlike the reduced parameters [BKW '22], planar graphs and polynomial subdivisions do not have bounded stretch-width. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Édouard Bonnet , Julien Duron

Designing well-connected graphs is a fundamental problem that frequently arises in various contexts across science and engineering. The weighted number of spanning trees, as a connectivity measure, emerges in numerous problems and plays a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Kasra Khosoussi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

Dynamic Connectivity is a fundamental algorithmic graph problem, motivated by a wide range of applications to social and communication networks and used as a building block in various other algorithms, such as the bi-connectivity and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Alexander Fedorov , Nikita Koval , Dan Alistarh

We introduce a new notion of acyclicity representation in labeled graphs, and present three applications thereof. Our main result is an algorithm that, given a graph $G$ and a $k$-clique expression of $G$, in time $O(6^kn^c)$ counts modulo…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Narek Bojikian , Stefan Kratsch

Enumerating the minimal hitting sets of a hypergraph is a problem which arises in many data management applications that include constraint mining, discovering unique column combinations, and enumerating database repairs. Previously, Eiter…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Batya Kenig , Dan Shlomo Mizrahi

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

De Berg et al. in [SICOMP 2020] gave an algorithmic framework for subexponential algorithms on geometric graphs with tight (up to ETH) running times. This framework is based on dynamic programming on graphs of weighted treewidth resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh

Tensor networks are powerful factorization techniques which reduce resource requirements for numerically simulating principal quantum many-body systems and algorithms. The computational complexity of a tensor network simulation depends on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Eugene F. Dumitrescu , Allison L. Fisher , Timothy D. Goodrich , Travis S. Humble , Blair D. Sullivan , Andrew L. Wright

Consider a setting where possibly sensitive information sent over a path in a network is visible to every {neighbor} of the path, i.e., every neighbor of some node on the path, thus including the nodes on the path itself. The exposure of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Shiri Chechik , M. P. Johnson , Merav Parter , David Peleg

We propose an efficient algorithm for graph matching based on similarity scores constructed from counting a certain family of weighted trees rooted at each vertex. For two Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs $\mathcal{G}(n,q)$ whose edges are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

We consider the core algorithmic problems related to verification of systems with respect to three classical quantitative properties, namely, the mean-payoff property, the ratio property, and the minimum initial credit for energy property.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Andreas Pavlogiannis

We give a 2-approximation algorithm for Non-Uniform Sparsest Cut that runs in time $n^{O(k)}$, where $k$ is the treewidth of the graph. This improves on the previous $2^{2^k}$-approximation in time $\poly(n) 2^{O(k)}$ due to Chlamt\'a\v{c}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Anupam Gupta , Kunal Talwar , David Witmer

We show that if k-SUM is hard, in the sense that the standard algorithm is essentially optimal, then a variant of the SETH called the Primal Treewidth SETH is true. Formally: if there is an $\varepsilon>0$ and an algorithm which solves SAT…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Michael Lampis

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