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There are many classical problems in P whose time complexities have not been improved over the past decades. Recent studies of "Hardness in P" have revealed that, for several of such problems, the current fastest algorithm is the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yoichi Iwata , Tomoaki Ogasawara , Naoto Ohsaka

We study the parameterized complexity of the T(h+1)-Free Edge Deletion problem. Given a graph G and integers k and h, the task is to delete at most k edges so that every connected component of the resulting graph has size at most h. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity , Leeja R

This work proposes \textsc{H-Td}, a practical linear-time algorithm for computing an optimal-width tree decomposition of Halin graphs. Unlike state-of-the-art methods based on reduction rules or separators, \textsc{H-Td} exploits the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 J. A. Alejandro-Soto , Joel Antonio Trejo-Sanchez , Carlos Segura

Algorithms for computing or approximating optimal decompositions for decompositional parameters such as treewidth or clique-width have so far traditionally been tailored to specific width parameters. Moreover, for mim-width, no efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm , Lars Jaffke , O-Joung Kwon

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 $\Pi$ be a hereditary graph class. The problem of deletion to $\Pi$, takes as input a graph $G$ and asks for a minimum number (or a fixed integer $k$) of vertices to be deleted from $G$ so that the resulting graph belongs to $\Pi$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Ashwin Jacob , Diptapriyo Majumdar , Venkatesh Raman

Let F be a finite set of graphs. In the F-Deletion problem, we are given an n-vertex graph G and an integer k as input, and asked whether at most k vertices can be deleted from G such that the resulting graph does not contain a graph from F…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Fedor Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Neeldhara Misra , Saket Saurabh

Given an $H$-minor-free graph $G$ and an integer $k$, our main technical contribution is sampling in randomized polynomial time an induced subgraph $G'$ of $G$ and a tree decomposition of $G'$ of width $\widetilde{O}(k)$ such that for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

In the Weighted Treewidth-$\eta$ Deletion problem we are given a node-weighted graph $G$ and we look for a vertex subset $X$ of minimum weight such that the treewidth of $G-X$ is at most $\eta$. We show that Weighted Treewidth-$\eta$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michał Włodarczyk

For a given graph G and integers b,f >= 0, let S be a subset of vertices of G of size b+1 such that the subgraph of G induced by S is connected and S can be separated from other vertices of G by removing f vertices. We prove that every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-05-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Yngve Villanger

For $n$-vertex graphs with treewidth $k = O(n^{1/2-\epsilon})$ and an arbitrary $\epsilon>0$, we present a word-RAM algorithm to compute vertex separators using only $O(n)$ bits of working memory. As an application of our algorithm, we give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Frank Kammer , Johannes Meintrup , Andrej Sajenko

We improve the running time of the general algorithmic technique known as Baker's approach (1994) on H-minor-free graphs from O(n^{f(|H|)}) to O(f(|H|) n^{O(1)}). The numerous applications include e.g. a 2-approximation for coloring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Siamak Tazari

We provide a degree condition on a regular $n$-vertex graph $G$ which ensures the existence of a near optimal packing of any family $\mathcal H$ of bounded degree $n$-vertex $k$-chromatic separable graphs into $G$. In general, this degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Padraig Condon , Jaehoon Kim , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a spanning tree with minimum average distance between vertex pairs (called a MAD tree). This is a classic network design problem which is known to be NP-hard. While approximation algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom-Lukas Breitkopf , Vincent Froese , Anton Herrmann , André Nichterlein , Camille Richer

We here investigate on the complexity of computing the \emph{tree-length} and the \emph{tree-breadth} of any graph $G$, that are respectively the best possible upper-bounds on the diameter and the radius of the bags in a tree decomposition…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guillaume Ducoffe , Sylvain Legay , Nicolas Nisse

We investigate a structural generalisation of treewidth we call $\mathcal{A}$-blind-treewidth where $\mathcal{A}$ denotes an annotated graph class. This width parameter is defined by evaluating only the size of those bags $B$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-03 J. Pascal Gollin , Sebastian Wiederrecht

We investigate the complexity of several fundamental polynomial-time solvable problems on graphs and on matrices, when the given instance has low treewidth; in the case of matrices, we consider the treewidth of the graph formed by non-zero…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Marcin Wrochna

We develop a new framework for generalizing approximation algorithms from the structural graph algorithm literature so that they apply to graphs somewhat close to that class (a scenario we expect is common when working with real-world…

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

We study the parameterized complexity of the graph isomorphism problem when parameterized by width parameters related to tree decompositions. We apply the following technique to obtain fixed-parameter tractability for such parameters. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Yota Otachi , Pascal Schweitzer