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We study consistent query answering via different graph representations. First, we introduce solution-conflict hypergraphs in which nodes represent facts and edges represent either conflicts or query solutions. Considering a monotonic query…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Teemu Hankala , Miika Hannula , Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier

We study the parameterized complexity of the problems of finding a maximum common (induced) subgraph of two given graphs. Since these problems generalize several NP-complete problems, they are intractable even when parameterized by strongly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tesshu Hanaka , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi , Lena Volk

In traditional models of supervised learning, the goal of a learner -- given examples from an arbitrary joint distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \{\pm 1\}$ -- is to output a hypothesis that is competitive (to within $\epsilon$) of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Adam Klivans , Vasilis Kontonis , Raghu Meka , Konstantinos Stavropoulos

We study the \textsc{Labeled Contractibility} problem, where the input consists of two vertex-labeled graphs $G$ and $H$, and the goal is to determine whether $H$ can be obtained from $G$ via a sequence of edge contractions. Lafond and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yashaswini Mathur , Prafullkumar Tale

Order-invariant formulas access an ordering on a structure's universe, but the model relation is independent of the used ordering. Order invariance is frequently used for logic-based approaches in computer science. Order-invariant formulas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Michael Elberfeld , Marlin Frickenschmidt , Martin Grohe

We develop an algebraic notion of recognizability for languages of words indexed by countable linear orderings. We prove that this notion is effectively equivalent to definability in monadic second-order (MSO) logic. We also provide three…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Olivier Carton , Thomas Colcombet , Gabriele Puppis

Inspired by distributed algorithms, we introduce a new class of finite graph automata that recognize precisely the graph languages definable in monadic second-order logic. For the cases of words and trees, it has been long known that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Fabian Reiter

We study the parameterized complexity of training two-layer neural networks with respect to the dimension of the input data and the number of hidden neurons, considering ReLU and linear threshold activation functions. Albeit the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Vincent Froese , Christoph Hertrich

Learning to Optimize (L2O) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which ML models are trained to solve parametric optimization problems. The general goal is to learn a fast approximator of solutions to constrained optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 James Kotary , Himanshu Sharma , Ethan King , Draguna Vrabie , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jan Drgona

Let CMSO denote the counting monadic second order logic of graphs. We give a constructive proof that for some computable function $f$, there is an algorithm $\mathfrak{A}$ that takes as input a CMSO sentence $\varphi$, a positive integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Transductive tasks on graphs differ fundamentally from typical supervised machine learning tasks, as the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) assumption does not hold among samples. Instead, all train/test/validation samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hamed Shirzad , Honghao Lin , Ameya Velingker , Balaji Venkatachalam , David Woodruff , Danica Sutherland

We study the model-checking problem for first- and monadic second-order logic on finite relational structures. The problem of verifying whether a formula of these logics is true on a given structure is considered intractable in general, but…

A vertex-subset graph problem $Q$ defines which subsets of the vertices of an input graph are feasible solutions. The reconfiguration version of a vertex-subset problem $Q$ asks whether it is possible to transform one feasible solution for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Venkatesh Raman , Marcin Wrochna

The Learnable Tree Filter presents a remarkable approach to model structure-preserving relations for semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, the intrinsic geometric constraint forces it to focus on the regions with close spatial distance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lin Song , Yanwei Li , Zhengkai Jiang , Zeming Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

We consider a monotone submodular maximization problem whose constraint is described by a logic formula on a graph. Formally, we prove the following three `algorithmic metatheorems.' (1) If the constraint is specified by a monadic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Masakazu Ishihata , Takanori Maehara , Tomas Rigaux

We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter $k$ and two graphs $G_1,G_2$, either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth at least $k$, or determines whether $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic. The running time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh

We study the parameterized complexity of scheduling unit-time jobs on parallel, identical machines under generalized precedence constraints for minimization of the makespan and the sum of completion times. In our setting, each job is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Christina Büsing , Maurice Draeger , Corinna Mathwieser

In this work, we initiate a thorough study of parameterized graph optimization problems in the distributed setting. In a parameterized problem, an algorithm decides whether a solution of size bounded by a \emph{parameter} $k$ exists and if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Ran Ben-Basat , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Gregory Schwartzman

We consider the domino problem on Schreier graphs of self-similar groups, and more generally their monadic second-order logic. On the one hand, we prove that if the group is bounded then the graph's monadic second-order logic is decidable.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Laurent Bartholdi

Weighted monadic second-order logic is a weighted extension of monadic second-order logic that captures exactly the behaviour of weighted automata. Its semantics is parameterized with respect to a semiring on which the values that weighted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Antonis Achilleos , Mathias Ruggaard Pedersen