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Partitioning the vertices of a graph into two roughly equal parts while minimizing the number of edges crossing the cut is a fundamental problem (called Balanced Separator) that arises in many settings. For this problem, and variants such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Venkatesan Guruswami , Ali Kemal Sinop , Yuan Zhou

The reachability problem asks to decide if there exists a path from one vertex to another in a digraph. In a grid digraph, the vertices are the points of a two-dimensional square grid, and an edge can occur between a vertex and its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rahul Jain , Raghunath Tewari

We study the parameterized complexity of various classic vertex-deletion problems such as Odd cycle transversal, Vertex planarization, and Chordal vertex deletion under hybrid parameterizations. Existing FPT algorithms for these problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michał Włodarczyk

In this paper we give upper bounds on the number of minimal separators and potential maximal cliques of graphs w.r.t. two graph parameters, namely vertex cover ($\operatorname{vc}$) and modular width ($\operatorname{mw}$). We prove that for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Mathieu Liedloff , Pedro Montealegre , Ioan Todinca

Deletion problems are those where given a graph $G$ and a graph property $\pi$, the goal is to find a subset of edges such that after its removal the graph $G$ will satisfy the property $\pi$. Typically, we want to minimize the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

For a given graph $G$ and a subset of vertices $S$, a \emph{distance preserver} is a subgraph of $G$ that preserves shortest paths between the vertices of $S$. We distinguish between a \emph{subsetwise} distance preserver, which preserves…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kirill Simonov , Farehe Soheil , Shaily Verma

Graph separation is a central tool in parameterized algorithm design, and important separators are among its most successful ingredients. They yield small, structured families of separators that can be enumerated efficiently, and underlie…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Batya Kenig

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, two vertices $s,t\in V$, and two integers $k,\ell$, the Short Secluded Path problem is to find a simple $s$-$t$-path with at most $k$ vertices and $\ell$ neighbors. We study the parameterized complexity of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-05 René van Bevern , Till Fluschnik , Oxana Yu. Tsidulko

In the study of temporal graphs, only paths respecting the flow of time are relevant. In this context, many concepts of walks disjointness were proposed over the years, and the validity of Menger's Theorem, as well as the complexity of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Allen Ibiapina , Ana Silva

While Transformers have revolutionized machine learning on various data, existing Transformers for temporal graphs face limitations in (1) restricted receptive fields, (2) overhead of subgraph extraction, and (3) suboptimal generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kay Liu , Jiahao Ding , MohamadAli Torkamani , Philip S. Yu

We develop a structural approach to simultaneous embeddability in temporal sequences of graphs, inspired by graph minor theory. Our main result is a classification theorem for 2-connected temporal sequences: we identify five obstruction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Johannes Carmesin , Will J. Turner

We solve the subgraph isomorphism problem in planar graphs in linear time, for any pattern of constant size. Our results are based on a technique of partitioning the planar graph into pieces of small tree-width, and applying dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Eppstein

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph, and $s,t$ vertices of $G$. We present an efficient algorithm which enumerates the set of minimal $st$-separators of $G$ in ascending order of cardinality, with a delay of $O(n^{3.5})$ per separator. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Batya Kenig

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

For a connected graph, a vertex separator is a set of vertices whose removal creates at least two components. A vertex separator $S$ is minimal if it contains no other separator as a strict subset and a minimum vertex separator is a minimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Vandhana. C , S. Hima Bindhu , P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan , B. Supraja

We present the first results on the complexity of the reconfiguration of vertex separators under the three most popular rules: token addition/removal, token jumping, and token sliding. We show that, aside from some trivially negative…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Sérgio H. Nogueira , Vinicius F. dos Santos

The Vertex Separator Problem (VSP) on a graph is the problem of finding the smallest collection of vertices whose removal separates the graph into two disjoint subsets of roughly equal size. Recently, Hager and Hungerford [1] developed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-26 William Hager , James Hungerford , Ilya Safro

Temporal graphs are commonly used to represent time-resolved relations between entities in many natural and artificial systems. Many techniques were devised to investigate the evolution of temporal graphs by comparing their state at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a threshold function $t~ :~ V \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ and an integer $k$, we study the Harmless Set problem, where the goal is to find a subset of vertices $S \subseteq V$ of size at least $k$ such that every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Ajinkya Gaikwad , Soumen Maity

We present two new combinatorial tools for the design of parameterized algorithms. The first is a simple linear time randomized algorithm that given as input a $d$-degenerate graph $G$ and an integer $k$, outputs an independent set $Y$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Roohani Sharma , Meirav Zehavi