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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 study the linearizability monitoring problem, which asks whether a given concurrent history of a data structure is equivalent to some sequential execution of the same data structure. In general, this problem is $\textsf{NP}$-hard, even…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lee Zheng Han , Umang Mathur

For a finite collection of graphs ${\cal F}$, the \textsc{${\cal F}$-TM-Deletion} problem has as input an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and an integer $k$ and asks whether there exists a set $S \subseteq V(G)$ with $|S| \leq k$ such that $G…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Petr A. Golovach , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We identify and study relevant structural parameters for the problem PerfMatch of counting perfect matchings in a given input graph $G$. These generalize the well-known tractable planar case, and they include the genus of $G$, its apex…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Radu Curticapean , Mingji Xia

Fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms run in time f(p(x)) poly(|x|), where f is an arbitrary function of some parameter p of the input x and poly is some polynomial function. Treewidth, branchwidth, cliquewidth, NLC-width, rankwidth,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jakub Marecek

A mixed dominating set for a graph $G = (V,E)$ is a set $S\subseteq V \cup E$ such that every element $x \in (V \cup E) \backslash S$ is either adjacent or incident to an element of $S$. The mixed domination number of a graph $G$, denoted…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 M. Rajaati , M. R. Hooshmandasl , M. J. Dinneen , A. Shakiba

For a graph class ${\cal H}$, the graph parameters elimination distance to ${\cal H}$ (denoted by ${\bf ed}_{\cal H}$) [Bulian and Dawar, Algorithmica, 2016], and ${\cal H}$-treewidth (denoted by ${\bf tw}_{\cal H}$) [Eiben et al. JCSS,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Akanksha Agrawal , Lawqueen Kanesh , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

A graph $G$ is called a \emph{block graph} if each maximal $2$-connected component of $G$ is a clique. In this paper we study the Block Graph Vertex Deletion from the perspective of fixed parameter tractable (FPT) and kernelization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Akanksha Agrawal , Sudeshna Kolay , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

Identifying controlled direct effects (CDEs) is crucial across numerous scientific domains. While existing methods can identify these effects from causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), the true DAG is often unknown in practice. Essential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Timothée Loranchet , Charles K. Assaad

We develop an FPT algorithm and a bi-kernel for the Weighted Edge Clique Partition (WECP) problem, where a graph with $n$ vertices and integer edge weights is given together with an integer $k$, and the aim is to find $k$ cliques, such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Andreas Emil Feldmann , Davis Issac , Ashutosh Rai

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable (\FPT) $\rho$-approximation algorithm for a minimization (resp. maximization) parameterized problem $P$ is an FPT algorithm that, given an instance $(x, k)\in P$ computes a solution of cost at most $k \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz

We consider two core algorithmic problems for probabilistic verification: the maximal end-component decomposition and the almost-sure reachability set computation for Markov decision processes (MDPs). For MDPs with treewidth $k$, we present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Jakub Łącki

It is known that problems like Vertex Cover, Feedback Vertex Set and Odd Cycle Transversal are polynomial time solvable in the class of chordal graphs. We consider these problems in a graph that has at most $k$ vertices whose deletion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Ashwin Jacob , Fahad Panolan , Venkatesh Raman , Vibha Sahlot

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

Let ${\cal G}$ be a minor-closed graph class and let $G$ be an $n$-vertex graph. We say that $G$ is a $k$-apex of ${\cal G}$ if $G$ contains a set $S$ of at most $k$ vertices such that $G\setminus S$ belongs to ${\cal G}$. Our first result…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Laure Morelle , Ignasi Sau , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The Planar Steiner Tree problem is one of the most fundamental NP-complete problems as it models many network design problems. Recall that an instance of this problem consists of a graph with edge weights, and a subset of vertices (often…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Jesper Nederlof , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Counting and uniform sampling of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) from a Markov equivalence class are fundamental tasks in graphical causal analysis. In this paper, we show that these tasks can be performed in polynomial time, solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Marcel Wienöbst , Max Bannach , Maciej Liśkiewicz

Research of cycles through specific vertices is a central topic in graph theory. In this context, we focus on a well-studied computational problem, \textsc{$T$-Cycle}: given an undirected $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a set of $k$ vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Harmender Gahlawat , Abhishek Rathod , Meirav Zehavi

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

Given a graph $G$, let $vc(G)$ and $vc^+(G)$ be the sizes of a minimum and a maximum minimal vertex covers of $G$, respectively. We say that $G$ is well covered if $vc(G)=vc^+(G)$ (that is, all minimal vertex covers have the same size).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rafael Araujo , Eurinardo Costa , Sulamita Klein , Rudini Sampaio , Ueverton S. Souza