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Twin-width is a graph parameter introduced in the context of first-order model checking, and has since become a central parameter in algorithmic graph theory. While many algorithmic problems become easier on arbitrary classes of bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Irene Heinrich , Moritz Lichter , Klara Pakhomenko , Simon Raßmann

We exhibit supercritical trade-off for monotone circuits, showing that there are functions computable by small circuits for which any circuit must have depth super-linear or even super-polynomial in the number of variables, far exceeding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Susanna F. de Rezende , Noah Fleming , Duri Andrea Janett , Jakob Nordström , Shuo Pang

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) algorithms form a family of incomplete approaches to the graph isomorphism problem. They recently found various applications in algorithmic group theory and machine learning. In fact, the algorithms form a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Thomas Schneider , Pascal Schweitzer

We prove that isomorphism of tournaments of twin width at most $k$ can be decided in time $k^{O(\log k)}n^{O(1)}$. This implies that the isomorphism problem for classes of tournaments of bounded or moderately growing twin width is in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen

In this paper, we show that the $(3k+4)$-dimensional Weisfeiler--Leman algorithm can identify graphs of treewidth $k$ in $O(\log n)$ rounds. This improves the result of Grohe & Verbitsky (ICALP 2006), who previously established the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Michael Levet , Puck Rombach , Nicholas Sieger

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

Our starting point is the observation that if graphs in a class C have low descriptive complexity in first order logic, then the isomorphism problem for C is solvable by a fast parallel algorithm (essentially, by a simple combinatorial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Grohe , Oleg Verbitsky

In this paper we show lower bounds for a certain large class of algorithms solving the Graph Isomorphism problem, even on expander graph instances. Spielman [25] shows an algorithm for isomorphism of strongly regular expander graphs that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Aaron Snook , Grant Schoenebeck , Paolo Codenotti

We study the expressive power of first-order logic with counting quantifiers, especially the $k$-variable and quantifier-rank-$q$ fragment, using homomorphism indistinguishability. Recently, Dawar, Jakl, and Reggio~(2021) proved that two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Isolde Adler , Eva Fluck , Tim Seppelt , Gian Luca Spitzer

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

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension is an established measure for the inherent descriptive complexity of graphs and relational structures. It corresponds to the number of variables that are needed and sufficient to define the object of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Sandra Kiefer , Daniel Neuen

Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph $G$ into node-disjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

The metric dimension of a graph is the minimum size of a set of vertices such that each vertex is uniquely determined by the distances to the vertices of that set. Our aim is to upper-bound the order $n$ of a graph in terms of its diameter…

We prove that the combinatorial Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm of dimension $(3k+4)$ is a complete isomorphism test for the class of all graphs of rank width at most $k$. Rank width is a graph invariant that, similarly to tree width, measures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Martin Grohe , Daniel Neuen

We study the expressive power of first-order logic with counting quantifiers, especially the $k$-variable and quantifier-rank-$q$ fragment $\mathsf{C}^k_q$, using homomorphism indistinguishability. Recently, Dawar, Jakl, and Reggio (2021)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Eva Fluck , Tim Seppelt , Gian Luca Spitzer

The color refinement algorithm is mainly known as a heuristic method for graph isomorphism testing. It has surprising but natural characterizations in terms of, for example, homomorphism counts from trees and solutions to a system of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Jan Böker

Treewidth is an important structural graph parameter that quantifies how closely a graph resembles a tree-like structure. It has applications in many algorithmic and combinatorial problems. In this paper, we study the treewidth of outer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rafał Pyzik

In the book Boolean Function Complexity by Stasys Jukna, two lower bound techniques for Tree-like Cutting Plane proofs (henceforth, "Tree-CP proofs") using Karchmer-Widgerson type communication games (henceforth, "KW games") are presented:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Daniel Apon

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

The $k$-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman ($k$-WL) algorithm is a simple combinatorial algorithm that was originally designed as a graph isomorphism heuristic. It naturally finds applications in Babai's quasipolynomial time isomorphism…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Martin Grohe , Moritz Lichter , Daniel Neuen , Pascal Schweitzer
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