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Given a family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$, a graph $G$, and a positive integer $k$, the $\mathcal{F}$-Deletion problem asks whether we can delete at most $k$ vertices from $G$ to obtain a graph in $\mathcal{F}$. $\mathcal{F}$-Deletion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Akanksha Agrawal , Daniel Lokshtanov , Amer E. Mouawad , Saket Saurabh

We present a new parameterized algorithm for the {feedback vertex set} problem ({\sc fvs}) on undirected graphs. We approach the problem by considering a variation of it, the {disjoint feedback vertex set} problem ({\sc disjoint-fvs}),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-04 Yixin Cao , Jianer Chen , Yang Liu

An oriented graph is a directed graph without directed 2-cycles. Poljak and Turz\'{i}k (1986) proved that every connected oriented graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ arcs contains an acyclic subgraph with at least $\frac{m}{2}+\frac{n-1}{4}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Robert Crowston , Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones

In the Feedback Vertex Set problem, one is given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and one needs to determine whether there exists a set of $k$ vertices that intersects all cycles of $G$ (a so-called feedback vertex set). Feedback…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jason Li , Jesper Nederlof

Given a graph on $n$ vertices and an integer $k$, the feedback vertex set problem asks for the deletion of at most $k$ vertices to make the graph acyclic. We show that a greedy branching algorithm, which always branches on an undecided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Yixin Cao

In directed graphs, we investigate the problems of finding: 1) a minimum feedback vertex set (also called the Feedback Vertex Set problem, or MFVS), 2) a feedback vertex set inducing an acyclic graph (also called the Vertex 2-Coloring…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Irena Rusu

For a digraph $G$, a set $F\subseteq V(G)$ is said to be a feedback vertex set (FVS) if $G-F$ is acyclic. The problem of finding a smallest FVS is NP-hard. We present a matrix scaling technique for finding feedback vertex sets in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-17 James M. Shook , Isabel Beichl

Fixed-parameter algorithms and kernelization are two powerful methods to solve $\mathsf{NP}$-hard problems. Yet, so far those algorithms have been largely restricted to static inputs. In this paper we provide fixed-parameter algorithms and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Josh Alman , Matthias Mnich , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

This work investigates the parameterized complexity of three related graph modification problems. Given a directed graph, a distinguished vertex, and a positive integer k, Minimum Indegree Deletion asks for a vertex subset of size at most k…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Robert Bredereck

At IPEC 2020, Bergougnoux, Bonnet, Brettell, and Kwon showed that a number of problems related to the classic Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) problem do not admit a $2^{o(k \log k)} \cdot n^{\mathcal{O}(1)}$-time algorithm on graphs of treewidth…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Hugo Jacob , Thomas Bellitto , Oscar Defrain , Marcin Pilipczuk

A directed odd cycle transversal of a directed graph (digraph) $D$ is a vertex set $S$ that intersects every odd directed cycle of $D$. In the Directed Odd Cycle Transversal (DOCT) problem, the input consists of a digraph $D$ and an integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Daniel Lokshtanov , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We propose a new approach to the Directed Feedback Vertex Set Problem (DFVSP), where the input is a directed graph and the solution is a minimum set of vertices whose removal makes the graph acyclic. Our approach, implemented in the solver…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Rafael Kiesel , André Schidler

In this paper, we investigate the existence of parameterized algorithms running in subexponential time for two fundamental cycle-hitting problems: Feedback Vertex Set (FVS) and Triangle Hitting (TH). We focus on the class of pseudo-disk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Gaétan Berthe , Marin Bougeret , Daniel Gonçalves , Jean-Florent Raymond

Inversion of a directed graph $D$ with respect to a vertex subset $Y$ is the directed graph obtained from $D$ by reversing the direction of every arc whose endpoints both lie in $Y$. More generally, the inversion of $D$ with respect to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dhanyamol Antony , L. Sunil Chandran , Dalu Jacob , R. B. Sandeep

We study the Directed Feedback Vertex Set problem parameterized by the treewidth of the input graph. We prove that unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis fails, the problem cannot be solved in time $2^{o(t\log t)}\cdot n^{\mathcal{O}(1)}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Marthe Bonamy , Łukasz Kowalik , Jesper Nederlof , Michał Pilipczuk , Arkadiusz Socała , Marcin Wrochna

We study the minimum \emph{interval deletion} problem, which asks for the removal of a set of at most $k$ vertices to make a graph of $n$ vertices into an interval graph. We present a parameterized algorithm of runtime $10^k \cdot n^{O(1)}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Yixin Cao , Dániel Marx

A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jiangdong Ai , Gregory Gutin , Xiangzhou Liu , Anders Yeo , Yacong Zhou

Given an undirected graph $G$, a collection $\{(s_1,t_1),..., (s_k,t_k)\}$ of pairs of vertices, and an integer $p$, the Edge Multicut problem ask if there is a set $S$ of at most $p$ edges such that the removal of $S$ disconnects every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dániel Marx , Igor Razgon

We study the parameterized complexity of two classic problems on directed graphs: Hamiltonian Cycle and its generalization {\sc Longest Cycle}. Since 2008, it is known that Hamiltonian Cycle is W[1]-hard when parameterized by directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ashwin Jacob , Michał Włodarczyk , Meirav Zehavi

We complement the recent algorithmic result that Feedback Vertex Set is XP-time solvable parameterized by the mim-width of a given branch decomposition of the input graph [3] by showing that the problem is W[1]-hard in this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Jan Arne Telle