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Subexponential parameterized algorithms are known for a wide range of natural problems on planar graphs, but the techniques are usually highly problem specific. The goal of this paper is to introduce a framework for obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dániel Marx , Pranabendu Misra , Daniel Neuen , Prafullkumar Tale

The Directed Feedback Vertex Set (DFVS) problem takes as input a directed graph~$G$ and seeks a smallest vertex set~$S$ that hits all cycles in $G$. This is one of Karp's 21 $\mathsf{NP}$-complete problems. Resolving the parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Alexander Göke , Dániel Marx , Matthias Mnich

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

In the Directed Feedback Vertex Set (DFVS) problem, the input is a directed graph $D$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and an integer $k$. The objective is to determine whether there exists a set of at most $k$ vertices intersecting every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Daniel Lokshtanov , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

A mixed graph is a graph with both directed and undirected edges. We present an algorithm for deciding whether a given mixed graph on $n$ vertices contains a feedback vertex set (FVS) of size at most $k$, in time $2^{O(k)}k! O(n^4)$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Paul Bonsma , Daniel Lokshtanov

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 $G$ and an integer $k$, Max Min FVS asks whether there exists a minimal set of vertices of size at least $k$ whose deletion destroys all cycles. We present several results that improve upon the state of the art of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Michael Lampis , Nikolaos Melissinos , Manolis Vasilakis

We consider the feedback vertex set problem in undirected graphs (FVS). The input to FVS is an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with non-negative vertex costs. The goal is to find a minimum cost subset of vertices $S \subseteq V$ such that $G-S$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Chandra Chekuri , Samuel Fiorini , Shubhang Kulkarni , Stefan Weltge

The starting point of our work is a decade-old open question concerning the subexponential parameterized complexity of \textsc{2-Layer Crossing Minimization}. In this problem, the input is an $n$-vertex graph $G$ whose vertices are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In the Feedback Vertex Set problem, we aim to find a small set $S$ of vertices in a graph intersecting every cycle. The Subset Feedback Vertex Set problem requires $S$ to intersect only those cycles that include a vertex of some specified…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Giacomo Paesani , Daniël Paulusma , Paweł Rzążewski

A typical example that behaves computationally different in subclasses of chordal graphs is the \textsc{Subset Feedback Vertex Set} (SFVS) problem: given a vertex-weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set $S\subseteq V$, the \textsc{Subset…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Charis Papadopoulos , Spyridon Tzimas

We study the Steiner Tree problem on the intersection graph of most natural families of geometric objects, e.g., disks, squares, polygons, etc. Given a set of $n$ objects in the plane and a subset $T$ of $t$ terminal objects, the task is to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sujoy Bhore , Baris Can Esmer , Daniel Marx , Karol Wegrzycki

The Directed Feedback Vertex Set problem (DFVS) asks whether it is possible to remove at most $k$ vertices from a directed graph to make it acyclic. Whether DFVS is fixed-parameter tractable was a long-standing open problem in parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ziliang Xiong , Mingyu Xiao

We consider the problem of enumerating all minimal transversals (also called minimal hitting sets) of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$. An equivalent formulation of this problem known as the \emph{transversal hypergraph} problem (or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Arnaud Mary

It has long been known that Feedback Vertex Set can be solved in time $2^{\mathcal{O}(w\log w)}n^{\mathcal{O}(1)}$ on $n$-vertex graphs of treewidth $w$, but it was only recently that this running time was improved to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Édouard Bonnet , Nick Brettell , O-joung Kwon , Dániel Marx

A feedback vertex set (FVS) in a digraph is a subset of vertices whose removal makes the digraph acyclic. In other words, it hits all cycles in the digraph. Lokshtanov et al. [TALG '21] gave a factor 2 randomized approximation algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Sushmita Gupta , Sounak Modak , Saket Saurabh , Sanjay Seetharaman

In this paper we consider Simultaneous Feedback Edge Set (Sim-FES) problem. In this problem, the input is an $n$-vertex graph $G$, an integer $k$ and a coloring function ${\sf col}: E(G) \rightarrow 2^{[\alpha]}$ and the objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Akanksha Agrawal , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

The classical, linear-time solvable Feedback Edge Set problem is concerned with finding a minimum number of edges intersecting all cycles in a (static, unweighted) graph. We provide a first study of this problem in the setting of temporal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Roman Haag , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

We study the computational complexity of two well-known graph transversal problems, namely Subset Feedback Vertex Set and Subset Odd Cycle Transversal, by restricting the input to $H$-free graphs, that is, to graphs that do not contain some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Nick Brettell , Matthew Johnson , Giacomo Paesani , Daniël Paulusma

This paper will analyze several quadratic-time solvable problems, and will classify them into two classes: problems that are solvable in truly subquadratic time (that is, in time $O(n^{2-\epsilon})$ for some $\epsilon>0$) and problems that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Michele Borassi , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Michel Habib