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When modeling an application of practical relevance as an instance of a combinatorial problem X, we are often interested not merely in finding one optimal solution for that instance, but in finding a sufficiently diverse collection of good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Julien Baste , Michael R. Fellows , Lars Jaffke , Tomáš Masařík , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Geevarghese Philip , Frances A. Rosamond

We study the computational problem of checking whether a quantified conjunctive query (a first-order sentence built using only conjunction as Boolean connective) is true in a finite poset (a reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive directed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Simone Bova , Robert Ganian , Stefan Szeider

Given a query graph that represents a pattern of interest, the emerging pattern detection problem can be viewed as a continuous query problem on a dynamic graph. We present an incremental algorithm for continuous query processing on dynamic…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Sutanay Choudhury , Lawrence Holder , George Chin , Patrick Mackey , Khushbu Agarwal , John Feo

When using graphs and graph transformations to model systems, consistency is an important concern. While consistency has primarily been viewed as a binary property, i.e., a graph is consistent or inconsistent with respect to a set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lars Fritsche , Alexander Lauer , Maximilian Kratz , Andy Schürr , Gabriele Taentzer

We propose a Reinforcement Learning based approach to approximately solve the Tree Decomposition (TD) problem. TD is a combinatorial problem, which is central to the analysis of graph minor structure and computational complexity, as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Taras Khakhulin , Roman Schutski , Ivan Oseledets

This paper settles the computational complexity of model checking of several extensions of the monadic second order (MSO) logic on two classes of graphs: graphs of bounded treewidth and graphs of bounded neighborhood diversity. A classical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Tomáš Masařík , Tomáš Toufar

Many problems, especially those with a composite structure, can naturally be expressed in higher order logic. From a KR perspective modeling these problems in an intuitive way is a challenging task. In this paper we study the graph mining…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Matthias van der Hallen , Sergey Paramonov , Michael Leuschel , Gerda Janssens

We consider the parameterised complexity of several list problems on graphs, with parameter treewidth or pathwidth. In particular, we show that List Edge Chromatic Number and List Total Chromatic Number are fixed parameter tractable,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Kitty Meeks , Alexander Scott

Counting the solution number of combinational optimization problems is an important topic in the study of computational complexity, especially on the #P-complete complexity class. In this paper, we first investigate some organizations of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Wei Wei , Renquan Zhang , Baolong Niu , Binghui Guo , Zhiming Zheng

Visual Question answering is a challenging problem requiring a combination of concepts from Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. Most existing approaches use a two streams strategy, computing image and question features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Will Norcliffe-Brown , Efstathios Vafeias , Sarah Parisot

In this paper, we consider the problem of counting and sampling structures in graphs. We define a class of "edge universal labeling problems"---which include proper $k$-colorings, independent sets, and downsets---and describe simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

We combine integer linear programming and recent advances in Monadic Second-Order model checking to obtain two new algorithmic meta-theorems for graphs of bounded vertex-cover. The first shows that cardMSO1, an extension of the well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Robert Ganian , Jan Obdržálek

Recent video question answering benchmarks indicate that state-of-the-art models struggle to answer compositional questions. However, it remains unclear which types of compositional reasoning cause models to mispredict. Furthermore, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mona Gandhi , Mustafa Omer Gul , Eva Prakash , Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Ranjay Krishna , Maneesh Agrawala

The basic (and traditional) crossing number problem is to determine the minimum number of crossings in a topological drawing of an input graph in the plane. We develop a unified framework yielding fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Éric Colin de Verdière , Petr Hliněný

We study the tractability of conjunctive query answering for queries with unbounded arity. It is well known that tractability of the problem can be characterised in terms of the queries treewidth under the assumption of bounded arity. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Matthias Lanzinger

{\em Algorithms with predictions} incorporate machine learning predictions into algorithm design. A plethora of recent works incorporated predictions to improve on worst-case optimal bounds for online problems. In this paper, we initiate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Monika Henzinger , Barna Saha , Martin P. Seybold , Christopher Ye

Bounded treewidth and Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic have proved to be key concepts in establishing fixed-parameter tractability results. Indeed, by Courcelle's Theorem we know: Any property of finite structures, which is expressible by…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-09-19 Georg Gottlob , Reinhard Pichler , Fang Wei

We introduce graphcodes, a novel multi-scale summary of the topological properties of a dataset that is based on the well-established theory of persistent homology. Graphcodes handle datasets that are filtered along two real-valued scale…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Michael Kerber , Florian Russold

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for all non-negative weighted counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This caps a long series of important results on counting problems including unweighted and weighted graph homomorphisms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

Sofic shifts are symbolic dynamical systems defined by the set of bi-infinite sequences on an edge-labeled directed graph, called a presentation. We study the computational complexity of an array of natural decision problems about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Justin Cai , Rafael Frongillo