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The class of graph deletion problems has been extensively studied in theoretical computer science, particularly in the field of parameterized complexity. Recently, a new notion of graph deletion problems was introduced, called deletion to…

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As neural networks (NNs) are increasingly introduced into safety-critical domains, there is a growing need to formally verify NNs before deployment. In this work we focus on the formal verification problem of NN equivalence which aims to…

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We show that for a number of parameterized problems for which only $2^{O(k)} n^{O(1)}$ time algorithms are known on general graphs, subexponential parameterized algorithms with running time $2^{O(k^{1-\frac{1}{1+\delta}} \log^2 k)}…

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The pathwidth of a graph is a measure of how path-like the graph is. Given a graph G and an integer k, the problem of finding whether there exist at most k vertices in G whose deletion results in a graph of pathwidth at most one is NP-…

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We prove that, for many parameterized problems in the class FPT, the existence of polynomial kernels implies the collapse of the W-hierarchy (i.e., W[P] = FPT). The collapsing results are also extended to assumed exponential kernels for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Liang Ding , Abdul Samad , Xingran Xue , Xiuzhen Huang , Liming Cai

The Connected Vertex Cover problem, where the goal is to compute a minimum set of vertices in a given graph which forms a vertex cover and induces a connected subgraph, is a fundamental combinatorial problem and has received extensive…

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We present a new algorithm for enumerating bubbles with length constraints in directed graphs. This problem arises in transcriptomics, where the question is to identify all alternative splicing events present in a sample of mRNAs sequenced…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-02 Gustavo Sacomoto , Vincent Lacroix , Marie-France Sagot

Rank aggregation seeks a representative permutation for a collection of rankings and plays a central role in areas such as social choice, information retrieval, and computational biology. Two fundamental aggregation tasks are the center and…

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Enumerating the minimal hitting sets of a hypergraph is a problem which arises in many data management applications that include constraint mining, discovering unique column combinations, and enumerating database repairs. Previously, Eiter…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Batya Kenig , Dan Shlomo Mizrahi

Finding paths in graphs is a fundamental graph-theoretic task. In this work, we we are concerned with finding a path with some constraints on its length and the number of vertices neighboring the path, that is, being outside of and incident…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Max-Jonathan Luckow , Till Fluschnik

In the Selective Coloring problem, we are given an integer $k$, a graph $G$, and a partition of $V(G)$ into $p$ parts, and the goal is to decide whether or not we can pick exactly one vertex of each part and obtain a $k$-colorable induced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Guilherme C. M. Gomes , Vinicius F. dos Santos

A permutation graph can be defined as an intersection graph of segments whose endpoints lie on two parallel lines $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$, one on each. A bipartite permutation graph is a permutation graph which is bipartite. In the the…

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This paper studies the problem of enumerating all maximal collinear subsets of size at least three in a given set of $n$ points. An algorithm for this problem, besides solving degeneracy testing and the exact fitting problem, can also help…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ali Gholami Rudi , Raimi Ayinde Rufai

Understanding spatial correlation is vital in many fields including epidemiology and social science. Lee, Meeks and Pettersson (Stat. Comput. 2021) recently demonstrated that improved inference for areal unit count data can be achieved by…

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The {\sc $k$-Leaf Out-Branching} problem is to find an out-branching (i.e. a rooted oriented spanning tree) with at least $k$ leaves in a given digraph. The problem has recently received much attention from the viewpoint of parameterized…

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In the Proper Interval Vertex Deletion problem (PIVD for short), we are given a graph $G$ and an integer parameter $k>0$, and the question is whether there are at most $k$ vertices in $G$ whose removal results in a proper interval graph. It…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Wenjun Li , Yongjie Yang , Jianer Chen , Jianxin Wang

First, we close the multivariate analysis of a canonical problem concerning short reset words (SYN), as it was started by Fernau et al. (2013). Namely, we prove that the problem, parameterized by the number of states, does not admit a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Vojtěch Vorel , Adam Roman

The theoretical notions of graph classes with bounded expansion and that are nowhere dense are meant to capture structural sparsity of real world networks that can be used to design efficient algorithms. In the area of sparse graphs, the…

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Graph Burning asks, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists $(b_{0},\dots,b_{k-1}) \in V^{k}$ such that every vertex in $G$ has distance at most $i$ from some $b_{i}$. This problem is known to be NP-complete even…

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For a finite collection of connected graphs $\mathcal{F}$, the $\mathcal{F}$-MINOR-DELETION problem consists in, given a graph $G$ and an integer $\ell$, deciding whether $G$ contains a vertex set of size at most $\ell$ whose removal…

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