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The Treewidth-2 Vertex Deletion problem asks whether a set of at most $t$ vertices can be removed from a graph, such that the resulting graph has treewidth at most two. A graph has treewidth at most two if and only if it does not contain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jeroen L. G. Schols

A graph is distance-hereditary if for any pair of vertices, their distance in every connected induced subgraph containing both vertices is the same as their distance in the original graph. The Distance-Hereditary Vertex Deletion problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Eun Jung Kim , O-joung Kwon

In this work, we initiate the complexity study of Biclique Contraction and Balanced Biclique Contraction. In these problems, given as input a graph G and an integer k, the objective is to determine whether one can contract at most k edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-15 R. Krithika , V. K. Kutty Malu , Roohani Sharma , Prafullkumar Tale

Feedback Vertex Set is a classic combinatorial optimization problem that asks for a minimum set of vertices in a given graph whose deletion makes the graph acyclic. From the point of view of parameterized algorithms and fixed-parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Krzysztof Kiljan , Marcin Pilipczuk

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 pseudoforest is a graph whose connected components have at most one cycle. Let X be a pseudoforest modulator of graph G, i. e. a vertex subset of G such that G-X is a pseudoforest. We show that Vertex Cover admits a polynomial kernel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Fedor V. Fomin , Torstein J. F. Strømme

We study Steiner Forest on $H$-subgraph-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some fixed graph $H$ as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. We are motivated by a recent framework that completely characterizes the complexity of…

We study the parameterized and kernelization complexity of the s-Club Cluster Edge Deletion problem, a distance-bounded generalization of Cluster Edge Deletion. Given a graph G = (V, E) and integers k and s, the goal is to delete at most k…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ajinkya Gaikwad

We re-visit the complexity of kernelization for the $d$-Hitting Set problem. This is a classic problem in Parameterized Complexity, which encompasses several other of the most well-studied problems in this field, such as Vertex Cover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Fedor V. Fomin , Tien-Nam Le , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Stephan Thomasse , Meirav Zehavi

We study fast algorithms for computing fundamental properties of a positive semidefinite kernel matrix $K \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ corresponding to $n$ points $x_1,\ldots,x_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$. In particular, we consider estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk , Cameron Musco , Tal Wagner

Generally, a graph G, an independent set is a subset S of vertices in G such that no two vertices in S are adjacent (connected by an edge) and a vertex cover is a subset S of vertices such that each edge of G has at least one of its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-02 Kamanashis Biswas , S. A. M. Harun

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

We consider the well-studied Sparse Fourier transform problem, where one aims to quickly recover an approximately Fourier $k$-sparse vector $\widehat{x} \in \mathbb{C}^{n^d}$ from observing its time domain representation $x$. In the exact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Karl Bringmann , Michael Kapralov , Mikhail Makarov , Vasileios Nakos , Amir Yagudin , Amir Zandieh

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Diptapriyo Majumdar , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

A commonly used paradigm for representing graphs is to use a vector that contains normalized frequencies of occurrence of certain motifs or sub-graphs. This vector representation can be used in a variety of applications, such as, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Pinar Yanardag , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

A vertex-subset graph problem Q defines which subsets of the vertices of an input graph are feasible solutions. A reconfiguration variant of a vertex-subset problem asks, given two feasible solutions S and T of size k, whether it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Daniel Lokshtanov , Amer E. Mouawad , Fahad Panolan , M. S. Ramanujan , Saket Saurabh

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)}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk

We propose a principled method for kernel learning, which relies on a Fourier-analytic characterization of translation-invariant or rotation-invariant kernels. Our method produces a sequence of feature maps, iteratively refining the SVM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Brian Bullins , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

This paper focuses on kernelization algorithms for the fundamental Knapsack problem. A kernelization algorithm (or kernel) is a polynomial-time reduction from a problem onto itself, where the output size is bounded by a function of some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Klaus Heeger , Danny Hermelin , Matthias Mnich , Dvir Shabtay

Many NP-hard problems, such as Dominating Set, are FPT parameterized by clique-width. For graphs of clique-width $k$ given with a $k$-expression, Dominating Set can be solved in $4^k n^{O(1)}$ time. However, no FPT algorithm is known for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Sang-il Oum , Sigve Hortemo Sæther , Martin Vatshelle