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Twin-width is a structural width parameter introduced by Bonnet, Kim, Thomass\'e and Watrigant [FOCS 2020]. Very briefly, its essence is a gradual reduction (a contraction sequence) of the given graph down to a single vertex while…

We consider problems of finding a maximum size/weight $t$-matching without forbidden subgraphs in an undirected graph $G$ with the maximum degree bounded by $t+1$, where $t$ is an integer greater than $2$. Depending on the variant forbidden…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Katarzyna Paluch , Mateusz Wasylkiewicz

The {\sc Directed Maximum Leaf Out-Branching} problem is to find an out-branching (i.e. a rooted oriented spanning tree) in a given digraph with the maximum number of leaves. In this paper, we improve known parameterized algorithms and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-10 Noga Alon , Fedor V. Fomin , Gregory Gutin , Michael Krivelevich , Saket Saurabh

Reduced parameters [BKW, JCTB '26; BKRT, SODA '22] are defined via contraction sequences. Based on this framework, we introduce the reduced component max-leaf, denoted by $\operatorname{cml}^\downarrow$, where component max-leaf is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Édouard Bonnet , Yeonsu Chang , Julien Duron , Colin Geniet , O-joung Kwon

We prove, that every connected graph with $s$ vertices of degree 3 and $t$ vertices of degree at least~4 has a spanning tree with at least ${2\over 5}t +{1\over 5}s+\alpha$ leaves, where $\alpha \ge {8\over 5}$. Moreover, $\alpha \ge 2$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-29 D. V. Karpov

We recently introduced the graph invariant twin-width, and showed that first-order model checking can be solved in time $f(d,k)n$ for $n$-vertex graphs given with a witness that the twin-width is at most $d$, called $d$-contraction sequence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Édouard Bonnet , Colin Geniet , Eun Jung Kim , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

In this paper, we study some spanning trees with bounded degree and leaf degree from eigenvalues. For any integer $k\geq2$, a $k$-tree is a spanning tree in which every vertex has degree no more than $k$. Let $T$ be a spanning tree of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Chang Liu , Jianping Li

The Maximum (Minimum) Leaf Spanning Tree problem asks for a spanning tree with the largest (smallest) number of leaves. As spanning trees are often computed using graph search algorithms, it is natural to restrict this problem to the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jesse Beisegel , Ekkehard Köhler , Robert Scheffler , Martin Strehler

We study a question that lies at the intersection of classical research subjects in Topological Graph Theory and Graph Drawing: Computing a drawing of a graph with a prescribed number of crossings on a given set $S$ of points, while…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Giuseppe Di Battista , Giuseppe Liotta , Maurizio Patrignani , Antonios Symvonis , Ioannis G. Tollis

In this paper, we present a Branch and Bound algorithm called QuickBB for computing the treewidth of an undirected graph. This algorithm performs a search in the space of perfect elimination ordering of vertices of the graph. The algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Vibhav Gogate , Rina Dechter

There are many classical problems in P whose time complexities have not been improved over the past decades. Recent studies of "Hardness in P" have revealed that, for several of such problems, the current fastest algorithm is the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Yoichi Iwata , Tomoaki Ogasawara , Naoto Ohsaka

Many recent works address the question of characterizing induced obstructions to bounded treewidth. In 2022, Lozin and Razgon completely answered this question for graph classes defined by finitely many forbidden induced subgraphs. Their…

Given a vertex-weighted tree T, the split of an edge xy in T is min{s_x(xy), s_y(xy)} where s_u(uv) is the sum of all weights of vertices that are closer to u than to v in T. Given a set of weighted vertices V and a multiset of splits S, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-09 Serge Gaspers , Mathieu Liedloff , Maya Stein , Karol Suchan

Simplifying graphs is a very applicable problem in numerous domains, especially in computational geometry. Given a geometric graph and a threshold, the minimum-complexity graph simplification asks for computing an alternative graph of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Omrit Filtser , Majid Mirzanezhad , Carola Wenk

The notion of $\mathcal{H}$-treewidth, where $\mathcal{H}$ is a hereditary graph class, was recently introduced as a generalization of the treewidth of an undirected graph. Roughly speaking, a graph of $\mathcal{H}$-treewidth at most $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michal Wlodarczyk

We study \emph{local computation algorithms (LCAs)} for constructing spanning trees. In this setting, the goal is to locally determine, for each edge $ e \in E $, whether it belongs to a spanning tree $ T $ of the input graph $ G $, where $…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pan Peng , Yuyang Wang

We combine two methods for the lossless compression of unlabeled graphs - entropy compressing adjacency lists and computing canonical names for vertices - and solve an ensuing novel optimisation problem: Minimum-Entropy Tree-Extraction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ziad Ismaili Alaoui , Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Namrata , Sebastian Wild

A \emph{$t$-treewidth-modulator} of a graph $G$ is a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ such that the treewidth of $G-X$ is at most some constant $t-1$. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to compute a decomposition scheme for graphs $G$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Eun Jung Kim , Alexander Langer , Christophe Paul , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Ignasi Sau , Somnath Sikdar

We identify a sufficient condition, treewidth-pliability, that gives a polynomial-time algorithm for an arbitrarily good approximation of the optimal value in a large class of Max-2-CSPs parameterised by the class of allowed constraint…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Miguel Romero , Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

For a given graph $G=(V,\, E)$ with a terminal set $S$ and a selected root $r\in S$, a positive integer cost and a delay on every edge and a delay constraint $D\in Z^{+}$, the shallow-light Steiner tree (\emph{SLST}) problem is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao