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The Belief Propagation approximation, or cavity method, has been recently applied to several combinatorial optimization problems in its zero-temperature implementation, the max-sum algorithm. In particular, recent developments to solve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Alfredo Braunstein , Anna Paola Muntoni

We introduce and study the complexity of Path Packing. Given a graph $G$ and a list of paths, the task is to embed the paths edge-disjoint in $G$. This generalizes the well known Hamiltonian-Path problem. Since Hamiltonian Path is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jan Dreier , Janosch Fuchs , Tim A. Hartmann , Philipp Kuinke , Peter Rossmanith , Bjoern Tauer , Hung-Lung Wang

We introduce and study a novel problem of computing a shortest path tree with a minimum number of non-terminals. It can be viewed as an (unweighted) Steiner Shortest Path Tree (SSPT) that spans a given set of terminal vertices by shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Omer Asher , Yefim Dinitz , Shlomi Dolev , Li-on Raviv , Baruch Schieber

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…

In the Steiner Tree problem we are given an undirected edge-weighted graph as input, along with a set $K$ of vertices called terminals. The task is to output a minimum-weight connected subgraph that spans all the terminals. The famous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Bart M. P. Jansen , Céline M. F. Swennenhuis

We consider the Shallow-Light Steiner Network problem from a fixed-parameter perspective. Given a graph $G$, a distance bound $L$, and $p$ pairs of vertices $(s_1,t_1),\cdots,(s_p,t_p)$, the objective is to find a minimum-cost subgraph $G'$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Amy Babay , Michael Dinitz , Zeyu Zhang

We study the parameterized complexity of the classical Edge Hamiltonian Path problem and give several fixed-parameter tractability results. First, we settle an open question of Demaine et al. by showing that Edge Hamiltonian Path is FPT…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Michael Lampis , Kazuhisa Makino , Valia Mitsou , Yushi Uno

We study the parameterized complexity of the graph isomorphism problem when parameterized by width parameters related to tree decompositions. We apply the following technique to obtain fixed-parameter tractability for such parameters. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Yota Otachi , Pascal Schweitzer

In the Telephone Broadcast problem we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ with a designated source vertex $s\in V$. Our goal is to transmit a message, which is initially known only to $s$, to all vertices of the graph by using a process where in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yudai Egami , Tatsuya Gima , Tesshu Hanaka , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou , Edouard Nemery , Yota Otachi , Manolis Vasilakis , Daniel Vaz

We show that the Minimal Length-Bounded L-But problem can be computed in linear time with respect to L and the tree-width of the input graph as parameters. In this problem the task is to find a set of edges of a graph such that after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Dušan Knop , Pavel Dvořák

A stable or locally-optimal cut of a graph is a cut whose weight cannot be increased by changing the side of a single vertex. In this paper we study Minimum Stable Cut, the problem of finding a stable cut of minimum weight. Since this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Michael Lampis

We investigate the parameterized complexity of the Isometric Path Partition problem when parameterized by the treewidth ($\mathrm{tw}$) of the input graph, arguably one of the most widely studied parameters. Courcelle's theorem shows that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Oscar Defrain , Florent Foucaud , Mathieu Mari , Prafullkumar Tale

Many hard graph problems, such as Hamiltonian Cycle, become FPT when parameterized by treewidth, a parameter that is bounded only on sparse graphs. When parameterized by the more general parameter clique-width, Hamiltonian Cycle becomes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Sigve Hortemo Sæther

The prize-collecting Steiner tree problem PCSTP is a well-known generalization of the classical Steiner tree problem in graphs, with a large number of practical applications. It attracted particular interest during the latest (11th) DIMACS…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Daniel Rehfeldt , Thorsten Koch

We present the first fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms for exact computation of generalized hypertree width (ghw) and fractional hypertree width (fhw). Our algorithms are parameterized by the target width, the rank, and the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Matthias Lanzinger , Igor Razgon , Daniel Unterberger

Structural parameters of graphs, such as treewidth, play a central role in the study of the parameterized complexity of graph problems. Motivated by the study of parametrized algorithms on phylogenetic networks, scanwidth was introduced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jannik Schestag , Norbert Zeh

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 Angular Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem ($\alpha$-MSTP) is defined in terms of a complete undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and an angle $\alpha \in (0,2\pi]$. Vertices of $G$ define points in the Euclidean plane while edges, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Alexandre Salles da Cunha

We consider the \textsc{Steiner Orientation} problem, where we are given as input a mixed graph $G=(V,E,A)$ and a set of $k$ demand pairs $(s_i,t_i)$, $i\in[k]$. The goal is to orient the undirected edges of $G$ in a way that the resulting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Tesshu Hanaka , Michael Lampis , Nikolaos Melissinos , Edouard Nemery , Hirotaka Ono , Manolis Vasilakis

We present a brief structural equivalence between the symmetric TSP and a constrained Group Steiner Tree Problem (cGSTP) defined on a simplicial incidence graph. Given the complete weighted graph on the city set V, we form the bipartite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yılmaz Arslanoğlu