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We consider the problem of deterministically enumerating all minimum $k$-cut-sets in a given hypergraph for any fixed $k$. The input here is a hypergraph $G = (V, E)$ with non-negative hyperedge costs. A subset $F$ of hyperedges is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Calvin Beideman , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Weihang Wang

Given a directed graph, we show how to efficiently find a shortest (directed, simple) cycle on an even number of vertices. As far as we know, no polynomial-time algorithm was previously known for this problem. In fact, finding any even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Andreas Björklund , Thore Husfeldt , Petteri Kaski

Finding a simple path of even length between two designated vertices in a directed graph is a fundamental NP-complete problem known as the EvenPath problem. Nedev proved in 1999, that for directed planar graphs, the problem can be solved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Archit Chauhan , Samir Datta , Chetan Gupta , Vimal Raj Sharma

In this paper, we provide a novel enumeration algorithm for the set of all walks of a given length within a directed graph. Our algorithm has worst-case constant delay between outputting succinct representations of such walks, after a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Duncan Adamson , Pawel Gawrychowski , Florin Manea

Evaluation of regular path queries (RPQs) is a central problem in graph databases. We investigate the corresponding enumeration problem, that is, given a graph and an RPQ, enumerate all paths in the graph that match the RPQ. We consider…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Wim Martens , Tina Trautner

Let $G$ be an undirected graph, and $s,t$ distinguished vertices of $G$. A minimal $s,t$-separator is an inclusion-wise minimal vertex-set whose removal places $s$ and $t$ in distinct connected components. We present an algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Batya Kenig

Subgraph enumeration problems ask to output all subgraphs of an input graph that belongs to the specified graph class or satisfy the given constraint. These problems have been widely studied in theoretical computer science. As far, many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Kunihiro Wasa , Takeaki Uno

Let $G$ be a graph and $a,b$ vertices of $G$. A minimal $a,b$-separator of $G$ is an inclusion-wise minimal vertex set of $G$ that separates $a$ and $b$. We consider the problem of enumerating the minimal $a,b$-separators of $G$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Tuukka Korhonen

Enumerating minimal transversals in a hypergraph is a notoriously hard problem. It can be reduced to enumerating minimal dominating sets in a graph, in fact even to enumerating minimal dominating sets in an incomparability graph. We provide…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Marthe Bonamy , Oscar Defrain , Piotr Micek , Lhouari Nourine

We initiate the study of a fundamental combinatorial problem: Given a capacitated graph $G=(V,E)$, find a shortest walk ("route") from a source $s\in V$ to a destination $t\in V$ that includes all vertices specified by a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Saeed Akhoondian Amiri , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Stefan Schmid

In the last decade, algorithmic frameworks based on a structural graph parameter called mim-width have been developed to solve generally NP-hard problems. However, it is known that the frameworks cannot be applied to the Clique problem, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yota Otachi , Akira Suzuki , Yuma Tamura

Graph plays a vital role in representing entities and their relationships in a variety of fields, such as e-commerce networks, social networks and biological networks. Given two vertices s and t, one of the fundamental problems in graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Zhengmin Lai , You Peng , Shiyu Yang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang

We introduce a new bilevel version of the classic shortest path problem and completely characterize its computational complexity with respect to several problem variants. In our problem, the leader and the follower each control a subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Dorothee Henke , Lasse Wulf

We investigate a fundamental vertex-deletion problem called (Induced) Subgraph Hitting: given a graph $G$ and a set $\mathcal{F}$ of forbidden graphs, the goal is to compute a minimum-sized set $S$ of vertices of $G$ such that $G-S$ does…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zdeněk Dvořák , Daniel Lokshtanov , Fahad Panolan , Saket Saurabh , Jie Xue , Meirav Zehavi

We give the first polynomial-time algorithms on graphs of bounded maximum induced matching width (mim-width) for problems that are not locally checkable. In particular, we give $n^{\mathcal{O}(w)}$-time algorithms on graphs of mim-width at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Lars Jaffke , O-joung Kwon , Jan Arne Telle

We investigate the single source shortest distance (SSSD) and all pairs shortest distance (APSD) problems as enumeration problems (on unweighted and integer weighted graphs), meaning that the elements $(u, v, d(u, v))$ -- where $u$ and $v$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Katrin Casel , Tobias Friedrich , Stefan Neubert , Markus L. Schmid

We discuss the complexity of path enumeration and counting in weighted temporal graphs. In a weighted temporal graph, each edge has an availability time, a traversal time and some real cost. We introduce two bicriteria temporal min-cost…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Petra Mutzel , Lutz Oettershagen

The parity of the length of paths and cycles is a classical and well-studied topic in graph theory and theoretical computer science. The parity constraints can be extended to label constraints in a group-labeled graph, which is a directed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Yasushi Kawase , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yutaro Yamaguchi

Enumeration problems are often encountered as key subroutines in the exact computation of graph parameters such as chromatic number, treewidth, or treedepth. In the case of treedepth computation, the enumeration of inclusion-wise minimal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Caroline Brosse , Oscar Defrain , Kazuhiro Kurita , Vincent Limouzy , Takeaki Uno , Kunihiro Wasa

In this paper, we propose a fast method for exactly enumerating a very large number of all lower cost solutions for various combinatorial problems. Our method is based on backtracking for a given decision diagram which represents all the…

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