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A large number of NP-hard graph problems can be solved in $f(w)n^{O(1)}$ time and space when the input graph is provided together with a tree decomposition of width $w$, in many cases with a modest exponential dependence $f(w)$ on $w$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Stefan Kratsch

We present four novel approximation algorithms for finding triangulation of minimum treewidth. Two of the algorithms improve on the running times of algorithms by Robertson and Seymour, and Becker and Geiger that approximate the optimum by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Eyal Amir

We present a general framework of designing efficient dynamic approximate algorithms for optimization on undirected graphs. In particular, we develop a technique that, given any problem that admits a certain notion of vertex sparsifiers,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Li Chen , Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Richard Peng , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We present a new framework for creating elegant algorithms for exact uniform sampling of important Catalan structures, such as triangulations of convex polygons, Dyck words, monotonic lattice paths and mountain ranges. Along with sampling,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Alexandros Angelopoulos , Eleni Bakali

We show that the hafnian of a symmetric $2n\times 2n$ matrix of $\operatorname{poly}(n)$-bit integers (which counts the number of perfect matchings of a $2n$-vertex graph) and the number of Hamiltonian cycles of an $n$-vertex directed graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Baitian Li

An algorithm is developed for finding a close to optimal junction tree of a given graph G. The algorithm has a worst case complexity O(c^k n^a) where a and c are constants, n is the number of vertices, and k is the size of the largest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Ann Becker , Dan Geiger

We present a general technique, based on parametric search with some twist, for solving a variety of optimization problems on a set of semi-algebraic geometric objects of constant complexity. The common feature of these problems is that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Matthew J. Katz , Micha Sharir

In this work the algorithms of fast multiplication of matrices are considered. To any algorithm there associated a certain group of automorphisms. These automorphism groups are found for some well-known algorithms, including algorithms of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-06 V. P. Burichenko

A famously hard graph problem with a broad range of applications is computing the number of perfect matchings, that is the number of unique and complete pairings of the vertices of a graph. We propose a method to estimate the number of…

We introduce fast algorithms for correlation clustering with respect to the Min Max objective that provide constant factor approximations on complete graphs. Our algorithms are the first purely combinatorial approximation algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman

Understanding the singular value spectrum of a matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ is a fundamental task in countless applications. In matrix multiplication time, it is possible to perform a full SVD and directly compute the singular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Cameron Musco , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford , Shashanka Ubaru , David P. Woodruff

Biclustering, also known as co-clustering or two-way clustering, simultaneously partitions the rows and columns of a data matrix to reveal submatrices with coherent patterns. Incorporating background knowledge into clustering to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antonio M. Sudoso

Cartesian tree matching is the problem of finding all substrings in a given text which have the same Cartesian trees as that of a given pattern. In this paper, we deal with Cartesian tree matching for the case of multiple patterns. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Geonmo Gu , Siwoo Song , Simone Faro , Thierry Lecroq , Kunsoo Park

Suppose a target is hidden in one of the vertices of an edge-weighted graph according to a known probability distribution. The expanding search problem asks for a search sequence of the vertices so as to minimize the expected time for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Ben Hermans , Roel Leus , Jannik Matuschke

We develop several efficient algorithms for the classical \emph{Matrix Scaling} problem, which is used in many diverse areas, from preconditioning linear systems to approximation of the permanent. On an input $n\times n$ matrix $A$, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson

We present linear time {\it in-place} algorithms for several basic and fundamental graph problems including the well-known graph search methods (like depth-first search, breadth-first search, maximum cardinality search), connectivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

We consider the NP-hard problem of finding a spanning tree with a maximum number of internal vertices. This problem is a generalization of the famous Hamiltonian Path problem. Our dynamic-programming algorithms for general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-12 Henning Fernau , Serge Gaspers , Daniel Raible

We show that Boolean matrix multiplication, computed as a sum of products of column vectors with row vectors, is essentially the same as Warshall's algorithm for computing the transitive closure matrix of a graph from its adjacency matrix.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Michiel de Bondt

This paper presents the novel `uniqueness tree' algorithm, as one possible method for determining whether two finite, undirected graphs are isomorphic. We prove that the algorithm has polynomial time complexity in the worst case, and that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Jonathan Gorard

In this paper, we present two main results. First, by only one conjecture (Conjecture 2.9) for recognizing a vertex symmetric graph, which is the hardest task for our problem, we construct an algorithm for finding an isomorphism between two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Caishi Fang