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Sparsity has been widely recognized as crucial for efficient optimization in graph-based SLAM. Because the sparsity and structure of the SLAM graph reflect the set of incorporated measurements, many methods for sparsification have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Kristoffer M. Frey , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

Control-flow graphs (CFGs) of structured programs are well known to exhibit strong sparsity properties. Traditionally, this sparsity has been modeled using graph parameters such as treewidth and pathwidth, enabling the development of faster…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xuran Cai , Amir Goharshady , S Hitarth , Chun Kit Lam

This paper introduces a novel anti-unification algorithm for the generalization of variadic structures with binders, designed as a flexible tool for structural code comparison. By combining nominal techniques for handling variable binding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alexander Baumgartner , Temur Kutsia

For a graph class $\mathcal{C}$, the $\mathcal{C}$-Edge-Deletion problem asks for a given graph $G$ to delete the minimum number of edges from $G$ in order to obtain a graph in $\mathcal{C}$. We study the $\mathcal{C}$-Edge-Deletion problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Toshiki Saitoh , Ryo Yoshinaka , Hans L. Bodlaender

The recently introduced graph parameter tree-cut width plays a similar role with respect to immersions as the graph parameter treewidth plays with respect to minors. In this paper, we provide the first algorithmic applications of tree-cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Robert Ganian , Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Szeider

In this work, we introduce TreeWidzard, an engine for developing dynamic programming algorithms that decide graph-theoretic properties parameterized by treewidth and pathwidth. Besides providing a unified framework for algorithms deciding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveria , Sam Urmian

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 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

The constraint complexity of a graphical realization of a linear code is the maximum dimension of the local constraint codes in the realization. The treewidth of a linear code is the least constraint complexity of any of its cycle-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Navin Kashyap , Andrew Thangaraj

We investigate a relaxation of the notion of fractional treewidth-fragility, namely fractional tree-independence-number-fragility. In particular, we obtain polynomial-time approximation schemes for meta-problems such as finding a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

Many computational problems admit fast algorithms on special inputs, however, the required properties might be quite restrictive. E.g., many graph problems can be solved much faster on interval or cographs, or on graphs of small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) was the first practical means for doing real quantifier elimination (QE), and is still a major method, with many improvements since Collins' original method. Nevertheless, its complexity is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-12-08 James H. Davenport , Zak P. Tonks , Ali K. Uncu

Decompositional parameters such as treewidth are commonly used to obtain fixed-parameter algorithms for NP-hard graph problems. For problems that are W[1]-hard parameterized by treewidth, a natural alternative would be to use a suitable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Cornelius Brand , Esra Ceylan , Christian Hatschka , Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

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

Treewidth is a measure of how tree-like a graph is. It has many important algorithmic applications because many NP-hard problems on general graphs become tractable when restricted to graphs of bounded treewidth. Algorithms for problems on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Johan M. M. van Rooij

In this paper we introduce a novel quantifier elimination method for conjunctions of linear real arithmetic constraints. Our algorithm is based on the Fourier-Motzkin variable elimination procedure, but by case splitting we are able to…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jasper Nalbach , Valentin Promies , Erika Ábrahám , Paul Kobialka

Many tractable algorithms for solving the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) have been developed using the notion of the treewidth of some graph derived from the input CSP instance. In particular, the incidence graph of the CSP instance…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-19 M. Praveen

Treewidth is a parameter that measures how tree-like a relational instance is, and whether it can reasonably be decomposed into a tree. Many computation tasks are known to be tractable on databases of small treewidth, but computing the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Silviu Maniu , Pierre Senellart , Suraj Jog

The notion of treewidth plays an important role in theoretical and practical studies of graph problems. It has been recognized that, especially in practical environments, when computing the treewidth of a graph it is invaluable to first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hans L. Bodlaender , Bart M. P. Jansen , Stefan Kratsch

In this paper we propose, implement, and test the first practical decomposition algorithms for the width parameters treecut width and treedepth. These two parameters have recently gained a lot of attention in the theoretical research…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Robert Ganian , Neha Lodha , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider