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In this paper we show how to combine two algorithmic techniques to obtain linear time algorithms for various optimization problems on graphs, and present a subroutine which will be useful in doing so. The first technique is iterative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Zhentao Li , Bruce Reed

We study sublinear algorithms for two fundamental graph problems, MAXCUT and correlation clustering. Our focus is on constructing core-sets as well as developing streaming algorithms for these problems. Constant space algorithms are known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Aditya Bhaskara , Samira Daruki , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Over the past decade, we witness an increasing amount of interest in the design of exact exponential-time and parameterized algorithms for problems in Graph Drawing. Unfortunately, we still lack knowledge of general methods to develop such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siddharth Gupta , Guy Sa'ar , Meirav Zehavi

A dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that answers queries about a property of the current graph while supporting graph modifications such as edge insertions and deletions. Prior work has shown strong conditional lower bounds for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Monika Henzinger , Ami Paz , A. R. Sricharan

We provide linear-time algorithms for geometric graphs with sublinearly many crossings. That is, we provide algorithms running in O(n) time on connected geometric graphs having n vertices and k crossings, where k is smaller than n by an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-12-16 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Darren Strash

We consider three variants of the problem of finding a maximum weight restricted $2$-matching in a subcubic graph $G$. (A $2$-matching is any subset of the edges such that each vertex is incident to at most two of its edges.) Depending on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Katarzyna Paluch , Mateusz Wasylkiewicz

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a set $T$ of vertex pairs, and an integer $k$, Hitting Geodesic Intervals asks whether there is a set $S \subseteq V$ of size at most $k$ such that for each terminal pair $\{u,v\} \in T$, the set $S$ intersects at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tatsuya Gima , Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi , Hayato Takaike

We study the complexity of graph problems on graphs defined on groups, especially power graphs. We observe that an isomorphism invariant problem, such as Hamiltonian Path, Partition into Cliques, Feedback Vertex Set, Subgraph Isomorphism,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Bireswar Das , Dipan Dey , Jinia Ghosh

Consider an Erd\"os-Renyi random graph in which each edge is present independently with probability 1/2, except for a subset $\sC_N$ of the vertices that form a clique (a completely connected subgraph). We consider the problem of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

In this paper we study a natural generalization of both {\sc $k$-Path} and {\sc $k$-Tree} problems, namely, the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem. In the {\sc Subgraph Isomorphism} problem we are given two graphs $F$ and $G$ on $k$ and $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Venkatesh Raman , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Saket Saurabh

In the GEODETIC SET problem, an input is a (di)graph $G$ and integer $k$, and the objective is to decide whether there exists a vertex subset $S$ of size $k$ such that any vertex in $V(G)\setminus S$ lies on a shortest (directed) path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Florent Foucaud , Narges Ghareghani , Lucas Lorieau , Morteza Mohammad-Noori , Rasa Parvini Oskuei , Prafullkumar Tale

The celebrated notion of important separators bounds the number of small $(S,T)$-separators in a graph which are 'farthest from $S$' in a technical sense. In this paper, we introduce a generalization of this powerful algorithmic primitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michał Włodarczyk

In the Independent set problem, the input is a graph $G$, every vertex has a non-negative integer weight, and the task is to find a set $S$ of pairwise non-adjacent vertices, maximizing the total weight of the vertices in $S$. We give an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Daniel Lokshtanov , Marcin Pilipczuk , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The lower and the upper irredundance numbers of a graph $G$, denoted $ir(G)$ and $IR(G)$ respectively, are conceptually linked to domination and independence numbers and have numerous relations to other graph parameters. It is a…

The subgraph isomorphism finding problem is a well-studied problem in the field of computer science and graph theory, and it aims to enumerate all instances of a query graph in the respective data graph. In this paper, we propose an…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zubair Ali Ansari , Muhammad Abulaish , Irfan Rashid Thoker , Jahiruddin

We revisit recent developments for the Maximum Weight Independent Set problem in graphs excluding a subdivided claw $S_{t,t,t}$ as an induced subgraph [Chudnovsky, Pilipczuk, Pilipczuk, Thomass\'{e}, SODA 2020] and provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Konrad Majewski , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Karolina Okrasa , Marcin Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski , Marek Sokołowski

The \emph{thinness} of a graph is a width parameter that generalizes some properties of interval graphs, which are exactly the graphs of thinness one. Graphs with thinness at most two include, for example, bipartite convex graphs. Many…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Gastón Abel Brito

The problem of covering minimum cost common bases of two matroids is NP-complete, even if the two matroids coincide, and the costs are all equal to 1. In this paper we show that the following special case is solvable in polynomial time:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Attila Bernáth , Gyula Pap

We give the first linear kernels for the (Connected) Dominating Set problems on H-topological minor free graphs. We prove the existence of polynomial time algorithms that, for a given H-topological-minor-free graph G and a positive integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Anand Louis , Yury Makarychev