• Covering Vectors by Spaces in Perturbed Graphic Matroids and Their Duals 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Perturbed graphic matroids are binary matroids that can be obtained from a graphic matroid by adding a noise of small rank. More precisely, an r-rank perturbed graphic matroid M is a binary matroid that can be represented ...
    • Cyclability in Graph Classes 

      Crespelle, Christophe Dominique; Feghali, Carl; Golovach, Petr (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A subset T subseteq V(G) of vertices of a graph G is said to be cyclable if G has a cycle C containing every vertex of T, and for a positive integer k, a graph G is k-cyclable if every subset of vertices of G of size at ...
    • Decomposition of map graphs with applications 

      Fomin, Fedor; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Panolan, Fahad; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
    • Detours in Directed Graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lochet, William Alexandre; Sagunov, Danil; Simonov, Kirill; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We study two "above guarantee" versions of the classical Longest Path problem on undirected and directed graphs and obtain the following results. In the first variant of Longest Path that we study, called Longest Detour, ...
    • Diverse Collections in Matroids and Graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Panolan, Fahad; Philip, Geevarghese; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We investigate the parameterized complexity of finding diverse sets of solutions to three fundamental combinatorial problems, two from the theory of matroids and the third from graph theory. The input to the Weighted Diverse ...
    • Diverse Pairs of Matchings 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Jaffke, Lars; Philip, Geevarghese; Sagunov, Danil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We initiate the study of the Diverse Pair of (Maximum/ Perfect) Matchings problems which given a graph G and an integer k, ask whether G has two (maximum/perfect) matchings whose symmetric difference is at least k. Diverse ...
    • Dynamic Programming on Bipartite Tree Decompositions 

      Jaffke, Lars; Morelle, Laure; Sau, Ignasi; Thilikos, Dimitrios M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We revisit a graph width parameter that we dub bipartite treewidth, along with its associated graph decomposition that we call bipartite tree decomposition. Bipartite treewidth can be seen as a common generalization of ...
    • Editing to Eulerian Graphs 

      Dabrowski, Konrad K.; Golovach, Petr; van' t Hof, Pim; Paulusma, Daniël (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      We investigate the problem of modifying a graph into a connected graph in which the degree of each vertex satisfies a prescribed parity constraint. Let ea, ed and vd denote the operations edge addition, edge deletion and ...
    • Efficient Minimum Weight Vertex Cover Heuristics Using Graph Neural Networks 

      Langedal, Kenneth; Langguth, Johannes; Manne, Fredrik; Schroeder, Daniel Thilo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Minimum weighted vertex cover is the NP-hard graph problem of choosing a subset of vertices incident to all edges such that the sum of the weights of the chosen vertices is minimum. Previous efforts for solving this in ...
    • Enumerating minimal connected dominating sets in graphs of bounded chordality 

      Golovach, Petr; Heggernes, Pinar; Kratsch, Dieter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Listing, generating or enumerating objects of specified type is one of the principal tasks in algorithmics. In graph algorithms one often enumerates vertex subsets satisfying a certain property. We study the enumeration ...
    • ETH Tight Algorithms for Geometric Intersection Graphs: Now in Polynomial Space 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Inamdar, Tanmay Nitin; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      De Berg et al. in [SICOMP 2020] gave an algorithmic framework for subexponential algorithms on geometric graphs with tight (up to ETH) running times. This framework is based on dynamic programming on graphs of weighted ...
    • ETH-Tight Algorithms for Finding Surfaces in Simplicial Complexes of Bounded Treewidth 

      Black, Mitchell; Blaser, Nello; Nayyeri, Amir; Vågset, Erlend Raa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Given a simplicial complex with n simplices, we consider the Connected Subsurface Recognition (c-SR) problem of finding a subcomplex that is homeomorphic to a given connected surface with a fixed boundary. We also study ...
    • ETH-tight algorithms for long path and cycle on unit disk graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Panolan, Fahad; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We present an algorithm for the extensively studied Long Path and Long Cycle problems on unit disk graphs that runs in time 2O(√k)(n + m). Under the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Long Path and Long Cycle on unit disk graphs ...
    • Exact and approximate digraph bandwidth 

      Jain, Pallavi; Kanesh, Lawqueen; Lochet, William; Saurabh, Saket; Sharma, Roohani (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In this paper, we introduce a directed variant of the classical Bandwidth problem and study it from the view-point of moderately exponential time algorithms, both exactly and approximately. Motivated by the definitions of ...
    • Exact Exponential Algorithms for Clustering Problems 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Inamdar, Tanmay Nitin; Purohit, Nidhi; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      In this paper we initiate a systematic study of exact algorithms for some of the well known clustering problems, namely k-MEDIAN and k-MEANS. In k-MEDIAN, the input consists of a set X of n points belonging to a metric ...
    • Exploring Subexponential Parameterized Complexity of Completion Problems 

      Drange, Pål Grønås; Fomin, Fedor; Pilipczuk, Michal Pawel; Villanger, Yngve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-19)
      Let F be a family of graphs. In the F-Completion problem, we are given an n-vertex graph G and an integer k as input, and asked whether at most k edges can be added to G so that the resulting graph does not contain a graph ...
    • Fast biclustering by dual parameterization 

      Drange, Pål Grønås; Reidl, Felix; Villaamil, Fernando Sánchez; Sikdar, Somnath (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      We study two clustering problems, Starforest Editing, the problem of adding and deleting edges to obtain a disjoint union of stars, and the generalization Bicluster Editing. We show that, in addition to being NP-hard, none ...
    • Fault tolerant subgraphs with applications in kernelization 

      Lochet, William; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Misra, Pranabendu; Saurabh, Saket; Sharma, Roohani; Zehavi, Meirav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In the past decade, the design of fault tolerant data structures for networks has become a central topic of research. Particular attention has been given to the construction of a subgraph H of a given digraph D with as ...
    • Finding even subgraphs even faster 

      Goyal, Prachi; Misra, Pranabendu; Panolan, Fahad; Philip, Geevarghese; Saurabh, Saket (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Problems of the following kind have been the focus of much recent research in the realm of parameterized complexity: Given an input graph (digraph) on n vertices and a positive integer parameter k, find if there exist k ...
    • Finding Induced Subgraphs via Minimal Triangulations 

      Fomin, Fedor; Villanger, Yngve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)
      Potential maximal cliques and minimal separators are combinatorial objects which were introduced and studied in the realm of minimal triangulation problems in- cluding Minimum Fill-in and Treewidth. We discover unexpected ...