• A (2 + ε)-Factor Approximation Algorithm for Split Vertex Deletion 

      Lokshtanov, Daniel; Misra, Pranabendu; Panolan, Fahad; Philip, Geevarghese; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In the Split Vertex Deletion (SVD) problem, the input is an n-vertex undirected graph G and a weight function w: V(G) → ℕ, and the objective is to find a minimum weight subset S of vertices such that G-S is a split graph ...
    • Approximation in (poly-) logarithmic space 

      Biswas, Arindam; Raman, Venkatesh; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We develop new approximation algorithms for classical graph and set problems in the RAM model under space constraints. As one of our main results, we devise an algorithm for d–Hitting Set that runs in time nO(d2+(d/ε)), ...
    • B-chromatic number: Beyond NP-hardness 

      Panolan, Fahad; Philip, Geevarghese; Saurabh, Saket (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      The b-chromatic number of a graph G, chi_b(G), is the largest integer k such that G has a k-vertex coloring with the property that each color class has a vertex which is adjacent to at least one vertex in each of the other ...
    • Balanced judicious bipartition is fixed-parameter tractable 

      Lokshtanov, Daniel; Saurabh, Saket; Sharma, Roohani; Zehavi, Meirav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The family of judicious partitioning problems, introduced by Bollobás and Scott to the field of extremal combinatorics, has been extensively studied from a structural point of view for over two decades. This rich realm of ...
    • Bidimensionality and Kernels 

      Fomin, Fedor; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Saurabh, Saket; Thilikos, Dimitrios (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Bidimensionality theory was introduced by [E. D. Demaine et al., J. ACM, 52 (2005), pp. 866--893] as a tool to obtain subexponential time parameterized algorithms on H-minor-free graphs. In [E. D. Demaine and M. Hajiaghayi, ...
    • Connecting the Dots (with Minimum Crossings) 

      Agrawal, Akanksha; Guspiel, Grzegorz; Madathil, Jayakrishnan; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We study a prototype Crossing Minimization problem, defined as follows. Let F be an infinite family of (possibly vertex-labeled) graphs. Then, given a set P of (possibly labeled) n points in the Euclidean plane, a collection ...
    • Connecting Vertices by Independent Trees 

      Basavaraju, Manu; Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      We study the paramereteized complexity of the following connectivity problem. For a vertex subset U of a graph G, trees T1, . . . , Ts of G are completely independent spanning trees of U if each of them contains U , and ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • Detours in directed graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lochet, William Alexandre; Sagunov, Danil; Saurabh, Saket; Simonov, Kirill (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      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 collections in matroids and graphs 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Panolan, Fahad; Philip, Geevarghese; Saurabh, Saket (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We investigate the parameterized complexity of finding diverse sets of solutions to three fundamental combinatorial problems. The input to the Weighted Diverse Bases problem consists of a matroid M, a weight function ω : ...
    • 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 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Going Far from Degeneracy 

      Fomin, Fedor; Golovach, Petr; Lokshtanov, Daniel; Panolan, Fahad; Saurabh, Saket; Zehavi, Meirav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      An undirected graph $G$ is $d$-degenerate if every subgraph of $G$ has a vertex of degree at most $d$. By the classical theorem of Erdös and Gallai from 1959, every graph of degeneracy $d>1$ contains a cycle of length at ...