@InProceedings{jansen_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.29, author = {Jansen, Bart M. P. and Roy, Shivesh K.}, title = {{Sunflowers Meet Sparsity: A Linear-Vertex Kernel for Weighted Clique-Packing on Sparse Graphs}}, booktitle = {18th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2023)}, pages = {29:1--29:13}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-305-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {285}, editor = {Misra, Neeldhara and Wahlstr\"{o}m, Magnus}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.29}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-194488}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2023.29}, annote = {Keywords: kernelization, weighted problems, graph packing, sunflower lemma, bounded expansion, nowhere dense} }