5 Search Results for "Weller, Adrian"


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Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion

Authors: Soh Kumabe

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 359, 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)


Abstract
We consider Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion, which is a hybrid of two fundamental parameterized problems: Cluster Vertex Deletion and Feedback Vertex Set. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph G and an integer k, and asked to find a vertex subset X of size at most k such that each connected component of G-X is either a clique or a tree. Jacob et al. (ISAAC, 2024) provided a kernel of O(k⁵) vertices for this problem, which was recently improved to O(k⁴) by Tsur (IPL, 2025). Our main result is a kernel of O(k²) vertices. This result closes the gap between the kernelization result for Feedback Vertex Set, which corresponds to the case where each connected component of G-X must be a tree. Although both cluster vertex deletion number and feedback vertex set number are well-studied structural parameters, little attention has been given to parameters that generalize both of them. In fact, the lowest common well-known generalization of them is clique-width, which is a highly general parameter. To fill the gap here, we initiate the study of the cliques or trees vertex deletion number as a structural parameter. We prove that Longest Cycle, which is a fundamental problem that does not admit o(n^k)-time algorithm unless ETH fails when k is the clique-width, becomes fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the cliques or trees vertex deletion number.

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Soh Kumabe. Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 48:1-48:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kumabe:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.48,
  author =	{Kumabe, Soh},
  title =	{{Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-408-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{359},
  editor =	{Chen, Ho-Lin and Hon, Wing-Kai and Tsai, Meng-Tsung},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.48},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249568},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fixed-Parameter Tractability, Kernelization, Deletion to Scattered Graph Classes, Cluster Vertex Deletion, Feedback Vertex Set}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Incremental Approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths with Predictions

Authors: Samuel McCauley, Benjamin Moseley, Aidin Niaparast, Helia Niaparast, and Shikha Singh

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)


Abstract
The algorithms-with-predictions framework has been used extensively to develop online algorithms with improved beyond-worst-case competitive ratios. Recently, there is growing interest in leveraging predictions for designing data structures with improved beyond-worst-case running times. In this paper, we study the fundamental data structure problem of maintaining approximate shortest paths in incremental graphs in the algorithms-with-predictions model. Given a sequence σ of edges that are inserted one at a time, the goal is to maintain approximate shortest paths from the source to each vertex in the graph at each time step. Before any edges arrive, the data structure is given a prediction of the online edge sequence σ̂ which is used to "warm start" its state. As our main result, we design a learned algorithm that maintains (1+ε)-approximate single-source shortest paths, which runs in Õ(m η log W/ε) time, where W is the weight of the heaviest edge and η is the prediction error. We show these techniques immediately extend to the all-pairs shortest-path setting as well. Our algorithms are consistent (performing nearly as fast as the offline algorithm) when predictions are nearly perfect, have a smooth degradation in performance with respect to the prediction error and, in the worst case, match the best offline algorithm up to logarithmic factors. That is, the algorithms are "ideal" in the algorithms-with-predictions model. As a building block, we study the offline incremental approximate single-source shortest-path (SSSP) problem. In the offline incremental SSSP problem, the edge sequence σ is known a priori and the goal is to construct a data structure that can efficiently return the length of the shortest paths in the intermediate graph G_t consisting of the first t edges, for all t. Note that the offline incremental problem is defined in the worst-case setting (without predictions) and is of independent interest.

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Samuel McCauley, Benjamin Moseley, Aidin Niaparast, Helia Niaparast, and Shikha Singh. Incremental Approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths with Predictions. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 117:1-117:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{mccauley_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.117,
  author =	{McCauley, Samuel and Moseley, Benjamin and Niaparast, Aidin and Niaparast, Helia and Singh, Shikha},
  title =	{{Incremental Approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths with Predictions}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{117:1--117:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.117},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234946},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.117},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithms with Predictions, Shortest Paths, Approximation Algorithms, Dynamic Graph Algorithms}
}
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A View on Vulnerabilites: The Security Challenges of XAI (Academic Track)

Authors: Elisabeth Pachl, Fabian Langer, Thora Markert, and Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 126, Symposium on Scaling AI Assessments (SAIA 2024)


Abstract
Modern deep learning methods have long been considered as black-boxes due to their opaque decision-making processes. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), however, has turned the tables: it provides insight into how these models work, promoting transparency that is crucial for accountability. Yet, recent developments in adversarial machine learning have highlighted vulnerabilities in XAI methods, raising concerns about security, reliability and trustworthiness, particularly in sensitive areas like healthcare and autonomous systems. Awareness of the potential risks associated with XAI is needed as its adoption increases, driven in part by the need to enhance compliance to regulations. This survey provides a holistic perspective on the security and safety landscape surrounding XAI, categorizing research on adversarial attacks against XAI and the misuse of explainability to enhance attacks on AI systems, such as evasion and privacy breaches. Our contribution includes identifying current insecurities in XAI and outlining future research directions in adversarial XAI. This work serves as an accessible foundation and outlook to recognize potential research gaps and define future directions. It identifies data modalities, such as time-series or graph data, and XAI methods that have not been extensively investigated for vulnerabilities in current research.

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Elisabeth Pachl, Fabian Langer, Thora Markert, and Jeanette Miriam Lorenz. A View on Vulnerabilites: The Security Challenges of XAI (Academic Track). In Symposium on Scaling AI Assessments (SAIA 2024). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 126, pp. 12:1-12:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{pachl_et_al:OASIcs.SAIA.2024.12,
  author =	{Pachl, Elisabeth and Langer, Fabian and Markert, Thora and Lorenz, Jeanette Miriam},
  title =	{{A View on Vulnerabilites: The Security Challenges of XAI}},
  booktitle =	{Symposium on Scaling AI Assessments (SAIA 2024)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:23},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-357-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{126},
  editor =	{G\"{o}rge, Rebekka and Haedecke, Elena and Poretschkin, Maximilian and Schmitz, Anna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SAIA.2024.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-227523},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SAIA.2024.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Explainability, XAI, Transparency, Adversarial Machine Learning, Security, Vulnerabilities}
}
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Survey
Knowledge Graph Embeddings: Open Challenges and Opportunities

Authors: Russa Biswas, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Michael Cochez, Stefania Dumbrava, Theis E. Jendal, Matteo Lissandrini, Vanessa Lopez, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Edlira Kalemi Vakaj, and Gerard de Melo

Published in: TGDK, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2023): Special Issue on Trends in Graph Data and Knowledge. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 1, Issue 1


Abstract
While Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have long been used as valuable sources of structured knowledge, in recent years, KG embeddings have become a popular way of deriving numeric vector representations from them, for instance, to support knowledge graph completion and similarity search. This study surveys advances as well as open challenges and opportunities in this area. For instance, the most prominent embedding models focus primarily on structural information. However, there has been notable progress in incorporating further aspects, such as semantics, multi-modal, temporal, and multilingual features. Most embedding techniques are assessed using human-curated benchmark datasets for the task of link prediction, neglecting other important real-world KG applications. Many approaches assume a static knowledge graph and are unable to account for dynamic changes. Additionally, KG embeddings may encode data biases and lack interpretability. Overall, this study provides an overview of promising research avenues to learn improved KG embeddings that can address a more diverse range of use cases.

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Russa Biswas, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Michael Cochez, Stefania Dumbrava, Theis E. Jendal, Matteo Lissandrini, Vanessa Lopez, Eneldo Loza Mencía, Heiko Paulheim, Harald Sack, Edlira Kalemi Vakaj, and Gerard de Melo. Knowledge Graph Embeddings: Open Challenges and Opportunities. In Special Issue on Trends in Graph Data and Knowledge. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 4:1-4:32, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@Article{biswas_et_al:TGDK.1.1.4,
  author =	{Biswas, Russa and Kaffee, Lucie-Aim\'{e}e and Cochez, Michael and Dumbrava, Stefania and Jendal, Theis E. and Lissandrini, Matteo and Lopez, Vanessa and Menc{\'\i}a, Eneldo Loza and Paulheim, Heiko and Sack, Harald and Vakaj, Edlira Kalemi and de Melo, Gerard},
  title =	{{Knowledge Graph Embeddings: Open Challenges and Opportunities}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{4:1--4:32},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{1},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.1.1.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-194783},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.1.1.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Knowledge Graphs, KG embeddings, Link prediction, KG applications}
}
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Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences

Authors: Justus Bogner, Adrian Weller, Stefan Wagner, and Alfred Zimmermann

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 78, Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019)


Abstract
To ensure sustainable software maintenance and evolution, a diverse set of activities and concepts like metrics, change impact analysis, or antipattern detection can be used. Special maintainability assurance techniques have been proposed for service- and microservice-based systems, but it is difficult to get a comprehensive overview of this publication landscape. We therefore conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to collect and categorize maintainability assurance approaches for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. Our search strategy led to the selection of 223 primary studies from 2007 to 2018 which we categorized with a threefold taxonomy: a) architectural (SOA, microservices, both), b) methodical (method or contribution of the study), and c) thematic (maintainability assurance subfield). We discuss the distribution among these categories and present different research directions as well as exemplary studies per thematic category. The primary finding of our SLR is that, while very few approaches have been suggested for microservices so far (24 of 223, ∼11%), we identified several thematic categories where existing SOA techniques could be adapted for the maintainability assurance of microservices.

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Justus Bogner, Adrian Weller, Stefan Wagner, and Alfred Zimmermann. Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences. In Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 78, pp. 3:1-3:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{bogner_et_al:OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3,
  author =	{Bogner, Justus and Weller, Adrian and Wagner, Stefan and Zimmermann, Alfred},
  title =	{{Exploring Maintainability Assurance Research for Service- and Microservice-Based Systems: Directions and Differences}},
  booktitle =	{Joint Post-proceedings of the First and Second International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2017/2019)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:22},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-137-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{78},
  editor =	{Cruz-Filipe, Lu{\'\i}s and Giallorenzo, Saverio and Montesi, Fabrizio and Peressotti, Marco and Rademacher, Florian and Sachweh, Sabine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-118255},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.Microservices.2017-2019.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maintainability, Software Evolution, Quality Assurance, Service-Based Systems, SOA, Microservices, Systematic Literature Review}
}
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