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5-Approximation for ℋ-Treewidth Essentially as Fast as ℋ-Deletion Parameterized by Solution Size

Authors Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michał Włodarczyk

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  • Mathematics of computing → Graph algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Graph algorithms analysis
  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
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  • fixed-parameter tractability
  • treewidth
  • graph decompositions

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Abstract

The notion of ℋ-treewidth, where ℋ is a hereditary graph class, was recently introduced as a generalization of the treewidth of an undirected graph. Roughly speaking, a graph of ℋ-treewidth at most k can be decomposed into (arbitrarily large) ℋ-subgraphs which interact only through vertex sets of size 𝒪(k) which can be organized in a tree-like fashion. ℋ-treewidth can be used as a hybrid parameterization to develop fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for ℋ-deletion problems, which ask to find a minimum vertex set whose removal from a given graph G turns it into a member of ℋ. The bottleneck in the current parameterized algorithms lies in the computation of suitable tree ℋ-decompositions. 
We present FPT-approximation algorithms to compute tree ℋ-decompositions for hereditary and union-closed graph classes ℋ. Given a graph of ℋ-treewidth k, we can compute a 5-approximate tree ℋ-decomposition in time f(𝒪(k)) ⋅ n^𝒪(1) whenever ℋ-deletion parameterized by solution size can be solved in time f(k) ⋅ n^𝒪(1) for some function f(k) ≥ 2^k. The current-best algorithms either achieve an approximation factor of k^𝒪(1) or construct optimal decompositions while suffering from non-uniformity with unknown parameter dependence. Using these decompositions, we obtain algorithms solving Odd Cycle Transversal in time 2^𝒪(k) ⋅ n^𝒪(1) parameterized by bipartite-treewidth and Vertex Planarization in time 2^𝒪(k log k) ⋅ n^𝒪(1) parameterized by planar-treewidth, showing that these can be as fast as the solution-size parameterizations and giving the first ETH-tight algorithms for parameterizations by hybrid width measures.

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Bart M. P. Jansen, Jari J. H. de Kroon, and Michał Włodarczyk. 5-Approximation for ℋ-Treewidth Essentially as Fast as ℋ-Deletion Parameterized by Solution Size. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 66:1-66:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.66

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Bart M. P. Jansen
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jari J. H. de Kroon
  • Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Michał Włodarczyk
  • University of Warsaw, Poland

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 803421, ReduceSearch).

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