The PACE 2020 Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge: Treedepth

Authors Łukasz Kowalik , Marcin Mucha, Wojciech Nadara, Marcin Pilipczuk, Manuel Sorge, Piotr Wygocki



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Łukasz Kowalik
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Marcin Mucha
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Wojciech Nadara
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Marcin Pilipczuk
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Manuel Sorge
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Piotr Wygocki
  • Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Poland

Acknowledgements

The PACE challenge was supported by Networks [Networks project, 2017] and University of Warsaw. The prize money (EUR 4000) was given through the generosity of Networks [Networks project, 2017]. We are grateful to the whole optil.io team, led by Szymon Wasik, and especially to Jan Badura for the fruitful collaboration and for hosting the competition at https://www.optil.io on-line judge system. Special thanks go to Felix Reidl, who designed the eye-catching PACE 2020 poster.

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Łukasz Kowalik, Marcin Mucha, Wojciech Nadara, Marcin Pilipczuk, Manuel Sorge, and Piotr Wygocki. The PACE 2020 Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge: Treedepth. In 15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 180, pp. 37:1-37:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2020.37

Abstract

This year’s Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments challenge (PACE 2020) was devoted to the problem of computing the treedepth of a given graph. Altogether 51 participants from 20 teams, 12 countries and 3 continents submitted their implementations to the competition.
In this report, we describe the setup of the challenge, the selection of benchmark instances and the ranking of the participating teams. We also briefly discuss the approaches used in the submitted solvers and the differences in their performance on our benchmark dataset.

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  • Theory of computation → Graph algorithms analysis
  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
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  • computing treedepth
  • contest
  • implementation challenge
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