18 Search Results for "Gutin, Gregory Z."


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A Graph Width Perspective on Partially Ordered Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles II: Vertex and Edge Deletion Numbers

Authors: Jesse Beisegel, Katharina Klost, Kristin Knorr, Fabienne Ratajczak, and Robert Scheffler

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 358, 20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025)


Abstract
We consider the problem of finding a Hamiltonian path or cycle with precedence constraints in the form of a partial order on the vertex set. We study the complexity for graph width parameters for which the ordinary problems Hamiltonian Path and Hamiltonian Cycle are in FPT. In particular, we focus on parameters that describe how many vertices and edges have to be deleted to become a member of a certain graph class. We show that the problems are W[1]-hard for such restricted cases as vertex distance to path and vertex distance to clique. We complement these results by showing that the problems can be solved in XP time for vertex distance to outerplanar and vertex distance to block. Furthermore, we present some FPT algorithms, e.g., for edge distance to block. Additionally, we prove para-NP-hardness when considered with the edge clique cover number.

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Jesse Beisegel, Katharina Klost, Kristin Knorr, Fabienne Ratajczak, and Robert Scheffler. A Graph Width Perspective on Partially Ordered Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles II: Vertex and Edge Deletion Numbers. In 20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 358, pp. 30:1-30:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{beisegel_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.30,
  author =	{Beisegel, Jesse and Klost, Katharina and Knorr, Kristin and Ratajczak, Fabienne and Scheffler, Robert},
  title =	{{A Graph Width Perspective on Partially Ordered Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles II: Vertex and Edge Deletion Numbers}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-407-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{358},
  editor =	{Agrawal, Akanksha and van Leeuwen, Erik Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251623},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hamiltonian path, Hamiltonian cycle, partial order, graph width parameter, parameterized complexity}
}
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Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem

Authors: Václav Blažej, Andreas Emil Feldmann, Foivos Fioravantes, Paweł Rzążewski, and Ondřej Suchý

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


Abstract
The Directed Traveling Salesman Problem (DTSP) is a variant of the classical Traveling Salesman Problem in which the edges in the graph are directed and a vertex and edge can be visited multiple times. The goal is to find a directed closed walk of minimum length (or total weight) that visits every vertex of the given graph at least once. In a yet more general version, Directed Waypoint Routing Problem (DWRP), some vertices are marked as terminals and we are only required to visit all terminals. Furthermore, each edge has its capacity bounding the number of times this edge can be used by a solution. While both problems (and many other variants of TSP) were extensively investigated, mostly from the approximation point of view, there are surprisingly few results concerning the parameterized complexity. Our starting point is the result of Marx et al. [APPROX/RANDOM 2016] who proved that DTSP is W[1]-hard parameterized by distance to pathwidth 3. In this paper we aim to initiate the systematic complexity study of variants of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem with respect to various, mostly structural, parameters. We show that DWRP is FPT parameterized by the solution size, the feedback edge number and the vertex integrity of the underlying undirected graph. Furthermore, the problem is XP parameterized by treewidth. On the complexity side, we show that the problem is W[1]-hard parameterized by the distance to constant treedepth.

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Václav Blažej, Andreas Emil Feldmann, Foivos Fioravantes, Paweł Rzążewski, and Ondřej Suchý. Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{blazej_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.15,
  author =	{Bla\v{z}ej, V\'{a}clav and Feldmann, Andreas Emil and Fioravantes, Foivos and Rz\k{a}\.{z}ewski, Pawe{\l} and Such\'{y}, Ond\v{r}ej},
  title =	{{Parameterized Complexity of Directed Traveling Salesman Problem}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:18},
  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.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249231},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Directed TSP, parameterized complexity, vertex integrity, treedepth}
}
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Minimum Partition of Polygons Under Width and Cut Constraints

Authors: Jaehoon Chung, Kazuo Iwama, Chung-Shou Liao, and Hee-Kap Ahn

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


Abstract
We study the problem of partitioning a polygon into the minimum number of subpolygons using cuts in predetermined directions such that each resulting subpolygon satisfies a given width constraint. A polygon satisfies the unit-width constraint for a set of unit vectors if the length of the orthogonal projection of the polygon on a line parallel to a vector in the set is at most one. We analyze structural properties of the minimum partition numbers, focusing on monotonicity under polygon containment. We show that the minimum partition number of a simple polygon is at least that of any subpolygon, provided that the subpolygon satisfies a certain orientation-wise convexity with respect to the polygon. As a consequence, we prove a partition analogue of the Bang’s conjecture about coverings of convex regions in the plane: for any partition of a convex body in the plane, the sum of relative widths of all parts is at least one. For any convex polygon, there exists a direction along which an optimal partition is achieved by parallel cuts. Given such a direction, an optimal partition can be computed in linear time.

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Jaehoon Chung, Kazuo Iwama, Chung-Shou Liao, and Hee-Kap Ahn. Minimum Partition of Polygons Under Width and Cut Constraints. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 22:1-22:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{chung_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.22,
  author =	{Chung, Jaehoon and Iwama, Kazuo and Liao, Chung-Shou and Ahn, Hee-Kap},
  title =	{{Minimum Partition of Polygons Under Width and Cut Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:20},
  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.2025.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249302},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polygon partitioning, Width constraints, Plank problem}
}
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Precoloring Extension with Demands on Paths

Authors: Arun Kumar Das, Michal Opler, and Tomáš Valla

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


Abstract
Let G be a graph with a set of precolored vertices, and let us be given an integer distance parameter d and a set of integer demands d₁,… ,d_c. The Distance Precoloring Extension with Demands (DPED) problem is to compute a vertex c-coloring of G such that the following three conditions hold: (i) the resulting coloring respects the colors of the precolored vertices, (ii) the distance of two vertices of the same color is at least d, and (iii) the number of vertices colored by color i is exactly d_i. This problem is motivated by a program scheduling in commercial broadcast channels with constraints on content repetition and placement, which leads precisely to the DPED problem for paths. In this paper, we study DPED on paths and present a polynomial time exact algorithm when precolored vertices are restricted to the two ends of the path and devise an approximation algorithm for DPED with an additive approximation factor polynomially bounded by d and the number of precolored vertices. Then, we prove that the Distance Precoloring Extension problem on paths, a less restrictive version of DPED without the demand constraints, and then DPED itself, is NP-complete. Motivated by this result, we further study the parameterized complexity of DPED on paths. We establish that the DPED problem on paths is W[1]-hard when parameterized by the number of colors and the distance. On the positive side, we devise a fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm for DPED on paths when the number of colors, the distance, and the number of precolored vertices are considered as the parameters. Moreover, we prove that Distance Precoloring Extension is FPT parameterized by the distance. As a byproduct, we also obtain several results for the Distance List Coloring problem on paths.

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Arun Kumar Das, Michal Opler, and Tomáš Valla. Precoloring Extension with Demands on Paths. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 23:1-23:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{das_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.23,
  author =	{Das, Arun Kumar and Opler, Michal and Valla, Tom\'{a}\v{s}},
  title =	{{Precoloring Extension with Demands on Paths}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:15},
  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.2025.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249319},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: precoloring extension, distance coloring, FPT, approximation algorithms}
}
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Structural Parameterizations of k-Planarity

Authors: Tatsuya Gima, Yasuaki Kobayashi, and Yuto Okada

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 357, 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)


Abstract
The concept of k-planarity is extensively studied in the context of Beyond Planarity. A graph is k-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane in which each edge is crossed at most k times. The local crossing number of a graph is the minimum integer k such that it is k-planar. The problem of determining whether an input graph is 1-planar is known to be NP-complete even for near-planar graphs [Cabello and Mohar, SIAM J. Comput. 2013], that is, the graphs obtained from planar graphs by adding a single edge. Moreover, the local crossing number is hard to approximate within a factor 2 - ε for any ε > 0 [Urschel and Wellens, IPL 2021]. To address this computational intractability, Bannister, Cabello, and Eppstein [JGAA 2018] investigated the parameterized complexity of the case of k = 1, particularly focusing on structural parameterizations on input graphs, such as treedepth, vertex cover number, and feedback edge number. In this paper, we extend their approach by considering the general case k ≥ 1 and give (tight) parameterized upper and lower bound results. In particular, we strengthen the aforementioned lower bound results to subclasses of constant-treewidth graphs: we show that testing 1-planarity is NP-complete even for near-planar graphs with feedback vertex set number at most 3 and pathwidth at most 4, and the local crossing number is hard to approximate within any constant factor for graphs with feedback vertex set number at most 2.

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Tatsuya Gima, Yasuaki Kobayashi, and Yuto Okada. Structural Parameterizations of k-Planarity. In 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 357, pp. 16:1-16:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gima_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2025.16,
  author =	{Gima, Tatsuya and Kobayashi, Yasuaki and Okada, Yuto},
  title =	{{Structural Parameterizations of k-Planarity}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-403-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{357},
  editor =	{Dujmovi\'{c}, Vida and Montecchiani, Fabrizio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250021},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: 1-planar graphs, local crossing number, beyond planarity, parameterized complexity, kernelization}
}
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Max-Distance Sparsification for Diversification and Clustering

Authors: Soh Kumabe

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
Let 𝒟 be a set family that is the solution domain of some combinatorial problem. The max-min diversification problem on 𝒟 is the problem to select k sets from 𝒟 such that the Hamming distance between any two selected sets is at least d. FPT algorithms parameterized by k+𝓁, where 𝓁 = max_{D ∈ 𝒟}|D|, and k+d have been actively studied recently for several specific domains. This paper provides unified algorithmic frameworks to solve this problem. Specifically, for each parameterization k+𝓁 and k+d, we provide an FPT oracle algorithm for the max-min diversification problem using oracles related to 𝒟. We then demonstrate that our frameworks provide the first FPT algorithms on several new domains 𝒟, including the domain of t-linear matroid intersection, almost 2-SAT, minimum edge s,t-flows, vertex sets of s,t-mincut, vertex sets of edge bipartization, and Steiner trees. We also demonstrate that our frameworks generalize most of the existing domain-specific tractability results. Our main technical breakthrough is introducing the notion of max-distance sparsifier of 𝒟, a domain on which the max-min diversification problem is equivalent to the same problem on the original domain 𝒟. The core of our framework is to design FPT oracle algorithms that construct a constant-size max-distance sparsifier of 𝒟. Using max-distance sparsifiers, we provide FPT algorithms for the max-min and max-sum diversification problems on 𝒟, as well as k-center and k-sum-of-radii clustering problems on 𝒟, which are also natural problems in the context of diversification and have their own interests.

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Soh Kumabe. Max-Distance Sparsification for Diversification and Clustering. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 46:1-46:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kumabe:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.46,
  author =	{Kumabe, Soh},
  title =	{{Max-Distance Sparsification for Diversification and Clustering}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245146},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fixed-Parameter Tractability, Diversification, Clustering}
}
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The Complexity of Reachability Problems in Strongly Connected Finite Automata

Authors: Stefan Kiefer and Andrew Ryzhikov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)


Abstract
Several reachability problems in finite automata, such as completeness of NFAs and synchronisation of total DFAs, correspond to fundamental properties of sets of nonnegative matrices. In particular, the two mentioned properties correspond to matrix mortality and ergodicity, which ask whether there exists a product of the input matrices that is equal to, respectively, the zero matrix and a matrix with a column of strictly positive entries only. The case where the input automaton is strongly connected (that is, the corresponding set of nonnegative matrices is irreducible) frequently appears in applications and often admits better properties than the general case. In this paper, we address the existence of such properties from the computational complexity point of view, and develop a versatile technique to show that several NL-complete problems remain NL-complete in the strongly connected case. In particular, we show that deciding if a binary total DFA is synchronising is NL-complete even if it is promised to be strongly connected, and that deciding completeness of a binary unambiguous NFA with very limited nondeterminism is NL-complete under the same promise.

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Stefan Kiefer and Andrew Ryzhikov. The Complexity of Reachability Problems in Strongly Connected Finite Automata. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 62:1-62:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kiefer_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.62,
  author =	{Kiefer, Stefan and Ryzhikov, Andrew},
  title =	{{The Complexity of Reachability Problems in Strongly Connected Finite Automata}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{62:1--62:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.62},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241690},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.62},
  annote =	{Keywords: unambiguous automata, nonnegative matrices, irreducible matrix sets, strongly connected automata, matrix monoids, mortality, completeness, synchronisation, ergodicity}
}
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Yeo’s Theorem for Locally Colored Graphs: the Path to Sequentialization in Linear Logic

Authors: Rémi Di Guardia, Olivier Laurent, Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, and Lionel Vaux Auclair

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 337, 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)


Abstract
We revisit sequentialization proofs associated with the Danos-Regnier correctness criterion in the theory of proof nets of linear logic. Our approach relies on a generalization of Yeo’s theorem for graphs, based on colorings of half-edges. This happens to be the appropriate level of abstraction to extract sequentiality information from a proof net without modifying its graph structure. We thus obtain different ways of recovering a sequent calculus derivation from a proof net inductively, by relying on a splitting ⅋-vertex, on a splitting ⊗-vertex, on a splitting terminal vertex, etc. The proof of our Yeo-style theorem relies on a key lemma that we call cusp minimization. Given a coloring of half-edges, a cusp in a path is a vertex whose adjacent half-edges in the path have the same color. And, given a cycle with at least one cusp and subject to suitable hypotheses, cusp minimization constructs a cycle with strictly less cusps. In the absence of cusp-free cycles, cusp minimization is then enough to ensure the existence of a splitting vertex, i.e. a vertex that is a cusp of any cycle it belongs to. Our theorem subsumes several graph-theoretical results, including some known to be equivalent to Yeo’s theorem. The novelty is that they can be derived in a straightforward way, just by defining a dedicated coloring, again without any modification of the underlying graph structure (vertices and edges) - similar results from the literature required more involved encodings.

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Rémi Di Guardia, Olivier Laurent, Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, and Lionel Vaux Auclair. Yeo’s Theorem for Locally Colored Graphs: the Path to Sequentialization in Linear Logic. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 16:1-16:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{diguardia_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.16,
  author =	{Di Guardia, R\'{e}mi and Laurent, Olivier and Tortora de Falco, Lorenzo and Vaux Auclair, Lionel},
  title =	{{Yeo’s Theorem for Locally Colored Graphs: the Path to Sequentialization in Linear Logic}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-374-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{337},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236317},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Linear Logic, Proof Net, Sequentialization, Graph Theory, Yeo’s Theorem}
}
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Higher Order Bipartiteness vs Bi-Partitioning in Simplicial Complexes

Authors: Marzieh Eidi and Sayan Mukherjee

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 332, 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)


Abstract
Bipartite graphs are a fundamental concept in graph theory with diverse applications. A graph is bipartite iff it contains no odd cycles, a characteristic that has many implications in diverse fields ranging from matching problems to the construction of complex networks. Another key identifying feature is their Laplacian spectrum as bipartite graphs achieve the maximum possible eigenvalue of graph Laplacian. However, for modeling higher-order connections in complex systems, hypergraphs and simplicial complexes are required due to the limitations of graphs in representing pairwise interactions. In this article, using simple tools from graph theory, we extend the cycle-based characterization from bipartite graphs to those simplicial complexes that achieve the maximum Hodge Laplacian eigenvalue, known as disorientable simplicial complexes. We show that a N-dimensional simplicial complex is disorientable if its down dual graph contains no simple odd cycle of distinct edges and no twisted even cycle of distinct edges. Furthermore, we see that in a N-simplicial complex without twisting cycles, the fewer the number of (non-branching) simple odd cycles in its down dual graph, the closer is its maximum eigenvalue to the possible maximum eigenvalue of Hodge Laplacian. Similar to the graph case, the absence of odd cycles plays a crucial role in solving the bi-partitioning problem of simplexes in higher dimensions.

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Marzieh Eidi and Sayan Mukherjee. Higher Order Bipartiteness vs Bi-Partitioning in Simplicial Complexes. In 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 332, pp. 45:1-45:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{eidi_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.45,
  author =	{Eidi, Marzieh and Mukherjee, Sayan},
  title =	{{Higher Order Bipartiteness vs Bi-Partitioning in Simplicial Complexes}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)},
  pages =	{45:1--45:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-370-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{332},
  editor =	{Aichholzer, Oswin and Wang, Haitao},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.45},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231972},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.45},
  annote =	{Keywords: Bipartite graphs, Simplicial complex, Disorientability, Hodge Laplacian, odd cycles, Twisted cycles, down-dual graph}
}
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Can You Link Up With Treewidth?

Authors: Radu Curticapean, Simon Döring, Daniel Neuen, and Jiaheng Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 327, 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)


Abstract
A central result by Marx [ToC '10] constructs k-vertex graphs H of maximum degree 3 such that n^o(k/log k) time algorithms for detecting colorful H-subgraphs would refute the Exponential-Time Hypothesis (ETH). This result is widely used to obtain almost-tight conditional lower bounds for parameterized problems under ETH. Our first contribution is a new and fully self-contained proof of this result that further simplifies a recent work by Karthik et al. [SOSA 2024]. In our proof, we introduce a novel graph parameter of independent interest, the linkage capacity γ(H), and show that detecting colorful H-subgraphs in time n^o(γ(H)) refutes ETH. Then, we use a simple construction of communication networks credited to Beneš to obtain k-vertex graphs of maximum degree 3 and linkage capacity Ω(k/log k), avoiding arguments involving expander graphs, which were required in previous papers. We also show that every graph H of treewidth t has linkage capacity Ω(t/log t), thus recovering a stronger result shown by Marx [ToC '10] with a simplified proof. Additionally, we obtain new tight lower bounds on the complexity of subgraph detection for certain types of patterns by analyzing their linkage capacity: We prove that almost all k-vertex graphs of polynomial average degree Ω(k^β) for β > 0 have linkage capacity Θ(k), which implies tight lower bounds for finding such patterns H. As an application of these results, we also obtain tight lower bounds for counting small induced subgraphs having a fixed property Φ, improving bounds from, e.g., [Roth et al., FOCS 2020].

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Radu Curticapean, Simon Döring, Daniel Neuen, and Jiaheng Wang. Can You Link Up With Treewidth?. In 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 327, pp. 28:1-28:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{curticapean_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2025.28,
  author =	{Curticapean, Radu and D\"{o}ring, Simon and Neuen, Daniel and Wang, Jiaheng},
  title =	{{Can You Link Up With Treewidth?}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-365-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{327},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Pimentel, Elaine and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-228534},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: subgraph isomorphism, constraint satisfaction problems, linkage capacity, exponential-time hypothesis, parameterized complexity, counting complexity}
}
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Round-Vs-Resilience Tradeoffs for Binary Feedback Channels

Authors: Mark Braverman, Klim Efremenko, Gillat Kol, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, and Zhijun Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 325, 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)


Abstract
In a celebrated result from the 60’s, Berlekamp showed that feedback can be used to increase the maximum fraction of adversarial noise that can be tolerated by binary error correcting codes from 1/4 to 1/3. However, his result relies on the assumption that feedback is "continuous", i.e., after every utilization of the channel, the sender gets the symbol received by the receiver. While this assumption is natural in some settings, in other settings it may be unreasonable or too costly to maintain. In this work, we initiate the study of round-restricted feedback channels, where the number r of feedback rounds is possibly much smaller than the number of utilizations of the channel. Error correcting codes for such channels are protocols where the sender can ask for feedback at most r times, and, upon a feedback request, it obtains all the symbols received since its last feedback request. We design such error correcting protocols for both the adversarial binary erasure channel and for the adversarial binary corruption (bit flip) channel. For the erasure channel, we give an exact characterization of the round-vs-resilience tradeoff by designing a (constant rate) protocol with r feedback rounds, for every r, and proving that its noise resilience is optimal. Designing such error correcting protocols for the corruption channel is substantially more involved. We show that obtaining the optimal resilience, even with one feedback round (r = 1), requires settling (proving or disproving) a new, seemingly unrelated, "clean" combinatorial conjecture, about the maximum cut in weighted graphs versus the "imbalance" of an average cut. Specifically, we prove an upper bound on the optimal resilience (impossibility result), and show that the existence of a matching lower bound (a protocol) is equivalent to the correctness of our conjecture.

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Mark Braverman, Klim Efremenko, Gillat Kol, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, and Zhijun Zhang. Round-Vs-Resilience Tradeoffs for Binary Feedback Channels. In 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 325, pp. 22:1-22:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{braverman_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.22,
  author =	{Braverman, Mark and Efremenko, Klim and Kol, Gillat and Saxena, Raghuvansh R. and Zhang, Zhijun},
  title =	{{Round-Vs-Resilience Tradeoffs for Binary Feedback Channels}},
  booktitle =	{16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-361-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{325},
  editor =	{Meka, Raghu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-226506},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Round-restricted feedback channel, error correcting code, noise resilience}
}
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Boundedness of Cost Register Automata over the Integer Min-Plus Semiring

Authors: Andrei Draghici, Radosław Piórkowski, and Andrew Ryzhikov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 326, 33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2025)


Abstract
Cost register automata (CRAs) are deterministic automata with registers taking values from a fixed semiring. A CRA computes a function from words to values from this semiring. CRAs are tightly related to well-studied weighted automata. Given a CRA, the boundedness problem asks if there exists a natural number N such that for every word, the value of the CRA on this word does not exceed N. This problem is known to be undecidable for the class of linear CRAs over the integer min-plus semiring (ℤ∪{+∞}, min, +), but very little is known about its subclasses. In this paper, we study boundedness of copyless linear CRAs with resets over the integer min-plus semiring. We show that it is decidable for such CRAs with at most two registers. More specifically, we show that it is, respectively, NL-complete and in coNP if the numbers in the input are presented in unary and binary. We also provide complexity results for two classes with an arbitrary number of registers. Namely, we show that for CRAs that use the minimum operation only in the output function, boundedness is PSPACE-complete if transferring values to other registers is allowed, and is coNP-complete otherwise. Finally, for each f_i in the hierarchy of fast-growing functions, we provide a stateless CRA with i registers whose output exceeds N only on runs longer than f_i(N). Our construction yields a non-elementary lower bound already for four registers.

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Andrei Draghici, Radosław Piórkowski, and Andrew Ryzhikov. Boundedness of Cost Register Automata over the Integer Min-Plus Semiring. In 33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 326, pp. 20:1-20:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{draghici_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2025.20,
  author =	{Draghici, Andrei and Pi\'{o}rkowski, Rados{\l}aw and Ryzhikov, Andrew},
  title =	{{Boundedness of Cost Register Automata over the Integer Min-Plus Semiring}},
  booktitle =	{33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2025)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-362-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{326},
  editor =	{Endrullis, J\"{o}rg and Schmitz, Sylvain},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2025.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-227775},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2025.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: cost register automata, boundedness, decidability}
}
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07281 Open Problems – Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmcs for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs

Authors: Erik Demaine, Gregory Z. Gutin, Daniel Marx, and Ulrike Stege

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7281, Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs (2007)


Abstract
The following is a list of the problems presented on Monday, July 9, 2007 at the open-problem session of the Seminar on Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs, held at Schloss Dagstuhl in Wadern, Germany.

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Erik Demaine, Gregory Z. Gutin, Daniel Marx, and Ulrike Stege. 07281 Open Problems – Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmcs for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs. In Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7281, pp. 1-6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)


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@InProceedings{demaine_et_al:DagSemProc.07281.2,
  author =	{Demaine, Erik and Gutin, Gregory Z. and Marx, Daniel and Stege, Ulrike},
  title =	{{07281 Open Problems – Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmcs for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs}},
  booktitle =	{Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs},
  pages =	{1--6},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{7281},
  editor =	{Erik Demaine and Gregory Z. Gutin and Daniel Marx and Ulrike Stege},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07281.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-12542},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07281.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: }
}
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07281 Abstracts Collection – Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs

Authors: Erik Demaine, Gregory Z. Gutin, Daniel Marx, and Ulrike Stege

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7281, Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs (2007)


Abstract
From 8th to 13th July 2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar ``Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.

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Erik Demaine, Gregory Z. Gutin, Daniel Marx, and Ulrike Stege. 07281 Abstracts Collection – Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs. In Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7281, pp. 1-14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)


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@InProceedings{demaine_et_al:DagSemProc.07281.1,
  author =	{Demaine, Erik and Gutin, Gregory Z. and Marx, Daniel and Stege, Ulrike},
  title =	{{07281 Abstracts Collection – Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs}},
  booktitle =	{Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs},
  pages =	{1--14},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{7281},
  editor =	{Erik Demaine and Gregory Z. Gutin and Daniel Marx and Ulrike Stege},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07281.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-12450},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07281.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parameterized complexity, fixed-parameter tractability, graph structure theory}
}
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Approximating Solution Structure

Authors: Iris van Rooij, Matthew Hamilton, Moritz Müller, and Todd Wareham

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7281, Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs (2007)


Abstract
hen it is hard to compute an optimal solution $y in optsol(x)$ to an instance $x$ of a problem, one may be willing to settle for an efficient algorithm $A$ that computes an approximate solution $A(x)$. The most popular type of approximation algorithm in Computer Science (and indeed many other applications) computes solutions whose value is within some multiplicative factor of the optimal solution value, {em e.g.}, $max(frac{val(A(x))}{optval(x)}, frac{optval(x)}{val(A(x))}) leq h(|x|)$ for some function $h()$. However, an algorithm might also produce a solution whose structure is ``close'' to the structure of an optimal solution relative to a specified solution-distance function $d$, {em i.e.}, $d(A(x), y) leq h(|x|)$ for some $y in optsol(x)$. Such structure-approximation algorithms have applications within Cognitive Science and other areas. Though there is an extensive literature dating back over 30 years on value-approximation, there is to our knowledge no work on general techniques for assessing the structure-(in)approximability of a given problem. In this talk, we describe a framework for investigating the polynomial-time and fixed-parameter structure-(in)approximability of combinatorial optimization problems relative to metric solution-distance functions, {em e.g.}, Hamming distance. We motivate this framework by (1) describing a particular application within Cognitive Science and (2) showing that value-approximability does not necessarily imply structure-approximability (and vice versa). This framework includes definitions of several types of structure approximation algorithms analogous to those studied in value-approximation, as well as structure-approximation problem classes and a structure-approximability-preserving reducibility. We describe a set of techniques for proving the degree of structure-(in)approximability of a given problem, and summarize all known results derived using these techniques. We also list 11 open questions summarizing particularly promising directions for future research within this framework. vspace*{0.15in} oindent (co-presented with Todd Wareham) vspace*{0.15in} jointwork{Hamilton, Matthew; M"{u}ller, Moritz; van Rooij, Iris; Wareham, Todd}

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Iris van Rooij, Matthew Hamilton, Moritz Müller, and Todd Wareham. Approximating Solution Structure. In Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7281, pp. 1-24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)


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@InProceedings{vanrooij_et_al:DagSemProc.07281.3,
  author =	{van Rooij, Iris and Hamilton, Matthew and M\"{u}ller, Moritz and Wareham, Todd},
  title =	{{Approximating Solution Structure}},
  booktitle =	{Structure Theory and FPT Algorithmics for Graphs, Digraphs and Hypergraphs},
  pages =	{1--24},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{7281},
  editor =	{Erik Demaine and Gregory Z. Gutin and Daniel Marx and Ulrike Stege},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07281.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-12345},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07281.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Solution Structure}
}
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