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LIPIcs, Volume 364

43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

STACS 2026, Grenoble, France, March 9-13, 2026

Editors: Meena Mahajan, Florin Manea, Annabelle McIver, and Nguyễn Kim Thắng

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LIPIcs, Volume 216

30th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2022)

CSL 2022, February 14-19, 2022, Göttingen, Germany (Virtual Conference)

Editors: Florin Manea and Alex Simpson

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Complete Volume
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026
LIPIcs, Volume 364, STACS 2026, Complete Volume

Authors: Meena Mahajan, Florin Manea, Annabelle McIver, and Nguyễn Kim Thắng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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LIPIcs, Volume 364, STACS 2026, Complete Volume
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43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 1-1566, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@Proceedings{mahajan_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026,
  title =	{{LIPIcs, Volume 364, STACS 2026, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{1--1566},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255846},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026},
  annote =	{Keywords: LIPIcs, Volume 364, STACS 2026, Complete Volume}
}
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Front Matter
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.0
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization

Authors: Meena Mahajan, Florin Manea, Annabelle McIver, and Nguyễn Kim Thắng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
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43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 0:i-0:xxviii, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{mahajan_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.0,
  author =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{0:i--0:xxviii},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255836},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.7
Refining the Complexity Landscape of Speed Scaling: Hardness and Algorithms

Authors: Antonios Antoniadis, Denise Graafsma, Ruben Hoeksma, and Maria Vlasiou

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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We study the computational complexity of scheduling jobs on a single speed-scalable processor with the objective of capturing the trade-off between the (weighted) flow time and the energy consumption. This trade-off has been extensively explored in the literature through a number of problem formulations that differ in the specific job characteristics and the precise objective function. Nevertheless, the computational complexity of four important problem variants has remained unresolved and was explicitly identified as an open question in prior work (see [Barcelo et al., 2015]). In this paper, we settle the complexity of these variants. More specifically, we prove that the problem of minimizing the objective of total (weighted) flow time plus energy is NP-hard for the cases of (i) unit-weight jobs with arbitrary sizes, and (ii) arbitrary-weight jobs with unit sizes. These results extend to the objective of minimizing the total (weighted) flow time subject to an energy budget and hold even when the schedule is required to adhere to a given priority ordering. In contrast, we show that when a completion-time ordering is provided, the same problem variants become polynomial-time solvable. The latter result highlights the subtle differences between priority and completion orderings for the problem.
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Antonios Antoniadis, Denise Graafsma, Ruben Hoeksma, and Maria Vlasiou. Refining the Complexity Landscape of Speed Scaling: Hardness and Algorithms. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 7:1-7:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{antoniadis_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.7,
  author =	{Antoniadis, Antonios and Graafsma, Denise and Hoeksma, Ruben and Vlasiou, Maria},
  title =	{{Refining the Complexity Landscape of Speed Scaling: Hardness and Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254967},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-efficient algorithms, scheduling, flow-time minimization, linear program, NP-hard, speed scaling}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.17
Kernelization Dichotomies for Hitting Minors Under Structural Parameterizations

Authors: Marin Bougeret, Eric Brandwein, and Ignasi Sau

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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For a finite collection of connected graphs ℱ, the ℱ-Minor Deletion problem consists in, given a graph G and an integer 𝓁, deciding whether G contains a vertex set of size at most 𝓁 whose removal results in an ℱ-minor-free graph. We lift the existence of (approximate) polynomial kernels for ℱ-Minor Deletion by the solution size to (approximate) polynomial kernels parameterized by the vertex-deletion distance to graphs of bounded elimination distance to ℱ-minor-free graphs. This results in exact polynomial kernels for every family ℱ that contains a planar graph, and an approximate polynomial kernel for Planar Vertex Deletion. Moreover, combining our result with a previous lower bound, we obtain the following infinite set of dichotomies, assuming NP ̸ ⊆ coNP/poly: for any finite set ℱ of biconnected graphs on at least three vertices containing a planar graph, and any minor-closed class of graphs {C}, ℱ-Minor Deletion admits a polynomial kernel parameterized by the vertex-deletion distance to {C} if and only if {C} has bounded elimination distance to ℱ-minor-free graphs. For instance, this yields dichotomies for Cactus Vertex Deletion, Outerplanar Vertex Deletion, and Treewidth-t Vertex Deletion for every integer t ≥ 0. Prior to our work, such dichotomies were only known for the particular cases of Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set. Our approach builds on the techniques developed by Jansen and Pieterse [Theor. Comput. Sci. 2020] and also uses adaptations of some of the results by Jansen, de Kroon, and Włodarczyk [STOC 2021].
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Marin Bougeret, Eric Brandwein, and Ignasi Sau. Kernelization Dichotomies for Hitting Minors Under Structural Parameterizations. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 17:1-17:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{bougeret_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.17,
  author =	{Bougeret, Marin and Brandwein, Eric and Sau, Ignasi},
  title =	{{Kernelization Dichotomies for Hitting Minors Under Structural Parameterizations}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255067},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: hitting forbidden minors, parameterized complexity, polynomial kernel, structural parameterization, elimination distance, kernelization lower bound}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.20
Approximation Algorithms for Integer Programming with Resource Augmentation

Authors: Hauke Brinkop, Hua Chen, Lin Chen, Klaus Jansen, and Guochuan Zhang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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Solving a general integer program (IP) is NP-hard. The classic algorithm [Papadimitriou, J.ACM '81] for IPs has a running time n^{{𝒪}(m)}(m⋅max{Δ,‖b‖_{∞}})^{{𝒪}(m²)}, where m is the number of constraints, n is the number of variables, and Δ and ‖b‖_{∞} are, respectively, the largest absolute values among the entries in the constraint matrix and the right-hand side vector of the constraint. The running time is exponential in m, and becomes pseudo-polynomial if m is a constant. In recent years, there has been extensive research on FPT (fixed parameter tractable) algorithms for the so-called n-fold IPs, which may possess a large number of constraints, but the constraint matrix satisfies a specific block structure. It is remarkable that these FPT algorithms take as parameters Δ and the number of rows and columns of some small submatrices. If Δ is not treated as a parameter, then the running time becomes pseudo-polynomial even if all the other parameters are taken as constants. This paper explores the trade-off between time and accuracy in solving an IP. We show that, for arbitrary small ε > 0, there exists an algorithm for IPs with m constraints that runs in {f(m,ε)}⋅poly(|I|) time, and returns a near-feasible solution that violates the constraints by at most εΔ. Furthermore, for n-fold IPs, we establish a similar result - our algorithm runs in time that depends on the number of rows and columns of small submatrices together with 1/ε, and returns a solution that slightly violates the constraints. Meanwhile, both solutions guarantee that their objective values are no worse than the corresponding optimal objective values satisfying the constraints. As applications, our results can be used to obtain additive approximation schemes for multidimensional knapsack as well as scheduling.
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Hauke Brinkop, Hua Chen, Lin Chen, Klaus Jansen, and Guochuan Zhang. Approximation Algorithms for Integer Programming with Resource Augmentation. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 20:1-20:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{brinkop_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.20,
  author =	{Brinkop, Hauke and Chen, Hua and Chen, Lin and Jansen, Klaus and Zhang, Guochuan},
  title =	{{Approximation Algorithms for Integer Programming with Resource Augmentation}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255090},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation algorithms, Resource augmentation, Integer programs, n-fold IPs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.34
Algorithm and Strategy Construction for Sure-Almost-Sure Stochastic Parity Games

Authors: Laurent Doyen and Shibashis Guha

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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We consider turn-based stochastic two-player games with a combination of a parity condition that must hold surely, that is in all possible outcomes, and of a parity condition that must hold almost-surely, that is with probability 1. The problem of deciding the existence of a winning strategy in such games is central in the framework of synthesis beyond worst-case where a hard requirement that must hold surely is combined with a softer requirement. Recent works showed that the problem is coNP-complete, and infinite-memory strategies are necessary in general, even in one-player games (i.e., Markov decision processes). However, memoryless strategies are sufficient for the opponent player. Despite these comprehensive results, the known algorithmic solution enumerates all memoryless strategies of the opponent, which is exponential in all cases, and does not construct a winning strategy when one exists. We present a recursive algorithm, based on a characterisation of the winning region, that gives a deeper insight into the problem. In particular, we show how to construct a winning strategy to achieve the combination of sure and almost-sure parity, and we derive new complexity and memory bounds for special classes of the problem, defined by fixing the index of either of the two parity conditions.
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Laurent Doyen and Shibashis Guha. Algorithm and Strategy Construction for Sure-Almost-Sure Stochastic Parity Games. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 34:1-34:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{doyen_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.34,
  author =	{Doyen, Laurent and Guha, Shibashis},
  title =	{{Algorithm and Strategy Construction for Sure-Almost-Sure Stochastic Parity Games}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255230},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: stochastic games, parity objectives, reactive synthesis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.45
The Complexity of Homomorphism Reconstruction Revisited

Authors: Timo Gervens, Martin Grohe, Louis Härtel, and Philipp da Silva Fonseca

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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We revisit the algorithmic problem of reconstructing a graph from homomorphism counts that has first been studied in (Böker et al., STACS 2024): given graphs F₁,…,F_k and counts m₁,…,m_k, decide if there is a graph G such that the number of homomorphisms from F_i to G is m_i, for all i. We prove that the problem is NEXP-hard if the counts m_i are specified in binary and Σ₂^p-complete if they are in unary. Furthermore, as a positive result, we show that the unary version can be solved in polynomial time if the constraint graphs are stars of bounded size.
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Timo Gervens, Martin Grohe, Louis Härtel, and Philipp da Silva Fonseca. The Complexity of Homomorphism Reconstruction Revisited. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 45:1-45:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{gervens_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.45,
  author =	{Gervens, Timo and Grohe, Martin and H\"{a}rtel, Louis and da Silva Fonseca, Philipp},
  title =	{{The Complexity of Homomorphism Reconstruction Revisited}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{45:1--45:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.45},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255342},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.45},
  annote =	{Keywords: graph homomorphism, nexp-complete, counting complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.5
On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words

Authors: Antoine Amarilli, Mikaël Monet, Paul Raphaël, and Sylvain Salvati

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

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We study the membership problem to context-free languages L (CFLs) on probabilistic words, that specify for each position a probability distribution on the letters (assuming independence across positions). Our task is to compute, given a probabilistic word, what is the probability that a word drawn according to the distribution belongs to L. This problem generalizes the problem of counting how many words of length n belong to L, or of counting how many completions of a partial word belong to L. We show that this problem is in polynomial time for unambiguous context-free languages (uCFLs), but can be #P-hard already for unions of two linear uCFLs. More generally, we show that the problem is in polynomial time for so-called poly-slicewise-unambiguous languages, where given a length n we can tractably compute an uCFL for the words of length n in the language. This class includes some inherently ambiguous languages, and implies the tractability of bounded CFLs and of languages recognized by unambiguous polynomial-time counter automata; but we show that the problem can be #P-hard for nondeterministic counter automata, even for Parikh automata with a single counter. We then introduce classes of circuits from knowledge compilation which we use for tractable counting, and show that this covers the tractability of poly-slicewise-unambiguous languages and of some CFLs that are not poly-slicewise-unambiguous. Extending these circuits with negation further allows us to show tractability for the language of primitive words, and for the language of concatenations of two palindromes. We finally show the conditional undecidability of the meta-problem that asks, given a CFG, whether the probabilistic membership problem for that CFG is tractable or #P-hard.
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Antoine Amarilli, Mikaël Monet, Paul Raphaël, and Sylvain Salvati. On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 5:1-5:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{amarilli_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.5,
  author =	{Amarilli, Antoine and Monet, Mika\"{e}l and Rapha\"{e}l, Paul and Salvati, Sylvain},
  title =	{{On the Complexity of Language Membership for Probabilistic Words}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254943},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Automaton, probabilistic words, context-free grammar, membership problem}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.6
Threshold-Driven Streaming Graph: Expansion and Rumor Spreading

Authors: Flora Angileri, Andrea Clementi, Emanuele Natale, Michele Salvi, and Isabella Ziccardi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

Abstract
A randomized distributed algorithm called RAES was introduced in [Becchetti et al., 2020] to extract a bounded-degree expander from a dense n-vertex expander graph G = (V, E). The algorithm relies on a simple threshold-based procedure. A key assumption in [Becchetti et al., 2020] is that the input graph G is static - i.e., both its vertex set V and edge set E remain unchanged throughout the process - while the analysis of raes in dynamic models is left as a major open question. In this work, we investigate the behavior of RAES under a dynamic graph model induced by a streaming node-churn process (also known as the sliding window model), where, at each discrete round, a new node joins the graph and the oldest node departs. This process yields a bounded-degree dynamic graph 𝒢 = {G_t = (V_t, E_t) : t ∈ ℕ} that captures essential characteristics of peer-to-peer networks - specifically, node churn and threshold on the number of connections each node can manage. We prove that every snapshot G_t in the dynamic graph sequence has good expansion properties with high probability. Furthermore, we leverage this property to establish a logarithmic upper bound on the completion time of the well-known PUSH and PULL rumor spreading protocols over the dynamic graph 𝒢.
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Flora Angileri, Andrea Clementi, Emanuele Natale, Michele Salvi, and Isabella Ziccardi. Threshold-Driven Streaming Graph: Expansion and Rumor Spreading. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 6:1-6:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{angileri_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.6,
  author =	{Angileri, Flora and Clementi, Andrea and Natale, Emanuele and Salvi, Michele and Ziccardi, Isabella},
  title =	{{Threshold-Driven Streaming Graph: Expansion and Rumor Spreading}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254957},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms, Dynamic Random Graphs, Graph Expansion, Rumor Spreading}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.12
Density Matters: A Complexity Dichotomy of Deleting Edges to Bound Subgraph Density

Authors: Matthias Bentert, Tom-Lukas Breitkopf, Vincent Froese, Anton Herrmann, and André Nichterlein

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

Abstract
We study τ-Bounded-Density Edge Deletion (τ-BDED), where given an undirected graph G, the task is to remove as few edges as possible to obtain a graph G' where no subgraph of G' has density more than τ. The density of a (sub)graph is the number of edges divided by the number of vertices. This problem was recently introduced and shown to be NP-hard for τ ∈ {2/3, 3/4, 1 + 1/25}, but polynomial-time solvable for τ ∈ {0,1/2,1} [Bazgan et al., JCSS 2025]. We provide a complete dichotomy with respect to the target density τ: 1) If 2τ ∈ ℕ (half-integral target density) or τ < 2/3, then τ-BDED is polynomial-time solvable. 2) Otherwise, τ-BDED is NP-hard. We complement the NP-hardness with fixed-parameter tractability with respect to the treewidth of G. Moreover, for integral target density τ ∈ ℕ, we show τ-BDED to be solvable in randomized O(m^{1 + o(1)}) time. Our algorithmic results are based on a reduction to a new general flow problem on restricted networks that, depending on τ, can be solved via Maximum s-t-Flow or General Factors. We believe this connection between these variants of flow and matching to be of independent interest.
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Matthias Bentert, Tom-Lukas Breitkopf, Vincent Froese, Anton Herrmann, and André Nichterlein. Density Matters: A Complexity Dichotomy of Deleting Edges to Bound Subgraph Density. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 12:1-12:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{bentert_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.12,
  author =	{Bentert, Matthias and Breitkopf, Tom-Lukas and Froese, Vincent and Herrmann, Anton and Nichterlein, Andr\'{e}},
  title =	{{Density Matters: A Complexity Dichotomy of Deleting Edges to Bound Subgraph Density}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255012},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Transshipment, Maximum Flow, General Factors, Matching, Graph Modification Problem}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.13
Line Cover and Related Problems

Authors: Matthias Bentert, Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach, Souvik Saha, Sanjay Seetharaman, and Anannya Upasana

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

Abstract
We study several extensions of the classic Line Cover problem of covering a set of n points in the plane with k lines. Line Cover is known to be NP-hard and our focus is on two natural generalizations: (1) Line Clustering, where the objective is to find k lines in the plane that minimize the sum of squares of distances of a given set of input points to the closest line, and (2) Hyperplane Cover, where the goal is to cover n points in ℝ^d by k hyperplanes. We also consider the more general Projective Clustering problem, which unifies both of these and has numerous applications in machine learning, data mining, and computational geometry. In this problem one seeks k affine subspaces of dimension r minimizing the sum of squares of distances of a given set of n points in ℝ^d to the closest point within one of the k affine subspaces. Our main contributions reveal interesting differences in the parameterized complexity of these problems. While Line Cover is fixed-parameter tractable parameterized by the number k of lines in the solution, we show that Line Clustering is W[1]-hard when parameterized by k and rule out algorithms of running time n^{o(k)} under the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Hyperplane Cover is known to be NP-hard even when d = 2 and by the work of Langerman and Morin [Discrete & Computational Geometry, 2005], it is FPT parameterized by k and d. We complement this result by establishing that Hyperplane Cover is W[2]-hard when parameterized by only k. We complement our hardness results by presenting an algorithm for Projective Clustering. We show that this problem is solvable in n^{𝒪(dk(r+1))} time. Not only does this yield an upper bound for Line Clustering that asymptotically matches our lower bound, but it also significantly extends the seminal work on k-Means Clustering (the special case r = 0) by Inaba, Katoh, and Imai [SoCG 1994].
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Matthias Bentert, Fedor V. Fomin, Petr A. Golovach, Souvik Saha, Sanjay Seetharaman, and Anannya Upasana. Line Cover and Related Problems. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 13:1-13:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{bentert_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.13,
  author =	{Bentert, Matthias and Fomin, Fedor V. and Golovach, Petr A. and Saha, Souvik and Seetharaman, Sanjay and Upasana, Anannya},
  title =	{{Line Cover and Related Problems}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255023},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Point Line Cover, Projective Clustering, W-hardness, XP algorithm}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.11
The Diameter of (Threshold) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs

Authors: Zylan Benjert, Kostas Lakis, Johannes Lengler, and Raghu Raman Ravi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

Abstract
We prove that the diameter of threshold (zero temperature) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRG) is asymptotically almost surely Θ(log n). This has strong implications for the runtime of many distributed protocols on those graphs, which often have runtimes bounded as a function of the diameter. The GIRG model exhibits many properties empirically found in real-world networks, and the runtime of various practical algorithms has empirically been found to scale in the same way for GIRG and for real-world networks, in particular related to computing distances, diameter, clustering, cliques and chromatic numbers. Thus the GIRG model is a promising candidate for deriving insight about the performance of algorithms in real-world instances. The diameter was previously only known in the one-dimensional case, and the proof relied very heavily on dimension one. Our proof employs a similar Peierls-type argument alongside a novel renormalization scheme. Moreover, instead of using topological arguments (which become complicated in high dimensions) in establishing the connectivity of certain boundaries, we employ some comparatively recent and clearer graph-theoretic machinery. The lower bound is proven via a simple ad-hoc construction.
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Zylan Benjert, Kostas Lakis, Johannes Lengler, and Raghu Raman Ravi. The Diameter of (Threshold) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 11:1-11:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{benjert_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.11,
  author =	{Benjert, Zylan and Lakis, Kostas and Lengler, Johannes and Ravi, Raghu Raman},
  title =	{{The Diameter of (Threshold) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255009},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: GIRG, Diameter, Distributed Algorithms, Complex Networks}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.14
Computing Tarski Fixed Points in Financial Networks

Authors: Leander Besting, Martin Hoefer, and Lars Huth

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)

Abstract
Modern financial networks are highly connected and result in complex interdependencies of the involved institutions. In the prominent Eisenberg-Noe model [Eisenberg and Noe, 2001], a fundamental aspect is clearing - to determine the amount of assets available to each financial institution in the presence of potential defaults and bankruptcy. A clearing state represents a fixed point that satisfies a set of natural axioms. Existence can be established (even in broad generalizations of the model) using Tarski’s theorem. While a maximal fixed point can be computed in polynomial time, the complexity of computing other fixed points is open. In this paper, we provide an efficient algorithm to compute a minimal fixed point. Our algorithm applies in a broad generalization of the Eisenberg-Noe model with any monotone, piecewise-linear payment functions and default costs. We also study claims trading, a local network adjustment to improve clearing, when networks are evaluated with minimal clearing. We provide an efficient algorithm to decide existence of Pareto-improving trades and compute optimal ones if they exist.
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Leander Besting, Martin Hoefer, and Lars Huth. Computing Tarski Fixed Points in Financial Networks. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 14:1-14:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{besting_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.14,
  author =	{Besting, Leander and Hoefer, Martin and Huth, Lars},
  title =	{{Computing Tarski Fixed Points in Financial Networks}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle 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.2026.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255038},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Tarski Fixed Points, Financial Networks, Minimal Clearing, Claims Trade}
}
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