28 Search Results for "Suzuki, Akira"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2026.25
Computational Complexity of Swish Is Solved

Authors: Takashi Horiyama, Takehiro Ito, Jun Kawahara, Shin-ichi Minato, Akira Suzuki, Ryuhei Uehara, and Yutaro Yamaguchi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 366, 13th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2026)

Abstract
Swish is a card game in which players are given cards having symbols (hoops and balls), and find a valid superposition of cards, called a "swish." Dailly, Lafourcade, and Marcadet (FUN 2024) studied a generalized version of Swish and showed that the problem is solvable in polynomial time with one symbol per card, while it is NP-complete with three or more symbols per card. In this paper, we resolve the previously open case of two symbols per card, which corresponds to the original game. We show that Swish is NP-complete for this case. Specifically, we prove the NP-hardness when the allowed transformations of cards are restricted to a single (horizontal or vertical) flip or 180-degree rotation, and extend the results to the original setting allowing all three transformations. In contrast, when neither transformation is allowed, we present a polynomial-time algorithm. Combining known and our results, we establish a complete characterization of the computational complexity of Swish with respect to both the number of symbols per card and the allowed transformations.
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Takashi Horiyama, Takehiro Ito, Jun Kawahara, Shin-ichi Minato, Akira Suzuki, Ryuhei Uehara, and Yutaro Yamaguchi. Computational Complexity of Swish Is Solved. In 13th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 366, pp. 25:1-25:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{horiyama_et_al:LIPIcs.FUN.2026.25,
  author =	{Horiyama, Takashi and Ito, Takehiro and Kawahara, Jun and Minato, Shin-ichi and Suzuki, Akira and Uehara, Ryuhei and Yamaguchi, Yutaro},
  title =	{{Computational Complexity of Swish Is Solved}},
  booktitle =	{13th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2026)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-417-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{366},
  editor =	{Iacono, John},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2026.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-257448},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2026.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Swish, Computational complexity, Matching, Parity-constrained cycles}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.19
A Linear Kernel for Independent Set Reconfiguration in Planar Graphs

Authors: Nicolas Bousquet and Daniel W. Cranston

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

Abstract
Fix a positive integer r, and a graph G that is K_{3,r}-minor-free. Let I_s and I_t be two independent sets in G, each of size k. We begin with a "token" on each vertex of I_s and seek to move all tokens to I_t, by repeated "token jumping", removing a single token from one vertex and placing it on another vertex. We require that each intermediate arrangement of tokens again specifies an independent set of size k. Given G, I_s, and I_t, we ask whether there exists a sequence of token jumps that transforms I_s into I_t. When k is part of the input, this problem is known to be PSPACE-complete. But it was shown by Ito, Kamiński, and Ono [Ito et al., 2014] to be fixed-parameter tractable. That is, the problem can be solved in time f(k)⋅ P(n), for some function f and polynomial P, where n denotes the order of G. Here we strengthen the upper bound on the running time in terms of k by showing that the problem has a kernel of size linear in k. More precisely, we transform an arbitrary input problem on a K_{3,r}-minor-free graph (for some fixed positive integer r) into an equivalent problem on a (K_{3,r}-minor-free) graph with order O(k). This answers positively a question of Bousquet, Mouawad, Nishimura, and Siebertz [Nicolas Bousquet et al., 2022] and improves the recent quadratic kernel of Cranston, Mühlenthaler, and Peyrille [Daniel W. Cranston et al., 2024]. For planar graphs, we further strengthen this upper bound to get a kernel of size at most 42k.
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Nicolas Bousquet and Daniel W. Cranston. A Linear Kernel for Independent Set Reconfiguration in Planar Graphs. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 19:1-19:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{bousquet_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.19,
  author =	{Bousquet, Nicolas and Cranston, Daniel W.},
  title =	{{A Linear Kernel for Independent Set Reconfiguration in Planar Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:18},
  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.2026.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255081},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reconfiguration, Independent Set, Kernel, Planar graphs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.31
Hamiltonicity Parameterized by Mim-Width Is (Indeed) Para-NP-Hard

Authors: Benjamin Bergougnoux and Lars Jaffke

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

Abstract
We prove that Hamiltonian Path and Hamiltonian Cycle are NP-hard on graphs of linear mim-width 26, even when a linear order of the input graph with mim-width 26 is provided together with input. This fills a gap left by a broken proof of the para-NP-hardness of Hamiltonicity problems parameterized by mim-width.
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Benjamin Bergougnoux and Lars Jaffke. Hamiltonicity Parameterized by Mim-Width Is (Indeed) Para-NP-Hard. In 20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 358, pp. 31:1-31:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bergougnoux_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.31,
  author =	{Bergougnoux, Benjamin and Jaffke, Lars},
  title =	{{Hamiltonicity Parameterized by Mim-Width Is (Indeed) Para-NP-Hard}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2025)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:10},
  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.2025.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251631},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2025.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hamiltonian Path, Hamiltonian Cycle, Mim-Width, Para-NP-Hardness}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.31
Token Sliding Independent Set Reconfiguration on Block Graphs

Authors: Mathew C. Francis and Veena Prabhakaran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 360, 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)

Abstract
Let S be an independent set of a simple undirected graph G. Suppose that each vertex of S has a token placed on it. The tokens are allowed to be moved, one at a time, by sliding along the edges of G while maintaining the property that after each move, the vertices having tokens always form an independent set of G. We would like to determine whether the tokens can be eventually brought to stay on the vertices of another independent set S' of G in this manner. In other words, we would like to decide if we can transform S into S' through a sequence of steps, each of which involves substituting a vertex in the current independent set with one of its neighbours to obtain another independent set. This problem of determining if one independent set of a graph "is reachable" from another independent set of it is known to be PSPACE-hard even for split graphs, planar graphs, and graphs of bounded treewidth. Polynomial time algorithms have been obtained for certain graph classes like trees, interval graphs, claw-free graphs, and bipartite permutation graphs. We present a polynomial time algorithm for the problem on block graphs, which are the graphs in which every maximal 2-connected subgraph is a clique. Our algorithm is the first generalization of the known polynomial time algorithm for trees to a larger class of graphs.
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Mathew C. Francis and Veena Prabhakaran. Token Sliding Independent Set Reconfiguration on Block Graphs. In 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 360, pp. 31:1-31:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{francis_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.31,
  author =	{Francis, Mathew C. and Prabhakaran, Veena},
  title =	{{Token Sliding Independent Set Reconfiguration on Block Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-406-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{360},
  editor =	{Aiswarya, C. and Mehta, Ruta and Roy, Subhajit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251120},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Token sliding independent set reconfiguration, block graphs, polynomial time algorithm}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.39
Reachability of Independent Sets and Vertex Covers Under Extended Reconfiguration Rules

Authors: Shuichi Hirahara, Naoto Ohsaka, Tatsuhiro Suga, Akira Suzuki, Yuma Tamura, and Xiao Zhou

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

Abstract
In reconfiguration problems, we are given two feasible solutions to a graph problem and asked whether one can be transformed into the other via a sequence of feasible intermediate solutions under a given reconfiguration rule. While earlier work focused on modifying a single element at a time, recent studies have started examining how different rules impact computational complexity. Motivated by recent progress, we study Independent Set Reconfiguration (ISR) and Vertex Cover Reconfiguration (VCR) under the k-Token Jumping (k-TJ) and k-Token Sliding (k-TS) models. In k-TJ, up to k vertices may be replaced, while k-TS additionally requires a perfect matching between removed and added vertices. It is known that the complexity of ISR crucially depends on k, ranging from PSPACE-complete and NP-complete to polynomial-time solvable. In this paper, we further explore the gradient of computational complexity of the problems. We first show that ISR under k-TJ with k = |I| - μ remains NP-hard when μ is any fixed positive integer and the input graph is restricted to graphs of maximum degree 3 or planar graphs of maximum degree 4, where |I| is the size of feasible solutions. In addition, we prove that the problem belongs to NP not only for μ = O(1) but also for μ = O(log |I|). In contrast, we show that VCR under k-TJ is in XP when parameterized by μ = |S| - k, where |S| is the size of feasible solutions. Furthermore, we establish the PSPACE-completeness of ISR and VCR under both k-TJ and k-TS on several graph classes, for fixed k as well as superconstant k relative to the size of feasible solutions.
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Shuichi Hirahara, Naoto Ohsaka, Tatsuhiro Suga, Akira Suzuki, Yuma Tamura, and Xiao Zhou. Reachability of Independent Sets and Vertex Covers Under Extended Reconfiguration Rules. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 39:1-39:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{hirahara_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.39,
  author =	{Hirahara, Shuichi and Ohsaka, Naoto and Suga, Tatsuhiro and Suzuki, Akira and Tamura, Yuma and Zhou, Xiao},
  title =	{{Reachability of Independent Sets and Vertex Covers Under Extended Reconfiguration Rules}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:20},
  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.2025.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249474},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: combinatorial reconfiguration, extended reconfiguration rule, independent set reconfiguration, vertex cover reconfiguration, PSPACE-completeness, NP-completeness}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.33
Coloring Reconfiguration Under Color Swapping

Authors: Janosch Fuchs, Rin Saito, Tatsuhiro Suga, Takahiro Suzuki, and Yuma Tamura

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

Abstract
In the Coloring Reconfiguration problem, we are given two proper k-colorings of a graph and asked to decide whether one can be transformed into the other by repeatedly applying a specified recoloring rule, while maintaining a proper coloring throughout. For this problem, two recoloring rules have been widely studied: single-vertex recoloring and Kempe chain recoloring. In this paper, we introduce a new rule, called color swapping, where two adjacent vertices may exchange their colors, so that the resulting coloring remains proper, and study the computational complexity of the problem under this rule. We first establish a complexity dichotomy with respect to k: the problem is solvable in polynomial time for k ≤ 2, and is PSPACE-complete for k ≥ 3. We further show that the problem remains PSPACE-complete even on restricted graph classes, including bipartite graphs, split graphs, and planar graphs of bounded degree. In contrast, we present polynomial-time algorithms for several graph classes: for paths when k = 3, for split graphs when k is fixed, and for cographs when k is arbitrary.
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Janosch Fuchs, Rin Saito, Tatsuhiro Suga, Takahiro Suzuki, and Yuma Tamura. Coloring Reconfiguration Under Color Swapping. In 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 359, pp. 33:1-33:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{fuchs_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.33,
  author =	{Fuchs, Janosch and Saito, Rin and Suga, Tatsuhiro and Suzuki, Takahiro and Tamura, Yuma},
  title =	{{Coloring Reconfiguration Under Color Swapping}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:21},
  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.2025.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249411},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: Combinatorial reconfiguration, graph coloring, PSPACE-complete, graph algorithm}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.23
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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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.23
The Price of Connectivity Augmentation on Planar Graphs

Authors: Hugo A. Akitaya, Justin Dallant, Erik D. Demaine, Michael Kaufmann, Linda Kleist, Frederick Stock, Csaba D. Tóth, and Torsten Ueckerdt

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

Abstract
Given two classes of graphs, 𝒢₁ ⊆ 𝒢₂, and a c-connected graph G ∈ 𝒢₁, we wish to augment G with a smallest cardinality set of new edges F to obtain a k-connected graph G' = (V,E∪ F) ∈ 𝒢₂. In general, this is the c → k connectivity augmentation problem. Previous research considered variants where 𝒢₁ = 𝒢₂ is the class of planar graphs, plane graphs, or planar straight-line graphs. In all three settings, we prove that the c → k augmentation problem is NP-complete when 2 ≤ c < k ≤ 5. However, the connectivity of the augmented graph G' is at most 5 if 𝒢₂ is limited to planar graphs. We initiate the study of the c → k connectivity augmentation problem for arbitrary k ∈ ℕ, where 𝒢₁ is the class of planar graphs, plane graphs, or planar straight-line graphs, and 𝒢₂ is a beyond-planar class of graphs: 𝓁-planar, 𝓁-plane topological, or 𝓁-plane geometric graphs. We obtain tight bounds on the tradeoffs between the desired connectivity k and the local crossing number 𝓁 of the augmented graph G'. We also show that our hardness results apply to this setting. The connectivity augmentation problem for triangulations is intimately related to edge flips; and the minimum augmentation problem to the flip distance between triangulations. We prove that it is NP-complete to find the minimum flip distance between a given triangulation and a 4-connected triangulation, settling an open problem posed in 2014, and present an EPTAS for this problem.
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Hugo A. Akitaya, Justin Dallant, Erik D. Demaine, Michael Kaufmann, Linda Kleist, Frederick Stock, Csaba D. Tóth, and Torsten Ueckerdt. The Price of Connectivity Augmentation on Planar Graphs. In 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 357, pp. 23:1-23:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{a.akitaya_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2025.23,
  author =	{A. Akitaya, Hugo and Dallant, Justin and Demaine, Erik D. and Kaufmann, Michael and Kleist, Linda and Stock, Frederick and T\'{o}th, Csaba D. and Ueckerdt, Torsten},
  title =	{{The Price of Connectivity Augmentation on Planar Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:24},
  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.2025.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250095},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: connectivity augmentation, local crossing number, flip distance}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.10
The Bend Number of Cocomparability Graphs

Authors: Todor Antić, Vit Jelínek, Martin Pergel, Felix Schröder, Peter Stumpf, and Pavel Valtr

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

Abstract
We introduce a new complexity measure for cocomparability graphs of posets or in other words, intersection graphs of piecewise linear functions, the bend number. We prove that cocomparability graphs of bounded bend number are not too plentiful and give two hierarchies of classes of cocomparability graphs, depending on whether the piecewise linear functions are restricted to slopes of ±1 (diagonal case) or not (general case). These hierarchies give a gradation between permutation graphs and cocomparability graphs.
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Todor Antić, Vit Jelínek, Martin Pergel, Felix Schröder, Peter Stumpf, and Pavel Valtr. The Bend Number of Cocomparability Graphs. In 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 357, pp. 10:1-10:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{antic_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2025.10,
  author =	{Anti\'{c}, Todor and Jel{\'\i}nek, Vit and Pergel, Martin and Schr\"{o}der, Felix and Stumpf, Peter and Valtr, Pavel},
  title =	{{The Bend Number of Cocomparability Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:23},
  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.2025.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-249963},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Intersection Graphs, Bend Number, Piecewise Linear Functions, Graph Class Hierarchy, Cocomparability Graphs, Permutation Graphs, Poset Dimension}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.32
Planar Stories of Graph Drawings: Algorithms and Experiments

Authors: Carla Binucci, Sabine Cornelsen, Walter Didimo, Seok-Hee Hong, Eleni Katsanou, Maurizio Patrignani, Antonios Symvonis, and Samuel Wolf

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

Abstract
We address the problem of computing a dynamic visualization of a geometric graph G as a sequence of frames. Each frame shows only a portion of the graph but their union covers G entirely. The two main requirements of our dynamic visualization are: (i) guaranteeing drawing stability, so to preserve the user’s mental map; (ii) keeping the visual complexity of each frame low. To satisfy the first requirement, we never change the position of the vertices. Regarding the second requirement, we avoid edge crossings in each frame. More precisely, in the first frame we visualize a suitable subset of non-crossing edges; in each subsequent frame, exactly one new edge enters the visualization and all the edges that cross with it are deleted. We call such a sequence of frames a planar story of G. Our goal is to find a planar story whose minimum number of edges contemporarily displayed is maximized (i.e., a planar story that maximizes the minimum frame size). Besides studying our model from a theoretical point of view, we also design and experimentally compare different algorithms, both exact techniques and heuristics. These algorithms provide an array of alternative trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness, also depending on the structure of the input graph.
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Carla Binucci, Sabine Cornelsen, Walter Didimo, Seok-Hee Hong, Eleni Katsanou, Maurizio Patrignani, Antonios Symvonis, and Samuel Wolf. Planar Stories of Graph Drawings: Algorithms and Experiments. In 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 357, pp. 32:1-32:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{binucci_et_al:LIPIcs.GD.2025.32,
  author =	{Binucci, Carla and Cornelsen, Sabine and Didimo, Walter and Hong, Seok-Hee and Katsanou, Eleni and Patrignani, Maurizio and Symvonis, Antonios and Wolf, Samuel},
  title =	{{Planar Stories of Graph Drawings: Algorithms and Experiments}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:19},
  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.2025.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-250182},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph Drawing, Dynamic Graphs, Graph Stories, Heuristics, ILP}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.57
Improved Hardness-Of-Approximation for Token-Swapping

Authors: Sam Hiken and Nicole Wein

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

Abstract
We study the token swapping problem, in which we are given a graph with an initial assignment of one distinct token to each vertex, and a final desired assignment (again with one token per vertex). The goal is to find the minimum length sequence of swaps of adjacent tokens required to get from the initial to the final assignment. The token swapping problem is known to be NP-complete. It is also known to have a polynomial-time 4-approximation algorithm. From the hardness-of-approximation side, it is known to be NP-hard to approximate with a ratio better than 1001/1000. Our main result is an improvement of the approximation ratio of the lower bound: We show that it is NP-hard to approximate with ratio better than 14/13. We then turn our attention to the 0/1-weighted version, in which every token has a weight of either 0 or 1, and the cost of a swap is the sum of the weights of the two participating tokens. Unlike standard token swapping, no constant-factor approximation is known for this version, and we provide an explanation. We prove that 0/1-weighted token swapping is NP-hard to approximate with ratio better than (1-ε) ln(n) for any constant ε > 0. Lastly, we prove two barrier results for the standard (unweighted) token swapping problem. We show that one cannot beat the current best known approximation ratio of 4 using a large class of algorithms which includes all known algorithms, nor can one beat it using a common analysis framework.
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Sam Hiken and Nicole Wein. Improved Hardness-Of-Approximation for Token-Swapping. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 57:1-57:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{hiken_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.57,
  author =	{Hiken, Sam and Wein, Nicole},
  title =	{{Improved Hardness-Of-Approximation for Token-Swapping}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:16},
  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.2025.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245251},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: algorithms, token-swapping, hardness-of-approximation, lower-bounds}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.29
The Tape Reconfiguration Problem and Its Consequences for Dominating Set Reconfiguration

Authors: Nicolas Bousquet, Quentin Deschamps, Arnaud Mary, Amer E. Mouawad, and Théo Pierron

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

Abstract
A dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a set of vertices D ⊆ V whose closed neighborhood is V, i.e., N[D] = V. We view a dominating set as a collection of tokens placed on the vertices of D. In the token sliding variant of the Dominating Set Reconfiguration problem (TS-DSR), we seek to transform a source dominating set into a target dominating set in G by sliding tokens along edges, and while maintaining a dominating set all along the transformation. TS-DSR is known to be PSPACE-complete even restricted to graphs of pathwidth w, for some non-explicit constant w and to be XL-complete parameterized by the size k of the solution. The first contribution of this article consists in using a novel approach to provide the first explicit constant for which the TS-DSR problem is PSPACE-complete, a question that was left open in the literature. From a parameterized complexity perspective, the token jumping variant of DSR, i.e., where tokens can jump to arbitrary vertices, is known to be FPT when parameterized by the size of the dominating sets on nowhere dense classes of graphs. But, in contrast, no non-trivial result was known about TS-DSR. We prove that DSR is actually much harder in the sliding model since it is XL-complete when restricted to bounded pathwidth graphs and even when parameterized by k plus the feedback vertex set number of the graph. This gives, for the first time, a difference of behavior between the complexity under token sliding and token jumping for some problem on graphs of bounded treewidth. All our results are obtained using a brand new method, based on the hardness of the so-called Tape Reconfiguration problem, a problem we believe to be of independent interest. We complement these hardness results with a positive result showing that DSR (parameterized by k) in the sliding model is FPT on planar graphs, also answering an open problem from the literature.
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Nicolas Bousquet, Quentin Deschamps, Arnaud Mary, Amer E. Mouawad, and Théo Pierron. The Tape Reconfiguration Problem and Its Consequences for Dominating Set Reconfiguration. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 29:1-29:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bousquet_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.29,
  author =	{Bousquet, Nicolas and Deschamps, Quentin and Mary, Arnaud and Mouawad, Amer E. and Pierron, Th\'{e}o},
  title =	{{The Tape Reconfiguration Problem and Its Consequences for Dominating Set Reconfiguration}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:15},
  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.2025.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244974},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: combinatorial reconfiguration, parameterized complexity, structural graph parameters, treewidth, dominating set}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.27
Assessing the Use of Mixed Reality as a Valid Tool for Human-Robot Interaction Studies in the Context of Space Exploration

Authors: Enrico Guerra, Sebastian Thomas Büttner, Alper Beşer, and Michael Prilla

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 130, Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)

Abstract
Mixed Reality (MR) is a technology with strong potential for advancing research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) for space exploration. Apart from the efficiency and high flexibility MR can offer, we argue that its benefits for HRI research in space contexts lies particularly in its ability to aid human-in-the-loop development, offer realistic hybrid simulations, and foster broader participation in HRI research in the space exploration context. However, we believe that this is only plausible if MR-based simulations can yield comparable results to fully physical approaches in human-centred studies. In this position paper, we highlight several arguments in favour of MR as a tool for space HRI research, while emphasising the importance of the open question regarding its scientific validity. We believe MR could become a central tool for preparing for future human-robotic space exploration missions and significantly diversify research in this domain.
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Enrico Guerra, Sebastian Thomas Büttner, Alper Beşer, and Michael Prilla. Assessing the Use of Mixed Reality as a Valid Tool for Human-Robot Interaction Studies in the Context of Space Exploration. In Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 130, pp. 27:1-27:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{guerra_et_al:OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.27,
  author =	{Guerra, Enrico and B\"{u}ttner, Sebastian Thomas and Be\c{s}er, Alper and Prilla, Michael},
  title =	{{Assessing the Use of Mixed Reality as a Valid Tool for Human-Robot Interaction Studies in the Context of Space Exploration}},
  booktitle =	{Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:11},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-384-3},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{130},
  editor =	{Bensch, Leonie and Nilsson, Tommy and Nisser, Martin and Pataranutaporn, Pat and Schmidt, Albrecht and Sumini, Valentina},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240175},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality, Human-Robot Interaction, Space Exploration, Validity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.41
Token Sliding Reconfiguration on DAGs

Authors: Jona Dirks and Alexandre Vigny

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

Abstract
Given a graph G and two independent sets of same size, the Independent Set Reconfiguration Problem under token sliding asks whether one can, in a step by step manner, transform the first independent set into the second one. In each step we must preserve the condition of independence. Further, referring to solution vertices as tokens, we are only permitted to slide a token along an edge. Until the recent work of Ito et al. [Ito et al. MFCS 2022] this problem was only considered on undirected graphs. In this work, we study reconfiguration under token sliding focusing on DAGs. We present a complete dichotomy of intractability in regard to the depth of the DAG, by proving that this problem is NP-complete for DAGs of depth 3 and W[1]-hard for depth 4 when parameterized by the number of tokens k, and that these bounds are tight. Further, we prove that it is fixed parameter tractable on DAGs parameterized by the combination of treewidth and k. We show that this result applies to undirected graphs, when the number of times a token can visit a vertex is restricted.
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Jona Dirks and Alexandre Vigny. Token Sliding Reconfiguration on DAGs. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 41:1-41:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{dirks_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.41,
  author =	{Dirks, Jona and Vigny, Alexandre},
  title =	{{Token Sliding Reconfiguration on DAGs}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{41:1--41:17},
  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.2025.41},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241486},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph theory, FPT algorithms, Reconfiguration, Independent Sets}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.25
Mim-Width Is paraNP-Complete

Authors: Benjamin Bergougnoux, Édouard Bonnet, and Julien Duron

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

Abstract
We show that it is NP-hard to distinguish graphs of linear mim-width at most 1211 from graphs of sim-width at least 1216. This implies that Mim-Width, Sim-Width, One-Sided Mim-Width, and their linear counterparts are all paraNP-complete, i.e., NP-complete to compute even when upper bounded by a constant. A key intermediate problem that we introduce and show NP-complete, Linear Degree Balancing, inputs an edge-weighted graph G and an integer τ, and asks whether V(G) can be linearly ordered such that every vertex of G has weighted backward and forward degrees at most τ.
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Benjamin Bergougnoux, Édouard Bonnet, and Julien Duron. Mim-Width Is paraNP-Complete. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 25:1-25:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bergougnoux_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.25,
  author =	{Bergougnoux, Benjamin and Bonnet, \'{E}douard and Duron, Julien},
  title =	{{Mim-Width Is paraNP-Complete}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:17},
  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.2025.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234020},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Mim-width, lower bounds, parameterized complexity, ordered graphs}
}
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