TY - JOUR
T1 - Covering Small Independent Sets and Separators with Applications to Parameterized Algorithms
AU - Lokshtanov, Daniel
AU - Panolan, Fahad
AU - Saurabh, Saket
AU - Sharma, Roohani
AU - Zehavi, Meirav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - We present two new combinatorial tools for the design of parameterized algorithms. The first is a simple linear time randomized algorithm that given as input a d-degenerate graph G and an integer k, outputs an independent set Y, such that for every independent set X in G of size at most k, the probability that X is a subset of Y is at least (((d+1)kk) . k(d+1))-1. The second is a new (deterministic) polynomial time graph sparsification procedure that given a graph G, a set T = s1, t1 , s2, t2, .... , s , t of terminal pairs, and an integer k, returns an induced subgraph G∗ of G that maintains all the inclusion minimal multicuts of G of size at most k and does not contain any (k+2)-vertex connected set of size 2O(k). In particular, G∗ excludes a clique of size 2O(k) as a topological minor. Put together, our new tools yield new randomized fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms for STABLE s-t SEPARATOR, STABLE ODD CYCLE TRANSVERSAL, and STABLE MULTICUT on general graphs, and for STABLE DIRECTED FEEDBACK VERTEX SET on d-degenerate graphs, resolving two problems left open by Marx et al. [ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2013{. All of our algorithms can be derandomized at the cost of a small overhead in the running time.
AB - We present two new combinatorial tools for the design of parameterized algorithms. The first is a simple linear time randomized algorithm that given as input a d-degenerate graph G and an integer k, outputs an independent set Y, such that for every independent set X in G of size at most k, the probability that X is a subset of Y is at least (((d+1)kk) . k(d+1))-1. The second is a new (deterministic) polynomial time graph sparsification procedure that given a graph G, a set T = s1, t1 , s2, t2, .... , s , t of terminal pairs, and an integer k, returns an induced subgraph G∗ of G that maintains all the inclusion minimal multicuts of G of size at most k and does not contain any (k+2)-vertex connected set of size 2O(k). In particular, G∗ excludes a clique of size 2O(k) as a topological minor. Put together, our new tools yield new randomized fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms for STABLE s-t SEPARATOR, STABLE ODD CYCLE TRANSVERSAL, and STABLE MULTICUT on general graphs, and for STABLE DIRECTED FEEDBACK VERTEX SET on d-degenerate graphs, resolving two problems left open by Marx et al. [ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2013{. All of our algorithms can be derandomized at the cost of a small overhead in the running time.
KW - Independece covering family
KW - parameterized algorithms
KW - stable OCT
KW - stable multicut
KW - stable s-t separator
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U2 - 10.1145/3379698
DO - 10.1145/3379698
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088702843
SN - 1549-6325
VL - 16
JO - ACM Transactions on Algorithms
JF - ACM Transactions on Algorithms
IS - 3
M1 - 31
ER -