Iterative compression and exact algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Fedor V. Fomin;Serge Gaspers;Dieter Kratsch;Mathieu Liedloff;Saket Saurabh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway;Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, Universidad de Chile, 8370459 Santiago de Chile, Chile;Laboratoire dInformatique Théorique et Appliquée, Université Paul Verlaine - Metz, 57045 Metz Cedex 01, France;Laboratoire dInformatique Fondamentale dOrléans, Université dOrléans, 45067 Orléans Cedex 2, France;Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, 600 113 Chennai, India

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Iterative compression has recently led to a number of breakthroughs in parameterized complexity. Here, we show that the technique can also be useful in the design of exact exponential time algorithms to solve NP-hard problems. We exemplify our findings with algorithms for the Maximum Independent Set problem, a parameterized and a counting version of d-Hitting Set and the Maximum Induced Cluster Subgraph problem.