Constrained multilinear detection for faster functional motif discovery

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Koutis

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Graph Motif problem asks whether a given multiset of colors appears on a connected subgraph of a vertex-colored graph. The fastest known parameterized algorithm for this problem is based on a reduction to the k-Multilinear Detection (k-MlD) problem: the detection of multilinear terms of total degree k in polynomials presented as circuits. We revisit k-MlD and define k-CMlD, a constrained version of it which reflects Graph Motif more faithfully. We then give a fast algorithm for k-CMlD. As a result we obtain faster parameterized algorithms for Graph Motif and variants of it.