Safe Reduction Rules for Weighted Treewidth

  • Authors:
  • Frank van den Eijkhof;Hans L. Bodlaender

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WG '02 Revised Papers from the 28th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Several sets of reductions rules are known for preprocessing a graph when computing its treewidth. In this paper, we give reduction rules for a weighted variant of treewidth, motivated by the analysis of algorithms for probabilistic networks. We present two general reduction rules that are safe for weighted treewidth, which generalise many of the existing reduction rules for treewidth. Experimental results show that these reduction rules can significantly reduce the problem size for several instances of real-life probabilistic networks.