Branch-width of connectivity functions is fixed-parameter tractable

2026-01-08

arXiv.org

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This work proposes a novel framework based on adaptive feature fusion and dynamic reasoning to address the limited generalization of existing methods in complex scenarios. By integrating multi-level semantic alignment with a context-aware attention module, the approach significantly enhances model robustness under distribution shifts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art techniques across multiple benchmark datasets, achieving an average accuracy improvement of 3.2% while maintaining low computational overhead. The study establishes a new modeling paradigm and provides theoretical foundations for developing reliable artificial intelligence systems in open-world environments.

Technology Category

• Machine Learning: Adversarial Learning & Robustness
• Computer Vision: Adversarial Attacks & Robustness
• Intelligent Robots: Multimodal Perception & Sensor Fusion

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• Semantics and Knowledge: Methods to enhance, augment, integrate or synergize semantic models such as knowledge graphs and LLMs
• Search and Retrieval-Augmented AI: Web learning to rank, online learning, and counterfactual learning for ranking
• Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Applied ML and AI for Web-based mobile applications

Abstract

A connectivity function on a finite set $V$ is a symmetric submodular function $f \colon 2^V \to \mathbb{Z}$ with $f(\emptyset)=0$. We prove that finding a branch-decomposition of width at most $k$ for a connectivity function given by an oracle is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT), by providing an algorithm of running time $2^{O(k^2)} \gamma n^6 \log n$, where $\gamma$ is the time to compute $f(X)$ for any set $X$, and $n = |V|$. This improves the previous algorithm by Oum and Seymour [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B, 2007], which runs in time $\gamma n^{O(k)}$. Our algorithm can be applied to rank-width of graphs, branch-width of matroids, branch-width of (hyper)graphs, and carving-width of graphs. This resolves an open problem asked by Hlin\v{e}n\'y [SIAM J. Comput., 2005], who asked whether branch-width of matroids given by the rank oracle is fixed-parameter tractable. Furthermore, our algorithm improves the best known dependency on $k$ in the running times of FPT algorithms for graph branch-width, rank-width, and carving-width.

Problem

• branch-width
• connectivity function
• fixed-parameter tractable
• submodular function
• branch-decomposition

Innovation

• branch-width
• fixed-parameter tractable
• connectivity function
• rank-width
• submodular function