Exact exponential-time algorithms for finding bicliques

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Abstract : Due to a large number of applications, bicliques of graphs have been widely considered in the literature. This paper focuses on non-induced bicliques. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices, a pair $(X , Y)$, with $X, Y \subseteq V$, $X\cap Y=\emptyset$, is a non-induced biclique if $\{x,y\}\in E$ for any $x \in X$ and $y \in Y$. The NP-complete problem of finding a non-induced $(k_1, k_2)$-biclique asks to decide whether $G$ contains a non-induced biclique $(X,Y)$ such that $|X|=k_1$ and $|Y|=k_2$. In this paper, we design a polynomial-space $O(1.6914^n)$-time algorithm for this problem. It is based on an algorithm for bipartite graphs that runs in time $O(1.30052^n)$. In deriving this algorithm, we also exhibit a relation to the spare allocation problem known from memory chip fabrication. As a byproduct, we show that the constraint bipartite vertex cover problem can be solved in time $O(1.30052^n)$.
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Information Processing Letters, Elsevier, 2010, 111, pp.64-67. 〈10.1016/j.ipl.2010.10.020〉

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Daniel Binkele-Raible, Henning Fernau, Serge Gaspers, Mathieu Liedloff. Exact exponential-time algorithms for finding bicliques. Information Processing Letters, Elsevier, 2010, 111, pp.64-67. 〈10.1016/j.ipl.2010.10.020〉. 〈hal-00535626〉

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