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Caleb McFarland
dblp:346/4669
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-9844-6256ORCID · corroborated
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Theory of computation · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Graph algorithms and graph theory · 50% Algorithms and data structures · 25% Mathematical optimization · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization
integer programming |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Odd-Cycle-Packing-Treewidth: On the Maximum Independent Set Problem in Odd-Minor-Free Graph Classes · ICALP 2026 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory › independent set
maximum independent set |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Odd-Cycle-Packing-Treewidth: On the Maximum Independent Set Problem in Odd-Minor-Free Graph Classes · ICALP 2026 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory › graph minors
odd-minor-free graphs |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Odd-Cycle-Packing-Treewidth: On the Maximum Independent Set Problem in Odd-Minor-Free Graph Classes · ICALP 2026 |
Algorithms and data structures
parameterized algorithms |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Odd-Cycle-Packing-Treewidth: On the Maximum Independent Set Problem in Odd-Minor-Free Graph Classes · ICALP 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
tree decomposition · 1.0parameterized approximation · 1.0grid theorem · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Odd-Cycle-Packing-Treewidth: On the Maximum Independent Set Problem in Odd-Minor-Free Graph ClassesabstractWe introduce the tree-decomposition-based graph parameter Odd-Cycle-Packing-treewidth (OCP-tw) as a width parameter that asks to decompose a given graph into pieces of bounded odd cycle packing number. The parameter OCP-tw is monotone under the odd-minor-relation and we provide an analogue to the celebrated Grid Theorem of Robertson and Seymour for OCP-tw. That is, we identify two infinite families of grid-like graphs whose presence as odd-minors implies large OCP-tw and prove that their absence implies bounded OCP-tw. This structural result is constructive and implies a 2^(poly(k))poly(n)-time parameterized poly(k)-approximation algorithm for OCP-tw. Moreover, we show that the (weighted) Maximum Independent Set problem (MIS) can be solved in polynomial time on graphs of bounded OCP-tw. Finally, we lift the concept of OCP-tw to a parameter for matrices of integer programs. To this end, we show that our strategy can be applied to efficiently solve integer programs whose matrices can be "tree-decomposed" into totally delta-modular matrices with at most two non-zero entries per row. Mujin Choi, Maximilian Gorsky, Caleb McFarland, Sebastian Wiederrecht |
ICALP | 4 |
| 2026 | Totally Δ-Modular Tree Decompositions of Graphic Matrices for Integer ProgrammingabstractWe introduce the tree-decomposition-based parameter totally Δ-modular treewidth (TDM-treewidth) for matrices with two nonzero entries per row. We show how to solve integer programs whose matrices have bounded TDM-treewidth in polynomial time when variables have bounded domain. This extends previous graph-based decomposition parameters for matrices with at most two nonzero entries per row to include matrices with entries outside of {-1,0,1}. We also give an analogue of the Grid Theorem of Robertson and Seymour for matrices of bounded TDM-treewidth in the language of rooted signed graphs. Caleb McFarland |
WG | 1 |