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Record W4410616320 · doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2025.103679

An FPT algorithm for timeline cover

2025· article· en· W4410616320 on OpenAlexafffund
Dondi Riccardo, Manuel Lafond

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Computer and System Sciences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAlgorithms and Data Compression
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsTimelineCover (algebra)Computer scienceAlgorithmMathematicsEngineeringStatistics

Abstract

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One of the most studied problem in theoretical computer science, Vertex Cover , has been recently considered in the temporal graph framework. Here we study a Vertex Cover variant, called k- TimelineCover . Given a temporal graph k- TimelineCover asks to define an interval for each vertex so that for every temporal edge existing in a timestamp t , at least one of the endpoints has an interval that includes t . The goal is to decide whether it is possible to cover every temporal edge while using vertex intervals of total span at most k . k- TimelineCover has been shown to be NP-hard, but its parameterized complexity has not been fully understood when parameterizing by the span of the solution. We settle this open problem by giving an FPT algorithm that combines two techniques, a modified form of iterative compression and a reduction to Digraph Pair Cut .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.276 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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