Bicluster Editing with Overlaps: A Vertex Splitting Approach

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Auteurs principaux: Abu-Khzam, Faisal N., Isenmann, Lucas, Merchad, Zeina
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author Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.
Isenmann, Lucas
Merchad, Zeina
author_facet Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.
Isenmann, Lucas
Merchad, Zeina
contents The BiCluster Editing problem aims at editing a given bipartite graph into a disjoint union of bicliques via a minimum number of edge deletion or addition operations. As a graph-based model for data clustering, the problem aims at a partition of the input dataset, which cannot always obtain meaningful clusters when some data elements are expected to belong to more than one cluster each. To address this limitation, we introduce the Bicluster Editing with Vertex Splitting problem (BCEVS) which consists of finding a minimum sequence of edge editions and vertex splittings such that the resulting graph is a disjoint union of bicliques. The vertex splitting operation consists of replacing a vertex $v$ with two vertices whose union of neighborhoods is the neighborhood of $v$. We also introduce the problem of Bicluster Editing with One-Sided Vertex Splitting (BCEOVS) where we restrict the splitting operations to the only one set of the two sets forming the bipartition. We prove that the two problems are NP-complete even when restricted to bipartite planar graphs of maximum degree three. Moreover, assuming the {\sc Exponential Time Hypothesis} holds, there is no $2^{o(n)}n^{O(1)}$-time (resp. $2^{o(\sqrt{n})}n^{O(1)}$-time) algorithm for BCEVS and BCEOVS on bipartite (resp. planar) graphs with maximum degree three, where $n$ is the number of vertices of the graph. Furthermore we prove both problems are APX-hard and solvable in polynomial time on trees. On the other hand, we prove that BCEOVS is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to solution size by showing that it admits a polynomial size kernel.
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spellingShingle Bicluster Editing with Overlaps: A Vertex Splitting Approach
Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.
Isenmann, Lucas
Merchad, Zeina
Data Structures and Algorithms
The BiCluster Editing problem aims at editing a given bipartite graph into a disjoint union of bicliques via a minimum number of edge deletion or addition operations. As a graph-based model for data clustering, the problem aims at a partition of the input dataset, which cannot always obtain meaningful clusters when some data elements are expected to belong to more than one cluster each. To address this limitation, we introduce the Bicluster Editing with Vertex Splitting problem (BCEVS) which consists of finding a minimum sequence of edge editions and vertex splittings such that the resulting graph is a disjoint union of bicliques. The vertex splitting operation consists of replacing a vertex $v$ with two vertices whose union of neighborhoods is the neighborhood of $v$. We also introduce the problem of Bicluster Editing with One-Sided Vertex Splitting (BCEOVS) where we restrict the splitting operations to the only one set of the two sets forming the bipartition. We prove that the two problems are NP-complete even when restricted to bipartite planar graphs of maximum degree three. Moreover, assuming the {\sc Exponential Time Hypothesis} holds, there is no $2^{o(n)}n^{O(1)}$-time (resp. $2^{o(\sqrt{n})}n^{O(1)}$-time) algorithm for BCEVS and BCEOVS on bipartite (resp. planar) graphs with maximum degree three, where $n$ is the number of vertices of the graph. Furthermore we prove both problems are APX-hard and solvable in polynomial time on trees. On the other hand, we prove that BCEOVS is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to solution size by showing that it admits a polynomial size kernel.
title Bicluster Editing with Overlaps: A Vertex Splitting Approach
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03959