ERC Starting Grant · 2018
Rigorous Search Space Reduction
In our world of big data and theoretically intractable problems, automated preprocessing to simplify problem formulations before solving them algorithmically is growing ever more important. Suitable preprocessing has the potential to reduce computation times from days to seconds. In the last 15 years, a framework for rigorously studying the power and limitations of efficient preprocessing has been developed. The resulting theory of kernelization is full of deep theorems, but it has overshot its goal: it does not explain the empirical success of preprocessing algorithms, and most questions it poses do not lead to the identification of preprocessing techniques that are useful in practice.…
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