# Improved Exponential-Time Algorithms for Treewidth and Minimum Fill-In

@inproceedings{Villanger2006ImprovedEA,
title={Improved Exponential-Time Algorithms for Treewidth and Minimum Fill-In},
author={Yngve Villanger},
booktitle={LATIN},
year={2006}
}
Exact exponential-time algorithms for NP-hard problems is an emerging field, and an increasing number of new results are being added continuously. Two important NP-hard problems that have been studied for decades are the treewidth and the minimum fill problems. Recently, an exact algorithm was presented by Fomin, Kratsch, and Todinca to solve both of these problems in time ${\mathcal O}^{*}$(1.9601n). Their algorithm uses the notion of potential maximal cliques, and is able to list these in…
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