List of publications

Journal papers

2026

  1. Foivos Fioravantes, Dušan Knop, Jan Matyáš Křišťan, Nikolaos Melissinos, and Michal Opler. Exact Algorithms for Multiagent Path Finding with Communication Constraints on Tree-Like Structures. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 85: 2026 · doi: 10.1613/jair.1.19325 · arXiv:2412.08556

2024

  1. Vít Jelínek, Michal Opler, and Pavel Valtr. Generalized Coloring of Permutations. Algorithmica, 86:2174–2210, 2024 · doi: 10.1007/s00453-024-01220-9

2023

  1. Václav Blažej, Pavel Dvořák, and Michal Opler. Bears with Hats and Independence Polynomials. Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 25(2): 2023 · doi: 10.46298/dmtcs.10802 · arXiv:2103.07401

2021

  1. Michael Albert, Vít Jelínek, and Michal Opler. Two examples of Wilf-collapse. Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 22(2): 2021 · doi: 10.46298/dmtcs.5986 · arXiv:1912.07713

2017

  1. Vít Jelínek and Michal Opler. Splittability and 1-amalgamability of permutation classes. Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 19(2): 2017 · doi: 10.23638/DMTCS-19-2-4 · arXiv:1704.08732

2016

  1. Michal Opler. Major index distribution over permutation classes. Advances in Applied Mathematics, 80:131–150, 2016 · doi: 10.1016/j.aam.2016.06.011 · arXiv:1505.07135

Conference proceedings

2026

  1. Michal Opler. Inapproximability of Counting Permutation Patterns. In 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026). 2026. To appear · arXiv:2601.05166
  2. Foivos Fioravantes, Dušan Knop, Nikolaos Melissinos, Michal Opler, and Manolis Vasilakis. Exact Algorithms for Distance to Unique Vertex Cover. In Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Sixteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2026, Singapore, January 20-27, 2026, pages 14217–14224. 2026 · doi: 10.1609/AAAI.V40I17.38435 · arXiv:2502.05059

2025

  1. Arun Kumar Das, Michal Opler, and Tomáš Valla. Precoloring Extension with Demands on Paths. In Ho-Lin Chen, Wing-Kai Hon and Meng-Tsung Tsai, editors, 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025), volume 359, pages 23:1–23:15. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2025 · doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.23 · arXiv:2509.18936
  2. Michal Dvořák, Dušan Knop, Michal Opler, Jan Pokorný, Ondřej Suchý, and Krisztina Szilágyi. Pathfinding in Self-Deleting Graphs. In Ho-Lin Chen, Wing-Kai Hon and Meng-Tsung Tsai, editors, 36th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025), volume 359, pages 28:1–28:15. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2025 · doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2025.28 · arXiv:2507.12047
  3. Foivos Fioravantes, Dušan Knop, Jan Matyáš Křišťan, Nikolaos Melissinos, Michal Opler, and Tung Anh Vu. Solving Multiagent Path Finding on Highly Centralized Networks. In Julie Shah and Zico Kolter, editors, Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI ’25, pages 23186–23193. AAAI Press, 2025 · doi: 10.1609/aaai.v39i22.34484 · arXiv:2412.09433
  4. Foivos Fioravantes, Dušan Knop, Jan Matyáš Křišťan, Nikolaos Melissinos, and Michal Opler. Exact Algorithms for Multiagent Path Finding with Communication Constraints on Tree-Like Structures. In Julie Shah and Zico Kolter, editors, Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI ’25, pages 23177–23185. AAAI Press, 2025 · doi: 10.1609/aaai.v39i22.34483 · arXiv:2412.08556

2024

  1. Michal Opler. An Optimal Algorithm for Sorting Pattern-Avoiding Sequences. In Proceedings of the 65th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS ’24, pages 689–699. IEEE, 2024 · doi: 10.1109/FOCS61266.2024.00049 · arXiv:2409.07868
  2. Benjamin Aram Berendsohn, László Kozma, and Michal Opler. Optimization with pattern-avoiding input. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC ’24, pages 671–682. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024 · doi: 10.1145/3618260.3649631 · arXiv:2310.04236
  3. Foivos Fioravantes, Dušan Knop, Jan Matyáš Křišťan, Nikolaos Melissinos, and Michal Opler. Exact Algorithms and Lowerbounds for Multiagent Path Finding: Power Of Treelike Topology. In Michael J. Wooldridge, Jennifer G. Dy and Sriraam Natarajan, editors, Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI ’24, volume 38, part 16, pages 17380–17388. AAAI Press, 2024 · doi: 10.1609/aaai.v38i16.29686 · arXiv:2312.09646
  4. Vít Jelínek, Michal Opler, and Jakub Pekárek. The Hierarchy of Hereditary Sorting Operators. In Proceedings of the 2024 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA ’24, pages 1447–1464. 2024 · doi: 10.1137/1.9781611977912.59 · arXiv:2311.08727

2023

  1. Jaroslav Hančl, Adam Kabela, Michal Opler, Jakub Sosnovec, Robert Šámal, and Pavel Valtr. Improved Bounds for the Binary Paint Shop Problem. In Computing and Combinatorics - 29th International Conference, COCOON 2023, Proceedings, Part II, volume 14423, pages 210–221. Springer, 2023 · doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49193-1_16
  2. Pavel Dvořák, Lukáš Folwarczný, Michal Opler, Pavel Pudlák, Robert Šámal, and Tung Anh Vu. Bounds on Functionality and Symmetric Difference - Two Intriguing Graph Parameters. In Daniël Paulusma and Bernard Ries, editors, Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - 49th International Workshop, WG 2023, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 28-30, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, volume 14093, pages 305–318. Springer, 2023 · doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-43380-1_22 · arXiv:2302.11862

2021

  1. Václav Blažej, Michal Opler, Matas Šileikis, and Pavel Valtr. On the Intersections of Non-homotopic Loops. In Apurva Mudgal and C. R. Subramanian, editors, Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics - 7th International Conference, CALDAM 2021, Rupnagar, India, February 11-13, 2021, Proceedings, volume 12601, pages 196–205. Springer, 2021 · doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67899-9_15 · arXiv:2108.13953
  2. Václav Blažej, Michal Opler, Matas Šileikis, and Pavel Valtr. Non-homotopic Loops with a Bounded Number of Pairwise Intersections. In Helen C. Purchase and Ignaz Rutter, editors, Graph Drawing and Network Visualization - 29th International Symposium, GD 2021, Tübingen, Germany, September 14-17, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, volume 12868, pages 210–222. Springer, 2021 · doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92931-2_15 · arXiv:2108.13953
  3. Vít Jelínek, Michal Opler, and Jakub Pekárek. Long Paths Make Pattern-Counting Hard, and Deep Trees Make It Harder. In Petr A. Golovach and Meirav Zehavi, editors, 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation, IPEC 2021, September 8-10, 2021, Lisbon, Portugal, volume 214, pages 22:1–22:17. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021 · doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.22 · arXiv:2111.03479
  4. Vít Jelínek, Michal Opler, and Jakub Pekárek. Griddings of Permutations and Hardness of Pattern Matching. In Filippo Bonchi and Simon J. Puglisi, editors, 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2021, August 23-27, 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, volume 202, pages 65:1–65:22. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021 · doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.65 · arXiv:2107.10897
  5. Václav Blažej, Pavel Dvořák, and Michal Opler. Bears with Hats and Independence Polynomials. In Lukasz Kowalik, Michal Pilipczuk and Pawel Rzazewski, editors, Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - 47th International Workshop, WG 2021, Warsaw, Poland, June 23-25, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, volume 12911, pages 283–295. Springer, 2021 · doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86838-3_22 · arXiv:2103.07401

2020

  1. Vít Jelínek, Michal Opler, and Jakub Pekárek. A Complexity Dichotomy for Permutation Pattern Matching on Grid Classes. In Javier Esparza and Daniel Král,’ editors, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2020, August 24-28, 2020, Prague, Czech Republic, volume 170, pages 52:1–52:18. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020 · doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.52 · arXiv:2008.04593

2018

  1. Vít Jelínek, Michal Opler, and Pavel Valtr. Generalized Coloring of Permutations. In Yossi Azar, Hannah Bast and Grzegorz Herman, editors, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2018, August 20-22, 2018, Helsinki, Finland, volume 112, pages 50:1–50:14. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018 · doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.50

2016

  1. Matěj Konečný, Stanislav Kučera, Michal Opler, Jakub Sosnovec, Štěpán Šimsa, and Martin Töpfer. Squarability of rectangle arrangements. In Thomas C. Shermer, editor, Proceedings of the 28th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, CCCG 2016, August 3-5, 2016, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pages 101–106. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2016 · arXiv:1611.07073

Preprints

2026

  1. Robert Brignall, Michal Opler, and Vincent Vatter. Linear clique-width and modular decomposition. 2026 · arXiv:2602.22089
  2. László Kozma and Michal Opler. Fast and simple multiplication of bounded twin-width matrices. 2026 · arXiv:2602.20023

2025

  1. Michal Dvořák, Dušan Knop, Michal Opler, Jan Pokorný, Ondřej Suchý, and Krisztina Szilágyi. Density of Traceable Graphs. 2025 · arXiv:2506.22269
  2. Foivos Fioravantes, Dušan Knop, Nikolaos Melissinos, and Michal Opler. When Agents Break Down in Multiagent Path Finding. 2025 · arXiv:2508.03777
  3. Vít Jelínek and Michal Opler. Monadic Second-Order Logic of Permutations. 2025 · arXiv:2511.02386
  4. László Kozma and Michal Opler. Compact representations of pattern-avoiding permutations. 2025 · arXiv:2510.20382

2019

  1. Michael Albert, Vít Jelínek, and Michal Opler. Wilf collapse in permutation classes. 2019 · arXiv:1909.13348