# Feedback Vertex Set
## Metadata
**Status**:: #x
**Zettel**:: #zettel/literature
**Created**:: [[2025-09-19]]
## Synopsis
Feedback Vertex Set is a subset of vertices in a digraph that once they are removed, there will be no cycles in the graph. In another words, every loop in the digraph must contain a vertex in the Feedback Vertex Set.