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The Lov\'asz Local Lemma is a seminal result in probabilistic combinatorics. It gives a sufficient condition on a probability space and a collection of events for the existence of an outcome that simultaneously avoids all of those events.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jan Vondrák

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a cornerstone principle in the probabilistic method of combinatorics, and a seminal algorithm of Moser & Tardos (2010) provides an efficient randomized algorithm to implement it. This can be parallelized…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Bernhard Haeupler , David G. Harris

We present polynomial-time algorithms for approximate counting and sampling solutions to constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) with atomic constraints within the local lemma regime: $$ pD^{2+o_q(1)}\lesssim 1. $$ When the domain size $q$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Chunyang Wang , Yitong Yin

The Lovasz Local Lemma due to Erdos and Lovasz is a powerful tool in proving the existence of rare events. We present an extension of this lemma, which works well when the event to be shown to exist is a conjunction of individual events,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aravind Srinivasan

We give an algorithmic local lemma by establishing a sufficient condition for the uniform random walk on a directed graph to reach a sink quickly. Our work is inspired by Moser's entropic method proof of the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos

The lefthanded Lov\'asz local lemma (LLLL) is a generalization of the Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL), a powerful technique from the probabilistic method. We prove a computable version of the LLLL and use it to effectivize a collection of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Daniel Mourad

We prove a Borel version of the local lemma, i.e. we show that, under suitable assumptions, if the set of variables in the local lemma has a structure of a Borel space, then there exists a satisfying assignment which is a Borel function.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Endre Csóka , Łukasz Grabowski , András Máthé , Oleg Pikhurko , Konstantinos Tyros

Formalised libraries of combinatorial mathematics have rapidly expanded over the last five years, but few use one of the most important tools: probability. How can often intuitive probabilistic arguments on the existence of combinatorial…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chelsea Edmonds , Lawrence C. Paulson

Recently, Brandt, Maus and Uitto [PODC'19] showed that, in a restricted setting, the dependency of the complexity of the distributed Lov\'asz Local Lemma (LLL) on the chosen LLL criterion exhibits a sharp threshold phenomenon: They proved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Sebastian Brandt , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

This note is purely expository and is in Russian. We show how to prove interesting combinatorial results using the local Lovasz lemma. The note is accessible for students having basic knowledge of combinatorics; the notion of independence…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-01-26 D. Ilyinskiy , A. Raigorodskiy , A. Skopenkov

We aim at investigating the solvability/insolvability of nondeterministic logarithmic-space (NL) decision, search, and optimization problems parameterized by natural size parameters using simultaneously polynomial time and sub-linear space.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Our previous paper applied a lopsided version of the Lov\'asz Local Lemma that allows negative dependency graphs to the space of random injections from an $m$-element set to an $n$-element set. Equivalently, the same story can be told about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Linyuan Lu , Laszlo A. Szekely

Local Search is one of the fundamental approaches to combinatorial optimization and it is used throughout AI. Several local search algorithms are based on searching the k-exchange neighborhood. This is the set of solutions that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-20 Serge Gaspers , Eun Jung Kim , Sebastian Ordyniak , Saket Saurabh , Stefan Szeider

We present a poly $\log \log n$ time randomized CONGEST algorithm for a natural class of Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) instances on constant degree graphs. This implies, among other things, that there are no LCL problems with randomized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Yannic Maus , Jara Uitto

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a keystone principle in probability theory, guaranteeing the existence of configurations which avoid a collection $\mathcal B$ of "bad" events which are mostly independent and have low probability. In its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 David G. Harris

We study the problem of learning a $n$-variables $k$-CNF formula $\Phi$ from its i.i.d. uniform random solutions, which is equivalent to learning a Boolean Markov random field (MRF) with $k$-wise hard constraints. Revisiting Valiant's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Weiming Feng , Xiongxin Yang , Yixiao Yu , Yiyao Zhang

Many randomized algorithms can be derandomized efficiently using either the method of conditional expectations or probability spaces with low (almost-) independence. A series of papers, beginning with Luby (1993) and continuing with Berger…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

The Lov\'asz Local Lemma (LLL) is a very powerful tool in combinatorics and probability theory to show the possibility of avoiding all bad events under some weakly dependent conditions. In a seminal paper, Ambainis, Kempe, and Sattath (JACM…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Kun He , Qian Li , Xiaoming Sun , Jiapeng Zhang

An old result by Shearer relates the Lov\'asz Local Lemma with the independent set polynomial on graphs, and consequently, as observed by Scott and Sokal, with the partition function of the hard core lattice gas on graphs. We use this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-29 Rodrigo Bissacot , Roberto Fernández , Aldo Procacci , Benedetto Scoppola

In this paper we introduce a new approach for approximately counting in bounded degree systems with higher-order constraints. Our main result is an algorithm to approximately count the number of solutions to a CNF formula $\Phi$ when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ankur Moitra