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We consider the problem of monotone, submodular maximization over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$. For this problem, we introduce the first deterministic algorithms with linear time complexity; these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alan Kuhnle

In this paper, we study linear programming based approaches to the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The semi-streaming model has gained attention as a model for processing massive graphs as the importance of such graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Semi-online algorithms that are allowed to perform a bounded amount of repacking achieve guaranteed good worst-case behaviour in a more realistic setting. Most of the previous works focused on minimization problems that aim to minimize some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sebastian Berndt , Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Lukas Johannsen , Maria Kosche

We prove that any semi-streaming algorithm for $(1-\epsilon)$-approximation of maximum bipartite matching requires \[ \Omega(\frac{\log{(1/\epsilon)}}{{\log{(1/\beta)}}}) \] passes, where $\beta \in (0,1)$ is the largest parameter so that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan

We study the problem of finding a maximum matching in a graph given by an input stream listing its edges in some arbitrary order, where the quantity to be maximized is given by a monotone submodular function on subsets of edges. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Amit Chakrabarti , Sagar Kale

We study the online stochastic bipartite matching problem, in a form motivated by display ad allocation on the Internet. In the online, but adversarial case, the celebrated result of Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani gives an approximation ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Jon Feldman , Aranyak Mehta , Vahab Mirrokni , S. Muthukrishnan

We consider online algorithms for the {\em page migration problem} that use predictions, potentially imperfect, to improve their performance. The best known online algorithms for this problem, due to Westbrook'94 and Bienkowski et al'17,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Piotr Indyk , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Slobodan Mitrović , Ronitt Rubinfeld

The online stochastic matching problem was introduced by [FMMM09], together with the $(1-\frac1e)$-competitive Suggested Matching algorithm. In the most general edge-weighted setting, this ratio has not been improved for more than one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuyi Yan

We study the maximum matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming setting. In this problem, the edges of an arbitrary $n$-vertex graph $G=(V, E)$ arrive in a stream one by one and in a random order. The goal is to have a single pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad

We resolve the space complexity of linear sketches for approximating the maximum matching problem in dynamic graph streams where the stream may include both edge insertion and deletion. Specifically, we show that for any $\epsilon > 0$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling, offering computational advantages over diffusion models by leveraging deterministic Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) instead of stochastic dynamics. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chengyue Gong , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Jiangxuan Long , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Yu Tian

We develop a predictive-first optimisation framework for streaming hidden Markov models. Unlike classical approaches that prioritise full posterior recovery under a fully specified generative model, we assume access to regime-specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-13 Gerardo Duran-Martin

This paper initiates the study of online algorithms for the maximum weight $b$-matching problem, a generalization of maximum weight matching where each node has at most $b \geq 1$ adjacent matching edges. The problem is motivated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Marcin Bienkowski , David Fuchssteiner , Jan Marcinkowski , Stefan Schmid

We study the online unweighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival order model, with $n$ offline and $n$ online vertices, in the learning-augmented setting: The algorithm is provided with untrusted predictions of the types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kunanon Burathep , Thomas Erlebach , William K. Moses

We study the communication complexity and streaming complexity of approximating unweighted semi-matchings. A semi-matching in a bipartite graph G = (A, B, E), with n = |A|, is a subset of edges S that matches all A vertices to B vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christian Konrad , Adi Rosén

We investigate the power of randomized algorithms for the maximum cardinality matching (MCM) and the maximum weight matching (MWM) problems in the online preemptive model. In this model, the edges of a graph are revealed one by one and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Ashish Chiplunkar , Sumedh Tirodkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

We study the online maximum matching problem in a model in which the edges are associated with a known recourse parameter $k$. An online algorithm for this problem has to maintain a valid matching while edges of the underlying graph are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Spyros Angelopoulos , Christoph Dürr , Shendan Jin

Streaming algorithms are generally judged by the quality of their solution, memory footprint, and computational complexity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in the streaming setting with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ehsan Kazemi , Marko Mitrovic , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Silvio Lattanzi , Amin Karbasi

We study the $b$-matching problem in bipartite graphs $G=(S,R,E)$. Each vertex $s\in S$ is a server with individual capacity $b_s$. The vertices $r\in R$ are requests that arrive online and must be assigned instantly to an eligible server.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Susanne Albers , Sebastian Schubert

We study the problem of matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods. Agents can only be matched while they are present in the marketplace. Each pair of agents can yield a different match value, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Itai Ashlagi , Maximilien Burq , Chinmoy Dutta , Patrick Jaillet , Amin Saberi , Chris Sholley