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We present the first algorithm for generating random variates exactly uniformly from the set of perfect matchings of a bipartite graph with a polynomial expected running time over a nontrivial set of graphs. Previous Markov chain approaches…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Huber

Matrix completion is the problem of recovering a low rank matrix by observing a small fraction of its entries. A series of recent works [KOM12,JNS13,HW14] have proposed fast non-convex optimization based iterative algorithms to solve this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli

In this paper, we begin the exploration of vertex-ordering problems through the lens of exponential-time approximation algorithms. In particular, we ask the following question: Can we simultaneously beat the running times of the fastest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Saket Saurabh

For many hard computational problems, simple algorithms that run in time $2^n \cdot n^{O(1)}$ arise, say, from enumerating all subsets of a size-$n$ set. Finding (exponentially) faster algorithms is a natural goal that has driven much of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-30 László Kozma , Junqi Tan

In the Maximum Independent Set of Objects problem, we are given an $n$-vertex planar graph $G$ and a family $\mathcal{D}$ of $N$ objects, where each object is a connected subgraph of $G$. The task is to find a subfamily $\mathcal{F}…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jana Cslovjecsek , Michał Pilipczuk , Karol Węgrzycki

Computing all-pairs shortest paths is a fundamental and much-studied problem with many applications. Unfortunately, despite intense study, there are still no significantly faster algorithms for it than the $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ time algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Kratsch , Florian Nelles

Here we prove that counting maximum matchings in planar, bipartite graphs is #P-complete. This is somewhat surprising in the light that the number of perfect matchings in planar graphs can be computed in polynomial time. We also prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Istvan Miklos , Miklos Kresz

Dynamic programming is widely used for exact computations based on tree decompositions of graphs. However, the space complexity is usually exponential in the treewidth. We study the problem of designing efficient dynamic programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Martin Furer , Huiwen Yu

We show that the maximum independent set problem (MIS) on an $n$-vertex graph can be solved in $1.1996^nn^{O(1)}$ time and polynomial space, which even is faster than Robson's $1.2109^{n}n^{O(1)}$-time exponential-space algorithm published…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mingyu Xiao , Hiroshi Nagamochi

We obtain the first polynomial-time algorithm for exact tensor completion that improves over the bound implied by reduction to matrix completion. The algorithm recovers an unknown 3-tensor with $r$ incoherent, orthogonal components in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Aaron Potechin , David Steurer

We consider the problem of finding \textit{semi-matching} in bipartite graphs which is also extensively studied under various names in the scheduling literature. We give faster algorithms for both weighted and unweighted case. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Jittat Fakcharoenphol , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai

We provide a deterministic algorithm that finds, in $\epsilon^{-O(1)} n^2$ time, an $\epsilon$-regular Frieze-Kannan partition of a graph on $n$ vertices. The algorithm outputs an approximation of a given graph as a weighted sum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Jacob Fox , László Miklós Lovász , Yufei Zhao

We develop new approximation algorithms for classical graph and set problems in the RAM model under space constraints. As one of our main results, we devise an algorithm for d-Hitting Set that runs in time n^{O(d^2 + d/\epsilon})}, uses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Arindam Biswas , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

We study the exact counting problem for all lattice rectangles contained in the square $[0,n)\times[0,n)$, including non-axis-parallel ones. Starting from the standard parametrization by a primitive direction $(u,v)$ and two side lengths,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Dmitry Babichev , Sergey Babichev

A fundamental problem in shape matching and geometric similarity is computing the maximum area overlap between two polygons under translation. For general simple polygons, the best-known algorithm runs in $O((nm)^2 \log(nm))$ time [Mount,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Sujoy Bhore , Maike Buchin , Jacobus Conradi , Ce Jin , André Nusser , Carolin Rehs

Various classes of induced subgraphs are involved in the deepest results of graph theory and graph algorithms. A prominent example concerns the {\em perfection} of $G$ that the chromatic number of each induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ equals the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yung-Chung Chiu , Kai-Yuan Lai , Hsueh-I Lu

In recent years, several powerful techniques have been developed to design {\em randomized} polynomial-space parameterized algorithms. In this paper, we introduce an enhancement of color coding to design deterministic polynomial-space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Gregory Gutin , Felix Reidl , Magnus Wahlström , Meirav Zehavi

We present an algorithm for finding a perfect matching in a $3$-edge-connected cubic graph that intersects every $3$-edge cut in exactly one edge. Specifically, we propose an algorithm with a time complexity of $O(n \log^4 n)$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Babak Ghanbari , Robert Šámal

Enumerating matchings is a classical problem in the field of enumeration algorithms. There are polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for several settings, such as enumerating perfect matchings, maximal matchings, and (weighted) matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa

We give a quasipolynomial time algorithm for the graph matching problem (also known as noisy or robust graph isomorphism) on correlated random graphs. Specifically, for every $\gamma>0$, we give a $n^{O(\log n)}$ time algorithm that given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Boaz Barak , Chi-Ning Chou , Zhixian Lei , Tselil Schramm , Yueqi Sheng