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A maximal matching can be maintained in fully dynamic (supporting both addition and deletion of edges) $n$-vertex graphs using a trivial deterministic algorithm with a worst-case update time of O(n). No deterministic algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Ofer Neiman , Shay Solomon

We study a weighted online bipartite matching problem: $G(V_1, V_2, E)$ is a weighted bipartite graph where $V_1$ is known beforehand and the vertices of $V_2$ arrive online. The goal is to match vertices of $V_2$ as they arrive to vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Huy L. Nguyen

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

Vizing's theorem states that any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly edge colored with at most $\Delta+1$ colors. In the online setting, it has been a matter of interest to find an algorithm that can properly edge color any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aditi Dudeja , Rashmika Goswami , Michael Saks

We introduce and study the weighted version of an online matching problem in the Euclidean plane with non-crossing constraints: points with non-negative weights arrive online, and an algorithm can match an arriving point to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Joan Boyar , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen , Ali Fata Lavasani , Yaqiao Li , Denis Pankratov

Past studies on the local limit of maximal weight matchings in edge-weighted large random graphs rely fundamentally on the assumption that the weights are atomless, which ensures that the maximal weight matching is unique. This excludes de…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Nathanaël Enriquez , Mike Liu , Laurent Ménard , Vianney Perchet

We consider the Stochastic Matching problem, which is motivated by applications in kidney exchange and online dating. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph. Each edge is assigned a known, independent probability of existence and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Marek Adamczyk , Brian Brubach , Fabrizio Grandoni , Karthik A. Sankararaman , Aravind Srinivasan , Pan Xu

Within the context of stochastic probing with commitment, we consider the online stochastic matching problem; that is, the one sided online bipartite matching problem where edges adjacent to an online node must be probed to determine if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury , Akash Rakheja

This paper studies the online scheduling problem of minimizing total flow time for $n$ jobs on $m$ identical machines. A classical $\Omega(n)$ lower bound shows that no deterministic single-machine algorithm can beat the trivial greedy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yutong Geng , Enze Sun , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

We contribute the first randomized algorithm that is an integration of arbitrarily many deterministic algorithms for the fully online multiprocessor scheduling with testing problem. When there are two machines, we show that with two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Lusheng Wang

We consider the problem of finding an edge in a hidden undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, in a model where we only allowed queries that ask whether or not a subset of vertices contains an edge. We study the non-adaptive model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ron Kupfer , Noam Nisan

We consider the Maximum-weight Matching (MWM) problem in the streaming sliding window model of computation. In this model, the input consists of a sequence of weighted edges on a given vertex set $V$ of size $n$. The objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Pavel Dvořák , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

We describe approximation algorithms in Linial's classic LOCAL model of distributed computing to find maximum-weight matchings in a hypergraph of rank $r$. Our main result is a deterministic algorithm to generate a matching which is an…

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

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

We investigate online maximum cardinality matching, a central problem in ad allocation. In this problem, users are revealed sequentially, and each new user can be paired with any previously unmatched campaign that it is compatible with.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Flore Sentenac , Nathan Noiry , Matthieu Lerasle , Laurent Ménard , Vianney Perchet

We study a natural generalization of the maximum weight many-to-one matching problem. We are given an undirected bipartite graph $G= (A \cup P, E)$ with weights on the edges in $E$, and with lower and upper quotas on the vertices in $P$. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ashwin Arulselvan , Ágnes Cseh , Martin Groß , David F. Manlove , Jannik Matuschke

We present a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining approximate maximum weight matching in general weighted graphs. The algorithm maintains a matching ${\cal M}$ whose weight is at least $1/8 M^{*}$ where $M^{*}$ is the weight of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Abhash Anand , Surender Baswana , Manoj Gupta , Sandeep Sen

We consider the problem of approximating a maximum weighted matching, when the edges of an underlying weighted graph $G(V,E)$ are revealed in a streaming fashion. We analyze a variant of the previously best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Elena Grigorescu , Morteza Monemizadeh , Samson Zhou

Combinatorial network optimization algorithms that compute optimal structures taking into account edge weights form the foundation for many network protocols. Examples include shortest path routing, minimal spanning tree computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Yi Gai , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Mingyan Liu

In this paper, we propose a randomized $\tilde{O}(\mu(G))$-round algorithm for the maximum cardinality matching problem in the CONGEST model, where $\mu(G)$ means the maximum size of a matching of the input graph $G$. The proposed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Taisuke Izumi , Naoki Kitamura , Yutaro Yamaguchi