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The famous Lovasz Local Lemma [EL75] is a powerful tool to non-constructively prove the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of criteria. Kratochvil et al. applied this technique to prove that a k-CNF in which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-15 Robin A. Moser

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics which can be used to establish the existence of objects that satisfy certain properties. The breakthrough paper of Moser and Tardos and follow-up works…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 David G. Harris , Fotis Iliopoulos , Vladimir Kolmogorov

The Lopsided Lovasz Local Lemma (LLLL) is a cornerstone probabilistic tool for showing that it is possible to avoid a collection of "bad" events as long as their probabilities and interdependencies are sufficiently small. The strongest…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

The probabilistic method is a technique for proving combinatorial existence results by means of showing that a randomly chosen object has the desired properties with positive probability. A particularly powerful probabilistic tool is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Anton Bernshteyn

Following the groundbreaking algorithm of Moser and Tardos for the Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL), there has been a plethora of results analyzing local search algorithms for various constraint satisfaction problems. The algorithms considered fall…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos , Alistair Sinclair

We illustrate the use of probability theory in existential proofs, focusing on the Lov\'asz Local Lemma. This result gives a lower bound for the probability of avoiding a suitable finite collection of events. We describe some applications…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Irfan Alam

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

The Lov\'asz Local Lemma (the LLL for short) is a powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics that is used to verify the existence of combinatorial objects with desirable properties. Recent years saw the development of various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Anton Bernshteyn , Jing Yu

The Lovasz Local Lemma [EL75] is a powerful tool to prove the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of criteria. The technique can directly be applied to the satisfiability problem, yielding that a k-CNF formula…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Robin A. Moser

Assume we are given (finitely many) mutually independent variables and (finitely many) "undesirable" events, each depending on a subset of the variables of at most $k$ elements, called the scope of the event. Assume that the probability of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos , Kostas I. Psaromiligkos

We propose a new algorithmic framework, called "partial rejection sampling", to draw samples exactly from a product distribution, conditioned on none of a number of bad events occurring. Our framework builds (perhaps surprising) new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Heng Guo , Mark Jerrum , Jingcheng Liu

We develop a framework for the rigorous analysis of focused stochastic local search algorithms. These are algorithms that search a state space by repeatedly selecting some constraint that is violated in the current state and moving to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos , Vladimir Kolmogorov

The Lovasz Local Lemma [EL75] is a powerful tool to non-constructively prove the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of criteria. In his breakthrough paper [Bec91], Beck demonstrated that a constructive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Robin A. Moser , Gábor Tardos

We give a Markov chain based perfect sampler for uniform sampling solutions of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). Under some mild Lov\'asz local lemma conditions where each constraint of the CSP has a small number of forbidden local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Kun He , Xiaoming Sun , Kewen Wu

Following the groundbreaking Moser-Tardos algorithm for the Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL), a series of works have exploited a key ingredient of the original analysis, the witness tree lemma, in order to: derive deterministic, parallel and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Fotis Iliopoulos

The Local Computation Algorithm (LCA) model is a popular model in the field of sublinear-time algorithms that measures the complexity of an algorithm by the number of probes the algorithm makes in the neighborhood of one node to determine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Sebastian Brandt , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

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

We consider recent formulations of the algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma by Achlioptas-Iliopoulos-Kolmogorov [2] and by Achlioptas-Iliopoulos-Sinclair [3]. These papers analyze a random walk algorithm for finding objects that avoid undesired…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Vladimir Kolmogorov

Given a collection of independent events each of which has strictly positive probability, the probability that all of them occur is also strictly positive. The Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL) asserts that this remains true if the events are not…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Dimitris Achlioptas , Kostas Zampetakis

While there has been significant progress on algorithmic aspects of the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) in recent years, a noteworthy exception is when the LLL is used in the context of random permutations. The breakthrough algorithm of Moser…

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