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Is perfect matching in NC? That is, is there a deterministic fast parallel algorithm for it? This has been an outstanding open question in theoretical computer science for over three decades, ever since the discovery of RNC matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Nima Anari , Vijay V. Vazirani

We consider, for complete bipartite graphs, the convex hulls of characteristic vectors of all matchings, extended by a binary entry indicating whether the matching contains two specific edges. These polytopes are associated to the quadratic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Matthias Walter

A perfect matching in a hypergraph is a set of edges that partition the set of vertices. We study the complexity of deciding the existence of a perfect matching in orderable and separable hypergraphs. We show that the class of orderable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Shmuel Onn

In a graph, a perfect matching cut is an edge cut that is a perfect matching. Perfect Matching Cut (PMC) is the problem of deciding whether a given graph has a perfect matching cut, and is known to be NP-complete. We revisit the problem and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Van Bang Le , Jan Arne Telle

We consider the algorithmic complexity of recognizing bipartite temporal graphs. Rather than defining these graphs solely by their underlying graph or individual layers, we define a bipartite temporal graph as one in which every layer can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Till Fluschnik , Pascal Kunz

We study the connection between mixing properties for bipartite graphs and materialization of the mutual information in one-shot settings. We show that mixing properties of a graph imply impossibility to extract the mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Geoffroy Caillat-Grenier , Andrei Romashchenko , Rustam Zyavgarov

Consider a problem where we are given a bipartite graph H with vertices arranged on two horizontal lines in the plane, such that the two sets of vertices placed on the two lines form a bipartition of H. We additionally require that H admits…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Grzegorz Guśpiel

The K-way vertex cut problem} consists in, given a graph G, finding a subset of vertices of a given size, whose removal partitions G into the maximum number of connected components. This problem has many applications in several areas. It…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Mohammed Lalou

Matching, a task to optimally assign limited resources under constraints, is a fundamental technology for society. The task potentially has various objectives, conditions, and constraints; however, the efficient neural network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shusaku Sone , Jiaxin Ma , Atsushi Hashimoto , Naoya Chiba , Yoshitaka Ushiku

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 study the oblivious matching problem, which aims at finding a maximum matching on a graph with unknown edge set. Any algorithm for the problem specifies an ordering of the vertex pairs. The matching is then produced by probing the pairs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

Matchings and coverings are central topics in graph theory. The close relationship between these two has been key to many fundamental algorithmic and polyhedral results. For mixed graphs, the notion of matching forest was proposed as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Tamás Király , Yu Yokoi

We study the problem of determining whether a given graph~$G=(V,E)$ admits a matching~$M$ whose removal destroys all odd cycles of~$G$ (or equivalently whether~$G-M$ is bipartite). This problem is equivalent to determine whether~$G$ admits…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Carlos V. G. C. Lima , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

The approach mapping from a matching of bipartite graphs to digraphs has been successfully used for forcing set problem, in this paper, it is extended to uniquely restricted matching problem. We show to determine a uniquely restricted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-29 Guohun Zhu

The maximum graph bisection problem is a well known graph partition problem. The problem has been proven to be NP-hard. In the maximum graph bisection problem it is required that the set of vertices is divided into two partition with equal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Zoran Maksimovic

We examine ordered graphs, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, from the perspective of homomorphisms (and colorings) and their complexities. We demonstrate the corresponding computational and parameterized complexities, along…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

We investigate the tractability of a simple fusion of two fundamental structures on graphs, a spanning tree and a perfect matching. Specifically, we consider the following problem: given an edge-weighted graph, find a minimum-weight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

In the recent years, several polynomial algorithms of a dynamical nature have been proposed to address the graph isomorphism problem. In this paper we propose a generalization of an approach exposed in cond-mat/0209112 and find that this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marats Golovkins

Given a graph with edges colored red or blue and an integer $k$, the exact perfect matching problem asks if there exists a perfect matching with exactly $k$ red edges. There exists a randomized polylogarithmic-time parallel algorithm to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xinrui Jia , Ola Svensson , Weiqiang Yuan

In phylogenetics, the consensus problem consists in summarizing a set of phylogenetic trees that all classify the same set of species into a single tree. Several definitions of consensus exist in the literature; in this paper we focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Manuel Lafond , Céline Scornavacca