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We consider the task of designing Local Computation Algorithms (LCA) for applications of the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL). LCA is a class of sublinear algorithms proposed by Rubinfeld et al.~\cite{Ronitt} that have received a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Dimitris Achlioptas , Themis Gouleakis , Fotis Iliopoulos

We develop tools for analyzing focused stochastic local search algorithms. These are algorithms which search a state space probabilistically by repeatedly selecting a constraint that is violated in the current state and moving to a random…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos

Moser & Tardos have developed a powerful algorithmic approach (henceforth "MT") to the Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL); the basic operation done in MT and its variants is a search for "bad" events in a current configuration. In the initial stage…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma is a very powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics, that is often used to prove existence of combinatorial objects satisfying certain constraints. Moser and Tardos have shown that the LLL gives more than just…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Anton Bernshteyn

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

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma is a very powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics, that is often used to prove existence of combinatorial objects satisfying certain constraints. Moser and Tardos have shown that the LLL gives more than just…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Anton Bernshteyn

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

The Lovasz Local Lemma due to Erdos and Lovasz is a powerful tool in proving the existence of rare events. We present an extension of this lemma, which works well when the event to be shown to exist is a conjunction of individual events,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aravind Srinivasan

The Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probability theory to show the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of "weakly dependent" criteria. We show that the LLL extends to a much more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Or Sattath

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\'asz Local Lemma is a seminal result in probabilistic combinatorics. It gives a sufficient condition on a probability space and a collection of events for the existence of an outcome that simultaneously avoids all of those events.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jan Vondrák

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

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

We present new lower bounds for the size of perfect and separating hash families ensuring their existence. Such new bounds are based on the algorithmic Cluster expansion improved version of the Lov\'asz Local Lemma, which also implies that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Aldo Procacci , Remy Sanchis

The recently proven Quantum Lovasz Local Lemma generalises the well-known Lovasz Local Lemma. It states that, if a collection of subspace constraints are "weakly dependent", there necessarily exists a state satisfying all constraints. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Toby S. Cubitt , Martin Schwarz

We give a fast algorithm for sampling uniform solutions of general constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in a local lemma regime. Suppose that the CSP has $n$ variables with domain size at most q, each constraint contains at most k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kun He , Chunyang Wang , Yitong Yin

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

In a seminal paper (Moser and Tardos, JACM'10), Moser and Tardos developed a simple and powerful algorithm to find solutions to combinatorial problems in the variable Lov{\'a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) setting. Kolipaka and Szegedy (STOC'11)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Kun He , Qian Li , Xiaoming Sun

We study a variant of the parallel Moser-Tardos Algorithm. We prove that if we restrict attention to a class of problems whose dependency graphs have subexponential growth, then the expected total number of random bits used by the algorithm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Endre Csóka , Łukasz Grabowski , András Máthé , Oleg Pikhurko , Konstantinos Tyros

Sampling a random permutation with restricted positions, or equivalently approximating the permanent of a 0-1 matrix, is a fundamental problem in computer science, with several notable results achieved over the years. However, existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kun He , Guoliang Qiu , Xiaoming Sun