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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 Lov\'asz Local Lemma is a versatile result in probability theory, characterizing circumstances in which a collection of $n$ `bad events', each occurring with probability at most $p$ and dependent on a set of underlying random variables,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Peter Davies-Peck

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a keystone principle in probability theory, guaranteeing the existence of configurations which avoid a collection $\mathcal B$ of "bad" events which are mostly independent and have low probability. In its…

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

The Lovasz 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.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Nicholas Harvey , Jan Vondrak

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma is a central tool in probabilistic combinatorics, providing a sufficient condition under which a finite collection of undesirable events with limited dependencies can be simultaneously avoided with positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Igal Sason

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 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 (LLL) is a powerful result in probability theory that states that the probability that none of a set of bad events happens is nonzero if the probability of each event is small compared to the number of events that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Navin Goyal , Bernhard Haeupler

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 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

This paper proposes a new framework for providing approximation guarantees of local search algorithms. Local search is a basic algorithm design technique and is widely used for various combinatorial optimization problems. To analyze local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Kaito Fujii

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a keystone principle in probability theory, guaranteeing the existence of configurations which avoid a collection $\mathcal B$ of "bad" events which are mostly independent and have low probability. In its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 David G. Harris

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

The constructive Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma has become a central tool for designing efficient distributed algorithms. While it has been extensively studied in the classic LOCAL model that uses unlimited bandwidth, much less is known in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Magnús M. Halldórsson , Yannic Maus , Saku Peltonen

This paper proves that a wide class of local search algorithms extend as is to the fully dynamic setting with an adaptive adversary, achieving an amortized $\tilde{O}(1)$ number of local-search steps per update. A breakthrough by Moser…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bernhard Haeupler , Slobodan Mitrović , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Wen-Horng Sheu , Robert Tarjan

For input $x$, let $F(x)$ denote the set of outputs that are the "legal" answers for a computational problem $F$. Suppose $x$ and members of $F(x)$ are so large that there is not time to read them in their entirety. We propose a model of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-08 Ronitt Rubinfeld , Gil Tamir , Shai Vardi , Ning Xie

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 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 Lopsided Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLLL) is a powerful probabilistic principle which has been used in a variety of combinatorial constructions. While originally a general statement about probability spaces, it has recently been…

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

The Lov\'asz Local Lemma is a classic result in probability theory that is often used to prove the existence of combinatorial objects via the probabilistic method. In its simplest form, it states that if we have $n$ `bad events', each of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Peter Davies
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