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In this short paper, we present an improved algorithm for approximating the minimum cut on distributed (CONGEST) networks. Let $\lambda$ be the minimum cut. Our algorithm can compute $\lambda$ exactly in…

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A recent and active line of work achieves tight lower bounds for fundamental problems under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH). A celebrated result of Backurs and Indyk (STOC'15) proves that the Edit Distance of two sequences of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Amir Abboud , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Ryan Williams

We show that a large fraction of the data-structure lower bounds known today in fact follow by reduction from the communication complexity of lopsided (asymmetric) set disjointness. This includes lower bounds for: * high-dimensional…

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A cycle of length $t$ in a hypergraph is an alternating sequence $v_1,e_1,v_2\dots,v_t,e_t$ of distinct vertices $v_i$ and distinct edges $e_i$ so that $\{v_i,v_{i+1}\}\subseteq e_i$ (with $v_{t+1}:=v_1$). Let $\lambda K_n^h$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Amin Bahmanian , Sadegheh Haghshenas

We show the first near-linear time randomized algorithms for listing all minimum vertex cuts of polylogarithmic size that separate the graph into at least three connected components (also known as shredders) and for finding the most…

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Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Sariel Har-Peled , Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir

Classical reduced models are low-rank approximations using a fixed basis designed to achieve dimensionality reduction of large-scale systems. In this work, we introduce reduced deep networks, a generalization of classical reduced models…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Donsub Rim , Luca Venturi , Joan Bruna , Benjamin Peherstorfer

In the usual trace reconstruction problem, the goal is to exactly reconstruct an unknown string of length $n$ after it passes through a deletion channel many times independently, producing a set of traces (i.e., random subsequences of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Sami Davies , Miklos Z. Racz , Cyrus Rashtchian , Benjamin G. Schiffer

The width measure treedepth, also known as vertex ranking, centered coloring and elimination tree height, is a well-established notion which has recently seen a resurgence of interest. Since graphs of bounded treedepth are more restricted…

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The multiway-cut problem is, given a weighted graph and k >= 2 terminal nodes, to find a minimum-weight set of edges whose removal separates all the terminals. The problem is NP-hard, and even NP-hard to approximate within 1+delta for some…

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We propose a space-efficient algorithm for hidden surface removal that combines one of the fastest previous algorithms for that problem with techniques based on bit manipulation. Such techniques had been successfully used in other settings,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Frank Kammer , Maarten Löffler , Rodrigo I. Silveira

The edge list model is arguably the simplest input model for graphs, where the graph is specified by a list of its edges. In this model, we study the quantum query complexity of three variants of the triangle finding problem. The first asks…

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The Path Contraction and Cycle Contraction problems take as input an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and an integer $k$ and determine whether one can obtain a path or a cycle, respectively, by performing at most $k$ edge…

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The ''trace reconstruction'' problem asks, given an unknown binary string $x$ and a channel that repeatedly returns ''traces'' of $x$ with each bit randomly deleted with some probability $p$, how many traces are needed to recover $x$? There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Arnav Burudgunte , Paul Valiant , Hongao Wang

The Planar Graph Metric Compression Problem is to compactly encode the distances among $k$ nodes in a planar graph of size $n$. Two na\"ive solutions are to store the graph using $O(n)$ bits, or to explicitly store the distance matrix with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amir Abboud , Pawel Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

In the past few years, a successful line of research has lead to lower bounds for several fundamental local graph problems in the distributed setting. These results were obtained via a technique called round elimination. On a high level,…

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We describe a new sampling-based method to determine cuts in an undirected graph. For a graph (V, E), its cycle space is the family of all subsets of E that have even degree at each vertex. We prove that with high probability, sampling the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-22 David Pritchard , Ramakrishna Thurimella

We present an algorithm for finding a perfect matching in a $3$-edge-connected cubic graph that intersects every $3$-edge cut in exactly one edge. Specifically, we propose an algorithm with a time complexity of $O(n \log^4 n)$, which…

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Allen's interval algebra is one of the most well-known calculi in qualitative temporal reasoning with numerous applications in artificial intelligence. Recently, there has been a surge of improvements in the fine-grained complexity of…

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