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We revisit the classic problem of dynamically maintaining shortest paths between all pairs of nodes of a directed weighted graph. The allowed updates are insertions and deletions of nodes and their incident edges. We give worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ittai Abraham , Shiri Chechik , Sebastian Krinninger

We study geometric set cover problems in dynamic settings, allowing insertions and deletions of points and objects. We present the first dynamic data structure that can maintain an $O(1)$-approximation in sublinear update time for set cover…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Timothy M. Chan , Qizheng He

The representation of a dynamic ordered set of $n$ integer keys drawn from a universe of size $m$ is a fundamental data structuring problem. Many solutions to this problem achieve optimal time but take polynomial space, therefore preserving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

We consider a general class of two-stage distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems where the ambiguity set is constrained by fixed marginal probability laws that are not necessarily discrete. We derive primal and dual formulations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Ariel Neufeld , Qikun Xiang

We present two modified versions of the primal-dual splitting algorithm relying on forward-backward splitting proposed in \cite{vu} for solving monotone inclusion problems. Under strong monotonicity assumptions for some of the operators…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Radu Ioan Bot , Ernö Robert Csetnek , Andre Heinrich

We investigate dynamic versions of geometric set cover and hitting set where points and ranges may be inserted or deleted, and we want to efficiently maintain an (approximately) optimal solution for the current problem instance. While their…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Hsien-Chih Chang , Subhash Suri , Allen Xiao , Jie Xue

The first fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining a maximal independent set (MIS) with update time that is sublinear in the number of edges was presented recently by the authors of this paper [Assadi et.al. STOC'18]. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Sepehr Assadi , Krzysztof Onak , Baruch Schieber , Shay Solomon

In this paper we investigate the top-$k$-selection problem, i.e. determine the largest, second largest, ..., and the $k$-th largest elements, in the dynamic data model. In this model the order of elements evolves dynamically over time. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Qin Huang , Xingwu Liu , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

This paper develops a primal-dual dynamical system where the coefficients are designed in closed-loop way for solving a convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. We first introduce a ``second-order primal" +…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

Dynamically maintaining the minimum cut in a graph $G$ under edge insertions and deletions is a fundamental problem in dynamic graph algorithms for which no conditional lower bound on the time per operation exists. In an $n$-node graph the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Antoine El-Hayek , Monika Henzinger , Jason Li

We give improved algorithms for maintaining edge-orientations of a fully-dynamic graph, such that the out-degree of each vertex is bounded. On one hand, we show how to orient the edges such that the out-degree of each vertex is proportional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Chandra Chekuri , Aleksander Bjørn Christiansen , Jacob Holm , Ivor van der Hoog , Kent Quanrud , Eva Rotenberg , Chris Schwiegelshohn

In the dynamic set cover problem, the input is a dynamic universe of elements and a fixed collection of sets. As elements are inserted or deleted, the goal is to efficiently maintain an approximate minimum set cover. While the past decade…

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We investigate the distributed multi-agent sharing optimization problem in a directed graph, with a composite objective function consisting of a smooth function plus a convex (possibly non-smooth) function shared by all agents. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Sajad Zandi , Mehdi Korki

Maximizing a monotone submodular function under cardinality constraint $k$ is a core problem in machine learning and database with many basic applications, including video and data summarization, recommendation systems, feature extraction,…

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In this paper we consider a distributed optimization scenario in which a set of agents has to solve a convex optimization problem with separable cost function, local constraint sets and a coupling inequality constraint. We propose a novel…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We describe a data structure that supports access, rank and select queries, as well as symbol insertions and deletions, on a string $S[1,n]$ over alphabet $[1..\sigma]$ in time $O(\lg n/\lg\lg n)$, which is optimal even on binary sequences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Gonzalo Navarro , Yakov Nekrich

In the fully dynamic maximal independent set (MIS) problem our goal is to maintain an MIS in a given graph $G$ while edges are inserted and deleted from the graph. The first non-trivial algorithm for this problem was presented by Assadi,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Shiri Chechik , Tianyi Zhang

In this work, we reveal a rich combinatorial structure underlying exact minimax optimal algorithms for classical nonexpansive fixed-point problems. This viewpoint unifies all extremal optimal methods and provides a systematic and practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 TaeHo Yoon , Benjamin Grimmer

Auctions are widely used in exchanges to match buy and sell requests. Once the buyers and sellers place their requests, the exchange determines how these requests are to be matched. The two most popular objectives used while determining the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Mohit Garg , Suneel Sarswat

In this article, we focus on a periodic resource allocation problem applied to a dynamical system which comes from a biological system. More precisely, we consider a system with $N$ resources and $N$ activities, each activity use the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Olivier Bernard , Liu-Di Lu , Julien Salomon