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This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper we present tight lower-bounds and new upper-bounds for hypergraph and database problems. We give tight lower-bounds for finding minimum hypercycles. We give tight lower-bounds for a substantial regime of unweighted hypercycle.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Cheng-Hao Fu , Andrea Lincoln , Rene Reyes

We establish the first update-time separation between dynamic algorithms against oblivious adversaries and those against adaptive adversaries in natural dynamic graph problems, based on popular fine-grained complexity hypotheses.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Nick Fischer , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

During the last 10 years it has become popular to study dynamic graph problems in a emergency planning or sensitivity setting: Instead of considering the general fully dynamic problem, we only have to process a single batch update of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann

In this work, we study the maximum matching problem from the perspective of sensitivity. The sensitivity of an algorithm $A$ on a graph $G$ is defined as the maximum Wasserstein distance between the output distributions of $A$ on $G$ and on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuichi Yoshida , Zihan Zhang

Betweenness centrality ranks the importance of nodes by their participation in all shortest paths of the network. Therefore computing exact betweenness values is impractical in large networks. For static networks, approximation based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Elisabetta Bergamini , Henning Meyerhenke , Christian L. Staudt

Computing a dense subgraph is a fundamental problem in graph mining, with a diverse set of applications ranging from electronic commerce to community detection in social networks. In many of these applications, the underlying context is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Suman K. Bera , Sayan Bhattacharya , Jayesh Choudhari , Prantar Ghosh

We investigate the power of randomized algorithms for the maximum cardinality matching (MCM) and the maximum weight matching (MWM) problems in the online preemptive model. In this model, the edges of a graph are revealed one by one and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Ashish Chiplunkar , Sumedh Tirodkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

There has recently been much progress on exact algorithms for the (un)weighted graph (bi)partitioning problem using branch-and-bound and related methods. In this note we present and improve an easily computable, purely combinatorial lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Jesper Larsson Träff , Martin Wimmer

Technology trends will cause data movement to account for the majority of energy expenditure and execution time on emerging computers. Therefore, computational complexity will no longer be a sufficient metric for comparing algorithms, and a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Venmugil Elango , Fabrice Rastello , Louis-Noel Pouchet , J. Ramanujam , P. Sadayappan

Finding important nodes in a graph and measuring their importance is a fundamental problem in the analysis of social networks, transportation networks, biological systems, etc. Among popular such metrics are graph centrality, betweenness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Søren Dahlgaard , Jacob Evald

When processing data with uncertainty, it is desirable that the output of the algorithm is stable against small perturbations in the input. Varma and Yoshida [SODA'21] recently formalized this idea and proposed the notion of average…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida

We develop graph-based methods for semi-supervised learning based on label propagation on a data similarity graph. When data is abundant or arrive in a stream, the problems of computation and data storage arise for any graph-based method.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Michal Valko

Some of the most fundamental and well-studied graph parameters are the Diameter (the largest shortest paths distance) and Radius (the smallest distance for which a "center" node can reach all other nodes). The natural and important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein

We give new polynomial lower bounds for a number of dynamic measure problems in computational geometry. These lower bounds hold in the Word-RAM model, conditioned on the hardness of either 3SUM, APSP, or the Online Matrix-Vector…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Justin Dallant , John Iacono

We present a new technique for efficiently removing almost all short cycles in a graph without unintentionally removing its triangles. Consequently, triangle finding problems do not become easy even in almost $k$-cycle free graphs, for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann , Seri Khoury , Or Zamir

Many practical optimization problems lack strong convexity. Fortunately, recent studies have revealed that first-order algorithms also enjoy linear convergences under various weaker regularity conditions. While the relationship among…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Feng-Yi Liao , Lijun Ding , Yang Zheng

Computing the diameter of the intersection graphs of objects is a basic problem in computational geometry. Previous works showed that the complexity of computing the diameter mainly depends on the object types: for unit disks and squares in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

We describe a general technique that yields the first {\em Statistical Query lower bounds} for a range of fundamental high-dimensional learning problems involving Gaussian distributions. Our main results are for the problems of (1) learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

We study the performance of asymptotic and approximate consensus algorithms under harsh environmental conditions. The asymptotic consensus problem requires a set of agents to repeatedly set their outputs such that the outputs converge to a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Matthias Függer , Thomas Nowak , Manfred Schwarz