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In this paper we consider graph algorithms in models of computation where the space usage (random accessible storage, in addition to the read only input) is sublinear in the number of edges $m$ and the access to input data is constrained.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

In 2020, Peter Larsen reported flaws in the methods for centrosymmetry parameter computation in the existing molecular dynamics and analysis packages. He proposed an intuitive an mathematically rigorous formulation for centrosymmetry…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Vasily V. Pisarev

We consider the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex tree with one shortcut in order to minimize the diameter of the resulting graph. The tree is embedded in an unknown space and we have access to an oracle that, when queried on a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Davide Bilò

In this paper we further investigate the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in a regular bipartite graph. The first non-trivial algorithm, with running time $O(mn)$, dates back to K\"{o}nig's work in 1916 (here $m=nd$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-18 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs is an important and well-studied problem. The fully dynamic version, in which edges are inserted and deleted over time has also been the subject of much attention. Existing algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Aaron Bernstein , Cliff Stein

When designing a preemptive online algorithm for the maximum matching problem, we wish to maintain a valid matching M while edges of the underlying graph are presented one after the other. When presented with an edge e, the algorithm should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Danny Segev , Oren Weimann

We study the computational complexity of several problems connected with finding a maximal distance-$k$ matching of minimum cardinality or minimum weight in a given graph. We introduce the class of $k$-equimatchable graphs which is an edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yury Kartynnik , Andrew Ryzhikov

The shortest augmenting path technique is one of the fundamental ideas used in maximum matching and maximum flow algorithms. Since being introduced by Edmonds and Karp in 1972, it has been widely applied in many different settings.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Bartłomiej Bosek , Dariusz Leniowski , Piotr Sankowski , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

Optimization problems consist of either maximizing or minimizing an objective function. Instead of looking for a maximum solution (resp. minimum solution), one can find a minimum maximal solution (resp. maximum minimal solution). Such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Mehdi Khosravian Ghadikolaei , Jerome Monnot , Florian Sikora

We study how good a lexicographically maximal solution is in the weighted matching and matroid intersection problems. A solution is lexicographically maximal if it takes as many heaviest elements as possible, and subject to this, it takes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

Matching on covariates is a well-established framework for estimating causal effects in observational studies. The principal challenge stems from the often high-dimensional structure of the problem. Many methods have been introduced to…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-12 Florian Gunsilius , Yuliang Xu

We consider the assortment optimization problem with disjoint-cardinality constraints under two-level nested logit model. To solve this problem, we first identify a candidate set with $O(mn^2)$ assortments and show that at least one optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Tian Xie

In the online bipartite matching with reassignments problem, an algorithm is initially given only one side of the vertex set of a bipartite graph; the vertices on the other side are revealed to the algorithm one by one, along with its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Yongho Shin , Kangsan Kim , Seungmin Lee , Hyung-Chan An

We propose a new greedy algorithm for the maximum cardinality matching problem. We give experimental evidence that this algorithm is likely to find a maximum matching in random graphs with constant expected degree c>0, independent of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Martin Dietzfelbinger , Hendrik Peilke , Michael Rink

We present the first formal correctness proof of Edmonds' blossom shrinking algorithm for maximum cardinality matching in general graphs. We focus on formalising the mathematical structures and properties that allow the algorithm to run in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mohammad Abdulaziz , Kurt Mehlhorn

The seminal work of Roth, S\"onmez, & \"Unver shows that the Edmonds-Gallai structure theorem for non-bipartite matching can be leveraged to yield a randomized algorithm to match patient-donor pairs in kidney exchange with extraordinarily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Claire Chang , Arin Khare , David Shmoys

Let $P$ be a path graph of $n$ vertices embedded in a metric space. We consider the problem of adding a new edge to $P$ to minimize the radius of the resulting graph. Previously, a similar problem for minimizing the diameter of the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Christopher Johnson , Haitao Wang

Low-distortional metric embeddings are a crucial component in the modern algorithmic toolkit. In an online metric embedding, points arrive sequentially and the goal is to embed them into a simple space irrevocably, while minimizing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sujoy Bhore , Arnold Filtser , Csaba D. Tóth

Let $G$ be an undirected bipartite graph with positive integer weights on the edges. We refine the existing decomposition theorem originally proposed by Kao et al., for computing maximum weight bipartite matching. We apply it to design an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shibsankar Das

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane, where each element of $P$ is assigned a weight $\omega(p)$, positive or negative. In this paper, we present an algorithm that runs in $O(n^4\log n)$ time and $O(n)$ space to find two possibly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-22 José Fernández Goycoolea , Luis H. Herrera , Pablo Pérez Lantero , Carlos Seara