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The Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probability theory to show the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of "weakly dependent" criteria. We show that the LLL extends to a much more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Or Sattath

We develop tools for analyzing focused stochastic local search algorithms. These are algorithms which search a state space probabilistically by repeatedly selecting a constraint that is violated in the current state and moving to a random…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos

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

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

Lov\'asz Local Lemma (LLL) is a probabilistic tool that allows us to prove the existence of combinatorial objects in the cases when standard probabilistic argument does not work (there are many partly independent conditions). LLL can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Andrey Rumyantsev

The lefthanded Lov\'asz local lemma (LLLL) is a generalization of the Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL), a powerful technique from the probabilistic method. We prove a computable version of the LLLL and use it to effectivize a collection of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Daniel Mourad

We study the problem of sampling an approximately uniformly random satisfying assignment for atomic constraint satisfaction problems i.e. where each constraint is violated by only one assignment to its variables. Let $p$ denote the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Vishesh Jain , Huy Tuan Pham , Thuy-Duong Vuong

We show that any randomised Monte Carlo distributed algorithm for the Lov\'asz local lemma requires $\Omega(\log \log n)$ communication rounds, assuming that it finds a correct assignment with high probability. Our result holds even in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Sebastian Brandt , Orr Fischer , Juho Hirvonen , Barbara Keller , Tuomo Lempiäinen , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

The Lov\'asz Local Lemma (the LLL for short) is a powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics that is used to verify the existence of combinatorial objects with desirable properties. Recent years saw the development of various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Anton Bernshteyn , Jing Yu

The probabilistic method is a technique for proving combinatorial existence results by means of showing that a randomly chosen object has the desired properties with positive probability. A particularly powerful probabilistic tool is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Anton Bernshteyn

A nonconstructive proof can be used to prove the existence of an object with some properties without providing an explicit example of such an object. A special case is a probabilistic proof where we show that an object with required…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Andrei Rumyantsev , Alexander Shen

The resampling algorithm of Moser \& Tardos is a powerful approach to develop constructive versions of the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL). We generalize this to partial resampling: when a bad event holds, we resample an appropriately-random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a probabilistic tool which shows that, if a collection of "bad" events $\mathcal B$ in a probability space are not too likely and not too interdependent, then there is a positive probability that no…

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

In this paper we introduce a new approach for approximately counting in bounded degree systems with higher-order constraints. Our main result is an algorithm to approximately count the number of solutions to a CNF formula $\Phi$ when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Ankur Moitra

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

Shearer gave a general theorem characterizing the family $\LLL$ of dependency graphs labeled with probabilities $p_v$ which have the property that for any family of events with a dependency graph from $\LLL$ (whose vertex-labels are upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-27 Wesley Pegden

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 2019-09-13 Anton Bernshteyn

The Lovasz Local Lemma [EL75] is a powerful tool to non-constructively prove the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of criteria. In his breakthrough paper [Bec91], Beck demonstrated that a constructive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Robin A. Moser , Gábor Tardos

We give an algorithmic local lemma by establishing a sufficient condition for the uniform random walk on a directed graph to reach a sink quickly. Our work is inspired by Moser's entropic method proof of the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos

Moser & Tardos have developed a powerful algorithmic approach (henceforth "MT") to the Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL); the basic operation done in MT and its variants is a search for "bad" events in a current configuration. In the initial stage…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan