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We study the stable matching problem in non-bipartite graphs with incomplete but strict preference lists, where the edges have weights and the goal is to compute a stable matching of minimum or maximum weight. This problem is known to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Linda Farczadi , Natália Guričanová

In the stochastic matching problem, we are given a general (not necessarily bipartite) graph $G(V,E)$, where each edge in $E$ is realized with some constant probability $p > 0$ and the goal is to compute a bounded-degree (bounded by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

We study the maximum matching problem in fully dynamic graphs: a graph is undergoing both edge insertions and deletions, and the goal is to efficiently maintain a large matching after each edge update. This problem has received considerable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna

We develop simple and general techniques to obtain faster (near-linear time) static approximation algorithms, as well as efficient dynamic data structures, for four fundamental geometric optimization problems: minimum piercing set (MPS),…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sujoy Bhore , Timothy M. Chan

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 give new upper and lower bounds for the {\em dynamic} set cover problem. First, we give a $(1+\epsilon) f$-approximation for fully dynamic set cover in $O(f^2\log n /\epsilon^5)$ (amortized) update time, for any $\epsilon > 0$, where $f$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Amir Abboud , Raghavendra Addanki , Fabrizio Grandoni , Debmalya Panigrahi , Barna Saha

Sublinear time algorithms for approximating maximum matching size have long been studied. Much of the progress over the last two decades on this problem has been on the algorithmic side. For instance, an algorithm of Behnezhad [FOCS'21]…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani , Aviad Rubinstein

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

We present streaming algorithms for the graph $k$-matching problem in both the insert-only and dynamic models. Our algorithms, with space complexity matching the best upper bounds, have optimal or near-optimal update time, significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Qian Li , Ge Xia

A maximal $\varepsilon$-near perfect matching is a maximal matching which covers at least $(1-\varepsilon)|V(G)|$ vertices. In this paper, we study the number of maximal near perfect matchings in generalized quasirandom and dense graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Yifan Jing , Akbar Rafiey

A fundamental question is whether one can maintain a maximum independent set in polylogarithmic update time for a dynamic collection of geometric objects in Euclidean space. Already, for a set of intervals, it is known that no dynamic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Sujoy Bhore , Martin Nöllenburg , Csaba D. Tóth , Jules Wulms

We study the problem of approximating the value of the matching polynomial on graphs with edge parameter $\gamma$, where $\gamma$ takes arbitrary values in the complex plane. When $\gamma$ is a positive real, Jerrum and Sinclair showed that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Ivona Bezakova , Andreas Galanis , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Daniel Stefankovic

The problem of finding a maximum size matching in a graph (known as the maximum matching problem) is one of the most classical problems in computer science. Despite a significant body of work dedicated to the study of this problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Moran Feldman , Ariel Szarf

We present the first polynomial self-stabilizing algorithm for finding a $\frac23$-approximation of a maximum matching in a general graph. The previous best known algorithm has been presented by Manne \emph{et al.} \cite{ManneMPT11} and has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Johanne Cohen , Khaled Maâmra , George Manoussakis , Laurence Pilard

We provide an algorithm which, with high probability, maintains a $(1-\epsilon)$-approximate maximum flow on an undirected graph undergoing $m$-edge additions in amortized $m^{o(1)} \epsilon^{-3}$ time per update. To obtain this result, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jan van den Brand , Li Chen , Rasmus Kyng , Yang P. Liu , Richard Peng , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Sushant Sachdeva , Aaron Sidford

MAX CLIQUE problem (MCP) is an NPO problem, which asks to find the largest complete sub-graph in a graph $G, G = (V, E)$ (directed or undirected). MCP is well known to be $NP-Hard$ to approximate in polynomial time with an approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tapani Toivonen , Janne Karttunen

Knapsack problems are among the most fundamental problems in optimization. In the Multiple Knapsack problem, we are given multiple knapsacks with different capacities and items with values and sizes. The task is to find a subset of items of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Bertrand Simon , Andreas Wiese

In the dynamic linear program (LP) problem, we are given an LP undergoing updates and we need to maintain an approximately optimal solution. Recently, significant attention (e.g., [Gupta et al. STOC'17; Arar et al. ICALP'18, Wajc STOC'20])…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We consider the directed minimum weight cycle problem in the fully dynamic setting. To the best of our knowledge, so far no fully dynamic algorithms have been designed specifically for the minimum weight cycle problem in general digraphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Adam Karczmarz

Near ubiquitous mobile computing has led to intense interest in dynamic graph theory. This provides a new and challenging setting for algorithmics and complexity theory. For any graph-based problem, the rapid evolution of a (possibly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Arnaud Casteigts , Bernard Mans , Luke Mathieson