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Given a dynamic graph subject to insertions and deletions of edges, a natural question is whether the graph presently admits a planar embedding. We give a deterministic fully-dynamic algorithm for general graphs, running in amortized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Jacob Holm , Eva Rotenberg

Research in explorable uncertainty addresses combinatorial optimization problems where there is partial information about the values of numeric input parameters, and exact values of these parameters can be determined by performing costly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Haya Diwan , Lisa Hellerstein , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

We present a dynamic data structure that maintains a tree decomposition of width at most $9k+8$ of a dynamic graph with treewidth at most $k$, which is updated by edge insertions and deletions. The amortized update time of our data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Tuukka Korhonen

Baswana, Gupta and Sen [FOCS'11] showed that fully dynamic maximal matching can be maintained in general graphs with logarithmic amortized update time. More specifically, starting from an empty graph on $n$ fixed vertices, they devised a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Shay Solomon

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under a matroid constraint is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning. We study this classic problem in the fully dynamic setting, where elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We consider the problem of maintaining an (approximately) minimum vertex cover in an $n$-node graph $G = (V, E)$ that is getting updated dynamically via a sequence of edge insertions/deletions. We show how to maintain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sayan Bhattacharya , Janardhan Kulkarni

In this paper, we study the $d$-dimensional update-query problem. We provide lower bounds on update and query running times, assuming a long-standing conjecture on min-plus matrix multiplication, as well as algorithms that are close to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jason Yang , Jun Wan

We develop a dynamic version of the primal-dual method for optimization problems, and apply it to obtain the following results. (1) For the dynamic set-cover problem, we maintain an $O(f^2)$-approximately optimal solution in $O(f \cdot \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Giuseppe F. Italiano

{\em Algorithms with predictions} incorporate machine learning predictions into algorithm design. A plethora of recent works incorporated predictions to improve on worst-case optimal bounds for online problems. In this paper, we initiate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Monika Henzinger , Barna Saha , Martin P. Seybold , Christopher Ye

We study the point location problem on dynamic planar subdivisions that allows insertions and deletions of edges. In our problem, the underlying graph of a subdivision is not necessarily connected. We present a data structure of linear size…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Eunjin Oh , Hee-Kap Ahn

The task of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint is at the core of many machine learning and data mining applications, including data summarization, sparse regression and coverage problems. We study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakub Tarnawski , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Learned index structures aim to accelerate queries by training machine learning models to approximate the rank function associated with a database attribute. While effective in practice, their theoretical limitations are not fully…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Luis Alberto Croquevielle , Roman Sokolovskii , Thomas Heinis

We study the dynamic query evaluation problem: Given a full conjunctive query Q and a sequence of updates to the input database, we construct a data structure that supports constant-delay enumeration of the tuples in the query output after…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Ahmet Kara , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

The longest common substring problem consists in finding a longest string that appears as a (contiguous) substring of two input strings. We consider the dynamic variant of this problem, in which we are to maintain two dynamic strings $S$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Karol Pokorski

We present a deterministic dynamic algorithm for maintaining a $(1+\epsilon)f$-approximate minimum cost set cover with $O(f\log(Cn)/\epsilon^2)$ amortized update time, when the input set system is undergoing element insertions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai

Given an array A of $n$ elements, we wish to support queries for the most frequent and least frequent element in a subrange $[l, r]$ of $A$. We also wish to support updates that change a particular element at index $i$ or insert/ delete an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Hicham El-Zein , Meng He , J. Ian Munro , Bryce Sandlund

Recently, Dvir, Golovnev, and Weinstein have shown that sufficiently strong lower bounds for linear data structures would imply new bounds for rigid matrices. However, their result utilizes an algorithm that requires an $NP$ oracle, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Sivaramakrishnan Natarajan Ramamoorthy , Cyrus Rashtchian

In dynamic submodular maximization, the goal is to maintain a high-value solution over a sequence of element insertions and deletions with a fast update time. Motivated by large-scale applications and the fact that dynamic data often…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Arpit Agarwal , Eric Balkanski

We present a new distance oracle in the fully dynamic setting: given a weighted undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices undergoing both edge insertions and deletions, and an arbitrary parameter $\epsilon$ where $\epsilon\in[1/\log^{c}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Bernhard Haeupler , Yaowei Long , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Modeling complex dynamical systems under varying conditions is computationally intensive, often rendering high-fidelity simulations intractable. Although reduced-order models (ROMs) offer a promising solution, current methods often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Andrew F. Ilersich , Kevin Course , Prasanth B. Nair