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We present a new approach for finding matchings in dense graphs by building on Szemer\'edi's celebrated Regularity Lemma. This allows us to obtain non-trivial albeit slight improvements over longstanding bounds for matchings in streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

We consider the foundational problem of maintaining a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum weight matching (MWM) in an $n$-node dynamic graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. We provide a general reduction that reduces the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Aaron Bernstein , Jiale Chen , Aditi Dudeja , Zachary Langley , Aaron Sidford , Ta-Wei Tu

This paper presents an $O(\log\log \bar{d})$ round massively parallel algorithm for $1+\epsilon$ approximation of maximum weighted $b$-matchings, using near-linear memory per machine. Here $\bar{d}$ denotes the average degree in the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Slobodan Mitrović

The dynamic shortest paths problem on planar graphs asks us to preprocess a planar graph $G$ such that we may support insertions and deletions of edges in $G$ as well as distance queries between any two nodes $u,v$ subject to the constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Amir Abboud , Søren Dahlgaard

Fully dynamic graph is a data structure that (1) supports edge insertions and deletions and (2) answers problem specific queries. The time complexity of (1) and (2) are referred to as the update time and the query time respectively. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Yoichi Iwata , Keigo Oka

Algebraic data structures are the main subroutine for maintaining distances in fully dynamic graphs in subquadratic time. However, these dynamic algebraic algorithms generally cannot maintain the shortest paths, especially against adaptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anastasiia Alokhina , Jan van den Brand

The field of dynamic graph algorithms aims at achieving a thorough understanding of real-world networks whose topology evolves with time. Traditionally, the focus has been on the classic sequential, centralized setting where the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shiri Antaki , Quanquan C. Liu , Shay Solomon

Finding a maximum-cardinality or maximum-weight matching in (edge-weighted) undirected graphs is among the most prominent problems of algorithmic graph theory. For $n$-vertex and $m$-edge graphs, the best known algorithms run in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Tomohiro Koana , Viatcheslav Korenwein , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier , Philipp Zschoche

Given a simple $n$-vertex, $m$-edge graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions, we give two new fully dynamic algorithms for exactly maintaining the edge connectivity of $G$ in $\tilde{O}(n)$ worst-case update time and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Mikkel Thorup , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We consider the well-studied problem of finding a perfect matching in $d$-regular bipartite graphs with $2n$ vertices and $m = nd$ edges. While the best-known algorithm for general bipartite graphs (due to Hopcroft and Karp) takes $O(m…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-07-30 Ashish Goel , Michael Kapralov , Sanjeev Khanna

Maximizing a monotone submodular function under cardinality constraint $k$ is a core problem in machine learning and database with many basic applications, including video and data summarization, recommendation systems, feature extraction,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

We show that there is a polynomial space algorithm that counts the number of perfect matchings in an $n$-vertex graph in $O^*(2^{n/2})\subset O(1.415^n)$ time. ($O^*(f(n))$ suppresses functions polylogarithmic in $f(n)$).The previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-17 Andreas Björklund

The {\em maximum cardinality} and {\em maximum weight matching} problems can be solved in time $\tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n})$, a bound that has resisted improvement despite decades of research. (Here $m$ and $n$ are the number of edges and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Ran Duan , Seth Pettie , Hsin-Hao Su

In this paper, we present a new exact algorithm for counting perfect matchings, which relies on neither inclusion-exclusion principle nor tree-decompositions. For any bipartite graph of $2n$ nodes and $\Delta n$ edges such that $\Delta \geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Taisuke Izumi , Tadashi Wadayama

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

We present a simple randomized algorithm that can efficiently maintain a $(\Delta+1)$ coloring as the graph undergoes edge insertion and deletion updates, where $\Delta$ denotes an upper bound on the maximum degree. A key advantage is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jaehyun Koo

In the fully dynamic maximal independent set (MIS) problem our goal is to maintain an MIS in a given graph $G$ while edges are inserted and deleted from the graph. The first non-trivial algorithm for this problem was presented by Assadi,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Shiri Chechik , Tianyi Zhang

We consider the sensitivity of algorithms for the maximum matching problem against edge and vertex modifications. Algorithms with low sensitivity are desirable because they are robust to edge failure or attack. In this work, we show a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuichi Yoshida , Samson Zhou

We consider the problem of dynamically maintaining (approximate) all-pairs effective resistances in separable graphs, which are those that admit an $n^{c}$-separator theorem for some $c<1$. We give a fully dynamic algorithm that maintains…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Pan Peng

Temporal graphs are graphs whose topology is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph is represented by assigning a set of integer time-labels to every edge $e$ of $G$, indicating the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Viktor Zamaraev , Philipp Zschoche