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We study the classic set cover problem from the perspective of sub-linear algorithms. Given access to a collection of $m$ sets over $n$ elements in the query model, we show that sub-linear algorithms derived from existing techniques have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Piotr Indyk , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Ali Vakilian , Anak Yodpinyanee

Submodular maximization subject to matroid constraints is a central problem with many applications in machine learning. As algorithms are increasingly used in decision-making over datapoints with sensitive attributes such as gender or race,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sepideh Mahabadi , Sherry Sarkar , Jakub Tarnawski

A framework consists of an undirected graph $G$ and a matroid $M$ whose elements correspond to the vertices of $G$. Recently, Fomin et al. [SODA 2023] and Eiben et al. [ArXiV 2023] developed parameterized algorithms for computing paths of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , Giannos Stamoulis

Seymour's decomposition theorem for regular matroids is a fundamental result with a number of combinatorial and algorithmic applications. In this work we demonstrate how this theorem can be used in the design of parameterized algorithms on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh

Streaming submodular maximization is a natural model for the task of selecting a representative subset from a large-scale dataset. If datapoints have sensitive attributes such as gender or race, it becomes important to enforce fairness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Marwa El Halabi , Federico Fusco , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakab Tardos , Jakub Tarnawski

We study the complexity of the maximum coverage problem, restricted to set systems of bounded VC-dimension. Our main result is a fixed-parameter tractable approximation scheme: an algorithm that outputs a $(1-\eps)$-approximation to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Robert Kleinberg , Hooyeon Lee

We resolve the space complexity of single-pass streaming algorithms for approximating the classic set cover problem. For finding an $\alpha$-approximate set cover (for any $\alpha= o(\sqrt{n})$) using a single-pass streaming algorithm, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna , Yang Li

A Fixed-Parameter Tractable (\FPT) $\rho$-approximation algorithm for a minimization (resp. maximization) parameterized problem $P$ is an FPT algorithm that, given an instance $(x, k)\in P$ computes a solution of cost at most $k \cdot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Rajesh Chitnis , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Guy Kortsarz

We consider two matrix completion problems, in which we are given a matrix with missing entries and the task is to complete the matrix in a way that (1) minimizes the rank, or (2) minimizes the number of distinct rows. We study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

We consider the problem of monotone, submodular maximization over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$. For this problem, we introduce the first deterministic algorithms with linear time complexity; these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alan Kuhnle

Vertex Cover parameterized by the solution size k is the quintessential fixed-parameter tractable problem. FPT algorithms are most interesting when the parameter is small. Several lower bounds on k are well-known, such as the maximum size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Leon Kellerhals , Tomohiro Koana , Pascal Kunz

Parameterized complexity attempts to give a more fine-grained analysis of the complexity of problems: instead of measuring the running time as a function of only the input size, we analyze the running time with respect to additional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Rajesh Chitnis , Graham Cormode

We consider the problem of finding a basis of a matroid with weight exactly equal to a given target. Here weights can be discrete values from $\{-\Delta,\ldots,\Delta\}$ or more generally $m$-dimensional vectors of such discrete values. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

We study a submodular maximization problem motivated by applications in online retail. A platform displays a list of products to a user in response to a search query. The user inspects the first $k$ items in the list for a $k$ chosen at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Arash Asadpour , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli

We give improved multi-pass streaming algorithms for the problem of maximizing a monotone or arbitrary non-negative submodular function subject to a general $p$-matchoid constraint in the model in which elements of the ground set arrive one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Chien-Chung Huang , Theophile Thiery , Justin Ward

Parameterized analysis provides powerful mechanisms for obtaining fine-grained insights into different types of algorithms. In this work, we combine this field with evolutionary algorithms and provide parameterized complexity analysis of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Samuel Baguley , Tobias Friedrich , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Marcus Pappik , Ziena Zeif

In this paper, we consider the tractability of the matroid intersection problem under the minimum rank oracle. In this model, we are given an oracle that takes as its input a set of elements and returns as its output the minimum of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mihály Bárász , Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Taihei Oki , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

Maximizing a monotone submodular function under various constraints is a classical and intensively studied problem. However, in the single-pass streaming model, where the elements arrive one by one and an algorithm can store only a small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura , Simon Mauras , Yuichi Yoshida

While the basic greedy algorithm gives a semi-streaming algorithm with an approximation guarantee of $2$ for the \emph{unweighted} matching problem, it was only recently that Paz and Schwartzman obtained an analogous result for weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Paritosh Garg , Linus Jordan , Ola Svensson

Diversity maximization is a fundamental problem in web search and data mining. For a given dataset $S$ of $n$ elements, the problem requires to determine a subset of $S$ containing $k\ll n$ "representatives" which minimize some diversity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci