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We study the graphs formed from instances of the stable matching problem by connecting pairs of elements with an edge when there exists a stable matching in which they are matched. Our results include the NP-completeness of recognizing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 David Eppstein

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

As a fundamental problem in pattern recognition, graph matching has applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to computational biology. In graph matching, patterns are modeled as graphs and pattern recognition amounts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-06-19 Tiberio S. Caetano , Julian J. McAuley , Li Cheng , Quoc V. Le , Alex J. Smola

We initiate the study of approximate maximum matching in the vertex partition model, for graphs subject to dynamic changes. We assume that the $n$ vertices of the graph are partitioned among $k$ players, who execute a distributed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Peter Robinson , Xianbin Zhu

Graph matching can be formalized as a combinatorial optimization problem, where there are corresponding relationships between pairs of nodes that can be represented as edges. This problem becomes challenging when there are potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Dongdong Chen , Yuxing Dai , Lichi Zhang , Zhihong Zhang

Sampling without replacement is a natural online rounding strategy for converting fractional bipartite matching into an integral one. In Online Bipartite Matching, we can use the Balance algorithm to fractionally match each online vertex,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhiyi Huang , Chui Shan Lee , Jianqiao Lu , Xinkai Shu

We initiate the study of the prophet inequality problem through the resource augmentation framework in scenarios when the values of the rewards are correlated. Our goal is to determine the number of additional rewards an online algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Tomer Ezra , Tamar Garbuz

We propose a fast approximate algorithm for large graph matching. A new projected fixed-point method is defined and a new doubly stochastic projection is adopted to derive the algorithm. Previous graph matching algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Yao Lu , Kaizhu Huang , Cheng-Lin Liu

We present a series of results regarding conceptually simple algorithms for bipartite matching in various online and related models. We first consider a deterministic adversarial model. The best approximation ratio possible for a one-pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Allan Borodin , Denis Pankratov , Amirali Salehi-Abari

This article presents a simplification of Zadimoghaddam's algorithm for the edge-weighted online bipartite matching problem, under the online primal dual framework. In doing so, we obtain an improved competitive ratio of $0.514$. We first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Zhiyi Huang

We study the dominating set problem in an online setting. An algorithm is required to guarantee competitiveness against an adversary that reveals the input graph one node at a time. When a node is revealed, the algorithm learns about the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Hovhannes Harutyunyan , Denis Pankratov , Jesse Racicot

When designing a preemptive online algorithm for the maximum matching problem, we wish to maintain a valid matching M while edges of the underlying graph are presented one after the other. When presented with an edge e, the algorithm should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Danny Segev , Oren Weimann

In the classical online model, the maximum independent set problem admits an $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the competitive ratio even for interval graphs, motivating the study of the problem under additional assumptions. We first study the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Minati De , Satyam Singh

In bipartite matching problems, agents on two sides of a graph want to be paired according to their preferences. The stability of a matching depends on these preferences, which in uncertain environments also reflect agents' beliefs about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jonathan Shaki , Jiarui Gan , Sarit Kraus

Graph matching aims to find the latent vertex correspondence between two edge-correlated graphs and has found numerous applications across different fields. In this paper, we study a seeded graph matching problem, which assumes that a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Liren Yu , Jiaming Xu , Xiaojun Lin

We revisit the online bipartite matching problem on $d$-regular graphs, for which Cohen and Wajc (SODA 2018) proposed an algorithm with a competitive ratio of $1-2\sqrt{H_d/d} = 1-O(\sqrt{(\log d)/d})$ and showed that it is asymptotically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yilong Feng , Haolong Li , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

We study the problem of conformal prediction in a novel online framework that directly optimizes efficiency. In our problem, we are given a target miscoverage rate $\alpha > 0$, and a time horizon $T$. On each day $t \le T$ an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Vaidehi Srinivas

We study the online stochastic matching problem. Against the offline benchmark, Feldman, Gravin, and Lucier (SODA 2015) designed an optimal $0.5$-competitive algorithm. A recent line of work, initiated by Papadimitriou, Pollner, Saberi, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Enze Sun , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yifan Wang

This paper initiates the study of online algorithms for the maximum weight $b$-matching problem, a generalization of maximum weight matching where each node has at most $b \geq 1$ adjacent matching edges. The problem is motivated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Marcin Bienkowski , David Fuchssteiner , Jan Marcinkowski , Stefan Schmid

Stochastic dynamic matching problems have recently gained attention in the stochastic-modeling community due to their diverse applications, such as supply-chain management and kidney exchange programs. In this paper, we study a matching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Céline Comte , Fabien Mathieu , Sushil Mahavir Varma , Ana Bušić