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Basic path-matchings, introduced by Cunningham and Geelen (FOCS 1996), are a common generalization of matroid intersection and non-bipartite matching. The main results of this paper are a new algebraic characterization of basic…

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For two matroids $\mathcal{M}_1$ and $\mathcal{M}_2$ defined on the same ground set $E$, the online matroid intersection problem is to design an algorithm that constructs a large common independent set in an online fashion. The algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Guru Guruganesh , Sahil Singla

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…

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We introduce the parametric matroid one-interdiction problem. Given a matroid, each element of its ground set is associated with a weight that depends linearly on a real parameter from a given parameter interval. The goal is to find, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Nils Hausbrandt , Oliver Bachtler , Stefan Ruzika , Luca E. Schäfer

We consider fast algorithms for monotone submodular maximization with a general matroid constraint. We present a randomized $(1 - 1/e - \epsilon)$-approximation algorithm that requires $\tilde{O}_{\epsilon}(\sqrt{r} n)$ independence oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

Matroid intersection is a classical optimization problem where, given two matroids over the same ground set, the goal is to find the largest common independent set. In this paper, we show that there exists a certain "sparsifer": a subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

We study algorithmic matroid intersection coloring. Given $k$ matroids on a common ground set $U$ of $n$ elements, the goal is to partition $U$ into the fewest number of color classes, where each color class is independent in all matroids.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Stephen Arndt , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Chaitanya Swamy , Michael Zlatin

This paper initiates the study of quantum algorithms for matroid property problems. It is shown that quadratic quantum speedup is possible for the calculation problem of finding the girth or the number of circuits (bases, flats,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Xiaowei Huang , Jingquan Luo , Lvzhou Li

Maintaining a maximum bipartite matching online while minimizing recourse/augmentations is a well studied problem, motivated by content delivery, job scheduling, and hashing. A breakthrough result of Bernstein, Holm, and Rotenberg…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Niv Buchbinder , Anupam Gupta , Daniel Hathcock , Anna R. Karlin , Sherry Sarkar

In this paper, we investigate the classes of matroid intersection admitting a solution for the problem of partitioning the ground set $E$ into $k$ common independent sets, where $E$ can be partitioned into $k$ independent sets in each of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Kenjiro Takazawa , Yu Yokoi

We study the following Independent Stable Set problem. Let G be an undirected graph and M = (V(G),I) be a matroid whose elements are the vertices of G. For an integer k\geq 1, the task is to decide whether G contains a set S\subseteq V(G)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tuukka Korhonen , Saket Saurabh

Determinant maximization provides an elegant generalization of problems in many areas, including convex geometry, statistics, machine learning, fair allocation of goods, and network design. In an instance of the determinant maximization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Adam Brown , Aditi Laddha , Madhusudhan Pittu , Mohit Singh

This paper shows a polynomial-time algorithm, that given a general matroid $M_1 = (X, \mathcal{I}_1)$ and $k-1$ partition matroids $ M_2, \ldots, M_k$, produces a coloring of the intersection $M = \cap_{i=1}^k M_i$ using at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Stephen Arndt , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Michael Zlatin

We study the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on general graphs within the framework of learning-augmented algorithms. The MIS problem is known to be NP-hard and is also NP-hard to approximate to within a factor of $n^{1-\delta}$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Vihan Shah , Chen Wang

We introduce a new iterative rounding technique to round a point in a matroid polytope subject to further matroid constraints. This technique returns an independent set in one matroid with limited violations of the other ones. On top of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-26 André Linhares , Neil Olver , Chaitanya Swamy , Rico Zenklusen

Suppose we are given a pair of points $s, t$ and a set $S$ of $n$ geometric objects in the plane, called obstacles. We show that in polynomial time one can construct an auxiliary (multi-)graph $G$ with vertex set $S$ and every edge labeled…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Neeraj Kumar , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Subhash Suri , Jie Xue

Determinant maximization problem gives a general framework that models problems arising in as diverse fields as statistics \cite{pukelsheim2006optimal}, convex geometry \cite{Khachiyan1996}, fair allocations\linebreak \cite{anari2016nash},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Adam Brown , Aditi Laddha , Madhusudhan Pittu , Mohit Singh , Prasad Tetali

The problem of covering the ground set of two matroids by a minimum number of common independent sets is notoriously hard even in very restricted settings, i.e.\ when the goal is to decide if two common independent sets suffice or not.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Schwarcz

Finding a maximum independent set (MIS) of a given fam- ily of axis-parallel rectangles is a basic problem in computational geom- etry and combinatorics. This problem has attracted significant atten- tion since the sixties, when Wegner…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-25 José R. Correa , Laurent Feuilloley , Pablo Pérez-Lantero , José A. Soto

We study the parallel complexity of finding a basis of a graphic matroid under independence-oracle access. Karp, Upfal, and Wigderson (FOCS 1985, JCSS 1988) initiated the study of this problem and established two algorithms for finding a…

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