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We show a fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate \emph{size} of maximum matching of the graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges using $m^{0.5-\Omega_{\epsilon}(1)}$ update time. This is the first polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In this paper, we introduce a variant of spectral sparsification, called probabilistic $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-spectral sparsification. Roughly speaking, it preserves the cut value of any cut $(S,S^{c})$ with an $1\pm\varepsilon$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Yin Tat Lee

We design a new, fast algorithm for agnostically learning univariate probability distributions whose densities are well approximated by piecewise polynomial functions. Let $f$ be the density function of an arbitrary univariate distribution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Jayadev Acharya , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

Recent years have seen extensive research on directed graph sparsification. In this work, we initiate the study of fast fully dynamic spectral and cut sparsification algorithms for directed graphs. We introduce a new notion of spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yibin Zhao

We study algorithms for approximating pairwise similarity matrices that arise in natural language processing. Generally, computing a similarity matrix for $n$ data points requires $\Omega(n^2)$ similarity computations. This quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Archan Ray , Nicholas Monath , Andrew McCallum , Cameron Musco

We introduce a new approach to spectral sparsification that approximates the quadratic form of the pseudoinverse of a graph Laplacian restricted to a subspace. We show that sparsifiers with a near-linear number of edges in the dimension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Huan Li , Aaron Schild

We design a sublinear-time approximation algorithm for quadratic function minimization problems with a better error bound than the previous algorithm by Hayashi and Yoshida (NIPS'16). Our approximation algorithm can be modified to handle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Amit Levi , Yuichi Yoshida

A hypergraph spectral sparsifier of a hypergraph $G$ is a weighted subgraph $H$ that approximates the Laplacian of $G$ to a specified precision. Recent work has shown that similar to ordinary graphs, there exist $\widetilde{O}(n)$-size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li , Aaron Putterman

A recent work by [Larsen, SODA 2023] introduced a faster combinatorial alternative to Bansal's SDP algorithm for finding a coloring $x \in \{-1, 1\}^n$ that approximately minimizes the discrepancy $\mathrm{disc}(A, x) := | A x |_{\infty}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yichuan Deng , Xiaoyu Li , Zhao Song , Omri Weinstein

We initiate a systematic study of algorithms that are both differentially private and run in sublinear time for several problems in which the goal is to estimate natural graph parameters. Our main result is a differentially-private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

In this work we provide a new technique to design fast approximation algorithms for graph problems where the points of the graph lie in a metric space. Specifically, we present a sampling approach for such metric graphs that, using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hossein Esfandiari , Michael Mitzenmacher

We give a nearly optimal sublinear-time algorithm for approximating the size of a minimum vertex cover in a graph G. The algorithm may query the degree deg(v) of any vertex v of its choice, and for each 1 <= i <= deg(v), it may ask for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-06 Krzysztof Onak , Dana Ron , Michal Rosen , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We provide an algorithm for properly learning mixtures of two single-dimensional Gaussians without any separability assumptions. Given $\tilde{O}(1/\varepsilon^2)$ samples from an unknown mixture, our algorithm outputs a mixture that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Constantinos Daskalakis , Gautam Kamath

We present a new approach for solving (minimum disagreement) correlation clustering that results in sublinear algorithms with highly efficient time and space complexity for this problem. In particular, we obtain the following algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sepehr Assadi , Chen Wang

We study sublinear time algorithms for estimating the size of maximum matching in graphs. Our main result is a $(\frac{1}{2}+\Omega(1))$-approximation algorithm which can be implemented in $O(n^{1+\epsilon})$ time, where $n$ is the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Roghani , Aviad Rubinstein , Amin Saberi

We present a distributed asynchronous algorithm for approximating a single component of the solution to a system of linear equations $Ax = b$, where $A$ is a positive definite real matrix, and $b \in \mathbb{R}^n$. This is equivalent to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Asuman Ozdaglar , Devavrat Shah , Christina Lee Yu

We present a randomized algorithm that computes a constant approximation of a graph's arboricity, using $\tilde{O}(n/\lambda)$ queries to adjacency lists and in the same time bound. Here, $n$ and $\lambda$ denote the number of nodes and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiangqi Dai , Mohsen Ghaffari , Julian Portmann

Let $A$ be an $n\times n$ random matrix whose entries are i.i.d. with mean $0$ and variance $1$. We present a deterministic polynomial time algorithm which, with probability at least $1-2\exp(-\Omega(\epsilon n))$ in the choice of $A$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Vishesh Jain , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney

We give a quasipolynomial time algorithm for the graph matching problem (also known as noisy or robust graph isomorphism) on correlated random graphs. Specifically, for every $\gamma>0$, we give a $n^{O(\log n)}$ time algorithm that given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Boaz Barak , Chi-Ning Chou , Zhixian Lei , Tselil Schramm , Yueqi Sheng

We study \emph{sublinear} algorithms that solve linear systems locally. In the classical version of this problem the input is a matrix $S\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ and a vector $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ in the range of $S$, and the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Alexandr Andoni , Robert Krauthgamer , Yosef Pogrow