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Inspired by a concept in comparative genomics, we investigate properties of randomly chosen members of G_1(m,n,t), the set of bipartite graphs with $m$ left vertices, n right vertices, t edges, and each vertex of degree at least one. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonah Blasiak , Rick Durrett

We study random multidimensional assignment problems where the costs decompose into the sum of independent random variables. In particular, in three dimensions, we assume that the costs $W_{i,j,k}$ satisfy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden , Tomasz Tkocz

Following previous theoretical work by Srinivasan (FOCS 2001) and the first author (STACS 2006) and a first experimental evaluation on random instances (ALENEX 2009), we investigate how the recently developed different approaches to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Benjamin Doerr , Marvin Künnemann , Magnus Wahlström

We study greedy-type algorithms such that at a greedy step we pick several dictionary elements contrary to a single dictionary element in standard greedy-type algorithms. We call such greedy algorithms {\it super greedy algorithms}. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-27 Entao Liu , Vladimir N. Temlyakov

In this article, we present a greedy algorithm based on a tensor product decomposition, whose aim is to compute the global minimum of a strongly convex energy functional. We prove the convergence of our method provided that the gradient of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

In the sufficiently sparse case, we find the probability that a uniformly random bipartite graph with given degree sequence contains no edge from a specified set of edges. This enables us to enumerate loop-free digraphs and oriented graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Catherine Greenhill , Mahdieh Hasheminezhad , Isaiah Iliffe , Brendan D. McKay

We derive new results for the performance of a simple greedy algorithm for finding large independent sets and matchings in constant degree regular graphs. We show that for $r$-regular graphs with $n$ nodes and girth at least $g$, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-09 David Gamarnik , David Goldberg

In this article, we present a family of numerical approaches to solve high-dimensional linear non-symmetric problems. The principle of these methods is to approximate a function which depends on a large number of variates by a sum of tensor…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Eric Cances , Virginie Ehrlacher , Tony Lelievre

We introduce a new random input model for bipartite matching which we call the Random Type Poisson Arrival Model. Just like in the known i.i.d. model (introduced by Feldman et al. 2009), online nodes have types in our model. In contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis , Denis Pankratov

The celebrated dependent random choice lemma states that in a bipartite graph an average vertex (weighted by its degree) has the property that almost all small subsets $S$ in its neighborhood has common neighborhood almost as large as in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Tao Jiang , Sean Longbrake

Randomized greedy algorithms form one of the simplest yet most effective approaches for computing approximate matchings in graphs. In this paper, we focus on the class of vertex-iterative (VI) randomized greedy matching algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mahsa Derakhshan , Tao Yu

Recently, variants of many classical extremal theorems have been proved in the random environment. We, complementing existing results, extend the Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem in random graphs. In particular, we determine, up to a constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-15 József Balogh , Andrzej Dudek , Lina Li

In this paper, we obtain a precise estimate of the probability that the sparse binomial random graph contains a large number of vertices in a triangle. The estimate of log of this probability is correct up to second order, and enables us to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Suman Chakraborty , Remco van der Hofstad , Frank den Hollander

We connect high-dimensional subset selection and submodular maximization. Our results extend the work of Das and Kempe (2011) from the setting of linear regression to arbitrary objective functions. For greedy feature selection, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-13 Ethan R. Elenberg , Rajiv Khanna , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sahand Negahban

When developing robust preconditioners for multiphysics problems, fractional functions of the Laplace operator often arise and need to be inverted. Rational approximation in the uniform norm can be used to convert inverting those fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 James H. Adler , Xiaozhe Hu , Xue Wang , Zhongqin Xue

We study the following combinatorial counting and sampling problems: can we efficiently sample from the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph $G(n,p)$ conditioned on triangle-freeness? Can we efficiently approximate the probability that $G(n,p)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Matthew Jenssen , Will Perkins , Aditya Potukuchi , Michael Simkin

The probabilistic method is a technique for proving combinatorial existence results by means of showing that a randomly chosen object has the desired properties with positive probability. A particularly powerful probabilistic tool is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Anton Bernshteyn

We study the algorithmic problem of finding large $\gamma$-balanced independent sets in dense random bipartite graphs; an independent set is $\gamma$-balanced if a $\gamma$ proportion of its vertices lie on one side of the bipartition. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Abhishek Dhawan , Eren C. Kızıldağ , Neeladri Maitra

We analyze greedy algorithms for the Hierarchical Aggregation (HAG) problem, a strategy introduced in [Jia et al., KDD 2020] for speeding up learning on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The idea of HAG is to identify and remove redundancies in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Alexandra Porter , Mary Wootters

This paper makes three contributions to estimating the number of perfect matching in bipartite graphs. First, we prove that the popular sequential importance sampling algorithm works in polynomial time for dense bipartite graphs. More…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Yeganeh Alimohammadi , Persi Diaconis , Mohammad Roghani , Amin Saberi