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The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a keystone principle in probability theory, guaranteeing the existence of configurations which avoid a collection $\mathcal B$ of "bad" events which are mostly independent and have low probability. In its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 David G. Harris

Asymptotic separation index is a parameter that measures how easily a Borel graph can be approximated by its subgraphs with finite components. In contrast to the more classical notion of hyperfiniteness, asymptotic separation index is…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Anton Bernshteyn , Felix Weilacher

We consider graph coloring and related problems in the distributed message-passing model. {Locally-iterative algorithms} are especially important in this setting. These are algorithms in which each vertex decides about its next color only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin , Uri Goldenberg

The Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem is one of the basics in the study of locality in distributed graph algorithms. This paper presents an extremely simple randomized algorithm providing a near-optimal local complexity for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Mohsen Ghaffari

The Lovasz Local Lemma due to Erdos and Lovasz is a powerful tool in proving the existence of rare events. We present an extension of this lemma, which works well when the event to be shown to exist is a conjunction of individual events,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aravind Srinivasan

The Local Computation Algorithm (LCA) model is a popular model in the field of sublinear-time algorithms that measures the complexity of an algorithm by the number of probes the algorithm makes in the neighborhood of one node to determine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Sebastian Brandt , Christoph Grunau , Václav Rozhoň

We show that any randomised Monte Carlo distributed algorithm for the Lov\'asz local lemma requires $\Omega(\log \log n)$ communication rounds, assuming that it finds a correct assignment with high probability. Our result holds even in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Sebastian Brandt , Orr Fischer , Juho Hirvonen , Barbara Keller , Tuomo Lempiäinen , Joel Rybicki , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto

This paper proves that a wide class of local search algorithms extend as is to the fully dynamic setting with an adaptive adversary, achieving an amortized $\tilde{O}(1)$ number of local-search steps per update. A breakthrough by Moser…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bernhard Haeupler , Slobodan Mitrović , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Wen-Horng Sheu , Robert Tarjan

We develop a framework for the rigorous analysis of focused stochastic local search algorithms. These are algorithms that search a state space by repeatedly selecting some constraint that is violated in the current state and moving to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos , Vladimir Kolmogorov

The Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probability theory to show the existence of combinatorial objects meeting a prescribed collection of "weakly dependent" criteria. We show that the LLL extends to a much more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Andris Ambainis , Julia Kempe , Or Sattath

We study the complexity of fundamental distributed graph problems in the recently popular setting where information about the input graph is available to the nodes before the start of the computation. We focus on the most common such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Alkida Balliu , Thomas Boudier , Sebastian Brandt , Dennis Olivetti

We give a probabilistic analysis of a Moser-type algorithm for the Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL), adjusted to search for acyclic edge colorings of a graph. We thus improve the best known upper bound to acyclic chromatic index, also obtained…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ioannis Giotis , Lefteris Kirousis , Kostas I. Psaromiligkos , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We develop tools for analyzing focused stochastic local search algorithms. These are algorithms which search a state space probabilistically by repeatedly selecting a constraint that is violated in the current state and moving to a random…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Dimitris Achlioptas , Fotis Iliopoulos

We give a simple combinatorial algorithm to deterministically approximately count the number of satisfying assignments of general constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Suppose that the CSP has domain size $q=O(1)$, each constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kun He , Chunyang Wang , Yitong Yin

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 give a fast algorithm for sampling uniform solutions of general constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) in a local lemma regime. Suppose that the CSP has $n$ variables with domain size at most q, each constraint contains at most k…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kun He , Chunyang Wang , Yitong Yin

Let G=(V,E) be a locally finite graph. Let \vec{p}\in[0,1]^V. We show that Shearer's measure, introduced in the context of the Lovasz Local Lemma, with marginal distribution determined by \vec{p} exists on G iff every Bernoulli random field…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Christoph Temmel

We consider recent formulations of the algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma by Achlioptas-Iliopoulos-Kolmogorov [2] and by Achlioptas-Iliopoulos-Sinclair [3]. These papers analyze a random walk algorithm for finding objects that avoid undesired…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Vladimir Kolmogorov

In breakthrough work, Tardos (Oper. Res. '86) gave a proximity based framework for solving linear programming (LP) in time depending only on the constraint matrix in the bit complexity model. In Tardos's framework, one reduces solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Daniel Dadush , Bento Natura , László A. Végh

We provide an alternative constructive proof of the Asymmetric Lov\'asz Local Lemma. Our proof uses the classic algorithmic framework of Moser and the analysis introduced by Giotis, Kirousis, Psaromiligkos, and Thilikos in "On the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Ioannis Giotis , Lefteris Kirousis , Kostas I. Psaromiligkos , Dimitrios M. Thilikos