English
Related papers

Related papers: Matroid Intersection under Restricted Oracles

200 papers

In the matroid intersection problem, we are given two matroids $\mathcal{M}_1 = (V, \mathcal{I}_1)$ and $\mathcal{M}_2 = (V, \mathcal{I}_2)$ defined on the same ground set $V$ of $n$ elements, and the objective is to find a common…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tatsuya Terao

This paper studies optimal matroid partitioning problems for various objective functions. In the problem, we are given a finite set $E$ and $k$ weighted matroids $(E, \mathcal{I}_i, w_i)$, $i = 1, \dots, k$, and our task is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Yasushi Kawase , Kei Kimura , Kazuhisa Makino , Hanna Sumita

In the Inverse Matroid problem, we are given a matroid, a fixed basis $B$, and an initial weight function, and the goal is to minimally modify the weights -- measured by some function -- so that $B$ becomes a maximum-weight basis. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kristóf Bérczi , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , José Soto

This paper studies randomized polynomial kernelization for the weighted $d$-matroid intersection problem. While the problem is known to have a kernel of size $O(d^{(k - 1)d})$ where $k$ is the solution size, the existence of a polynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura , Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

Let $M$ be a matroid defined on a finite set $E$ and $L\subset E$. $L$ is locked in $M$ if $M|L$ and $M^*|(E\backslash L)$ are 2-connected, and $min\{r(L), r^*(E\backslash L)\} \geq 2$. Locked subsets characterize nontrivial facets of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Brahim Chaourar

In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing social welfare in combinatorial markets through pricing schemes. We consider the existence of prices that are capable to achieve optimal social welfare without a central tie-breaking…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Kristóf Bérczi , Naonori Kakimura , Yusuke Kobayashi

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

In this paper, we introduce the problem of Matroid-Constrained Vertex Cover: given a graph with weights on the edges and a matroid imposed on the vertices, our problem is to choose a subset of vertices that is independent in the matroid,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

Matroid interdiction problems are well-researched in the field of combinatorial optimization. In the matroid $\ell$-interdiction problem, an interdiction strategy removes a subset of cardinality $\ell$ from the matroid's ground set. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Nils Hausbrandt , Levin Nemesch , Stefan Ruzika

In this study, we consider a class of linear matroid interdiction problems, where the feasible sets for the upper-level decision-maker (referred to as a leader) and the lower-level decision-maker (referred to as a follower) are induced by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

Finding a maximum cardinality common independent set in two matroids (also known as \textsc{Matroid Intersection}) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem, which generalizes several well-known problems, such as finding a maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa

Submodular function minimization (SFM) and matroid intersection are fundamental discrete optimization problems with applications in many fields. It is well known that both of these can be solved making $\mathrm{poly}(N)$ queries to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna

One of the most important questions in matroid optimization is to find disjoint common bases of two matroids. The significance of the problem is well-illustrated by the long list of conjectures that can be formulated as special cases.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Kristóf Bérczi , Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király

We give a simple polynomial time approximation scheme for the weighted matroid matching problem on strongly base orderable matroids. We also show that even the unweighted version of this problem is NP-complete and not in oracle-coNP.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-18 José A. Soto

When we deal with a matroid ${\mathcal M}=(U,{\mathcal I})$, we usually assume that it is implicitly given by means of the independence (IND) oracle. Time complexity of many existing algorithms is polynomially bounded with respect to $|U|$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yuki Nishimura , Kazuya Haraguchi

In this article, we introduce the parametric matroid $\ell$-interdiction problem, where $\ell\in\mathbb{N}_{>0}$ is a fixed number of elements allowed to be interdicted. Each element of the matroid's ground set is assigned a weight that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Nils Hausbrandt , Stefan Ruzika

The matching and linear matroid intersection problems are solvable in quasi-NC, meaning that there exist deterministic algorithms that run in polylogarithmic time and use quasi-polynomially many parallel processors. However, such a parallel…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Rohit Gurjar , Taihei Oki , Roshan Raj

Matrix representations are a powerful tool for designing efficient algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems such as matching, and linear matroid intersection and parity. In this paper, we initiate the study of matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Taihei Oki , Tasuku Soma

Bi-objective optimization problems on matroids are in general intractable and their corresponding decision problems are in general NP-hard. However, if one of the objective functions is restricted to binary cost coefficients the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Julia Sudhoff

Consider the following online version of the submodular maximization problem under a matroid constraint: We are given a set of elements over which a matroid is defined. The goal is to incrementally choose a subset that remains independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , R. Ravi , Mohit Singh