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Given a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane, we study the two-line-center problem: finding two lines that minimize the maximum distance from each point in $S$ to its closest line. We present a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyoon Chung , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

We study the boundary of tractability for the Max-Cut problem in graphs. Our main result shows that Max-Cut above the Edwards-Erd\H{o}s bound is fixed-parameter tractable: we give an algorithm that for any connected graph with n vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Robert Crowston , Mark Jones , Matthias Mnich

We consider the problem of finding a minimum cut of a weighted graph presented as a single-pass stream. While graph sparsification in streams has been intensively studied, the specific application of finding minimum cuts in streams is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Matthew Ding , Alexandro Garces , Jason Li , Honghao Lin , Jelani Nelson , Vihan Shah , David P. Woodruff

We present a combinatorial algorithm for computing exact maximum flows in directed graphs with $n$ vertices and edge capacities from $\{1,\dots,U\}$ in $n^{2+o(1)}\log U$ time, which is almost optimal in dense graphs. Our algorithm is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Aaron Bernstein , Joakim Blikstad , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Ta-Wei Tu

Short integer linear programs are programs with a relatively small number of constraints. We show how recent improvements on the running-times of solvers for such programs can be used to obtain fast pseudo-polynomial time algorithms for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

In this article, we study the complexity of the upgrading version of the maximal covering location problem with edge length modifications on networks. This problem is NP-hard on general networks. However, in some particular cases, we prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Marta Baldomero-Naranjo , Jörg Kalcsics , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

Computing the diameter, and more generally, all eccentricities of an undirected graph is an important problem in algorithmic graph theory and the challenge is to identify graph classes for which their computation can be achieved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Pierre Bergé , Guillaume Ducoffe , Michel Habib

We give algorithms for approximating the partition function of the ferromagnetic $q$-color Potts model on graphs of maximum degree $d$. Our primary contribution is a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for $d$-regular graphs with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Charlie Carlson , Ewan Davies , Nicolas Fraiman , Alexandra Kolla , Aditya Potukuchi , Corrine Yap

We consider the Partition problem and propose a deterministic FPTAS (Fully Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme) that runs in $\widetilde{O}(n + 1/\varepsilon)$-time. This is the best possible (up to a polylogarithmic factor) assuming the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lin Chen , Jiayi Lian , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

We study the classic Max-Cut problem under multiple cardinality constraints, which we refer to as the Constrained Max-Cut problem. Given a graph $G=(V, E)$, a partition of the vertices into $c$ disjoint parts $V_1, \ldots, V_c$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yury Makarychev , Madhusudhan Reddy Pittu , Ali Vakilian

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

In this work, we address the problem of approximating the $k$-disc distribution ("frequency vector") of a bounded-degree graph in sublinear-time under the assumption of hyperfiniteness. We revisit the partition-oracle framework of Hassidim,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Gregory Moroie

Folded Reed-Solomon codes are an explicit family of codes that achieve the optimal trade-off between rate and error-correction capability: specifically, for any $\eps > 0$, the author and Rudra (2006,08) presented an $n^{O(1/\eps)}$ time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Venkatesan Guruswami

In the simultaneous Max-Cut problem, we are given $k$ weighted graphs on the same set of $n$ vertices, and the goal is to find a cut of the vertex set so that the minimum, over the $k$ graphs, of the cut value is as large as possible.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Amey Bhangale , Subhash Khot , Swastik Kopparty , Sushant Sachdeva , Devanathan Thiruvenkatachari

We give the first quasipolynomial upper bound $\phi n^{\text{polylog}(n)}$ for the smoothed complexity of the SWAP algorithm for local Graph Partitioning (also known as Bisection Width), where $n$ is the number of nodes in the graph and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Xi Chen , Chenghao Guo , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis , Mihalis Yannakakis

An upper dominating set is a minimal dominating set in a graph. In the \textsc{Upper Dominating Set} problem, the goal is to find an upper dominating set of maximum size. We study the complexity of parameterized algorithms for \textsc{Upper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Louis Dublois , Michael Lampis , Vangelis Th. Paschos

The individualization-refinement paradigm provides a strong toolbox for testing isomorphism of two graphs and indeed, the currently fastest implementations of isomorphism solvers all follow this approach. While these solvers are fast in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Daniel Neuen , Pascal Schweitzer

In this paper, we propose a deterministic algorithm that approximates the optimal path cover on weighted undirected graphs. Based on the 1/2-Approximation Path Cover Algorithm by Moran et al., we add a procedure to remove the redundant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Junyuan Lin , Guangpeng Ren

We present a complete classification of the deterministic distributed time complexity for a family of graph problems: binary labeling problems in trees. These are locally checkable problems that can be encoded with an alphabet of size two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Yuval Efron , Juho Hirvonen , Yannic Maus , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

The expansion of a hypergraph, a natural extension of the notion of expansion in graphs, is defined as the minimum over all cuts in the hypergraph of the ratio of the number of the hyperedges cut to the size of the smaller side of the cut.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Anand Louis , Yury Makarychev