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Finding dense subgraphs is a fundamental problem with applications to community detection, clustering, and data mining. Our work focuses on finding approximate densest subgraphs in directed graphs in computational models for processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Slobodan Mitrović , Theodore Pan , Mahdi Qaempanah , Mohammad Amin Raeisi

We consider the classical $k$-Center problem in undirected graphs. The problem is known to have a polynomial-time 2-approximation. There are even $(2+\varepsilon)$-approximations running in near-linear time. The conventional wisdom is that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Ce Jin , Yael Kirkpatrick , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

We study the problem of finding monotone subsequences in an array from the viewpoint of sublinear algorithms. For fixed $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $\varepsilon > 0$, we show that the non-adaptive query complexity of finding a length-$k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Omri Ben-Eliezer , Clément L. Canonne , Shoham Letzter , Erik Waingarten

We study optimization problems that are neither approximable in polynomial time (at least with a constant factor) nor fixed parameter tractable, under widely believed complexity assumptions. Specifically, we focus on Maximum Independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Marek Cygan , Lukasz Kowalik , Marcin Pilipczuk , Mateusz Wykurz

This paper investigates the optimal ergodic sublinear convergence rate of the relaxed proximal point algorithm for solving monotone variational inequality problems. The exact worst case convergence rate is computed using the performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Guoyong Gu , Junfeng Yang

The 2-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem (2ECSS) is among the most basic survivable network design problems: given an undirected and unweighted graph, the task is to find a spanning subgraph with the minimum number of edges that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Miguel Bosch-Calvo , Mohit Garg , Fabrizio Grandoni , Felix Hommelsheim , Afrouz Jabal Ameli , Alexander Lindermayr

In this paper, we study the non-bipartite maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model has received a significant amount of attention lately. While the problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

Edit distance is a measurement of similarity between two sequences such as strings, point sequences, or polygonal curves. Many matching problems from a variety of areas, such as signal analysis, bioinformatics, etc., need to be solved in a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Kyle Fox , Xinyi Li

The Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two strings is a fundamental string similarity measure with a classical dynamic programming solution taking quadratic time. Despite significant efforts, little progress was made in improving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Negev Shekel Nosatzki

Positive semidefinite programs are an important subclass of semidefinite programs in which all matrices involved in the specification of the problem are positive semidefinite and all scalars involved are non-negative. We present a parallel…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-14 Rahul Jain , Penghui Yao

We propose two one-pass streaming algorithms for the $\mathcal{NP}$-hard hypergraph matching problem. The first algorithm stores a small subset of potential matching edges in a stack using dual variables to select edges. It has an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Henrik Reinstädtler , S M Ferdous , Alex Pothen , Bora Uçar , Christian Schulz

We present three sublinear randomized algorithms for vertex-coloring of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$. The first is a simple algorithm that extends the idea of Morris and Song to color graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman , Xiaonan Chen

We study the problem of approximating edit distance in sublinear time. This is formalized as the $(k,k^c)$-Gap Edit Distance problem, where the input is a pair of strings $X,Y$ and parameters $k,c>1$, and the goal is to return YES if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Elazar Goldenberg , Tomasz Kociumaka , Robert Krauthgamer , Barna Saha

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We study the problem of aligning multiple sequences with the goal of finding an alignment that either maximizes the number of aligned symbols (the longest common subsequence (LCS)), or minimizes the number of unaligned symbols (the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Debarati Das , Barna Saha

In this paper we study the fundamental problems of maximizing a continuous non-monotone submodular function over the hypercube, both with and without coordinate-wise concavity. This family of optimization problems has several applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Rad Niazadeh , Tim Roughgarden , Joshua R. Wang

Discrepancy theory provides powerful tools for producing higher-quality objects which "beat the union bound" in fundamental settings throughout combinatorics and computer science. However, this quality has often come at the price of more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Arun Jambulapati , Victor Reis , Kevin Tian

In this paper we consider parallelization for applications whose objective can be expressed as maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint. Our main result is an algorithm whose approximation is arbitrarily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Eric Balkanski , Adam Breuer , Yaron Singer

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) is a foundational problem in theoretical computer science. Approximating APSP in undirected unweighted graphs has been studied for many years, beginning with the work of Dor, Halperin and Zwick…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Ce Jin , Yael Kirkpatrick , Michał Stawarz , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

We design a deterministic algorithm for the $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate maximum matching problem. Our primary result demonstrates that this problem can be solved in $O(\epsilon^{-6})$ semi-streaming passes, improving upon the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Slobodan Mitrović , Anish Mukherjee , Piotr Sankowski , Wen-Horng Sheu