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We introduce a `concrete complexity' model for studying algorithms for matching in bipartite graphs. The model is based on the "demand query" model used for combinatorial auctions. Most (but not all) known algorithms for bipartite matching…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Noam Nisan

In this paper, we study Ranking, a well-known randomized greedy matching algorithm, for general graphs. The algorithm was originally introduced by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani [STOC 1990] for the online bipartite matching problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mahsa Derakhshan , Mohammad Roghani , Mohammad Saneian , Tao Yu

A maximal $\varepsilon$-near perfect matching is a maximal matching which covers at least $(1-\varepsilon)|V(G)|$ vertices. In this paper, we study the number of maximal near perfect matchings in generalized quasirandom and dense graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Yifan Jing , Akbar Rafiey

In this paper, the problem of matching pairs of correlated random graphs with multi-valued edge attributes is considered. Graph matching problems of this nature arise in several settings of practical interest including social network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 F. Shirani , S. Garg , E. Erkip

A coloring of edges of a finite directed graph turns the graph into finite-state automaton. The synchronizing word of a deterministic automaton is a word in the alphabet of colors (considered as letters) of its edges that maps the automaton…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-11-24 A. N. Trahtman

We study polynomial-time approximation algorithms for (edge/vertex) Sparsest Cut and Small Set Expansion in terms of $k$, the number of edges or vertices cut in the optimal solution. Our main results are $\mathcal{O}(\text{polylog}\,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Aditya Anand , Euiwoong Lee , Jason Li , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Given a bipartite graph, the maximum balanced biclique (\textsf{MBB}) problem, discovering a mutually connected while equal-sized disjoint sets with the maximum cardinality, plays a significant role for mining the bipartite graph and has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Rui Zhou , Jiajie Xu , Jianxin Li

Our goal in this paper is to propose a \textit{combinatorial algorithm} that beats the only such algorithm known previously, the greedy one. We study the polynomial approximation of the Maximum Vertex Cover Problem in bipartite graphs by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Edouard Bonnet , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Paschos , Georgios Stamoulis

Let $\mathbf{k} := (k_1,\dots,k_s)$ be a sequence of natural numbers. For a graph $G$, let $F(G;\mathbf{k})$ denote the number of colourings of the edges of $G$ with colours $1,\dots,s$ such that, for every $c \in \{1,\dots,s\}$, the edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Oleg Pikhurko , Katherine Staden , Zelealem B. Yilma

We consider the problem of constructing a bipartite graph whose degrees lie in prescribed intervals. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such graphs are well-known. However, existing realization algorithms suffer from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Steffen Rechner

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a maximum matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a random order. In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm receives a stream of edges and it is allowed to have a memory of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tung Mai , Anup Rao , Ryan A. Rossi

A proper labeling of a graph is an assignment of integers to some elements of a graph, which may be the vertices, the edges, or both of them, such that we obtain a proper vertex coloring via the labeling subject to some conditions. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

The online matching problem was introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani (STOC 1990) on bipartite graphs with vertex arrivals. It is well-known that the optimal competitive ratio is $1-1/e$ for both integral and fractional versions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sander Borst , Danish Kashaev , Zhuan Khye Koh

The 3-domatic number problem asks whether a given graph can be partitioned intothree dominating sets. We prove that this problem can be solved by a deterministic algorithm in time 2.695^n (up to polynomial factors). This result improves the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tobias Riege , Jörg Rothe , Holger Spakowski , Masaki Yamamoto

For any $\varepsilon > 0$, we give a polynomial-time $n^\varepsilon$-approximation algorithm for Max Independent Set in graphs of bounded twin-width given with an $O(1)$-sequence. This result is derived from the following time-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Pierre Bergé , Édouard Bonnet , Hugues Déprés , Rémi Watrigant

In the dynamic approximate maximum bipartite matching problem we are given bipartite graph $G$ undergoing updates and our goal is to maintain a matching of $G$ which is large compared the maximum matching size $\mu(G)$. We define a dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Joakim Blikstad , Peter Kiss

In this paper, we generalize the recently studied Stochastic Matching problem to more accurately model a significant medical process, kidney exchange, and several other applications. Up until now the Stochastic Matching problem that has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Alireza Farhadi , Jacob Gilbert , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

In this note we study inhomogeneous random bipartite graphs in random environment. These graphs can be thought of as an extension of the classical Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs in a random environment. We show that the expected number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jairo Bochi , Godofredo Iommi , Mario Ponce

In the stochastic weighted matching problem, the goal is to find a large-weight matching of a graph when we are uncertain about the existence of its edges. In particular, each edge $e$ has a known weight $w_e$ but is realized independently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mahsa Derakhshan , Alireza Farhadi

As two fundamental problems, graph cuts and graph matching have been investigated over decades, resulting in vast literature in these two topics respectively. However the way of jointly applying and solving graph cuts and matching receives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tianshu Yu , Junchi Yan , Jieyi Zhao , Baoxin Li