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Despite significant research efforts, the state-of-the-art algorithm for maintaining an approximate matching in fully dynamic graphs has a polynomial {worst-case} update time, even for very poor approximation guarantees. In a recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Moses Charikar , Shay Solomon

We study the Maximum Cardinality Matching (MCM) and the Maximum Weight Matching (MWM) problems, on trees and on some special classes of graphs, in the Online Preemptive and the Incremental Dynamic Graph models. In the {\em Online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Sumedh Tirodkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

Designing dynamic graph algorithms against an adaptive adversary is a major goal in the field of dynamic graph algorithms. While a few such algorithms are known for spanning trees, matchings, and single-source shortest paths, very little…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Aaron Bernstein , Jan van den Brand , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , He Sun

We study correlation decay for the maximum weight matching problem on sparse graphs with i.i.d. edge weights. We show exponential decay of correlations when the underlying graphs are locally tree-like with uniformly bounded degree and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Wai-Kit Lam , Arnab Sen

In the fundamental Maximum Matching problem the task is to find a maximum cardinality set of pairwise disjoint edges in a given undirected graph. The fastest algorithm for this problem, due to Micali and Vazirani, runs in time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Falko Hegerfeld , Stefan Kratsch

We study the stable matching problem in non-bipartite graphs with incomplete but strict preference lists, where the edges have weights and the goal is to compute a stable matching of minimum or maximum weight. This problem is known to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Linda Farczadi , Natália Guričanová

This paper presents an algorithm for estimating the weight of a maximum weighted matching by augmenting any estimation routine for the size of an unweighted matching. The algorithm is implementable in any streaming model including dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Marc Bury , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We consider the problem of maintaining a $(1+\epsilon)\Delta$-edge coloring in a dynamic graph $G$ with $n$ nodes and maximum degree at most $\Delta$. The state-of-the-art update time is $O_\epsilon(\text{polylog}(n))$, by Duan, He and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Sayan Bhattacharya , Martín Costa , Nadav Panski , Shay Solomon

Random graph matching refers to recovering the underlying vertex correspondence between two random graphs with correlated edges; a prominent example is when the two random graphs are given by Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graphs $G(n,\frac{d}{n})$.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 Jian Ding , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

We present the first (randomized) parallel dynamic algorithm for maximal matching, which can process an arbitrary number of updates simultaneously. Given a batch of edge deletion or insertion updates to the graph, our parallel algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mohsen Ghaffari , Anton Trygub

Suppose that we are given an arbitrary graph $G=(V, E)$ and know that each edge in $E$ is going to be realized independently with some probability $p$. The goal in the stochastic matching problem is to pick a sparse subgraph $Q$ of $G$ such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

We present streaming algorithms for the graph $k$-matching problem in both the insert-only and dynamic models. Our algorithms, with space complexity matching the best upper bounds, have optimal or near-optimal update time, significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jianer Chen , Qin Huang , Iyad Kanj , Qian Li , Ge Xia

The field of dynamic graph algorithms aims at achieving a thorough understanding of real-world networks whose topology evolves with time. Traditionally, the focus has been on the classic sequential, centralized setting where the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shiri Antaki , Quanquan C. Liu , Shay Solomon

We study the classical weighted perfect matchings problem for bipartite graphs or sometimes referred to as the assignment problem, i.e., given a weighted bipartite graph $G = (U\cup V,E)$ with weights $w : E \rightarrow \mathcal{R}$ we are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Megha Khosla , Avishek Anand

Consider the following distance query for an $n$-node graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions: given two sets of nodes $I$ and $J$, return the distances between every pair of nodes in $I\times J$. This query is rather general and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jan van den Brand , Danupon Nanongkai

We study the densest subgraph problem and give algorithms via multiplicative weights update and area convexity that converge in $O\left(\frac{\log m}{\epsilon^{2}}\right)$ and $O\left(\frac{\log m}{\epsilon}\right)$ iterations,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ta Duy Nguyen , Alina Ene

This paper presents an $O(\log\log \bar{d})$ round massively parallel algorithm for $1+\epsilon$ approximation of maximum weighted $b$-matchings, using near-linear memory per machine. Here $\bar{d}$ denotes the average degree in the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Slobodan Mitrović

We present trade-offs in the incremental and fully dynamic settings to maintian a proper coloring. For any fully dynamic $2$-coloring algorithm, the maximum of the update time, number of recolorings, and query time is $\Omega(\log n)$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Manas Jyoti Kashyop , N. S. Narayanaswamy , Meghana Nasre , Sai Mohith Potluri

In the fully dynamic edge connectivity problem, the input is a simple graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions, and the goal is to maintain its edge connectivity, denoted $\lambda_G$. We present two simple randomized algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yotam Kenneth-Mordoch , Robert Krauthgamer

The classic lower bound of Kuhn, Moscibroda and Wattenhofer [JACM 2016] states that approximate maximum matching and approximate vertex cover (among other problems) in the LOCAL model require $\Omega(\min\{\sqrt{\frac{\log n}{\log\log n}},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Peter Davies-Peck