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A powerful technique for solving combinatorial optimization problems is to reduce the search space without compromising the solution quality by exploring intrinsic mathematical properties of the problems. For the maximum weight independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Jianfeng Liu , Sihong Shao , Chaorui Zhang

We show that spin systems with bounded degrees and coupling independence admit fully polynomial time approximation schemes (FPTAS). We design a new recursive deterministic counting algorithm to achieve this. As applications, we give the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiaoyu Chen , Weiming Feng , Heng Guo , Xinyuan Zhang , Zongrui Zou

We show that the Maximum Weight Independent Set problem (MWIS) can be solved in quasi-polynomial time on $H$-free graphs (graphs excluding a fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph) for every $H$ whose every connected component is a path or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Peter Gartland , Daniel Lokshtanov , Tomáš Masařík , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk , Paweł Rzążewski

This paper presents new deterministic and distributed low-diameter decomposition algorithms for weighted graphs. In particular, we show that if one can efficiently compute approximate distances in a parallel or a distributed setting, one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Václav Rozhoň , Michael Elkin , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler

Computing a maximum independent set (MaxIS) is a fundamental NP-hard problem in graph theory, which has important applications in a wide spectrum of fields. Since graphs in many applications are changing frequently over time, the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xiangyu Gao , Jianzhong Li , Dongjing Miao

We consider the problem of designing deterministic graph algorithms for the model of Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) that improve with the sparsity of the input graph, as measured by the notion of arboricity. For the problems of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Manuela Fischer , Jeff Giliberti , Christoph Grunau

The Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem is one of the basics in the study of locality in distributed graph algorithms. This paper presents an extremely simple randomized algorithm providing a near-optimal local complexity for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Mohsen Ghaffari

We consider the problem of query-efficient global max-cut on a weighted undirected graph in the value oracle model examined by [RSW18]. Graph algorithms in this cut query model and other query models have recently been studied for various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Orestis Plevrakis , Seyoon Ragavan , S. Matthew Weinberg

Given an undirected node-weighted graph, the Maximum-Weight Connected Subgraph problem (MWCS) is to identify a subset of nodes of maximalsum of weights that induce a connected subgraph. MWCS is closely related to the well-studied Prize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Mohammed El-Kebir , Gunnar W. Klau

This paper presents near-optimal deterministic parallel and distributed algorithms for computing $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate single-source shortest paths in any undirected weighted graph. On a high level, we deterministically reduce this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Václav Rozhoň , Christoph Grunau , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic , Jason Li

We present a simple deterministic distributed $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for minimum weight vertex cover, which completes in $O(\log{\Delta}/\epsilon\log\log{\Delta})$ rounds, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree in the graph,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Reuven Bar-Yehuda , Keren Censor-Hillel , Gregory Schwartzman

We design an algorithm for approximating the size of \emph{Max Cut} in dense graphs. Given a proximity parameter $\varepsilon \in (0,1)$, our algorithm approximates the size of \emph{Max Cut} of a graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, within an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Rahul Raychaudhury , Sayantan Sen

We show that the $(degree+1)$-list coloring problem can be solved deterministically in $O(D \cdot \log n \cdot\log^2\Delta)$ rounds in the \CONGEST model, where $D$ is the diameter of the graph, $n$ the number of nodes, and $\Delta$ the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Philipp Bamberger , Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus

The Maximum Weight Independent Set problem is a fundamental NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization with several real-world applications. Given an undirected vertex-weighted graph, the problem is to find a subset of the vertices with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ernestine Großmann , Kenneth Langedal , Christian Schulz

In the load balancing problem, the input is an $n$-vertex bipartite graph $G = (C \cup S, E)$ and a positive weight for each client $c \in C$. The algorithm must assign each client $c \in C$ to an adjacent server $s \in S$. The load of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Sepehr Assadi , Aaron Bernstein , Zachary Langley

We consider the sensitivity of algorithms for the maximum matching problem against edge and vertex modifications. Algorithms with low sensitivity are desirable because they are robust to edge failure or attack. In this work, we show a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuichi Yoshida , Samson Zhou

Let G be an edge-weighted hypergraph on n vertices, m edges of size \le s, where the edges have real weights in an interval [1,W]. We show that if we can approximate a maximum weight matching in G within factor alpha in time T(n,m,W) then…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-12 Andrzej Lingas , Cui Di

We propose an efficient $\epsilon$-differentially private algorithm, that given a simple {\em weighted} $n$-vertex, $m$-edge graph $G$ with a \emph{maximum unweighted} degree $\Delta(G) \leq n-1$, outputs a synthetic graph which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jingcheng Liu , Jalaj Upadhyay , Zongrui Zou

We present a deterministic distributed algorithm that computes a $(2\Delta-1)$-edge-coloring, or even list-edge-coloring, in any $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, in $O(\log^7 \Delta \log n)$ rounds. This answers one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Manuela Fischer , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We determine the computational complexity of approximately counting and sampling independent sets of a given size in bounded-degree graphs. That is, we identify a critical density $\alpha_c(\Delta)$ and provide (i) for $\alpha <…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ewan Davies , Will Perkins