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Index coding is concerned with efficient broadcast of a set of messages to receivers in the presence of receiver side information. In this paper, we study the secure index coding problem with security constraints on the receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Yucheng Liu , Parastoo Sadeghi , Neda Aboutorab , Arman Sharififar

The input to the Multiway Cut problem is a weighted undirected graph, with nonnegative edge weights, and $k$ designated terminals. The goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into $k$ parts, each containing exactly one of the…

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The index coding problem is a problem of efficient broadcasting with side-information. We look at the uniprior index coding problem, in which the receivers have disjoint side-information symbols and arbitrary demand sets. Previous work has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Vijaya Kumar Mareedu , Prasad Krishnan

We develop new approximation algorithms for classical graph and set problems in the RAM model under space constraints. As one of our main results, we devise an algorithm for d-Hitting Set that runs in time n^{O(d^2 + d/\epsilon})}, uses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Arindam Biswas , Venkatesh Raman , Saket Saurabh

We present a near-optimal polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem for graphs of bounded orientable or non-orientable genus. Our algorithm achieves an approximation factor of O(f(g)) on graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Jeff Erickson , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

The index coding problem is studied from an interference alignment perspective, providing new results as well as new insights into, and generalizations of, previously known results. An equivalence is established between multiple unicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hamed Maleki , Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

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In recent years, the problem of computing the frequencies of the induced $k$-vertex subgraphs of a graph, or \emph{$k$-graphlets}, has become central. One approach for this problem is to sample $k$-graphlets randomly. Classic algorithms for…

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In distributed optimization problems, a technique called gradient coding, which involves replicating data points, has been used to mitigate the effect of straggling machines. Recent work has studied approximate gradient coding, which…

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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…

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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Vaibhav Amit Patel

The problem of two-sender unicast index coding consists of two senders and a set of receivers. Each receiver demands a unique message and possesses some of the messages demanded by other receivers as its side-information. Every demanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Chinmayananda Arunachala , Vaneet Aggarwal , B. Sundar Rajan

It is known that the minimum broadcast rate of a linear index code over $\mathbb{F}_q$ is equal to the $minrank_q$ of the underlying digraph. In [3] it is proved that for $\mathbb{F}_2$ and any positive integer $k$, $minrank_q(G)\leq k$ iff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

We present linear time {\it in-place} algorithms for several basic and fundamental graph problems including the well-known graph search methods (like depth-first search, breadth-first search, maximum cardinality search), connectivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

In the graph clustering problem with a planted solution, the input is a graph on $n$ vertices partitioned into $k$ clusters, and the task is to infer the clusters from graph structure. A standard assumption is that clusters induce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Silvio Lattanzi , Davide Mazzali , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

An index code for a broadcast channel with receiver side information is 'locally decodable' if every receiver can decode its demand using only a subset of the codeword symbols transmitted by the sender instead of observing the entire…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Smiju Kodamthuruthil Joy , Lakshmi Natarajan