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We study the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on general graphs within the framework of learning-augmented algorithms. The MIS problem is known to be NP-hard and is also NP-hard to approximate to within a factor of $n^{1-\delta}$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Vihan Shah , Chen Wang

In this paper, we introduce the problem of Matroid-Constrained Vertex Cover: given a graph with weights on the edges and a matroid imposed on the vertices, our problem is to choose a subset of vertices that is independent in the matroid,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

Determinant maximization provides an elegant generalization of problems in many areas, including convex geometry, statistics, machine learning, fair allocation of goods, and network design. In an instance of the determinant maximization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Adam Brown , Aditi Laddha , Madhusudhan Pittu , Mohit Singh

We present a deterministic $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum matching algorithm in $\mathsf{poly} 1/\varepsilon$ passes in the semi-streaming model, solving the long-standing open problem of breaking the exponential barrier in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Manuela Fischer , Slobodan Mitrović , Jara Uitto

We study the parallel (adaptive) complexity of the classic problem of finding a basis in an $n$-element matroid, given access via an \emph{independence oracle}. In this model, the algorithm may submit polynomially many independence queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sanjeev Khanna , Aaron Putterman , Junkai Song

We study algorithmic matroid intersection coloring. Given $k$ matroids on a common ground set $U$ of $n$ elements, the goal is to partition $U$ into the fewest number of color classes, where each color class is independent in all matroids.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Stephen Arndt , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Chaitanya Swamy , Michael Zlatin

We initiate the study of matroid problems in a new oracle model called dynamic oracle. Our algorithms in this model lead to new bounds for some classic problems, and a "unified" algorithm whose performance matches previous results developed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Joakim Blikstad , Sagnik Mukhopadhyay , Danupon Nanongkai , Ta-Wei Tu

In this paper, we consider the tractability of the matroid intersection problem under the minimum rank oracle. In this model, we are given an oracle that takes as its input a set of elements and returns as its output the minimum of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mihály Bárász , Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Taihei Oki , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

Milgrom (2017) has proposed a heuristic for determining a maximum weight basis of an independence system ${\mathcal I}$ given that we want an approximation guarantee only for sets in a prescribed ${\mathcal O}\subseteq {\mathcal I}$. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Sven de Vries , Rakesh V. Vohra

Maintaining a maximum bipartite matching online while minimizing recourse/augmentations is a well studied problem, motivated by content delivery, job scheduling, and hashing. A breakthrough result of Bernstein, Holm, and Rotenberg…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Niv Buchbinder , Anupam Gupta , Daniel Hathcock , Anna R. Karlin , Sherry Sarkar

In this work, we study the classic submodular maximization problem under knapsack constraints and beyond. We first present an $(7/16-\varepsilon)$-approximate algorithm for single knapsack constraint, which requires…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Wenxin Li

This paper shows a polynomial-time algorithm, that given a general matroid $M_1 = (X, \mathcal{I}_1)$ and $k-1$ partition matroids $ M_2, \ldots, M_k$, produces a coloring of the intersection $M = \cap_{i=1}^k M_i$ using at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Stephen Arndt , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Michael Zlatin

For constrained, not necessarily monotone submodular maximization, all known approximation algorithms with ratio greater than $1/e$ require continuous ideas, such as queries to the multilinear extension of a submodular function and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yixin Chen , Ankur Nath , Chunli Peng , Alan Kuhnle

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over matroids presented by oracles or explicitly. Such functions can be interpreted as the balancing of multi-criteria optimization. We provide a combinatorial polynomial time…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Yael Berstein , Jon Lee , Hugo Maruri-Aguilar , Shmuel Onn , Eva Riccomagno , Robert Weismantel , Henry Wynn

We study the problem of computing an approximate maximum cardinality matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a \emph{random} order. In the semi-streaming model, the edges of the input graph G = (V,E) are given as a stream…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Aaron Bernstein

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone submodular objective $f$ subject to the intersection of $k$ arbitrary matroid constraints. The natural greedy algorithm guarantees $(k+1)$-approximation for this problem, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Moran Feldman , Justin Ward

The maximum intersection problem for a matroid and a greedoid, given by polynomial-time oracles, is shown $NP$-hard by expressing the satisfiability of boolean formulas in 3-conjunctive normal form as such an intersection. The corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Taneli Mielikäinen , Esko Ukkonen

In this paper, we address the weighted linear matroid intersection problem from the computation of the degree of the determinants of a symbolic matrix. We show that a generic algorithm computing the degree of noncommutative determinants,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Hiroki Furue , Hiroshi Hirai

In this paper, we investigate three problems concerning the toric ideal associated to a matroid. Firstly, we list all matroids $\mathcal M$ such that its corresponding toric ideal $I_{\mathcal M}$ is a complete intersection. Secondly, we…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Ignacio García-Marco , Jorge Luis Ramírez Alfonsín

In this paper, we apply a Threshold-Decreasing Algorithm to maximize $k$-submodular functions under a matroid constraint, which reduces the query complexity of the algorithm compared to the greedy algorithm with little loss in approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shuxian Niu , Qian Liu , Yang Zhou , Min Li