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The $\ell$-matroid intersection ($\ell$-MI) problem asks if $\ell$ given matroids share a common basis. Already for $\ell = 3$, notable canonical NP-complete special cases are $3$-Dimensional Matching and Hamiltonian Path on directed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ilan Doron-Arad , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

In the pairwise weighted spanner problem, the input consists of an $n$-vertex-directed graph, where each edge is assigned a cost and a length. Given $k$ vertex pairs and a distance constraint for each pair, the goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Elena Grigorescu , Nithish Kumar , Young-San Lin

We study random order semi-streaming algorithms for submodular maximization under a wide range of combinatorial constraint classes, including matroids, matroid $p$-parity, $p$-exchange systems and $p$-systems. For most of these classes of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman , Siyue Liu , Sherry Sarkar

For any $\varepsilon > 0$, we prove that $k$-Dimensional Matching is hard to approximate within a factor of $k/(12 + \varepsilon)$ for large $k$ unless $\textsf{NP} \subseteq \textsf{BPP}$. Listed in Karp's 21 $\textsf{NP}$-complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Euiwoong Lee , Ola Svensson , Theophile Thiery

We investigate an approach to matroid complexity that involves describing a matroid via a list of independent sets, bases, circuits, or some other family of subsets of the ground set. The computational complexity of algorithmic problems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-10 Dillon Mayhew

Rough set theory is a useful tool to deal with uncertain, granular and incomplete knowledge in information systems. And it is based on equivalence relations or partitions. Matroid theory is a structure that generalizes linear independence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Yanfang Liu , William Zhu

Matroid theory provides a unifying framework for studying dependence across combinatorics, geometry, and applications ranging from rigidity to statistics. In this work, we study circuit varieties of matroids, defined by their minimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Emiliano Liwski , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Rémi Prébet

We consider the independent set problem in the semi-streaming model. For any input graph $G=(V, E)$ with $n$ vertices, an independent set is a set of vertices with no edges between any two elements. In the semi-streaming model, $G$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Daniel Ye

We propose a novel quantum algorithm for solving linear autonomous ordinary differential equations (ODEs) using the Pad\'e approximation. For linear autonomous ODEs, the discretized solution can be represented by a product of matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Dekuan Dong , Yingzhou Li , Jungong Xue

For the problem of maximizing a monotone, submodular function with respect to a cardinality constraint $k$ on a ground set of size $n$, we provide an algorithm that achieves the state-of-the-art in both its empirical performance and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yixin Chen , Tonmoy Dey , Alan Kuhnle

In this work we present the first practical $\left(\frac{1}{e}-\epsilon\right)$-approximation algorithm to maximise a general non-negative submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. Our algorithm is based on combining the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Pau Segui-Gasco , Hyo-Sang Shin

We consider parallel, or low adaptivity, algorithms for submodular function maximization. This line of work was recently initiated by Balkanski and Singer and has already led to several interesting results on the cardinality constraint and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

Suppose that there is a ground set which consists of a large number of vectors in a Hilbert space. Consider the problem of selecting a subset of the ground set such that the projection of a vector of interest onto the subspace spanned by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Zhenliang Zhang , Yuan Wang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Louis Scharf

We study how good a lexicographically maximal solution is in the weighted matching and matroid intersection problems. A solution is lexicographically maximal if it takes as many heaviest elements as possible, and subject to this, it takes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Kristóf Bérczi , Tamás Király , Yutaro Yamaguchi , Yu Yokoi

We study a classical iterative algorithm for balancing matrices in the $L_\infty$ norm via a scaling transformation. This algorithm, which goes back to Osborne and Parlett \& Reinsch in the 1960s, is implemented as a standard preconditioner…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Leonard J. Schulman , Alistair Sinclair

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

We consider the problem of maximizing a non-negative submodular function under the $b$-matching constraint, in the semi-streaming model. When the function is linear, monotone, and non-monotone, we obtain the approximation ratios of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Chien-Chung Huang , François Sellier

Spatial join processing techniques that identify intersections between complex geometries (e.g., polygons) commonly follow a two-step filter-and-refine pipeline. The filter step evaluates the query predicate on the minimum bounding…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Thanasis Georgiadis , Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou , Nikos Mamoulis

In this work, we introduce bidirectional collision detection --- a new algorithmic tool that applies to the collision problems that arise in many isomorphism problems. For the group isomorphism problem, we show that bidirectional collision…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-17 David J. Rosenbaum

We study the problem of exact completion for $m \times n$ sized matrix of rank $r$ with the adaptive sampling method. We introduce a relation of the exact completion problem with the sparsest vector of column and row spaces (which we call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ilqar Ramazanli , Barnabas Poczos