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The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics which can be used to establish the existence of objects that satisfy certain properties. The breakthrough paper of Moser and Tardos and follow-up works…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 David G. Harris , Fotis Iliopoulos , Vladimir Kolmogorov

Discrimination of quantum states under local operations and classical communication (LOCC) is an intriguing question in the context of local retrieval of classical information, encoded in the multipartite quantum systems. All the local…

We introduce a framework for proving lower bounds on computational problems over distributions against algorithms that can be implemented using access to a statistical query oracle. For such algorithms, access to the input distribution is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Vitaly Feldman , Elena Grigorescu , Lev Reyzin , Santosh Vempala , Ying Xiao

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a probabilistic tool which shows that, if a collection of "bad" events $\mathcal B$ in a probability space are not too likely and not too interdependent, then there is a positive probability that no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

The Lov\'asz Local Lemma is a versatile result in probability theory, characterizing circumstances in which a collection of $n$ `bad events', each occurring with probability at most $p$ and dependent on a set of underlying random variables,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Peter Davies-Peck

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) states that the probability that none of a set of "bad" events happens is nonzero if the probability of each event is small compared to the number of bad events it depends on. A series of results have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Bernhard Haeupler , Barna Saha , Aravind Srinivasan

In this work, we give a unifying view of locality in four settings: distributed algorithms, sequential greedy algorithms, dynamic algorithms, and online algorithms. We introduce a new model of computing, called the online-LOCAL model: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Amirreza Akbari , Navid Eslami , Henrik Lievonen , Darya Melnyk , Joona Särkijärvi , Jukka Suomela

The question of what can be computed, and how efficiently, are at the core of computer science. Not surprisingly, in distributed systems and networking research, an equally fundamental question is what can be computed in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-01 Fabian Kuhn , Thomas Moscibroda , Roger Wattenhofer

Moser & Tardos have developed a powerful algorithmic approach (henceforth "MT") to the Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL); the basic operation done in MT and its variants is a search for "bad" events in a current configuration. In the initial stage…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Aravind Srinivasan

The Lopsided Lovasz Local Lemma (LLLL) is a cornerstone probabilistic tool for showing that it is possible to avoid a collection of "bad" events as long as their probabilities and interdependencies are sufficiently small. The strongest…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

We consider recent formulations of the algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma by Achlioptas-Iliopoulos-Kolmogorov [2] and by Achlioptas-Iliopoulos-Sinclair [3]. These papers analyze a random walk algorithm for finding objects that avoid undesired…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Vladimir Kolmogorov

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma is a very powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics, that is often used to prove existence of combinatorial objects satisfying certain constraints. Moser and Tardos have shown that the LLL gives more than just…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Anton Bernshteyn

One of the central models in distributed computing is Linial's LOCAL model [SIAM J. Comp. 1992]. Over time, researchers have studied distributed graph problems in the LOCAL model under slightly different assumptions, such as whether nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Dennis Olivetti , Timothé Picavet , Gustav Schmid

The lefthanded Lov\'asz local lemma (LLLL) is a generalization of the Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL), a powerful technique from the probabilistic method. We prove a computable version of the LLLL and use it to effectivize a collection of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Daniel Mourad

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a keystone principle in probability theory, guaranteeing the existence of configurations which avoid a collection $\mathcal B$ of "bad" events which are mostly independent and have low probability. In its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 David G. Harris

Complex bases, along with direct-sums defined by rings of imaginary quadratic integers, induce algebraic lattices. In this work, we study such lattices and their reduction algorithms. Firstly, when the lattice is spanned over a two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Shanxiang Lyu , Christian Porter , Cong Ling

We present the first local problem that shows a super-constant separation between the classical randomized LOCAL model of distributed computing and its quantum counterpart. By prior work, such a separation was known only for an artificial…

Our previous paper applied a lopsided version of the Lov\'asz Local Lemma that allows negative dependency graphs to the space of random injections from an $m$-element set to an $n$-element set. Equivalently, the same story can be told about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Linyuan Lu , Laszlo A. Szekely

In this thesis, I study the minimax oracle complexity of distributed stochastic optimization. First, I present the "graph oracle model", an extension of the classic oracle complexity framework that can be applied to study distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Blake Woodworth

The Lovasz Local Lemma is a seminal result in probabilistic combinatorics. It gives a sufficient condition on a probability space and a collection of events for the existence of an outcome that simultaneously avoids all of those events.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Nicholas Harvey , Jan Vondrak