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Dynamically maintaining the minimum cut in a graph $G$ under edge insertions and deletions is a fundamental problem in dynamic graph algorithms for which no conditional lower bound on the time per operation exists. In an $n$-node graph the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Antoine El-Hayek , Monika Henzinger , Jason Li

We present two deterministic dynamic algorithms for the maximum matching problem. (1) An algorithm that maintains a $(2+\epsilon)$-approximate maximum matching in general graphs with $O(\text{poly}(\log n, 1/\epsilon))$ update time. (2) An…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai

We provide an algorithm that maintains, against an adaptive adversary, a $(1-\varepsilon)$-approximate maximum matching in $n$-node $m$-edge general (not necessarily bipartite) undirected graph undergoing edge deletions with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiale Chen , Aaron Sidford , Ta-Wei Tu

We initiate the study of approximate maximum matching in the vertex partition model, for graphs subject to dynamic changes. We assume that the $n$ vertices of the graph are partitioned among $k$ players, who execute a distributed algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Peter Robinson , Xianbin Zhu

In this work, we focus on designing an efficient Local Computation Algorithm (LCA) for the set cover problem, which is a core optimization task. The state-of-the-art LCA for computing $O(\log \Delta)$-approximate set cover, developed by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Slobodan Mitrović , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Mihir Singhal

Maximum coverage and minimum set cover problems --collectively called coverage problems-- have been studied extensively in streaming models. However, previous research not only achieve sub-optimal approximation factors and space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Mohammadhossein Bateni , Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni

An $\alpha$-spanner of a graph $ G $ is a subgraph $ H $ such that $ H $ preserves all distances of $ G $ within a factor of $ \alpha $. In this paper, we give fully dynamic algorithms for maintaining a spanner $ H $ of a graph $ G $…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Greg Bodwin , Sebastian Krinninger

We develop simple and general techniques to obtain faster (near-linear time) static approximation algorithms, as well as efficient dynamic data structures, for four fundamental geometric optimization problems: minimum piercing set (MPS),…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sujoy Bhore , Timothy M. Chan

We study the dynamic correlation clustering problem with $\textit{adaptive}$ edge label flips. In correlation clustering, we are given a $n$-vertex complete graph whose edges are labeled either $(+)$ or $(-)$, and the goal is to minimize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Vladimir Braverman , Prathamesh Dharangutte , Shreyas Pai , Vihan Shah , Chen Wang

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

We give improved algorithms for maintaining edge-orientations of a fully-dynamic graph, such that the out-degree of each vertex is bounded. On one hand, we show how to orient the edges such that the out-degree of each vertex is proportional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Chandra Chekuri , Aleksander Bjørn Christiansen , Jacob Holm , Ivor van der Hoog , Kent Quanrud , Eva Rotenberg , Chris Schwiegelshohn

While operations {\em rank} and {\em select} on static bitvectors can be supported in constant time, lower bounds show that supporting updates raises the cost per operation to $\Theta(\log n/ \log\log n)$ on bitvectors holding $n$ bits.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Gonzalo Navarro

In this paper we study the adaptivity of submodular maximization. Adaptivity quantifies the number of sequential rounds that an algorithm makes when function evaluations can be executed in parallel. Adaptivity is a fundamental concept that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Eric Balkanski , Aviad Rubinstein , Yaron Singer

We present an algorithm for maintaining maximal matching in a graph under addition and deletion of edges. Our data structure is randomized that takes O(log n) expected amortized time for each edge update where n is the number of vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Surender Baswana , Manoj Gupta , Sandeep Sen

We present the first deterministic data structures for maintaining approximate minimum vertex cover and maximum matching in a fully dynamic graph $G = (V,E)$, with $|V| = n$ and $|E| =m$, in $o(\sqrt{m}\,)$ time per update. In particular,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Giuseppe F. Italiano

We present fully dynamic approximation algorithms for the Maximum Independent Set problem on several types of geometric objects: intervals on the real line, arbitrary axis-aligned squares in the plane and axis-aligned $d$-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Sujoy Bhore , Jean Cardinal , John Iacono , Grigorios Koumoutsos

We consider the PageRank problem in the dynamic setting, where the goal is to explicitly maintain an approximate PageRank vector $\pi \in \mathbb{R}^n$ for a graph under a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. Our main result is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Rajesh Jayaram , Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

We build upon the recent papers by Weinstein and Yu (FOCS'16), Larsen (FOCS'12), and Clifford et al. (FOCS'15) to present a general framework that gives amortized lower bounds on the update and query times of dynamic data structures. Using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann

Partial set cover problem and set multi-cover problem are two generalizations of set cover problem. In this paper, we consider the partial set multi-cover problem which is a combination of them: given an element set $E$, a collection of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Yishuo Shi , Yingli Ran , Zhao Zhang , James Willson , Guangmo Tong , Ding-Zhu Du

In this paper we study the problem of fully dynamic maximal matching with lookahead. In a fully dynamic $n$-vertex graph setting, we have to handle updates (insertions and removals of edges), and answer queries regarding the current graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kitti Gelle , Szabolcs Ivan