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In this paper, we study Ranking, a well-known randomized greedy matching algorithm, for general graphs. The algorithm was originally introduced by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani [STOC 1990] for the online bipartite matching problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mahsa Derakhshan , Mohammad Roghani , Mohammad Saneian , Tao Yu

Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990) initiated the study of online bipartite matching, which has held a central role in online algorithms ever since. Of particular importance are the Ranking algorithm for integral matching and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Zhiyi Huang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang

In their seminal paper, Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani (STOC'90) introduce the online bipartite matching problem, and the RANKING algorithm, which admits a tight $1-\frac{1}{e}$ competitive ratio. Since its publication, the problem has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alon Eden , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Kineret Segal

Randomized greedy algorithms form one of the simplest yet most effective approaches for computing approximate matchings in graphs. In this paper, we focus on the class of vertex-iterative (VI) randomized greedy matching algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mahsa Derakhshan , Tao Yu

We revisit the celebrated Ranking algorithm by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990) for online bipartite matching under the random arrival model, that is shown to be $0.696$-competitive for unweighted graphs by Mahdian and Yan (STOC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Bo Peng , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We introduce a fully online model of maximum cardinality matching in which all vertices arrive online. On the arrival of a vertex, its incident edges to previously-arrived vertices are revealed. Each vertex has a deadline that is after all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Zhiyi Huang , Ning Kang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang , Xue Zhu

The online matching problem was introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani (STOC 1990) on bipartite graphs with vertex arrivals. It is well-known that the optimal competitive ratio is $1-1/e$ for both integral and fractional versions of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sander Borst , Danish Kashaev , Zhuan Khye Koh

In this note, we revisit the rounding algorithm of Wajc. Wajc gave a fully-adaptive randomized algorithm that rounds a dynamic fractional matching in an unweighted bipartite graph to an integral matching of nearly the same value in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Aditi Dudeja

The Micali-Vazirani (MV) algorithm for maximum cardinality matching in general graphs, which was published in 1980 \cite{MV}, remains to this day the most efficient known algorithm for the problem. This paper gives the first complete and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Vijay V. Vazirani

The online matching problem was introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani nearly three decades ago. In that seminal work, they studied this problem in bipartite graphs with vertices arriving only on one side, and presented optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Buddhima Gamlath , Michael Kapralov , Andreas Maggiori , Ola Svensson , David Wajc

The paper by M. Baker and S. Norine in 2007 introduced a new parameter on configurations of graphs and gave a new result in the theory of graphs which has an algebraic geometry flavour. This result was called Riemann-Roch formula for graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Robert Cori , Yvan Le Borgne

We study the online bipartite matching problem, introduced by Karp, Vazirani and Vazirani [1990]. For bipartite graphs with matchings of size $n$, it is known that the Ranking randomized algorithm matches at least $(1 - \frac{1}{e})n$ edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Uriel Feige

Online bipartite matching with one-sided arrival and its variants have been extensively studied since the seminal work of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990). Motivated by real-life applications with dynamic market structures, e.g.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yuhao Zhang

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

A vertex ranking of a graph is an assignment of ranks (or colors) to the vertices of the graph, in such a way that any simple path connecting two vertices of equal rank, must contain a vertex of a higher rank. In this paper we study a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Ilan Karpas , Ofer Neiman , Shakhar Smorodinsky

The standard evaluation protocol for measuring the quality of Knowledge Graph Completion methods - the task of inferring new links to be added to a graph - typically involves a step which ranks every entity of a Knowledge Graph to assess…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Filip Cornell , Yifei Jin , Jussi Karlgren , Sarunas Girdzijauskas

We propose a \textit{purely combinatorial algorithm} for \mkvc{} in bipartite graphs, achieving approximation ratio~0.7. The only combinatorial algorithms currently known until now for this problem are the natural greedy algorithm, that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Vangelis Th. Paschos

We propose a novel and efficient algorithm for the collaborative preference completion problem, which involves jointly estimating individualized rankings for a set of entities over a shared set of items, based on a limited number of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Suriya Gunasekar , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Joydeep Ghosh

We propose graph kernels based on subgraph matchings, i.e. structure-preserving bijections between subgraphs. While recently proposed kernels based on common subgraphs (Wale et al., 2008; Shervashidze et al., 2009) in general can not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nils Kriege , Petra Mutzel

Huang et al.~(STOC 2018) introduced the fully online matching problem, a generalization of the classic online bipartite matching problem in that it allows all vertices to arrive online and considers general graphs. They showed that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Zhiyi Huang , Binghui Peng , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Runzhou Tao , Xiaowei Wu , Yuhao Zhang
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