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We study the restricted case of Scheduling on Unrelated Parallel Machines. In this problem, we are given a set of jobs $J$ with processing times $p_j$ and each job may be scheduled only on some subset of machines $S_j \subseteq M$. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Chidambaram Annamalai

We develop a new algorithmic technique that allows to transfer some constant time approximation algorithms for general graphs into random order streaming algorithms. We illustrate our technique by proving that in random order streams with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

We consider Johnson's rule for minimizing the makespan in the two-machine flow shop problem. Although its worst-case time complexity is O(n log n), we show that it is possible to detect in linear time whether a full sorting of jobs can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Federico Della Croce , Quentin Schau

In parallel machine scheduling, we are given a set of jobs, together with a number of machines and our goal is to decide for each job, when and on which machine(s) it should be scheduled in order to minimize some objective function.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Klaus Jansen , Kai Kahler

The weighted low-rank approximation problem is a fundamental numerical linear algebra problem and has many applications in machine learning. Given a $n \times n$ weight matrix $W$ and a $n \times n$ matrix $A$, the goal is to find two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Chenyang Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Given $n$ jobs with processing times $p_1,\dotsc,p_n\in\mathbb N$ and $m\le n$ machines with speeds $s_1,\dotsc,s_m\in\mathbb N$ our goal is to allocate the jobs to machines minimizing the makespan. We present an algorithm that solves the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Lars Rohwedder

We consider offline scheduling algorithms that incorporate speed scaling to address the bicriteria problem of minimizing energy consumption and a scheduling metric. For makespan, we give linear-time algorithms to compute all non-dominated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David P. Bunde

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

In this paper the problem of scheduling of jobs on parallel machines under incompatibility relation is considered. In this model a binary relation between jobs is given and no two jobs that are in the relation can be scheduled on the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Tytus Pikies , Hanna Furmańczyk

We study the approximability of two related problems on graphs with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges: $n$-Pairs Shortest Paths ($n$-PSP), where the goal is to find a shortest path between $O(n)$ prespecified pairs, and All Node Shortest Cycles…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Ce Jin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nicole Wein

We studied linear weighted sampling algorithms and their optimality for approximate recovery of functions with mixed smoothness on $\mathbb{R}^d$ from a set of $n$ their sampled values. Functions to be recovered are in weighted Sobolev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Dinh Dũng

We revisit Min-Mean-Cycle, the classical problem of finding a cycle in a weighted directed graph with minimum mean weight. Despite an extensive algorithmic literature, previous work falls short of a near-linear runtime in the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jason M. Altschuler , Pablo A. Parrilo

We study sublinear time algorithms for estimating the size of maximum matching. After a long line of research, the problem was finally settled by Behnezhad [FOCS'22], in the regime where one is willing to pay an approximation factor of $2$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

Data sampling acts as a pivotal role in training deep learning models. However, an effective sampling schedule is difficult to learn due to the inherently high dimension of parameters in learning the sampling schedule. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Ming Sun , Haoxuan Dou , Baopu Li , Lei Cui , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Recently [Bhattacharya et al., STOC 2015] provide the first non-trivial algorithm for the densest subgraph problem in the streaming model with additions and deletions to its edges, i.e., for dynamic graph streams. They present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Hossein Esfandiari , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David P. Woodruff

We study smoothed analysis of distributed graph algorithms, focusing on the fundamental minimum spanning tree (MST) problem. With the goal of studying the time complexity of distributed MST as a function of the "perturbation" of the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Soumyottam Chatterjee , Gopal Pandurangan , Nguyen Dinh Pham

Given an undirected graph $G$ and an error parameter $\epsilon > 0$, the {\em graph sparsification} problem requires sampling edges in $G$ and giving the sampled edges appropriate weights to obtain a sparse graph $G_{\epsilon}$ with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-05-06 Ramesh Hariharan , Debmalya Panigrahi

The task of scheduling jobs to machines while minimizing the total makespan, the sum of weighted completion times, or a norm of the load vector, are among the oldest and most fundamental tasks in combinatorial optimization. Since all of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Martin Koutecký , Johannes Zink

We improve on random sampling techniques for approximately solving problems that involve cuts and flows in graphs. We give a near-linear-time construction that transforms any graph on n vertices into an O(n\log n)-edge graph on the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andras Benczur , David R. Karger

Subsampling algorithms for various parametric regression models with massive data have been extensively investigated in recent years. However, all existing studies on subsampling heavily rely on clean massive data. In practical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Jiangshan Ju , Mingqiu Wang , Shengli Zhao