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Raising The Bar For Vertex Cover: Fixed-parameter Tractability Above A Higher Guarantee
The standard parameterization of the VERTEX COVER problem (Given an undirected graph G and k ∈ N as input, does G have a vertex cover of size at most k?) has the solution size k...
Shivam Garg, Geevarghese Philip
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2016
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An Algorithmic Hypergraph Regularity Lemma
Szemer´edi’s Regularity Lemma [22, 23] is one of the most powerful tools in combinatorics. It asserts that all large graphs G admit a bounded partition of E(G), most classes of...
Brendan Nagle, Vojtech Rödl, Mathias Schacht
SODA
2016
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Sampling on Lattices with Free Boundary Conditions Using Randomized Extensions
Many statistical physics models are defined on an infinite lattice by taking appropriate limits of finite lattice regions, where a key consideration is how the boundaries are d...
Sarah Cannon, Dana Randall
SODA
2016
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Phase Transitions in Group Testing
The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of items that are “defective” based on a set of possibly noisy tests, and arises in areas such as me...
Jonathan Scarlett, Volkan Cevher
SODA
2016
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Algorithms and Adaptivity Gaps for Stochastic Probing
A stochastic probing problem consists of a set of elements whose values are independent random variables. The algorithm knows the distributions of these variables, but not the act...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, Sahil Singla
SODA
2016
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Evolutionary Dynamics in Finite Populations Mix Rapidly
In this paper we prove that the mixing time of a broad class of evolutionary dynamics in finite, unstructured populations is roughly logarithmic in the size of the state space. A...
Ioannis Panageas, Piyush Srivastava, Nisheeth K. V...
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2016
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Persistent Homology and Nested Dissection
Michael Kerber, Donald R. Sheehy, Primoz Skraba
SODA
2016
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Deterministic APSP, Orthogonal Vectors, and More: Quickly Derandomizing Razborov-Smolensky
We show how to solve all-pairs shortest paths on n nodes in deterministic n3/2Ω( √ logn) time, and how to count the pairs of orthogonal vectors among n 0-1 vectors in d = clog...
Timothy M. Chan, Ryan Williams