55 Search Results for "G�bel, Andreas"


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APPROX
Approximation Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Graph Burning

Authors: Matej Lieskovský, Jiří Sgall, and Andreas Emil Feldmann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 275, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023)


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Graph Burning models information spreading in a given graph as a process such that in each step one node is infected (informed) and also the infection spreads to all neighbors of previously infected nodes. Formally, given a graph G = (V,E), possibly with edge lengths, the burning number b(G) is the minimum number g such that there exist nodes v_0,…,v_{g-1} ∈ V satisfying the property that for each u ∈ V there exists i ∈ {0,…,g-1} so that the distance between u and v_i is at most i. We present a randomized 2.314-approximation algorithm for computing the burning number of a general graph, even with arbitrary edge lengths. We complement this by an approximation lower bound of 2 for the case of equal length edges, and a lower bound of 4/3 for the case when edges are restricted to have length 1. This improves on the previous 3-approximation algorithm and an APX-hardness result.

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Matej Lieskovský, Jiří Sgall, and Andreas Emil Feldmann. Approximation Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Graph Burning. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 275, pp. 9:1-9:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{lieskovsky_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.9,
  author =	{Lieskovsk\'{y}, Matej and Sgall, Ji\v{r}{\'\i} and Feldmann, Andreas Emil},
  title =	{{Approximation Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Graph Burning}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-296-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{275},
  editor =	{Megow, Nicole and Smith, Adam},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-188345},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph Algorithms, approximation Algorithms, randomized Algorithms}
}
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RANDOM
Perfect Sampling for Hard Spheres from Strong Spatial Mixing

Authors: Konrad Anand, Andreas Göbel, Marcus Pappik, and Will Perkins

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 275, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023)


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We provide a perfect sampling algorithm for the hard-sphere model on subsets of R^d with expected running time linear in the volume under the assumption of strong spatial mixing. A large number of perfect and approximate sampling algorithms have been devised to sample from the hard-sphere model, and our perfect sampling algorithm is efficient for a range of parameters for which only efficient approximate samplers were previously known and is faster than these known approximate approaches. Our methods also extend to the more general setting of Gibbs point processes interacting via finite-range, repulsive potentials.

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Konrad Anand, Andreas Göbel, Marcus Pappik, and Will Perkins. Perfect Sampling for Hard Spheres from Strong Spatial Mixing. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 275, pp. 38:1-38:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{anand_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.38,
  author =	{Anand, Konrad and G\"{o}bel, Andreas and Pappik, Marcus and Perkins, Will},
  title =	{{Perfect Sampling for Hard Spheres from Strong Spatial Mixing}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-296-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{275},
  editor =	{Megow, Nicole and Smith, Adam},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-188638},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: perfect sampling, hard-sphere model, Gibbs point processes}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Cliques in High-Dimensional Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs

Authors: Tobias Friedrich, Andreas Göbel, Maximilian Katzmann, and Leon Schiller

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)


Abstract
A recent trend in the context of graph theory is to bring theoretical analyses closer to empirical observations, by focusing the studies on random graph models that are used to represent practical instances. There, it was observed that geometric inhomogeneous random graphs (GIRGs) yield good representations of complex real-world networks, by expressing edge probabilities as a function that depends on (heterogeneous) vertex weights and distances in some underlying geometric space that the vertices are distributed in. While most of the parameters of the model are understood well, it was unclear how the dimensionality of the ground space affects the structure of the graphs. In this paper, we complement existing research into the dimension of geometric random graph models and the ongoing study of determining the dimensionality of real-world networks, by studying how the structure of GIRGs changes as the number of dimensions increases. We prove that, in the limit, GIRGs approach non-geometric inhomogeneous random graphs and present insights on how quickly the decay of the geometry impacts important graph structures. In particular, we study the expected number of cliques of a given size as well as the clique number and characterize phase transitions at which their behavior changes fundamentally. Finally, our insights help in better understanding previous results about the impact of the dimensionality on geometric random graphs.

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Tobias Friedrich, Andreas Göbel, Maximilian Katzmann, and Leon Schiller. Cliques in High-Dimensional Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 62:1-62:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{friedrich_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.62,
  author =	{Friedrich, Tobias and G\"{o}bel, Andreas and Katzmann, Maximilian and Schiller, Leon},
  title =	{{Cliques in High-Dimensional Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{62:1--62:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.62},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-181147},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.62},
  annote =	{Keywords: random graphs, geometry, dimensionality, cliques, clique number, scale-free networks}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
On the Complexity of Diameter and Related Problems in Permutation Groups

Authors: Markus Lohrey and Andreas Rosowski

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)


Abstract
We prove that it is Π₂^𝖯-complete to verify whether the diameter of a given permutation group G = ⟨A⟩ is bounded by a unary encoded number k. This solves an open problem from a paper of Even and Goldreich, where the problem was shown to be NP-hard. Verifying whether the diameter is exactly k is complete for the class consisting of all intersections of a Π₂^𝖯-language and a Σ₂^𝖯-language. A similar result is shown for the length of a given permutation π, which is the minimal k such that π can be written as a product of at most k generators from A. Even and Goldreich proved that it is NP-complete to verify, whether the length of a given π is at most k (with k given in unary encoding). We show that it is DP-complete to verify whether the length is exactly k. Finally, we deduce from our result on the diameter that it is Π₂^𝖯-complete to check whether a given finite automaton with transitions labelled by permutations from S_n produces all permutations from S_n.

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Markus Lohrey and Andreas Rosowski. On the Complexity of Diameter and Related Problems in Permutation Groups. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 134:1-134:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{lohrey_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.134,
  author =	{Lohrey, Markus and Rosowski, Andreas},
  title =	{{On the Complexity of Diameter and Related Problems in Permutation Groups}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{134:1--134:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.134},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-181864},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.134},
  annote =	{Keywords: algorithms for finite groups, diameter of permutation groups, rational subsets in groups}
}
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Multilevel Skeletonization Using Local Separators

Authors: J. Andreas Bærentzen, Rasmus Emil Christensen, Emil Toftegaard Gæde, and Eva Rotenberg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 258, 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023)


Abstract
In this paper we give a new, efficient algorithm for computing curve skeletons, based on local separators. Our efficiency stems from a multilevel approach, where we solve small problems across levels of detail and combine these in order to quickly obtain a skeleton. We do this in a highly modular fashion, ensuring complete flexibility in adapting the algorithm for specific types of input or for otherwise targeting specific applications. Separator based skeletonization was first proposed by Bærentzen and Rotenberg in [ACM Tran. Graphics'21], showing high quality output at the cost of running times which become prohibitive for large inputs. Our new approach retains the high quality output, and applicability to any spatially embedded graph, while being orders of magnitude faster for all practical purposes. We test our skeletonization algorithm for efficiency and quality in practice, comparing it to local separator skeletonization on the University of Groningen Skeletonization Benchmark [Telea'16].

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J. Andreas Bærentzen, Rasmus Emil Christensen, Emil Toftegaard Gæde, and Eva Rotenberg. Multilevel Skeletonization Using Local Separators. In 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 258, pp. 13:1-13:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{brentzen_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.13,
  author =	{B{\ae}rentzen, J. Andreas and Christensen, Rasmus Emil and G{\ae}de, Emil Toftegaard and Rotenberg, Eva},
  title =	{{Multilevel Skeletonization Using Local Separators}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-273-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{258},
  editor =	{Chambers, Erin W. and Gudmundsson, Joachim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-178637},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithm engineering, experimentation and implementation, shape skeletonization, curve skeletons, multilevel algorithm}
}
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Width Helps and Hinders Splitting Flows

Authors: Manuel Cáceres, Massimo Cairo, Andreas Grigorjew, Shahbaz Khan, Brendan Mumey, Romeo Rizzi, Alexandru I. Tomescu, and Lucia Williams

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 244, 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)


Abstract
Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) is the NP-hard problem of finding a smallest decomposition of a network flow X on directed graph G into weighted source-to-sink paths whose superposition equals X. We focus on a common formulation of the problem where the path weights must be non-negative integers and also on a new variant where these weights can be negative. We show that, for acyclic graphs, considering the width of the graph (the minimum number of s-t paths needed to cover all of its edges) yields advances in our understanding of its approximability. For the non-negative version, we show that a popular heuristic is a O(log |X|)-approximation (|X| being the total flow of X) on graphs satisfying two properties related to the width (satisfied by e.g., series-parallel graphs), and strengthen its worst-case approximation ratio from Ω(√m) to Ω(m / log m) for sparse graphs, where m is the number of edges in the graph. For the negative version, we give a (⌈log ║X║⌉+1)-approximation (║X║ being the maximum absolute value of X on any edge) using a power-of-two approach, combined with parity fixing arguments and a decomposition of unitary flows (║X║ ≤ 1) into at most width paths. We also disprove a conjecture about the linear independence of minimum (non-negative) flow decompositions posed by Kloster et al. [ALENEX 2018], but show that its useful implication (polynomial-time assignments of weights to a given set of paths to decompose a flow) holds for the negative version.

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Manuel Cáceres, Massimo Cairo, Andreas Grigorjew, Shahbaz Khan, Brendan Mumey, Romeo Rizzi, Alexandru I. Tomescu, and Lucia Williams. Width Helps and Hinders Splitting Flows. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 31:1-31:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{caceres_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.31,
  author =	{C\'{a}ceres, Manuel and Cairo, Massimo and Grigorjew, Andreas and Khan, Shahbaz and Mumey, Brendan and Rizzi, Romeo and Tomescu, Alexandru I. and Williams, Lucia},
  title =	{{Width Helps and Hinders Splitting Flows}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169695},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Flow decomposition, approximation algorithms, graph width}
}
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Approximation Algorithms for Round-UFP and Round-SAP

Authors: Debajyoti Kar, Arindam Khan, and Andreas Wiese

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 244, 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)


Abstract
We study Round-UFP and Round-SAP, two generalizations of the classical Bin Packing problem that correspond to the unsplittable flow problem on a path (UFP) and the storage allocation problem (SAP), respectively. We are given a path with capacities on its edges and a set of jobs where for each job we are given a demand and a subpath. In Round-UFP, the goal is to find a packing of all jobs into a minimum number of copies (rounds) of the given path such that for each copy, the total demand of jobs on any edge does not exceed the capacity of the respective edge. In Round-SAP, the jobs are considered to be rectangles and the goal is to find a non-overlapping packing of these rectangles into a minimum number of rounds such that all rectangles lie completely below the capacity profile of the edges. We show that in contrast to Bin Packing, both problems do not admit an asymptotic polynomial-time approximation scheme (APTAS), even when all edge capacities are equal. However, for this setting, we obtain asymptotic (2+ε)-approximations for both problems. For the general case, we obtain an O(log log n)-approximation algorithm and an O(log log 1/δ)-approximation under (1+δ)-resource augmentation for both problems. For the intermediate setting of the no bottleneck assumption (i.e., the maximum job demand is at most the minimum edge capacity), we obtain an absolute 12- and an asymptotic (16+ε)-approximation algorithm for Round-UFP and Round-SAP, respectively.

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Debajyoti Kar, Arindam Khan, and Andreas Wiese. Approximation Algorithms for Round-UFP and Round-SAP. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 71:1-71:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{kar_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.71,
  author =	{Kar, Debajyoti and Khan, Arindam and Wiese, Andreas},
  title =	{{Approximation Algorithms for Round-UFP and Round-SAP}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{71:1--71:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.71},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-170098},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.71},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Scheduling, Rectangle Packing}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Fast Sampling via Spectral Independence Beyond Bounded-Degree Graphs

Authors: Ivona Bezáková, Andreas Galanis, Leslie Ann Goldberg, and Daniel Štefankovič

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)


Abstract
Spectral independence is a recently-developed framework for obtaining sharp bounds on the convergence time of the classical Glauber dynamics. This new framework has yielded optimal O(n log n) sampling algorithms on bounded-degree graphs for a large class of problems throughout the so-called uniqueness regime, including, for example, the problems of sampling independent sets, matchings, and Ising-model configurations. Our main contribution is to relax the bounded-degree assumption that has so far been important in establishing and applying spectral independence. Previous methods for avoiding degree bounds rely on using L^p-norms to analyse contraction on graphs with bounded connective constant (Sinclair, Srivastava, Yin; FOCS'13). The non-linearity of L^p-norms is an obstacle to applying these results to bound spectral independence. Our solution is to capture the L^p-analysis recursively by amortising over the subtrees of the recurrence used to analyse contraction. Our method generalises previous analyses that applied only to bounded-degree graphs. As a main application of our techniques, we consider the random graph G(n,d/n), where the previously known algorithms run in time n^O(log d) or applied only to large d. We refine these algorithmic bounds significantly, and develop fast nearly linear algorithms based on Glauber dynamics that apply to all constant d, throughout the uniqueness regime.

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Ivona Bezáková, Andreas Galanis, Leslie Ann Goldberg, and Daniel Štefankovič. Fast Sampling via Spectral Independence Beyond Bounded-Degree Graphs. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 21:1-21:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{bezakova_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.21,
  author =	{Bez\'{a}kov\'{a}, Ivona and Galanis, Andreas and Goldberg, Leslie Ann and \v{S}tefankovi\v{c}, Daniel},
  title =	{{Fast Sampling via Spectral Independence Beyond Bounded-Degree Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-163622},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hard-core model, Random graphs, Markov chains}
}
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Quantitative Verification on Product Graphs of Small Treewidth

Authors: Krishnendu Chatterjee, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 213, 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021)


Abstract
Product graphs arise naturally in formal verification and program analysis. For example, the analysis of two concurrent threads requires the product of two component control-flow graphs, and for language inclusion of deterministic automata the product of two automata is constructed. In many cases, the component graphs have constant treewidth, e.g., when the input contains control-flow graphs of programs. We consider the algorithmic analysis of products of two constant-treewidth graphs with respect to three classic specification languages, namely, (a) algebraic properties, (b) mean-payoff properties, and (c) initial credit for energy properties. Our main contributions are as follows. Consider a graph G that is the product of two constant-treewidth graphs of size n each. First, given an idempotent semiring, we present an algorithm that computes the semiring transitive closure of G in time Õ(n⁴). Since the output has size Θ(n⁴), our algorithm is optimal (up to polylog factors). Second, given a mean-payoff objective, we present an O(n³)-time algorithm for deciding whether the value of a starting state is non-negative, improving the previously known O(n⁴) bound. Third, given an initial credit for energy objective, we present an O(n⁵)-time algorithm for computing the minimum initial credit for all nodes of G, improving the previously known O(n⁸) bound. At the heart of our approach lies an algorithm for the efficient construction of strongly-balanced tree decompositions of constant-treewidth graphs. Given a constant-treewidth graph G' of n nodes and a positive integer λ, our algorithm constructs a binary tree decomposition of G' of width O(λ) with the property that the size of each subtree decreases geometrically with rate (1/2 + 2^{-λ}).

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Krishnendu Chatterjee, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. Quantitative Verification on Product Graphs of Small Treewidth. In 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 213, pp. 42:1-42:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{chatterjee_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42,
  author =	{Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus and Pavlogiannis, Andreas},
  title =	{{Quantitative Verification on Product Graphs of Small Treewidth}},
  booktitle =	{41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021)},
  pages =	{42:1--42:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-215-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{213},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Chekuri, Chandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-155533},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.42},
  annote =	{Keywords: graph algorithms, algebraic paths, mean-payoff, initial credit for energy}
}
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On Extended Formulations For Parameterized Steiner Trees

Authors: Andreas Emil Feldmann and Ashutosh Rai

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 214, 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021)


Abstract
We present a novel linear program (LP) for the Steiner Tree problem, where a set of terminal vertices needs to be connected by a minimum weight tree in a graph G = (V,E) with non-negative edge weights. This well-studied problem is NP-hard and therefore does not have a compact extended formulation (describing the convex hull of all Steiner trees) of polynomial size, unless P=NP. On the other hand, Steiner Tree is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) when parameterized by the number k of terminals, and can be solved in O(3^k|V|+2^k|V|²) time via the Dreyfus-Wagner algorithm. A natural question thus is whether the Steiner Tree problem admits an extended formulation of comparable size. We first answer this in the negative by proving a lower bound on the extension complexity of the Steiner Tree polytope, which, for some constant c > 0, implies that no extended formulation of size f(k)2^{cn} exists for any function f. However, we are able to circumvent this lower bound due to the fact that the edge weights are non-negative: we prove that Steiner Tree admits an integral LP with O(3^k|E|) variables and constraints. The size of our LP matches the runtime of the Dreyfus-Wagner algorithm, and our poof gives a polyhedral perspective on this classic algorithm. Our proof is simple, and additionally improves on a previous result by Siebert et al. [2018], who gave an integral LP of size O((2k/e)^k)|V|^{O(1)}.

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Andreas Emil Feldmann and Ashutosh Rai. On Extended Formulations For Parameterized Steiner Trees. In 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 214, pp. 18:1-18:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{feldmann_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.18,
  author =	{Feldmann, Andreas Emil and Rai, Ashutosh},
  title =	{{On Extended Formulations For Parameterized Steiner Trees}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-216-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{214},
  editor =	{Golovach, Petr A. and Zehavi, Meirav},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154010},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2021.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Steiner trees, integral linear program, extension complexity, fixed-parameter tractability}
}
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Parallel Polynomial Permanent Mod Powers of 2 and Shortest Disjoint Cycles

Authors: Samir Datta and Kishlaya Jaiswal

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 202, 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)


Abstract
We present a parallel algorithm for permanent mod 2^k of a matrix of univariate integer polynomials. It places the problem in ⨁L ⊆ NC². This extends the techniques of Valiant [Leslie G. Valiant, 1979], Braverman, Kulkarni and Roy [Mark Braverman et al., 2009] and Björklund and Husfeldt [Andreas Björklund and Thore Husfeldt, 2019] and yields a (randomized) parallel algorithm for shortest two disjoint paths improving upon the recent (randomized) polynomial time algorithm [Andreas Björklund and Thore Husfeldt, 2019]. We also recognize the disjoint paths problem as a special case of finding disjoint cycles, and present (randomized) parallel algorithms for finding a shortest cycle and shortest two disjoint cycles passing through any given fixed number of vertices or edges.

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Samir Datta and Kishlaya Jaiswal. Parallel Polynomial Permanent Mod Powers of 2 and Shortest Disjoint Cycles. In 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 202, pp. 36:1-36:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{datta_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.36,
  author =	{Datta, Samir and Jaiswal, Kishlaya},
  title =	{{Parallel Polynomial Permanent Mod Powers of 2 and Shortest Disjoint Cycles}},
  booktitle =	{46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-201-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{202},
  editor =	{Bonchi, Filippo and Puglisi, Simon J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.36},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-144763},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: permanent mod powers of 2, parallel computation, graphs, shortest disjoint paths, shortest disjoint cycles}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
A Spectral Independence View on Hard Spheres via Block Dynamics

Authors: Tobias Friedrich, Andreas Göbel, Martin S. Krejca, and Marcus Pappik

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)


Abstract
The hard-sphere model is one of the most extensively studied models in statistical physics. It describes the continuous distribution of spherical particles, governed by hard-core interactions. An important quantity of this model is the normalizing factor of this distribution, called the partition function. We propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for approximating the grand-canonical partition function of the hard-sphere model in d dimensions. Up to a fugacity of λ < e/2^d, the runtime of our algorithm is polynomial in the volume of the system. This covers the entire known real-valued regime for the uniqueness of the Gibbs measure. Key to our approach is to define a discretization that closely approximates the partition function of the continuous model. This results in a discrete hard-core instance that is exponential in the size of the initial hard-sphere model. Our approximation bound follows directly from the correlation decay threshold of an infinite regular tree with degree equal to the maximum degree of our discretization. To cope with the exponential blow-up of the discrete instance we use clique dynamics, a Markov chain that was recently introduced in the setting of abstract polymer models. We prove rapid mixing of clique dynamics up to the tree threshold of the univariate hard-core model. This is achieved by relating clique dynamics to block dynamics and adapting the spectral expansion method, which was recently used to bound the mixing time of Glauber dynamics within the same parameter regime.

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Tobias Friedrich, Andreas Göbel, Martin S. Krejca, and Marcus Pappik. A Spectral Independence View on Hard Spheres via Block Dynamics. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 66:1-66:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{friedrich_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.66,
  author =	{Friedrich, Tobias and G\"{o}bel, Andreas and Krejca, Martin S. and Pappik, Marcus},
  title =	{{A Spectral Independence View on Hard Spheres via Block Dynamics}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{66:1--66:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.66},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141353},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.66},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hard-sphere Model, Markov Chain, Partition Function, Gibbs Distribution, Approximate Counting, Spectral Independence}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Lower Bounds on Dynamic Programming for Maximum Weight Independent Set

Authors: Tuukka Korhonen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)


Abstract
We prove lower bounds on pure dynamic programming algorithms for maximum weight independent set (MWIS). We model such algorithms as tropical circuits, i.e., circuits that compute with max and + operations. For a graph G, an MWIS-circuit of G is a tropical circuit whose inputs correspond to vertices of G and which computes the weight of a maximum weight independent set of G for any assignment of weights to the inputs. We show that if G has treewidth w and maximum degree d, then any MWIS-circuit of G has 2^{Ω(w/d)} gates and that if G is planar, or more generally H-minor-free for any fixed graph H, then any MWIS-circuit of G has 2^{Ω(w)} gates. An MWIS-formula is an MWIS-circuit where each gate has fan-out at most one. We show that if G has treedepth t and maximum degree d, then any MWIS-formula of G has 2^{Ω(t/d)} gates. It follows that treewidth characterizes optimal MWIS-circuits up to polynomials for all bounded degree graphs and H-minor-free graphs, and treedepth characterizes optimal MWIS-formulas up to polynomials for all bounded degree graphs.

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Tuukka Korhonen. Lower Bounds on Dynamic Programming for Maximum Weight Independent Set. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 87:1-87:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{korhonen:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.87,
  author =	{Korhonen, Tuukka},
  title =	{{Lower Bounds on Dynamic Programming for Maximum Weight Independent Set}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{87:1--87:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.87},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141562},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.87},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maximum weight independent set, Treewidth, Tropical circuits, Dynamic programming, Treedepth, Monotone circuit complexity}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
On Counting (Quantum-)Graph Homomorphisms in Finite Fields of Prime Order

Authors: J. A. Gregor Lagodzinski, Andreas Göbel, Katrin Casel, and Tobias Friedrich

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)


Abstract
We study the problem of counting the number of homomorphisms from an input graph G to a fixed (quantum) graph ̄{H} in any finite field of prime order ℤ_p. The subproblem with graph H was introduced by Faben and Jerrum [ToC'15] and its complexity is still uncharacterised despite active research, e.g. the very recent work of Focke, Goldberg, Roth, and Zivný [SODA'21]. Our contribution is threefold. First, we introduce the study of quantum graphs to the study of modular counting homomorphisms. We show that the complexity for a quantum graph ̄{H} collapses to the complexity criteria found at dimension 1: graphs. Second, in order to prove cases of intractability we establish a further reduction to the study of bipartite graphs. Lastly, we establish a dichotomy for all bipartite (K_{3,3}$1{e}, {domino})-free graphs by a thorough structural study incorporating both local and global arguments. This result subsumes all results on bipartite graphs known for all prime moduli and extends them significantly. Even for the subproblem with p = 2 this establishes new results.

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J. A. Gregor Lagodzinski, Andreas Göbel, Katrin Casel, and Tobias Friedrich. On Counting (Quantum-)Graph Homomorphisms in Finite Fields of Prime Order. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 91:1-91:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{lagodzinski_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.91,
  author =	{Lagodzinski, J. A. Gregor and G\"{o}bel, Andreas and Casel, Katrin and Friedrich, Tobias},
  title =	{{On Counting (Quantum-)Graph Homomorphisms in Finite Fields of Prime Order}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{91:1--91:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.91},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141608},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.91},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithms, Theory, Quantum Graphs, Bipartite Graphs, Graph Homomorphisms, Modular Counting, Complexity Dichotomy}
}
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Improved Approximation Algorithms for 2-Dimensional Knapsack: Packing into Multiple L-Shapes, Spirals, and More

Authors: Waldo Gálvez, Fabrizio Grandoni, Arindam Khan, Diego Ramírez-Romero, and Andreas Wiese

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 189, 37th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2021)


Abstract
In the 2-Dimensional Knapsack problem (2DK) we are given a square knapsack and a collection of n rectangular items with integer sizes and profits. Our goal is to find the most profitable subset of items that can be packed non-overlappingly into the knapsack. The currently best known polynomial-time approximation factor for 2DK is 17/9+ε < 1.89 and there is a (3/2+ε)-approximation algorithm if we are allowed to rotate items by 90 degrees [Gálvez et al., FOCS 2017]. In this paper, we give (4/3+ε)-approximation algorithms in polynomial time for both cases, assuming that all input data are integers polynomially bounded in n. Gálvez et al.’s algorithm for 2DK partitions the knapsack into a constant number of rectangular regions plus one L-shaped region and packs items into those in a structured way. We generalize this approach by allowing up to a constant number of more general regions that can have the shape of an L, a U, a Z, a spiral, and more, and therefore obtain an improved approximation ratio. In particular, we present an algorithm that computes the essentially optimal structured packing into these regions.

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Waldo Gálvez, Fabrizio Grandoni, Arindam Khan, Diego Ramírez-Romero, and Andreas Wiese. Improved Approximation Algorithms for 2-Dimensional Knapsack: Packing into Multiple L-Shapes, Spirals, and More. In 37th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 189, pp. 39:1-39:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{galvez_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.39,
  author =	{G\'{a}lvez, Waldo and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Khan, Arindam and Ram{\'\i}rez-Romero, Diego and Wiese, Andreas},
  title =	{{Improved Approximation Algorithms for 2-Dimensional Knapsack: Packing into Multiple L-Shapes, Spirals, and More}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2021)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-184-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{189},
  editor =	{Buchin, Kevin and Colin de Verdi\`{e}re, \'{E}ric},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-138386},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation algorithms, two-dimensional knapsack, geometric packing}
}
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