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A Scaling Algorithm for Weighted f-Factors in General Graphs

Authors Ran Duan, Haoqing He, Tianyi Zhang

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • Scaling Algorithm
  • f-Factors
  • General Graphs

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Abstract

We study the maximum weight perfect f-factor problem on any general simple graph G = (V,E,ω) with positive integral edge weights w, and n = |V|, m = |E|. When we have a function f:V → ℕ_+ on vertices, a perfect f-factor is a generalized matching so that every vertex u is matched to exactly f(u) different edges. The previous best results on this problem have running time O(m f(V)) [Gabow 2018] or Õ(W(f(V))^2.373)) [Gabow and Sankowski 2013], where W is the maximum edge weight, and f(V) = ∑_{u ∈ V}f(u). In this paper, we present a scaling algorithm for this problem with running time Õ(mn^{2/3} log W). Previously this bound is only known for bipartite graphs [Gabow and Tarjan 1989]. The advantage is that the running time is independent of f(V), and consequently it breaks the Ω(mn) barrier for large f(V) even for the unweighted f-factor problem in general graphs.

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Ran Duan, Haoqing He, and Tianyi Zhang. A Scaling Algorithm for Weighted f-Factors in General Graphs. In 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 168, pp. 41:1-41:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.41

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Ran Duan
  • Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Haoqing He
  • Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Tianyi Zhang
  • Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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