@InProceedings{giannakopoulos_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.72, author = {Giannakopoulos, Yiannis and Grosz, Alexander and Melissourgos, Themistoklis}, title = {{On the Smoothed Complexity of Combinatorial Local Search}}, booktitle = {51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)}, pages = {72:1--72:19}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-322-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {297}, editor = {Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.72}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202154}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.72}, annote = {Keywords: Smoothed Analysis, local search, better-response dynamics, PLS-hardness, combinatorial local optimization, congestion games, pure Nash equilibria} }