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APPROX
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.3
Maximum And- vs. Even-SAT

Authors: Tamio-Vesa Nakajima and Stanislav Živný

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)

Abstract
A multiset of literals, called a clause, is strongly satisfied by an assignment if no literal evaluates to false. Finding an assignment that maximises the number of strongly satisfied clauses is NP-hard. We present a simple algorithm that finds, given a multiset of clauses that admits an assignment that strongly satisfies ρ of the clauses, an assignment in which at least ρ of the clauses are weakly satisfied, in the sense that an even number of literals evaluate to false. In particular, this implies an efficient algorithm for finding an undirected cut of value ρ in a graph G given that a directed cut of value ρ in G is promised to exist. A similar argument also gives an efficient algorithm for finding an acyclic subgraph of G with ρ edges under the same promise.
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Tamio-Vesa Nakajima and Stanislav Živný. Maximum And- vs. Even-SAT. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 3:1-3:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{nakajima_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.3,
  author =	{Nakajima, Tamio-Vesa and \v{Z}ivn\'{y}, Stanislav},
  title =	{{Maximum And- vs. Even-SAT}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:8},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-243696},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: approximation, promise constraint satisfaction, max and, max even, max cut, max dicut, max acyclic}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.121
Maximum Bipartite vs. Triangle-Free Subgraph

Authors: Tamio-Vesa Nakajima and Stanislav Živný

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
Given a (multi)graph G which contains a bipartite subgraph with ρ edges, what is the largest triangle-free subgraph of G that can be found efficiently? We present an SDP-based algorithm that finds one with at least 0.8823 ρ edges, thus improving on the subgraph with 0.878 ρ edges obtained by the classic Max-Cut algorithm of Goemans and Williamson. On the other hand, by a reduction from Håstad’s 3-bit PCP we show that it is NP-hard to find a triangle-free subgraph with (25 / 26 + ε) ρ ≈ (0.961 + ε) ρ edges. As an application, we classify the Maximum Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem, denoted byMaxPCSP(G, H), for all bipartite G: Given an input (multi)graph X which admits a G-colouring satisfying ρ edges, find an H-colouring of X that satisfies ρ edges. This problem is solvable in polynomial time, apart from trivial cases, if H contains a triangle, and is NP-hard otherwise.
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Tamio-Vesa Nakajima and Stanislav Živný. Maximum Bipartite vs. Triangle-Free Subgraph. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 121:1-121:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{nakajima_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.121,
  author =	{Nakajima, Tamio-Vesa and \v{Z}ivn\'{y}, Stanislav},
  title =	{{Maximum Bipartite vs. Triangle-Free Subgraph}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{121:1--121:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.121},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234987},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.121},
  annote =	{Keywords: approximation, promise constraint satisfaction, triangle-free subgraphs}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.169
Complexity of Approximate Conflict-Free, Linearly-Ordered, and Nonmonochromatic Hypergraph Colourings

Authors: Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, Zephyr Verwimp, Marcin Wrochna, and Stanislav Živný

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
Using the algebraic approach to promise constraint satisfaction problems, we establish complexity classifications of three natural variants of hypergraph colourings: standard nonmonochromatic colourings, conflict-free colourings, and linearly-ordered colourings. Firstly, we show that finding an 𝓁-colouring of a k-colourable r-uniform hypergraph is NP-hard for all constant 2 ≤ k ≤ 𝓁 and r ≥ 3. This provides a shorter proof of a celebrated result by Dinur et al. [FOCS'02/Combinatorica'05]. Secondly, we show that finding an 𝓁-conflict-free colouring of an r-uniform hypergraph that admits a k-conflict-free colouring is NP-hard for all constant 2 ≤ k ≤ 𝓁 and r ≥ 4, except for r = 4 and k = 2 (and any 𝓁); this case is solvable in polynomial time. The case of r = 3 is the standard nonmonochromatic colouring, and the case of r = 2 is the notoriously difficult open problem of approximate graph colouring. Thirdly, we show that finding an 𝓁-linearly-ordered colouring of an r-uniform hypergraph that admits a k-linearly-ordered colouring is NP-hard for all constant 3 ≤ k ≤ 𝓁 and r ≥ 4, thus improving on the results of Nakajima and Živný [ICALP'22/ACM TocT'23].
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Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, Zephyr Verwimp, Marcin Wrochna, and Stanislav Živný. Complexity of Approximate Conflict-Free, Linearly-Ordered, and Nonmonochromatic Hypergraph Colourings. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 169:1-169:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{nakajima_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.169,
  author =	{Nakajima, Tamio-Vesa and Verwimp, Zephyr and Wrochna, Marcin and \v{Z}ivn\'{y}, Stanislav},
  title =	{{Complexity of Approximate Conflict-Free, Linearly-Ordered, and Nonmonochromatic Hypergraph Colourings}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{169:1--169:10},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.169},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-235460},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.169},
  annote =	{Keywords: hypergraph colourings, conflict-free colourings, unique-maximum colourings, linearly-ordered colourings}
}
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APPROX
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.7
A Logarithmic Approximation of Linearly-Ordered Colourings

Authors: Johan Håstad, Björn Martinsson, Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, and Stanislav Živný

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 317, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)

Abstract
A linearly ordered (LO) k-colouring of a hypergraph assigns to each vertex a colour from the set {0,1,…,k-1} in such a way that each hyperedge has a unique maximum element. Barto, Batistelli, and Berg conjectured that it is NP-hard to find an LO k-colouring of an LO 2-colourable 3-uniform hypergraph for any constant k ≥ 2 [STACS'21] but even the case k = 3 is still open. Nakajima and Živný gave polynomial-time algorithms for finding, given an LO 2-colourable 3-uniform hypergraph, an LO colouring with O^*(√n) colours [ICALP'22] and an LO colouring with O^*(n^(1/3)) colours [ACM ToCT'23]. Very recently, Louis, Newman, and Ray gave an SDP-based algorithm with O^*(n^(1/5)) colours. We present two simple polynomial-time algorithms that find an LO colouring with O(log₂(n)) colours, which is an exponential improvement.
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Johan Håstad, Björn Martinsson, Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, and Stanislav Živný. A Logarithmic Approximation of Linearly-Ordered Colourings. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 317, pp. 7:1-7:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{hastad_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.7,
  author =	{H\r{a}stad, Johan and Martinsson, Bj\"{o}rn and Nakajima, Tamio-Vesa and \v{Z}ivn\'{y}, Stanislav},
  title =	{{A Logarithmic Approximation of Linearly-Ordered Colourings}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-348-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{317},
  editor =	{Kumar, Amit and Ron-Zewi, Noga},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210006},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Linear ordered colouring, Hypergraph, Approximation, Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.34
Hardness of Linearly Ordered 4-Colouring of 3-Colourable 3-Uniform Hypergraphs

Authors: Marek Filakovský, Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, Jakub Opršal, Gianluca Tasinato, and Uli Wagner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 289, 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)

Abstract
A linearly ordered (LO) k-colouring of a hypergraph is a colouring of its vertices with colours 1, … , k such that each edge contains a unique maximal colour. Deciding whether an input hypergraph admits LO k-colouring with a fixed number of colours is NP-complete (and in the special case of graphs, LO colouring coincides with the usual graph colouring). Here, we investigate the complexity of approximating the "linearly ordered chromatic number" of a hypergraph. We prove that the following promise problem is NP-complete: Given a 3-uniform hypergraph, distinguish between the case that it is LO 3-colourable, and the case that it is not even LO 4-colourable. We prove this result by a combination of algebraic, topological, and combinatorial methods, building on and extending a topological approach for studying approximate graph colouring introduced by Krokhin, Opršal, Wrochna, and Živný (2023).
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Marek Filakovský, Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, Jakub Opršal, Gianluca Tasinato, and Uli Wagner. Hardness of Linearly Ordered 4-Colouring of 3-Colourable 3-Uniform Hypergraphs. In 41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 289, pp. 34:1-34:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{filakovsky_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2024.34,
  author =	{Filakovsk\'{y}, Marek and Nakajima, Tamio-Vesa and Opr\v{s}al, Jakub and Tasinato, Gianluca and Wagner, Uli},
  title =	{{Hardness of Linearly Ordered 4-Colouring of 3-Colourable 3-Uniform Hypergraphs}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2024)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-311-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{289},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Kupferman, Orna and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-197445},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: constraint satisfaction problem, hypergraph colouring, promise problem, topological methods}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.128
Linearly Ordered Colourings of Hypergraphs

Authors: Tamio-Vesa Nakajima and Stanislav Živný

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

Abstract
A linearly ordered (LO) k-colouring of an r-uniform hypergraph assigns an integer from {1, …, k} to every vertex so that, in every edge, the (multi)set of colours has a unique maximum. Equivalently, for r = 3, if two vertices in an edge are assigned the same colour, then the third vertex is assigned a larger colour (as opposed to a different colour, as in classic non-monochromatic colouring). Barto, Battistelli, and Berg [STACS'21] studied LO colourings on 3-uniform hypergraphs in the context of promise constraint satisfaction problems (PCSPs). We show two results. First, given a 3-uniform hypergraph that admits an LO 2-colouring, one can find in polynomial time an LO k-colouring with k = O(√{nlog log n}/log n), where n is the number of vertices of the input hypergraph. This is established by building on ideas from algorithms designed for approximate graph colourings. Second, given an r-uniform hypergraph that admits an LO 2-colouring, we establish NP-hardness of finding an LO 3-colouring for every constant uniformity r ≥ 5. In fact, we determine the precise relationship of polymorphism minions for all uniformities r ≥ 3, which reveals a key difference between r = 3,4 and r ≥ 5 and which may be of independent interest. Using the algebraic approach to PCSPs, we actually show a more general result establishing NP-hardness of finding an LO (k+1)-colouring for LO k-colourable r-uniform hypergraphs for k ≥ 2 and r ≥ 5.
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Tamio-Vesa Nakajima and Stanislav Živný. Linearly Ordered Colourings of Hypergraphs. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 128:1-128:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{nakajima_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.128,
  author =	{Nakajima, Tamio-Vesa and \v{Z}ivn\'{y}, Stanislav},
  title =	{{Linearly Ordered Colourings of Hypergraphs}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{128:1--128:18},
  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.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.128},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164692},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.128},
  annote =	{Keywords: hypegraph colourings, promise constraint satisfaction, PCSP, polymorphisms, minions, algebraic approach}
}
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