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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.2

A Formal Analysis of Algorithms for Matroids and Greedoids

Authors: Mohammad Abdulaziz, Thomas Ammer, Shriya Meenakshisundaram, and Adem Rimpapa

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 352, 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)

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We present a formal analysis, in Isabelle/HOL, of optimisation algorithms for matroids, which are useful generalisations of combinatorial structures that occur in optimisation, and greedoids, which are a generalisation of matroids. Although some formalisation work has been done earlier on matroids, our work here presents the first formalisation of results on greedoids, and many results we formalise in relation to matroids are also formalised for the first time in this work. We formalise the analysis of a number of optimisation algorithms for matroids and greedoids. We also derive from those algorithms executable implementations of Kruskal’s algorithm for computing optimal spanning trees, an algorithm for maximum cardinality matching for bi-partite graphs, and Prim’s algorithm for computing minimum weight spanning trees.

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Mohammad Abdulaziz, Thomas Ammer, Shriya Meenakshisundaram, and Adem Rimpapa. A Formal Analysis of Algorithms for Matroids and Greedoids. In 16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 352, pp. 2:1-2:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{abdulaziz_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2025.2,
  author =	{Abdulaziz, Mohammad and Ammer, Thomas and Meenakshisundaram, Shriya and Rimpapa, Adem},
  title =	{{A Formal Analysis of Algorithms for Matroids and Greedoids}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2025)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-396-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{352},
  editor =	{Forster, Yannick and Keller, Chantal},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-246012},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Matroids, Greedoids, Combinatorial Optimisation, Graph Algorithms, Isabelle/HOL, Formal Verification}
}

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