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Results on Sparse Integer Programming and Geometric Independent Sets
An integer linear program is a problem of the form max{c^T x : Ax=b, x >= 0, x integer}, where A is in Z^(n x m), b in Z^m, and c in Z^n.Solving an integer linear program is NP-hard in general, but there are several assumptions for which it becomes fixed p ...
EPFL2023Approximation Algorithms for Allocation and Network Design
In this thesis, we give new approximation algorithms for some NP-hard problems arising in resource allocation and network design. As a resource allocation problem, we study the Santa Claus problem (also known as the MaxMin Fair Allocation problem) in which ...
EPFL2023Better Trees for Santa Claus
Etienne Michel François Bamas, Lars Rohwedder
We revisit the problem max-min degree arborescence, which was introduced by Bateni et al. [STOC'09] as a central special case of the general Santa Claus problem, which constitutes a notorious open question in approximation algorithms. In the former problem ...
New York2023Streaming and Matching Problems with Submodular Functions
Submodular functions are a widely studied topic in theoretical computer science. They have found several applications both theoretical and practical in the fields of economics, combinatorial optimization and machine learning. More recently, there have also ...
EPFL2022Tight Vector Bin Packing with Few Small Items via Fast Exact Matching in Multigraphs
Adam Teodor Polak, Alexandra Anna Lassota
We solve the Bin Packing problem in O^*(2^k) time, where k is the number of items less or equal to one third of the bin capacity. This parameter measures the distance from the polynomially solvable case of only large (i.e., greater than one third) items. O ...
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik2022A (2+epsilon)-Approximation Algorithm for Preemptive Weighted Flow Time on a Single Machine
Weighted flow time is a fundamental and very well-studied objective function in scheduling. In this paper, we study the setting of a single machine with preemptions. The input consists of a set of jobs, characterized by their processing times, release time ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021Knapsack and Subset Sum with Small Items
Adam Teodor Polak, Lars Rohwedder
Knapsack and Subset Sum are fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Recently there has been a growing interest in understanding the best possible pseudopolynomial running times for these problems with respect to various parameters. In t ...
Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik2021How to Match in Modern Computational Settings
Buddhima Ruwanmini Gamlath Gamlath Ralalage
This thesis focuses on the maximum matching problem in modern computational settings where the algorithms have to make decisions with partial information.First, we consider two stochastic models called query-commit and price-of-information where the algori ...
EPFL2021Fair colorful k-center clustering
Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Xinrui Jia
An instance of colorful k-center consists of points in a metric space that are colored red or blue, along with an integer k and a coverage requirement for each color. The goal is to find the smallest radius rho such that there exist balls of radius rho aro ...
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021Automating cutting planes is NP-hard
We show that Cutting Planes (CP) proofs are hard to find: Given an unsatisfiable formula F, It is -hard to find a CP refutation of F in time polynomial in the length of the shortest such refutation; and unless Gap-Hitting-Set admits a nontrivial algorithm, ...
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