papers

Publications (12)

cs.DS2025

To buy or not to buy: deterministic rent-or-buy problems on node-weighted graphs

Sander Borst, Moritz Venzin

We study the rent-or-buy variant of the online Steiner forest problem on node- and edge-weighted graphs. For -node graphs with at most non-zero node-weights, and at mo…

math.OC2021

On the Integrality Gap of Binary Integer Programs with Gaussian Data

Sander Borst, Daniel Dadush, Sophie Huiberts +1

For a binary integer program (IP) , where and have independent Gaussian…

cs.DS2024

Stronger adversaries grow cheaper forests: online node-weighted Steiner problems

Sander Borst, Marek Eliáš, Moritz Venzin

We propose a -competitive randomized algorithm for online node-weighted Steiner forest. This is essentially optimal and significantly improves over the previous b…

cs.DS2020

New FPT algorithms for finding the temporal hybridization number for sets of phylogenetic trees

Sander Borst, Leo van Iersel, Mark Jones +1

We study the problem of finding a temporal hybridization network for a set of phylogenetic trees that minimizes the number of reticulations. First, we introduce an FPT algorithm fo…

math.PR2020

Majorizing Measures for the Optimizer

Sander Borst, Daniel Dadush, Neil Olver +1

The theory of majorizing measures, extensively developed by Fernique, Talagrand and many others, provides one of the most general frameworks for controlling the behavior of stochas…

cs.DS2025

Improved Online Load Balancing in the Two-Norm

Sander Borst, Danish Kashaev

We study the online load balancing problem on unrelated machines, with the objective of minimizing the square of the norm of the loads on the machines. The greedy algorith…