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most citedFaster Divergence Maximization for Faster Maximum Flow

24 citations · 58 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.DS2023

Incremental Approximate Maximum Flow on Undirected Graphs in Subpolynomial Update Time

Jan van den Brand, Li Chen, Rasmus Kyng +5

We provide an algorithm which, with high probability, maintains a -approximate maximum flow on an undirected graph undergoing -edge additions in amortized $m^{o(1)} ε^{-3…

cs.DS2022

Chaining, Group Leverage Score Overestimates, and Fast Spectral Hypergraph Sparsification

Arun Jambulapati, Yang P. Liu, Aaron Sidford

We present an algorithm that given any -vertex, -edge, rank hypergraph constructs a spectral sparsifier with hyperedges in nearly-li…

cs.DS2022

Exponential Convergence of Sinkhorn Under Regularization Scheduling

Jingbang Chen, Li Chen, Yang P. Liu +2

In 2013, Cuturi [Cut13] introduced the Sinkhorn algorithm for matrix scaling as a method to compute solutions to regularized optimal transport problems. In this paper, aiming at a…

cs.DS2022★ 12 cited

Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time

Li Chen, Rasmus Kyng, Yang P. Liu +3

We give an algorithm that computes exact maximum flows and minimum-cost flows on directed graphs with edges and polynomially bounded integral demands, costs, and capacities in…

cs.DS2022

Optimal Sublinear Sampling of Spanning Trees and Determinantal Point Processes via Average-Case Entropic Independence

Nima Anari, Yang P. Liu, Thuy-Duong Vuong

We design fast algorithms for repeatedly sampling from strongly Rayleigh distributions, which include random spanning tree distributions and determinantal point processes. For a gr…

math.AG2021

Weil-Poincaré series and topology of collections of valuations on rational double points

A. Campillo, F. Delgado, S. M. Gusein-Zade

Earlier it was described to which extent the Alexander polynomial in several variables of an algebraic link in the Poincaré sphere determines the topology of the link. It was shown…

cs.DS2021

Improved Iteration Complexities for Overconstrained -Norm Regression

Arun Jambulapati, Yang P. Liu, Aaron Sidford

In this paper we obtain improved iteration complexities for solving regression. We provide methods which given any full-rank with…

cs.DS2021

Online Edge Coloring via Tree Recurrences and Correlation Decay

Janardhan Kulkarni, Yang P. Liu, Ashwin Sah +2

We give an online algorithm that with high probability computes a edge coloring on a graph with maximum degree under online…

math.CO2021

Arithmetic Progressions in Sumsets of Sparse Sets

Noga Alon, Ryan Alweiss, Yang P. Liu +2

A set of positive integers is \emph{log-sparse} if there is an absolute constant so that for any positive integer the sequence contains at most…

cs.DS2021

A Gaussian fixed point random walk

Yang P. Liu, Ashwin Sah, Mehtaab Sawhney

In this note, we design a discrete random walk on the real line which takes steps (and one with steps in ) where at least of the signs are i…

cs.DS2021

Fully Dynamic Electrical Flows: Sparse Maxflow Faster Than Goldberg-Rao

Yu Gao, Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng

We give an algorithm for computing exact maximum flows on graphs with edges and integer capacities in the range in $\widetilde{O}(m^{\frac{3}{2} - \frac{1}{328}} \log…

cs.DS2020★ 5 cited

Minor Sparsifiers and the Distributed Laplacian Paradigm

Sebastian Forster, Gramoz Goranci, Yang P. Liu +3

We study distributed algorithms built around minor-based vertex sparsifiers, and give the first algorithm in the CONGEST model for solving linear systems in graph Laplacian matrice…

cs.DS2020★ 3 cited

Vertex Sparsification for Edge Connectivity in Polynomial Time

Yang P. Liu

An important open question in the area of vertex sparsification is whether -approximate cut-preserving vertex sparsifiers with size close to the number of terminals exist. T…

cs.DS2020★ 1 cited

Vertex Sparsification for Edge Connectivity

Parinya Chalermsook, Syamantak Das, Bundit Laekhanukit +5

Graph compression or sparsification is a basic information-theoretic and computational question. A major open problem in this research area is whether -approximate cut-prese…

cs.DS2020

Discrepancy Minimization via a Self-Balancing Walk

Ryan Alweiss, Yang P. Liu, Mehtaab Sawhney

We study discrepancy minimization for vectors in under various settings. The main result is the analysis of a new simple random process in multiple dimensions throug…

cs.DS2020★ 24 cited

Faster Divergence Maximization for Faster Maximum Flow

Yang P. Liu, Aaron Sidford

In this paper we provide an algorithm which given any -edge -vertex directed graph with integer capacities at most computes a maximum - flow for any vertices an…

cs.DS2019

Faster Energy Maximization for Faster Maximum Flow

Yang P. Liu, Aaron Sidford

In this paper we provide an algorithm which given any -edge -vertex directed graph with integer capacities at most computes a maximum - flow for any vertices an…

cs.DS2019★ 2 cited

Vertex Sparsifiers for c-Edge Connectivity

Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng, Mark Sellke

We show the existence of O(f(c)k) sized vertex sparsifiers that preserve all edge-connectivity values up to c between a set of k terminal vertices, where f(c) is a function that on…

math.CO2019

On the upper tail problem for random hypergraphs

Yang P. Liu, Yufei Zhao

The upper tail problem in a random graph asks to estimate the probability that the number of copies of some fixed subgraph in an Erdős--Rényi random graph exceeds its expectation b…

cs.DS2019

Near-optimal Approximate Discrete and Continuous Submodular Function Minimization

Brian Axelrod, Yang P. Liu, Aaron Sidford

In this paper we provide improved running times and oracle complexities for approximately minimizing a submodular function. Our main result is a randomized algorithm, which given a…

cs.DS2019

Constant Girth Approximation for Directed Graphs in Subquadratic Time

Shiri Chechik, Yang P. Liu, Omer Rotem +1

In this paper we provide a time algorithm that computes a -multiplicative approximation of the girth of a -node -edge directed graph with non-negati…

cs.DS2019★ 11 cited

Parallel Reachability in Almost Linear Work and Square Root Depth

Arun Jambulapati, Yang P. Liu, Aaron Sidford

In this paper we provide a parallel algorithm that given any -node -edge directed graph and source vertex computes all vertices reachable from with wor…

cs.DS2018

Short Cycles via Low-Diameter Decompositions

Yang P. Liu, Sushant Sachdeva, Zejun Yu

We present improved algorithms for short cycle decomposition of a graph. Short cycle decompositions were introduced in the recent work of Chu et al, and were used to make progress…