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Hauptverfasser: Bai, Yuhang, Bérczi, Kristóf, Siemelink, Johanna K.
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Bai, Yuhang
Bérczi, Kristóf
Siemelink, Johanna K.
author_facet Bai, Yuhang
Bérczi, Kristóf
Siemelink, Johanna K.
contents In the Maximum-size Properly Colored Forest problem, we are given an edge-colored undirected graph and the goal is to find a properly colored forest with as many edges as possible. We study this problem within a broader framework by introducing the Maximum-size Degree Bounded Matroid Independent Set problem: given a matroid, a hypergraph on its ground set with maximum degree $Δ$, and an upper bound $g(e)$ for each hyperedge $e$, the task is to find a maximum-size independent set that contains at most $g(e)$ elements from each hyperedge $e$. We present approximation algorithms for this problem whose guarantees depend only on $Δ$. When applied to the Maximum-size Properly Colored Forest problem, this yields a $2/3$-approximation on multigraphs, improving the $5/9$ factor of Bai, Bérczi, Csáji, and Schwarcz [Eur. J. Comb. 132 (2026) 104269].
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spellingShingle Approximating maximum properly colored forests via degree bounded independent sets
Bai, Yuhang
Bérczi, Kristóf
Siemelink, Johanna K.
Data Structures and Algorithms
In the Maximum-size Properly Colored Forest problem, we are given an edge-colored undirected graph and the goal is to find a properly colored forest with as many edges as possible. We study this problem within a broader framework by introducing the Maximum-size Degree Bounded Matroid Independent Set problem: given a matroid, a hypergraph on its ground set with maximum degree $Δ$, and an upper bound $g(e)$ for each hyperedge $e$, the task is to find a maximum-size independent set that contains at most $g(e)$ elements from each hyperedge $e$. We present approximation algorithms for this problem whose guarantees depend only on $Δ$. When applied to the Maximum-size Properly Colored Forest problem, this yields a $2/3$-approximation on multigraphs, improving the $5/9$ factor of Bai, Bérczi, Csáji, and Schwarcz [Eur. J. Comb. 132 (2026) 104269].
title Approximating maximum properly colored forests via degree bounded independent sets
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18263