Accepted papers
Proceedings
The ICALP 2021 Proceedings have now been published in the LIPIcs series.
Best paper awards
Track A
Sayan Bhattacharya and Peter Kiss. Deterministic Rounding of Dynamic Fractional Matchings
Track B
Antoine Amarilli, Louis Jachiet and Charles Paperman. Dynamic Membership for Regular Languages
Best student paper awards (for papers written solely by students)
Track A
Or Zamir. Breaking the 2n barrier for 5-coloring and 6-coloring
Track B
None
Track A
- Tianyi Zhang. Deterministic Maximum Flows in Simple Graphs
- Markus Anders, Pascal Schweitzer and Florian Wetzels. Comparative Design-Choice Analysis of Color Refinement Algorithms Beyond the Worst Case
- Gianlorenzo D’Angelo, Debashmita Poddar and Cosimo Vinci. Improved Approximation Factor for Adaptive Influence Maximization via Simple Greedy Strategies
- Michael Lampis. Minimum Stable Cut and Treewidth
- Anupam Gupta, Benjamin Moseley and Rudy Zhou. Structural Iterative Rounding for Generalized k-Median Problems
- Bernhard Haeupler, David Hershkowitz and David Wajc. Near-Optimal Schedules for Simultaneous Multicasts
- Édouard Bonnet. 4 vs 7 sparse undirected unweighted Diameter is SETH-hard at time $n^{4/3}$
- Yong Gu and Hanlin Ren. Constructing a Distance Sensitivity Oracle in O(n^2.5794 M) Time
- Moritz Buchem, Lars Rohwedder, Tjark Vredeveld and Andreas Wiese. Additive Approximation Schemes for Load Balancing Problems
- Mathieu Mari, Chien-Chung Huang, Claire Mathieu and Jens Vygen. Approximating maximum integral multiflows on bounded genus graphs
- Joran van Apeldoorn, Sander Gribling, Yinan Li, Harold Nieuwboer, Michael Walter and Ronald de Wolf. Quantum algorithms for matrix scaling and matrix balancing
- Édouard Bonnet, Colin Geniet, Eun Jung Kim, Stéphan Thomassé and Rémi Watrigant. Twin-width III: Max Independent Set, Min Dominating Set, and Coloring
- Shyan Akmal and Virginia Williams. Improved Approximation for Longest Common Subsequence over Small Alphabets
- Nick Gravin, Zhihao Gavin Tang and Kangning Wang. Online Stochastic Matching with Edge Arrivals
- Izhar Oppenhein and Tali Kaufman. Coboundary and cosystolic expansion from strong symmetry
- Karl Bringmann and Vasileios Nakos. Fast n-fold Boolean Convolution via Additive Combinatorics
- Keren Censor-Hillel, Noa Marelly, Roy Schwartz and Tigran Tonoyan. Fault Tolerant Max-Cut
- Sébastien Bouchard, Yoann Dieudonné, Arnaud Labourel and Andrzej Pelc. Almost-Optimal Deterministic Treasure Hunt in Arbitrary Graphs
- Telikepalli Kavitha. Maximum Matchings and Popularity
- Jan Böker. Graph Similarity and Homomorphism Densities
- Enoch Peserico and Michele Scquizzato. Matching on the line admits no $o(\sqrt{\log n})$-competitive algorithm
- Ewan Davies and Will Perkins. Approximately counting independent sets of a given size
- Andreas Björklund and Petteri Kaski. Counting Short Vector Pairs by Inner Product and Relations to the Permanent
- Massimo Cairo, Romeo Rizzi, Alexandru I. Tomescu and Elia Carlo Zirondelli. Genome assembly, from practice to theory: safe, complete and linear-time
- Matthias Bentert, André Nichterlein, Malte Renken and Philipp Zschoche. Using A Geometric Lens to Find k Disjoint Shortest Paths
- Emanuele Viola. Fourier conjectures, correlation bounds, and Majority
- Markus Anders and Pascal Schweitzer. Search Problems in Trees with Symmetries: near optimal traversal strategies for individualization-refinement algorithms
- Ilan Newman and Nithin Varma. New Sublinear Algorithms and Lower Bounds for LIS Estimation
- Etienne Bamas, Paritosh Garg and Lars Rohwedder. The Submodular Santa Claus Problem in the Restricted Assignment Case
- Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Viktor Fredslund-Hansen, Jacob Evald and Christian Wulff-Nilsen. Decremental APSP in Directed Graphs Versus an Adaptive Adversary
- Tuukka Korhonen. Lower Bounds on Dynamic Programming for Maximum Weight Independent Set
- Karl Bringmann and Debarati Das. A Near-Linear-Time n^0.4-Approximation for Longest Common Subsequence
- Mina Dalirrooyfard and Jenny Kaufmann. Approximation Algorithms for Min-Distance Problems in DAGs
- Jakub Kozik. Improving Gebauer’s construction of 3-chromatic hypergraphs with few edges
- Lijie Chen, Zhenjian Lu, Xin Lyu and Igor Oliveira. Majority vs. Approximate Linear Sum and Average-Case Complexity Below NC1
- Zhenjian Lu and Igor Oliveira. An Efficient Coding Theorem via Probabilistic Representations and its Applications
- Or Zamir. Breaking the 2^n barrier for 5-coloring and 6-coloring
- Yonatan Nakar and Dana Ron. Testing Dynamic Environments: Back to Basics
- Andrew Childs, Shih-Han Hung and Tongyang Li. Quantum query complexity with matrix-vector products
- Benjamin Moseley, Kirk Pruhs, Alireza Samadian and Yuyan Wang. Relational Algorithms for k-means Clustering
- Hyejung Hailey Jee, Carlo Sparaciari, Omar Fawzi and Mario Berta. Quasi-polynomial time algorithms for quantum games in bounded dimension
- Yuzhou Gu, Adam Polak, Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Yinzhan Xu. Faster Monotone Min-Plus Product, Range Mode, and Single Source Replacement Paths
- Artur Czumaj, George Kontogeorgiou and Mike Paterson. Haystack Hunting Hints and Locker Room Communication
- Tanvi Bajpai, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Chandra Chekuri and Maryam Negahbani. Revisiting Priority k-Center: Fairness and Outliers
- Arun Ganesh, Bruce Maggs and Debmalya Panigrahi. Universal Algorithms for Clustering Problems
- Timothy M. Chan, Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Yinzhan Xu. Algorithms, Reductions and Equivalences for Small Weight Variants of All-Pairs Shortest Paths
- Andrei-Alexandru Graur and Noga Alon. Efficient Splitting of Necklaces
- Bernd Gärtner, Sebastian Haslebacher and Hung P. Hoang. A subexponential algorithm for ARRIVAL
- Sayan Bandyapadhyay, Fedor Fomin and Kirill Simonov. On Coresets for Fair Clustering in Metric and Euclidean Spaces and Their Applications
- Ran Ben Basat, Michael Mitzenmacher and Shay Vargaftik. How to Send a Real Number Using a Single Bit (and Some Shared Randomness)
- Antonios Antoniadis, Matthias Englert, Nicolaos Matsakis and Pavel Veselý. Breaking the Barrier of 2 for the Competitiveness of Longest Queue Drop
- Andrej Bogdanov and Gautam Prakriya. Direct Sum and Partitionability Testing over General Groups
- Jonas Ellert and Johannes Fischer. Linear Time Runs over General Ordered Alphabets
- Amir Abboud and Virginia Vassilevska Williams. Fine-Grained Hardness for Edit Distance to a Fixed Sequence
- Reut Levi. Testing Triangle Freeness in the General Model in Graphs with Arboricity $O(\sqrt{n})$
- Theo McKenzie and Sidhanth Mohanty. High-girth near-Ramanujan graphs with lossy vertex expansion
- George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias and Annamaria Kovacs. Truthful allocation in graphs and hypergraphs
- Adam Polak, Lars Rohwedder and Karol Węgrzycki. Knapsack and Subset Sum with Small Items
- Tobias Friedrich, Andreas Göbel, Martin S. Krejca and Marcus Pappik. A spectral independence view on hard spheres via block dynamics
- Zachary Friggstad and Chaitanya Swamy. Constant-Factor Approximation to Deadline TSP and Related Problems in (almost) Quasi-Polytime
- Michal Koucký and Karel Král. Sorting Short Integers
- Kevin Pratt and Cornelius Brand. Parameterized Applications of Symbolic Differentiation of (Totally) Multilinear Polynomials
- Joakim Blikstad. Breaking O(nr) for Matroid Intersection
- Marc Roth, Johannes Schmitt and Philip Wellnitz. Detecting and Counting Small Subgraphs, and Evaluating a Parameterized Tutte Polynomial: Lower Bounds via Toroidal Grids and Cayley Graph Expanders
- Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Shay Mozes, Pawel Gawrychowski and Oren Weimann. An Almost Optimal Edit Distance Oracle
- J. A. Gregor Lagodzinski, Andreas Göbel, Katrin Casel and Tobias Friedrich. On Counting (Quantum-)Graph Homomorphisms in Finite Fields of Prime Order
- Pankaj K. Agarwal and Alex Steiger. An Output-Sensitive Algorithm for Computing the Union of Cubes and Fat Boxes in 3D
- Uma Girish, Ran Raz and Wei Zhan. Quantum Logspace Algorithm for Powering Matrices with Bounded Norm
- Chandra Chekuri and Kent Quanrud. Faster Algorithms for Rooted Connectivity in Directed Graphs
- Shyan Akmal and Ce Jin. Faster Algorithms for Bounded Tree Edit Distance
- Seth Pettie and Longhui Yin. The Structure of Minimum Vertex Cuts
- Deeksha Adil, Brian Bullins, Rasmus Kyng and Sushant Sachdeva. Almost-linear Time Weighted $\ell_p$-norm Solvers in Slightly Dense Graphs via Sparsification
- Nicolas Rivera, Thomas Sauerwald and John Sylvester. Multiple Random Walks on Graphs: Mixing Few to Cover Many
- Karl Bringmann and Jasper Slusallek. Current Algorithms for Detecting Subgraphs of Bounded Treewidth are Probably Optimal
- Robert Ganian, Thekla Hamm, Fabian Klute, Irene Parada and Birgit Vogtenhuber. Crossing-Optimal Extension of Simple Drawings
- Dániel Marx, Govind S. Sankar and Philipp Schepper. Degrees and Gaps: Tight Complexity Results of General Factor Problems Parameterized by Treewidth and Cutwidth
- Eike Neumann, Joel Ouaknine and James Worrell. Decision problems for second-order holonomic recurrences
- David P. Woodruff and Samson Zhou. Separations for Estimating Large Frequency Moments on Data Streams
- Marcin Bienkowski, Artur Kraska and Hsiang-Hsuan Liu. Traveling Repairperson, Unrelated Machines, and Other Stories About Average Completion Times
- Adam Karczmarz. Fully Dynamic Algorithms for Minimum Weight Cycle and Related Problems
- Dimitris Achlioptas and Kostas Zampetakis. Local Approximations of the Independent Set Polynomial
- Pankaj Agarwal, Xiao Hu, Stavros Sintos and Jun Yang. Dynamic Enumeration of Similarity Joins
- Maria Hartmann, László Kozma, Corwin Sinnamon and Robert Tarjan. Analysis of Smooth Heaps
- Sayan Bhattacharya and Peter Kiss. Deterministic Rounding of Dynamic Fractional Matchings
- Yu Chen, Sanjeev Khanna and Ansh Nagda. Sublinear Time Hypergraph Sparsification via Cut and Edge Sampling Queries
- Joshua Brakensiek, Venkatesan Guruswami and Sai Sandeep. Conditional Dichotomy of Boolean Ordered Promise CSPs
- Christian Coester and Elias Koutsoupias. Towards the k-server conjecture: A unifying potential, pushing the frontier to the circle
- Marco Carmosino, Kenneth Hoover, Russell Impagliazzo, Valentine Kabanets and Antonina Kolokolova. Lifting for constant-depth circuits and applications to MCSP
- Ruoxu Cen, Yu Cheng, Debmalya Panigrahi and Kevin Sun. Sparsification of Directed Graphs via Cut Balance
- Sepehr Assadi and Soheil Behnezhad. Beating Two-Thirds For Random-Order Streaming Matching
- Ojas Parekh and Kevin Thompson. Application of the Level-2 Quantum Lasserre Hierarchy in Quantum Approximation Algorithms
- Lijie Chen, Gillat Kol, Dmitry Paramonov, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, Zhao Song and Huacheng Yu. Near-Optimal Two-Pass Streaming Algorithm for Sampling Random Walks over Directed Graphs
- Kuan Cheng, Alireza Farhadi, Mohammadtaghi Hajiaghayi, Zhengzhong Jin, Xin Li, Aviad Rubinstein, Saeed Seddighin and Yu Zheng. Streaming and Small Space Approximation Algorithms for Edit Distance and Longest Common Subsequence
- Dingyu Wang, Seth Pettie and Longhui Yin. Non-Mergeable Sketching for Cardinality Estimation
- Guy Blanc, Jane Lange and Li-Yang Tan. Learning stochastic decision trees
- Amin Saberi and David Wajc. The Greedy Algorithm is not Optimal for On-Line Edge Coloring
- Mitali Bafna and Nikhil Vyas. Optimal Fine-grained Hardness of Approximation of Linear Equations
- Chandra Chekuri and Kent Quanrud. Isolating Cuts, (Bi-)Submodularity, and Faster Algorithms for Connectivity
- Arnab Ganguly, Dhrumil Patel, Rahul Shah and Sharma Thankachan. LF Successor: Compact Space Indexing for Order-Isomorphic Pattern Matching
- Takaaki Nishimoto and Yasuo Tabei. Optimal-Time Queries on BWT-runs Compressed Indexes
- Vahid Reza Asadi and Igor Shinkar. Relaxed Locally Correctable Codes with Improved Parameters
- Eleni Batziou, Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen and Kasper Høgh. Strong Approximate Consensus Halving and the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem
- Sharat Ibrahimpur and Chaitanya Swamy. Minimum-Norm Load Balancing is (almost) as Easy as Minimizing Makespan
- Stratis Skoulakis, Dimitris Fotakis, Panagiotis Kostopanagiotis, Georgios Piliouras and Vasileios Nakos. On the Approximability of Dynamic Min-Sum Set Cover
- Hu Fu, Zhihao Gavin Tang, Hongxun Wu, Jinzhao Wu and Qianfan Zhang. Random Order Vertex Arrival Contention Resolution Schemes For Matching, With Applications
- Ken-Ichi Kawarabayashi, Bojan Mohar, Roman Nedela and Peter Zeman. Automorphisms and isomorphisms of maps in linear time
- Christoph Damerius, Dominik Kaaser, Peter Kling and Florian Schneider. On Greedily Packing Anchored Rectangles
- Adam Kurpisz, Aaron Potechin and Elias Wirth. SoS certification for symmetric quadratic functions and its connection to constrained Boolean hypercube optimization
Track B
- Alex Brandts and Stanislav Živný. Beyond PCSP(1-in-3,NAE)
- Pascal Vanier and Antonin Callard. Computational characterization of surface entropies for Z² subshifts of finite type
- Paweł Parys. Higher-Order Model Checking Step by Step
- Antoine Amarilli, Louis Jachiet and Charles Paperman. Dynamic Membership for Regular Languages
- Luca Ciccone and Luca Padovani. Inference Systems with Corules for Fair Subtyping and Liveness Properties of Binary Session Types
- Han Xu and Zhenjiang Hu. Analytical Differential Calculus with Integration
- Erich Grädel and Lovro Mrkonjic. Elementary equivalence versus isomorphism in semiring semantics
- Antonio Casares, Thomas Colcombet and Nathanaël Fijalkow. Optimal Transformations of Games and Automata using Muller Conditions
- Ian Pratt-Hartmann. Fluted Logic with Counting
- Lorenzo Clemente and Michał Skrzypczak. Deterministic and game separability for regular languages of infinite trees
- Gabriel Istrate, Cosmin Bonchis and Adrian Craciun. Kernelization, Proof Complexity and Social Choice
- Benjamin Monmege, Julie Parreaux and Pierre-Alain Reynier. Playing Stochastically in Weighted Timed Games to Emulate Memory
- Samson Abramsky and Luca Reggio. Arboreal Categories and Resources
- Krishnendu Chatterjee, Monika Henzinger, Sagar Kale and Alexander Svozil. Faster Algorithms for Bounded Liveness in Graphs and Game Graphs
- Thomas Colcombet and Arthur Jaquard. A Complexity Approach to Tree Algebras: the Bounded Case
- Wojciech Czerwinski, Antoine Mottet and Karin Quaas. New Techniques for Universality in Unambiguous Register Automata
- Lê Thành Dũng Nguyễn, Camille Noûs and Pierre Pradic. Comparison-free polyregular functions
- Gabriel Bathie and Tatiana Starikovskaya. Property testing of regular languages with applications to streaming property testing of visibly pushdown languages
- Antoine Mottet, Tomáš Nagy, Michael Pinsker and Michał Wrona. Smooth Approximations and Relational Width Collapses
- Dominik D. Freydenberger and Liat Peterfreund. The theory of concatenation over finite models
- Alexandre Goy, Daniela Petrisan and Marc Aiguier. Powerset-Like Monads Weakly Distribute over Themselves in Toposes and Compact Hausdorff Spaces
- Manuel Bodirsky, Simon Knäuer and Sebastian Rudolph. Datalog-Expressibility for Monadic and Guarded Second-Order Logic
- Paolo Baldan, Francesco Ranzato and Linpeng Zhang. A Rice’s Theorem for Abstract Semantics
- Wojciech Czerwiński, Sławomir Lasota and Łukasz Orlikowski. Improved lower bounds for reachability in vector addition systems
- Todd Schmid, Tobias Kappé, Dexter Kozen and Alexandra Silva. Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests: Coequations, Coinduction, and Completeness
- Borja Balle, Clara Lacroce, Prakash Panangaden, Doina Precup and Guillaume Rabusseau. Optimal Spectral-Norm Approximate Minimization of Weighted Finite Automata
- Yangjia Li and Dominique Unruh. Quantum Relational Hoare Logic with Expectations
- Martin Grohe and Sandra Kiefer. Logarithmic Weisfeiler-Leman Identifies All Planar Graphs
- Sergey Goncharov. Uniform Elgot Iteration in Foundations