We prove a $1/e$ guarantee for the matroid secretary problem on linear matroids, therefore settling the strong secretary conjecture in this class of matroids. The result holds both when the matroid is...

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA26) will take place from January 11–14, 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. This symposium focuses on research topics related to the design and analysis of effici...

The Theory community has a tradition of a crowdsourced spreadsheet of sharing who has accepted which jobs, previously hosted by Grigory Yaroslavtsev and Lance Fortnow. Past years have been slightly…

Roughly, a metric space has padding parameter $β$ if for every $Δ>0$, there is a stochastic decomposition of the metric points into clusters of diameter at most $Δ$ such that every ball of radius $γΔ$...

Smoothed analysis is a method for analyzing the performance of algorithms, used especially for those algorithms whose running time in practice is significantly better than what can be proven through w...

In this paper, we prove that explicit FRS codes and multiplicity codes achieve relaxed generalized Singleton bounds for list size $L\ge1.$ Specifically, we show the following: (1) FRS code of length $...

A statement from the Computing Research Association (CRA) The reported termination today of 10 percent of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) workforce — including significant cuts to the Compu…

Hypothetical devices that can quickly and accurately answer questions have become a powerful tool in computational complexity theory.