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Jul 2026
Randomization Helps in Online Graph Exploration: Breaking the Deterministic Lower Bound on Cycles
This work focuses on cycles, a simple graph class which nevertheless captures a key difficulty of online exploration, and develops a randomized algorithm for online exploration of cycles, giving the first provable advantage of randomization in online graph exploration.
Júlia Baligács, Jan Hkazla, Lena Volk
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