Department of Computer Science | Institute of Theoretical Computer Science | CADMO

Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms

Prof. Emo Welzl and Prof. Bernd Gärtner

Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with A. Steger, D. Steurer and B. Sudakov)

Mittagsseminar Talk Information

Date and Time: Thursday, October 07, 2021, 12:15 pm

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: CAB G51 and Zoom: conference room

Speaker: Maxime Larcher

Solving Static Permutation Mastermind using O(n log n) Queries

Mastermind is a classical example of information game, and many variants exist. We focus on Static Permutation Mastermind: there are n pegs and n colours, the codeword and queries may not contain two pegs of the same colour, and all queries need be chosen in advance.

Answering a question of Glazik, Jäger, Schiemann and Srivastav, we show that there exists a set of O(n log n) queries from which all codewords can be recovered. This matches the lower bound. Our approach improves on Chvátal's solution for 'classical' Mastermind as it allows for efficiently reconstructing the codeword.


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