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Current state: Under Discussion Accepted

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Klein’s cycle canceling algorithm can solve the min-cost flow problem in O(E^2 * M * U) time where M is max cost and U is max capacity. In our particular case, U is 1 since a task can be assigned once to one client. M is related to the number of topic partitions a task can subscribe. So the algorithm runs in O(ME^2) time for our case. Note E is |T| * |C|  where T are the tasks and C are the clients. This is because each task can be assigned to any client; so there is an edge because every task to every client. In another word, the time complexity of the algorithm is O(M * |T|^2 * |NC|^2) . Below is a rough sketch of the algorithm:

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