Spencer's theorem in nearly input-sparsity time

A celebrated theorem of Spencer states that for every set system $S_1,\dots, S_m \subseteq [n]$, there is a coloring of the ground set with $\{\pm 1\}$ with discrepancy $O(\sqrt{n\log(m/n+2)})$. We provide an algorithm to find such a coloring in near input-sparsity time $\tilde{O}(n+\sum_{i=1}^{m}|S_i|)$. This is joint w./ Vishesh Jain (UIC) and Ashwin Sah (MIT).