Breaking quadratic time for small vertex connectivity and an approximation scheme

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dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorNanongkai, Danuponen_US
dc.contributor.authorSaranurak, Thatchapholen_US
dc.contributor.authorYingchareonthawornchai, Sorrachaien_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen
dc.contributor.editorCharikar, Mosesen_US
dc.contributor.editorCohen, Edithen_US
dc.contributor.groupauthorProfessorship Chalermsook Parinyaen
dc.contributor.organizationKTH Royal Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Chicagoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-02T14:13:02Z
dc.date.available2020-01-02T14:13:02Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-23en_US
dc.description| openaire: EC/H2020/715672/EU//DisDyn
dc.description.abstractVertex connectivity a classic extensively-studied problem. Given an integer k, its goal is to decide if an n-node m-edge graph can be disconnected by removing k vertices. Although a linear-time algorithm was postulated since 1974 [Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman], and despite its sibling problem of edge connectivity being resolved over two decades ago [Karger STOC’96], so far no vertex connectivity algorithms are faster than O(n2) time even for k = 4 and m = O(n). In the simplest case where m = O(n) and k = O(1), the O(n2) bound dates five decades back to [Kleitman IEEE Trans. Circuit Theory’69]. For higher m, O(m) time is known for k ≤ 3 [Tarjan FOCS’71; Hopcroft, Tarjan SICOMP’73], the first O(n2) time is from [Kanevsky, Ramachandran, FOCS’87] for k = 4 and from [Nagamochi, Ibaraki, Algorithmica’92] for k = O(1). For general k and m, the best bound is Õ (min(kn2, nω + nkω )) [Henzinger, Rao, Gabow FOCS’96; Linial, Lovász, Wigderson FOCS’86] where Õ hides polylogarithmic terms and ω < 2.38 is the matrix multiplication exponent. In this paper, we present a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm with Õ (m + k7/3n4/3) time for any k = O(n). This gives the first subquadratic time bound for any 4 ≤ k ≤ o(n2/7) (subquadratic time refers to O(m) + o(n2) time.) and improves all above classic bounds for all k ≤ n0.44. We also present a new randomized Monte Carlo (1 + ϵ)-approximation algorithm that is strictly faster than the previous Henzinger’s 2-approximation algorithm [J. Algorithms’97] and all previous exact algorithms. The story is the same for the directed case, where our exact Õ (min(km2/3n, km4/3))-time for any k = O(n) and (1 + ϵ)-approximation algorithms improve all previous exact bounds. Additionally, our algorithm is the first approximation algorithm on directed graphs. The key to our results is to avoid computing single-source connectivity, which was needed by all previous exact algorithms and is not known to admit o(n2) time. Instead, we design the first local algorithm for computing vertex connectivity; without reading the whole graph, our algorithm can find a separator of size at most k or certify that there is no separator of size at most k “near” a given seed node.en
dc.description.versionPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent12
dc.format.extent241-252
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dc.identifier.citationNanongkai, D, Saranurak, T & Yingchareonthawornchai, S 2019, Breaking quadratic time for small vertex connectivity and an approximation scheme . in M Charikar & E Cohen (eds), STOC 2019 - Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing . Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, ACM, pp. 241-252, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 23/06/2019 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3313276.3316394en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3313276.3316394en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781450367059
dc.identifier.issn0737-8017
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/42292
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202001021403
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/715672/EU//DisDynen_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesSTOC 2019 - Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computingen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computingen
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dc.subject.keywordGraph algorithmsen_US
dc.subject.keywordLocal flow algorithmsen_US
dc.subject.keywordVertex connectivityen_US
dc.titleBreaking quadratic time for small vertex connectivity and an approximation schemeen
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