New Tools and Connections for Exponential-Time Approximation
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2018
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Algorithmica
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In this paper, we develop new tools and connections for exponential time approximation. In this setting, we are given a problem instance and an integer r> 1 , and the goal is to design an approximation algorithm with the fastest possible running time. We give randomized algorithms that establish an approximation ratio of1.r for maximum independent set in O∗(exp (O~ (n/ rlog 2r+ rlog 2r))) time,2.r for chromatic number in O∗(exp (O~ (n/ rlog r+ rlog 2r))) time,3.(2 - 1 / r) for minimum vertex cover in O∗(exp (n/ rΩ ( r ))) time, and4.(k- 1 / r) for minimum k-hypergraph vertex cover in O∗(exp (n/ (kr) Ω ( k r ))) time. (Throughout, O~ and O∗ omit polyloglog (r) and factors polynomial in the input size, respectively.) The best known time bounds for all problems were O∗(2 n / r) (Bourgeois et al. in Discret Appl Math 159(17):1954–1970, 2011; Cygan et al. in Exponential-time approximation of hard problems, 2008). For maximum independent set and chromatic number, these bounds were complemented by exp (n1 - o ( 1 )/ r1 + o ( 1 )) lower bounds (under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH)) (Chalermsook et al. in Foundations of computer science, FOCS, pp. 370–379, 2013; Laekhanukit in Inapproximability of combinatorial problems in subexponential-time. Ph.D. thesis, 2014). Our results show that the naturally-looking O∗(2 n / r) bounds are not tight for all these problems. The key to these results is a sparsification procedure that reduces a problem to a bounded-degree variant, allowing the use of approximation algorithms for bounded-degree graphs. To obtain the first two results, we introduce a new randomized branching rule. Finally, we show a connection between PCP parameters and exponential-time approximation algorithms. This connection together with our independent set algorithm refute the possibility to overly reduce the size of Chan’s PCP (Chan in J. ACM 63(3):27:1–27:32, 2016). It also implies that a (significant) improvement over our result will refute the gap-ETH conjecture (Dinur in Electron Colloq Comput Complex (ECCC) 23:128, 2016; Manurangsi and Raghavendra in A birthday repetition theorem and complexity of approximating dense CSPs, 2016).Description
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Approximation algorithms, Exponential time algorithms, PCP’s
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Bansal, N, Chalermsook, P, Laekhanukit, B, Nanongkai, D & Nederlof, J 2018, ' New Tools and Connections for Exponential-Time Approximation ', Algorithmica . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-018-0512-8