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Further Approximations for Demand Matching: Matroid Constraints and Minor-Closed Graphs

Authors Sara Ahmadian, Zachary Friggstad



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Sara Ahmadian
Zachary Friggstad

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Sara Ahmadian and Zachary Friggstad. Further Approximations for Demand Matching: Matroid Constraints and Minor-Closed Graphs. In 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 80, pp. 55:1-55:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.55

Abstract

We pursue a study of the Generalized Demand Matching problem, a common generalization of the b-Matching and Knapsack problems. Here, we are given a graph with vertex capacities, edge profits, and asymmetric demands on the edges. The goal is to find a maximum-profit subset of edges so the demands of chosen edges do not violate the vertex capacities. This problem is APX-hard and constant-factor approximations are already known. Our main results fall into two categories. First, using iterated relaxation and various filtering strategies, we show with an efficient rounding algorithm that if an additional matroid structure M is given and we further only allow sets that are independent in M, the natural LP relaxation has an integrality gap of at most 25/3. This can be further improved in various special cases, for example we improve over the 15-approximation for the previously- studied Coupled Placement problem [Korupolu et al. 2014] by giving a 7-approximation. Using similar techniques, we show the problem of computing a minimum-cost base in M satisfying vertex capacities admits a (1,3)-bicriteria approximation: the cost is at most the optimum and the capacities are violated by a factor of at most 3. This improves over the previous (1,4)-approximation in the special case that M is the graphic matroid over the given graph [Fukanaga and Nagamochi, 2009]. Second, we show Demand Matching admits a polynomial-time approximation scheme in graphs that exclude a fixed minor. If all demands are polynomially-bounded integers, this is somewhat easy using dynamic programming in bounded-treewidth graphs. Our main technical contribution is a sparsification lemma that allows us to scale the demands of some items to be used in a more intricate dynamic programming algorithm, followed by some randomized rounding to filter our scaled-demand solution to one whose original demands satisfy all constraints.
Keywords
  • Approximation Algorithms
  • Column-Restricted Packing
  • Demand Matching
  • Matroids
  • Planar Graphs

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