Approximating Sparsest Cut in Low Rank Graphs via Embeddings from Approximately Low Dimensional Spaces

Authors Yuval Rabani, Rakesh Venkat



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Yuval Rabani and Rakesh Venkat. Approximating Sparsest Cut in Low Rank Graphs via Embeddings from Approximately Low Dimensional Spaces. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 81, pp. 21:1-21:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2017.21

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We consider the problem of embedding a finite set of points x_1, ... , x_n in R^d that satisfy l_2^2 triangle inequalities into l_1, when the points are approximately low-dimensional. Goemans (unpublished, appears in a work of Magen and Moharammi (2008) ) showed that such points residing in exactly d dimensions can be embedded into l_1 with distortion at most sqrt{d}. We prove the following robust analogue of this statement: if there exists a r-dimensional subspace Pi such that the projections onto this subspace satisfy sum_{i,j in [n]} norm{Pi x_i - Pi x_j}_2^2 >= Omega(1) * sum_{i,j \in [n]} norm{x_i - x_j}_2^2, then there is an embedding of the points into l_1 with O(sqrt{r}) average distortion. A consequence of this result is that the integrality gap of the well-known Goemans-Linial SDP relaxation for the Uniform Sparsest Cut problem is O(sqrt{r}) on graphs G whose r-th smallest normalized eigenvalue of the Laplacian satisfies lambda_r(G)/n >= Omega(1)*Phi_{SDP}(G). Our result improves upon the previously known bound of O(r) on the average distortion, and the integrality gap of the Goemans-Linial SDP under the same preconditions, proven in [Deshpande and Venkat, 2014], and [Deshpande, Harsha and Venkat 2016].
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  • Metric Embeddings
  • Sparsest Cut
  • Negative type metrics
  • Approximation Algorithms

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