Facility Location in the Sublinear Geometric Model

Author Morteza Monemizadeh



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Morteza Monemizadeh
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Morteza Monemizadeh. Facility Location in the Sublinear Geometric Model. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 275, pp. 6:1-6:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.6

Abstract

In the sublinear geometric model, we are provided with an oracle access to a point set P of n points in a bounded discrete space [Δ]², where Δ = n^O(1) is a polynomially bounded number in n. That is, we do not have direct access to the points, but we can make certain types of queries and there is an oracle that responds to our queries. The type of queries that we assume we can make in this paper, are range counting queries where ranges are axis-aligned rectangles (that are basic primitives in database [Srikanta Tirthapura and David P. Woodruff, 2012; Bentley, 1975; Mark de Berg et al., 2008], computational geometry [Pankaj K. Agarwal, 2004; Pankaj K. Agarwal et al., 1996; Boris Aronov et al., 2010; Boris Aronov et al., 2009], and machine learning [Menachem Sadigurschi and Uri Stemmer, 2021; Long and Tan, 1998; Michael J. Kearns and Umesh V. Vazirani, 1995; Michael J. Kearns and Umesh V. Vazirani, 1994]). The oracle then answers these queries by returning the number of points that are in queried ranges. Let {Alg} be an algorithm that (exactly or approximately) solves a problem 𝒫 in the sublinear geometric model. The query complexity of Alg is measured in terms of the number of queries that Alg makes to solve 𝒫. In this paper, we study the complexity of the (uniform) Euclidean facility location problem in the sublinear geometric model. We develop a randomized sublinear algorithm that with high probability, (1+ε)-approximates the cost of the Euclidean facility location problem of the point set P in the sublinear geometric model using Õ(√n) range counting queries. We complement this result by showing that approximating the cost of the Euclidean facility location problem within o(log(n))-factor in the sublinear geometric model using the sampling strategy that we propose for our sublinear algorithm needs Ω̃(n^{1/4}) RangeCount queries. We leave it as an open problem whether such a polynomial lower bound on the number of RangeCount queries exists for any randomized sublinear algorithm that approximates the cost of the facility location problem within a constant factor.

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  • Theory of computation → Streaming, sublinear and near linear time algorithms
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  • Facility Location
  • Sublinear Geometric Model
  • Range Counting Queries

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