We study the maximum weight matching problem in the random-order semi-streaming model and in the robust communication model. Unlike many other sublinear models, in these two frameworks, there is a large gap between the guarantees of the best known algorithms for the unweighted and weighted versions of the problem. In the random-order semi-streaming setting, the edges of an n-vertex graph arrive in a stream in a random order. The goal is to compute an approximate maximum weight matching with a single pass over the stream using O(npolylog n) space. Our main result is a (2/3-ε)-approximation algorithm for maximum weight matching in random-order streams, using space O(n log n log R), where R is the ratio between the heaviest and the lightest edge in the graph. Our result nearly matches the best known unweighted (2/3+ε₀)-approximation (where ε₀ ∼ 10^{-14} is a small constant) achieved by Assadi and Behnezhad [Assadi and Behnezhad, 2021], and significantly improves upon previous weighted results. Our techniques also extend to the related robust communication model, in which the edges of a graph are partitioned randomly between Alice and Bob. Alice sends a single message of size O(npolylog n) to Bob, who must compute an approximate maximum weight matching. We achieve a (5/6-ε)-approximation using O(n log n log R) words of communication, matching the results of Azarmehr and Behnezhad [Azarmehr and Behnezhad, 2023] for unweighted graphs.
@InProceedings{hashemi_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.16, author = {Hashemi, Diba and Wrzos-Kaminska, Weronika}, title = {{Weighted Matching in the Random-Order Streaming and Robust Communication Models}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)}, pages = {16:1--16:26}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-348-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {317}, editor = {Kumar, Amit and Ron-Zewi, Noga}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.16}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210097}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.16}, annote = {Keywords: Maximum Weight Matching, Streaming, Random-Order Streaming, Robust Communication Complexity} }
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