,
Moti Medina
,
Omer Tubul
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In this paper, we study the problem of locally constructing a sparse spanning subgraph (LSSG), introduced by Levi, Ron, and Rubinfeld (ALGO'20). In this problem, the goal is to locally decide for each e ∈ E if it is in G' where G' is a connected subgraph of G (determined only by G and the randomness of the algorithm). We provide an LSSG that receives as a parameter a lower bound, ϕ, on the conductance of G whose query complexity is Õ(√n/ϕ²). This is almost optimal when ϕ is a constant since Ω(√n) queries are necessary even when G is an expander. Furthermore, this improves the state of the art of Õ(n^{2/3}) queries for ϕ = Ω(1/n^{1/12}).
We then extend our result for (k, ϕ_in, ϕ_out)-clusterable graphs and provide an algorithm whose query complexity is Õ(√n + ϕ_out n) for constant k and ϕ_in. This bound is almost optimal when ϕ_out = O(1/√n).
@InProceedings{levi_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.60,
author = {Levi, Reut and Medina, Moti and Tubul, Omer},
title = {{Nearly Optimal Local Algorithms for Constructing Sparse Spanners of Clusterable Graphs}},
booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)},
pages = {60:1--60:21},
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.2024.60},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210537},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.60},
annote = {Keywords: Locally Computable Algorithms, Sublinear algorithms, Spanning Subgraphs, Clusterbale Graphs}
}