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Approximate Turing Kernelization for Problems Parameterized by Treewidth

Authors Eva-Maria C. Hols , Stefan Kratsch , Astrid Pieterse

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  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
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  • Approximation
  • Turing kernelization
  • Graph problems
  • Treewidth

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Abstract

We extend the notion of lossy kernelization, introduced by Lokshtanov et al. [STOC 2017], to approximate Turing kernelization. An α-approximate Turing kernel for a parameterized optimization problem is a polynomial-time algorithm that, when given access to an oracle that outputs c-approximate solutions in 𝒪(1) time, obtains an α ⋅ c-approximate solution to the considered problem, using calls to the oracle of size at most f(k) for some function f that only depends on the parameter. 
Using this definition, we show that Independent Set parameterized by treewidth 𝓁 has a (1+ε)-approximate Turing kernel with 𝒪(𝓁²/ε) vertices, answering an open question posed by Lokshtanov et al. [STOC 2017]. Furthermore, we give (1+ε)-approximate Turing kernels for the following graph problems parameterized by treewidth: Vertex Cover, Edge Clique Cover, Edge-Disjoint Triangle Packing and Connected Vertex Cover.
We generalize the result for Independent Set and Vertex Cover, by showing that all graph problems that we will call friendly admit (1+ε)-approximate Turing kernels of polynomial size when parameterized by treewidth. We use this to obtain approximate Turing kernels for Vertex-Disjoint H-packing for connected graphs H, Clique Cover, Feedback Vertex Set and Edge Dominating Set.

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Eva-Maria C. Hols, Stefan Kratsch, and Astrid Pieterse. Approximate Turing Kernelization for Problems Parameterized by Treewidth. In 28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 173, pp. 60:1-60:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.60

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Eva-Maria C. Hols
  • Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Stefan Kratsch
  • Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Astrid Pieterse
  • Department of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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Eva-Maria C. Hols and Astrid Pieterse: Supported by DFG Emmy Noether-grant (KR 4286/1)

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