,
Tsvi Kopelowitz
,
Ely Porat
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
We revisit the problem of multiplying two square matrices over the (min, +) semi-ring, where all entries are integers from a bounded range [-M : M] ∪ {∞}. The current state of the art for this problem is a simple O(M n^{ω} log M) time algorithm by Alon, Galil and Margalit [JCSS'97], where ω is the exponent in the runtime of the fastest matrix multiplication (FMM) algorithm. We design a new simple algorithm whose runtime is O(M n^ω + M n² log M), thereby removing the logM factor in the runtime if ω > 2 or if n^ω = Ω (n²log n).
@InProceedings{fried_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2024.57,
author = {Fried, Dvir and Kopelowitz, Tsvi and Porat, Ely},
title = {{Removing the log Factor from (min,+)-Products on Bounded Range Integer Matrices}},
booktitle = {32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024)},
pages = {57:1--57:6},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-338-6},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2024},
volume = {308},
editor = {Chan, Timothy and Fischer, Johannes and Iacono, John and Herman, Grzegorz},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.57},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-211283},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.57},
annote = {Keywords: FMM, (min , +)-product, FFT}
}