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Optimization Algorithms for Faster Computational Geometry

Authors Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Zhenyu Liao, Yang Yuan

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  • maximum inscribed balls
  • minimum enclosing balls
  • approximation algorithms

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Abstract

We study two fundamental problems in computational geometry: finding the maximum inscribed ball (MaxIB) inside a bounded polyhedron defined by m hyperplanes, and the minimum enclosing ball (MinEB) of a set of n points, both in d-dimensional space. We improve the running time of iterative algorithms on

MaxIB from ~O(m*d*alpha^3/epsilon^3) to ~O(m*d + m*sqrt(d)*alpha/epsilon), a speed-up up to ~O(sqrt(d)*alpha^2/epsilon^2), and

MinEB from ~O(n*d/sqrt(epsilon)) to ~O(n*d + n*sqrt(d)/sqrt(epsilon)), a speed-up up to ~O(sqrt(d)).

Our improvements are based on a novel saddle-point optimization framework. We propose a new algorithm L1L2SPSolver for solving a class of regularized saddle-point problems, and apply a randomized Hadamard space rotation which is a technique borrowed from compressive sensing. Interestingly, the motivation of using Hadamard rotation solely comes from our optimization view but not the original geometry problem: indeed, it is not immediately clear why MaxIB or MinEB, as a geometric problem, should be easier to solve if we rotate the space by a unitary matrix. We hope that our optimization perspective sheds lights on solving other geometric problems as well.

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Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Zhenyu Liao, and Yang Yuan. Optimization Algorithms for Faster Computational Geometry. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 53:1-53:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.53

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Zeyuan Allen-Zhu
Zhenyu Liao
Yang Yuan

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