A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Metric Traveling Salesperson Problem (Invited Talk)

Author Anna R. Karlin



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Anna R. Karlin
  • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Anna R. Karlin. A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Metric Traveling Salesperson Problem (Invited Talk). In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, p. 1:1, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.1

Abstract

We describe recent joint work with Nathan Klein and Shayan Oveis Gharan showing that for any metric TSP instance, the max entropy algorithm studied by [Anna R. Karlin et al., 2021] returns a solution of expected cost at most 3/2-ε times the cost of the optimal solution to the subtour elimination LP and hence is a 3/2-ε approximation for the metric TSP problem. The research discussed comes from [Anna R. Karlin et al., 2021], [Anna R. Karlin et al., 2022] and [Anna R. Karlin et al., 2022].

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  • Theory of computation → Approximation algorithms analysis
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  • Traveling Salesperson Problem
  • approximation algorithm

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  1. Anna R. Karlin, Nathan Klein, and Shayan Oveis Gharan. A (slightly) improved approximation algorithm for metric TSP. In Samir Khuller and Virginia Vassilevska Williams, editors, STOC '21: 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, Virtual Event, Italy, June 21-25, 2021, pages 32-45. ACM, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3406325.3451009.
  2. Anna R. Karlin, Nathan Klein, and Shayan Oveis Gharan. A (slightly) improved bound on the integrality gap of the subtour LP for TSP. In 63rd IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2022, Denver, CO, USA, October 31 - November 3, 2022, pages 832-843. IEEE, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS54457.2022.00084.
  3. Anna R. Karlin, Nathan Klein, and Shayan Oveis Gharan. A (slightly) improved deterministic approximation algorithm for metric TSP. CoRR, abs/2212.06296, 2022. URL: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.06296.
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