@InProceedings{mahabadi_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.74, author = {Mahabadi, Sepideh and Roghani, Mohammad and Tarnawski, Jakub and Vakilian, Ali}, title = {{Sublinear Metric Steiner Tree via Improved Bounds for Set Cover}}, booktitle = {16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)}, pages = {74:1--74:24}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-361-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2025}, volume = {325}, editor = {Meka, Raghu}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.74}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-227029}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.74}, annote = {Keywords: Sublinear Algorithms, Steiner Tree, Set Cover, Maximum Matching, Approximation Algorithm} }