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An O(n log n)-Time Approximation Scheme for Geometric Many-To-Many Matching

Authors Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Jie Xue

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • many-to-many matching
  • geometric optimization
  • approximation algorithms

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Abstract

Geometric matching is an important topic in computational geometry and has been extensively studied over decades. In this paper, we study a geometric-matching problem, known as geometric many-to-many matching. In this problem, the input is a set S of n colored points in ℝ^d, which implicitly defines a graph G = (S,E(S)) where E(S) = {(p,q): p,q ∈ S have different colors}, and the goal is to compute a minimum-cost subset E^* ⊆ E(S) of edges that cover all points in S. Here the cost of E^* is the sum of the costs of all edges in E^*, where the cost of a single edge e is the Euclidean distance (or more generally, the L_p-distance) between the two endpoints of e. Our main result is a (1+ε)-approximation algorithm with an optimal running time O_ε(n log n) for geometric many-to-many matching in any fixed dimension, which works under any L_p-norm. This is the first near-linear approximation scheme for the problem in any d ≥ 2. Prior to this work, only the bipartite case of geometric many-to-many matching was considered in ℝ¹ and ℝ², and the best known approximation scheme in ℝ² takes O_ε(n^{1.5} ⋅ poly(log n)) time.

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Sayan Bandyapadhyay and Jie Xue. An O(n log n)-Time Approximation Scheme for Geometric Many-To-Many Matching. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 12:1-12:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.12

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Sayan Bandyapadhyay
  • Department of Computer Science, Portland State University, OR, USA
Jie Xue
  • Department of Computer Science, New York University Shanghai, China

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