6 Search Results for "Skarlatos, Antonis"

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.19
Clustering in Varying Metrics

Authors: Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Jonathan Conroy, and Ankita Sarkar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 360, 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)

Abstract
We introduce the aggregated clustering problem, where one is given T instances of a center-based clustering task over the same n points, but under different metrics. The goal is to open k centers to minimize an aggregate of the clustering costs - e.g., the average or maximum - where the cost is measured via k-center/median/means objectives. More generally, we minimize a norm Ψ over the T cost values. We show that for T ≥ 3, the problem is inapproximable to any finite factor in polynomial time. For T = 2, we give constant-factor approximations. We also show W[2]-hardness when parameterized by k, but obtain f(k,T)poly(n)-time 3-approximations when parameterized by both k and T. When the metrics have structure, we obtain efficient parameterized approximation schemes (EPAS). If all T metrics have bounded ε-scatter dimension, we achieve a (1+ε)-approximation in f(k,T,ε)poly(n) time. If the metrics are induced by edge weights on a common graph G of bounded treewidth tw, and Ψ is the sum function, we get an EPAS in f(T,ε,tw)poly(n,k) time. Conversely, unless (randomized) ETH is false, any finite factor approximation is impossible if parametrized by only T, even when the treewidth is tw = Ω(polylog n).
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Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Jonathan Conroy, and Ankita Sarkar. Clustering in Varying Metrics. In 45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 360, pp. 19:1-19:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{chakrabarty_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.19,
  author =	{Chakrabarty, Deeparnab and Conroy, Jonathan and Sarkar, Ankita},
  title =	{{Clustering in Varying Metrics}},
  booktitle =	{45th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-406-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{360},
  editor =	{Aiswarya, C. and Mehta, Ruta and Roy, Subhajit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251007},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2025.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Clustering, approximation algorithms, LP rounding, parameterized and exact algorithms, dynamic programming, fixed parameter tractability, hardness of approximation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.113
Bootstrapping Dynamic APSP via Sparsification

Authors: Rasmus Kyng, Simon Meierhans, and Gernot Zöcklein

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)

Abstract
We give a simple algorithm for the dynamic approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem. Given a graph G = (V, E, l) with polynomially bounded edge lengths, our data structure processes |E| edge insertions and deletions in total time |E|^{1+o(1)} and provides query access to |E|^o(1)-approximate distances in time Õ(1) per query. We produce a data structure that mimics Thorup-Zwick distance oracles [Thorup and Zwick, 2005], but is dynamic and deterministic. Our algorithm selects a small number of pivot vertices. Then, for every other vertex, it reduces distance computation to maintaining distances to a small neighborhood around that vertex and to the nearest pivot. We maintain distances between pivots efficiently by representing them in a smaller graph and recursing. We maintain these smaller graphs by (a) reducing vertex count using the dynamic distance-preserving core graphs of Kyng-Meierhans-Probst Gutenberg [Kyng et al., 2024] in a black-box manner and (b) reducing edge-count using a dynamic spanner akin to Chen-Kyng-Liu-Meierhans-Probst Gutenberg [Chen et al., 2024]. Our dynamic spanner internally uses an APSP data structure. Choosing a large enough size reduction factor in the first step allows us to simultaneously bootstrap a spanner and a dynamic APSP data structure. Notably, our approach does not need expander graphs, an otherwise ubiquitous tool in derandomization.
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Rasmus Kyng, Simon Meierhans, and Gernot Zöcklein. Bootstrapping Dynamic APSP via Sparsification. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 113:1-113:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{kyng_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.113,
  author =	{Kyng, Rasmus and Meierhans, Simon and Z\"{o}cklein, Gernot},
  title =	{{Bootstrapping Dynamic APSP via Sparsification}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{113:1--113:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian 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.2025.113},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245826},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.113},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dynamic Graph Algorithms, Spanners, Vertex Sparsification, Bootstrapping}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.69
Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Hopsets

Authors: Michael Dinitz, Ama Koranteng, and Yasamin Nazari

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
For a given graph G, a hopset H with hopbound β and stretch α is a set of edges such that between every pair of vertices u and v, there is a path with at most β hops in G ∪ H that approximates the distance between u and v up to a multiplicative stretch of α. Hopsets have found a wide range of applications for distance-based problems in various computational models since the 90s. More recently, there has been significant interest in understanding these fundamental objects from an existential and structural perspective. But all of this work takes a worst-case (or existential) point of view: How many edges do we need to add to satisfy a given hopbound and stretch requirement for any input graph? We initiate the study of the natural optimization variant of this problem: given a specific graph instance, what is the minimum number of edges that satisfy the hopbound and stretch requirements? We give approximation algorithms for a generalized hopset problem which, when combined with known existential bounds, lead to different approximation guarantees for various regimes depending on hopbound, stretch, and directed vs. undirected inputs. We complement our upper bounds with a lower bound that implies Label Cover hardness for directed hopsets and shortcut sets with hopbound at least 3.
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Michael Dinitz, Ama Koranteng, and Yasamin Nazari. Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Hopsets. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 69:1-69:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{dinitz_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.69,
  author =	{Dinitz, Michael and Koranteng, Ama and Nazari, Yasamin},
  title =	{{Approximation Algorithms for Optimal Hopsets}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{69:1--69:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.69},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234464},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.69},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hopsets, Approximation Algorithms}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.93
On Incremental Approximate Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs

Authors: Adam Górkiewicz and Adam Karczmarz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
In this paper, we show new data structures maintaining approximate shortest paths in sparse directed graphs with polynomially bounded non-negative edge weights under edge insertions. We give more efficient incremental (1+ε)-approximate APSP data structures that work against an adaptive adversary: a deterministic one with Õ(m^{3/2}n^{3/4}) total update time and a randomized one with Õ(m^{4/3}n^{5/6}) total update time. For sparse graphs, these both improve polynomially upon the best-known bound against an adaptive adversary [Karczmarz and Łącki, ESA 2019]. To achieve that, building on the ideas of [Chechik and Zhang, SODA 2021] and [Kyng, Meierhans and Probst Gutenberg, SODA 2022], we show a near-optimal (1+ε)-approximate incremental SSSP data structure for a special case when all edge updates are adjacent to the source, that might be of independent interest. We also describe a very simple and near-optimal offline incremental (1+ε)-approximate SSSP data structure. While online near-linear partially dynamic SSSP data structures have been elusive so far (except for dense instances), our result excludes using certain types of impossibility arguments to rule them out. Additionally, our offline solution leads to near-optimal and deterministic all-pairs bounded-leg shortest paths data structure for sparse graphs.
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Adam Górkiewicz and Adam Karczmarz. On Incremental Approximate Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 93:1-93:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{gorkiewicz_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.93,
  author =	{G\'{o}rkiewicz, Adam and Karczmarz, Adam},
  title =	{{On Incremental Approximate Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{93:1--93:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.93},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234700},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.93},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic shortest paths, incremental shortest paths, offline dynamic algorithms}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.50
Bootstrapping Dynamic Distance Oracles

Authors: Sebastian Forster, Gramoz Goranci, Yasamin Nazari, and Antonis Skarlatos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 274, 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)

Abstract
Designing approximate all-pairs distance oracles in the fully dynamic setting is one of the central problems in dynamic graph algorithms. Despite extensive research on this topic, the first result breaking the O(√n) barrier on the update time for any non-trivial approximation was introduced only recently by Forster, Goranci and Henzinger [SODA'21] who achieved m^{1/ρ+o(1)} amortized update time with a O(log n)^{3ρ-2} factor in the approximation ratio, for any parameter ρ ≥ 1. In this paper, we give the first constant-stretch fully dynamic distance oracle with small polynomial update and query time. Prior work required either at least a poly-logarithmic approximation or much larger update time. Our result gives a more fine-grained trade-off between stretch and update time, for instance we can achieve constant stretch of O(1/(ρ²))^{4/ρ} in amortized update time Õ(n^{ρ}), and query time Õ(n^{ρ/8}) for any constant parameter 0 < ρ < 1. Our algorithm is randomized and assumes an oblivious adversary. A core technical idea underlying our construction is to design a black-box reduction from decremental approximate hub-labeling schemes to fully dynamic distance oracles, which may be of independent interest. We then apply this reduction repeatedly to an existing decremental algorithm to bootstrap our fully dynamic solution.
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Sebastian Forster, Gramoz Goranci, Yasamin Nazari, and Antonis Skarlatos. Bootstrapping Dynamic Distance Oracles. In 31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 274, pp. 50:1-50:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{forster_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2023.50,
  author =	{Forster, Sebastian and Goranci, Gramoz and Nazari, Yasamin and Skarlatos, Antonis},
  title =	{{Bootstrapping Dynamic Distance Oracles}},
  booktitle =	{31st Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2023)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-295-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{274},
  editor =	{G{\o}rtz, Inge Li and Farach-Colton, Martin and Puglisi, Simon J. 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.2023.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187031},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2023.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dynamic graph algorithms, Distance Oracles, Shortest Paths}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.9
Computing Smallest Convex Intersecting Polygons

Authors: Antonios Antoniadis, Mark de Berg, Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak, and Antonis Skarlatos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 244, 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)

Abstract
A polygon C is an intersecting polygon for a set O of objects in ℝ² if C intersects each object in O, where the polygon includes its interior. We study the problem of computing the minimum-perimeter intersecting polygon and the minimum-area convex intersecting polygon for a given set O of objects. We present an FPTAS for both problems for the case where O is a set of possibly intersecting convex polygons in the plane of total complexity n. Furthermore, we present an exact polynomial-time algorithm for the minimum-perimeter intersecting polygon for the case where O is a set of n possibly intersecting segments in the plane. So far, polynomial-time exact algorithms were only known for the minimum perimeter intersecting polygon of lines or of disjoint segments.
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Antonios Antoniadis, Mark de Berg, Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak, and Antonis Skarlatos. Computing Smallest Convex Intersecting Polygons. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 9:1-9:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{antoniadis_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.9,
  author =	{Antoniadis, Antonios and de Berg, Mark and Kisfaludi-Bak, S\'{a}ndor and Skarlatos, Antonis},
  title =	{{Computing Smallest Convex Intersecting Polygons}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva 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.2022.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169470},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: convex hull, imprecise points, computational geometry}
}
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