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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.30

Exact Minimum Weight Spanners via Column Generation

Authors: Fritz Bökler, Markus Chimani, Henning Jasper, and Mirko H. Wagner

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 308, 32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024)

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Given a weighted graph G, a minimum weight α-spanner is a least-weight subgraph H ⊆ G that preserves minimum distances between all node pairs up to a factor of α. There are many results on heuristics and approximation algorithms, including a recent investigation of their practical performance [Markus Chimani and Finn Stutzenstein, 2022]. Exact approaches, in contrast, have long been denounced as impractical: The first exact ILP (integer linear program) method [Sigurd and Zachariasen, 2004] from 2004 is based on a model with exponentially many path variables, solved via column generation. A second approach [Ahmed et al., 2019], modeling via arc-based multicommodity flow, was presented in 2019. In both cases, only graphs with 40-100 nodes were reported to be solvable. In this paper, we briefly report on a theoretical comparison between these two models from a polyhedral point of view, and then concentrate on improvements and engineering aspects. We evaluate their performance in a large-scale empirical study. We report that our tuned column generation approach, based on multicriteria shortest path computations, is able to solve instances with over 16 000 nodes within 13 min. Furthermore, now knowing optimal solutions for larger graphs, we are able to investigate the quality of the strongest known heuristic on reasonably sized instances for the first time.

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Fritz Bökler, Markus Chimani, Henning Jasper, and Mirko H. Wagner. Exact Minimum Weight Spanners via Column Generation. In 32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 308, pp. 30:1-30:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{bokler_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2024.30,
  author =	{B\"{o}kler, Fritz and Chimani, Markus and Jasper, Henning and Wagner, Mirko H.},
  title =	{{Exact Minimum Weight Spanners via Column Generation}},
  booktitle =	{32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-338-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{308},
  editor =	{Chan, Timothy and Fischer, Johannes and Iacono, John 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.2024.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-211012},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph spanners, ILP, algorithm engineering, experimental study}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.37

Spanner Approximations in Practice

Authors: Markus Chimani and Finn Stutzenstein

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

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A multiplicative α-spanner H is a subgraph of G = (V,E) with the same vertices and fewer edges that preserves distances up to the factor α, i.e., d_H(u,v) ≤ α⋅ d_G(u,v) for all vertices u, v. While many algorithms have been developed to find good spanners in terms of approximation guarantees, no experimental studies comparing different approaches exist. We implemented a rich selection of those algorithms and evaluate them on a variety of instances regarding, e.g., their running time, sparseness, lightness, and effective stretch.

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Markus Chimani and Finn Stutzenstein. Spanner Approximations in Practice. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 37:1-37:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{chimani_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.37,
  author =	{Chimani, Markus and Stutzenstein, Finn},
  title =	{{Spanner Approximations in Practice}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{37:1--37:15},
  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.2022.37},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169750},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.37},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph spanners, experimental study, algorithm engineering}
}

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