7 Search Results for "Kumar, Akshay"


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Capacitated k-Center Problem with Vertex Weights

Authors: Aounon Kumar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)


Abstract
We study the capacitated k-center problem with vertex weights. It is a generalization of the well known k-center problem. In this variant each vertex has a weight and a capacity. The assignment cost of a vertex to a center is given by the product of the weight of the vertex and its distance to the center. The distances are assumed to form a metric. Each center can only serve as many vertices as its capacity. We show an n^{1-epsilon}-approximation hardness for this problem, for any epsilon > 0, where n is the number of vertices in the input. Both the capacitated and the weighted versions of the k-center problem individually can be approximated within a constant factor. Yet the common extension of both the generalizations cannot be approximated efficiently within a constant factor, unless P = NP. This problem, to the best of our knowledge, is the first facility location problem with metric distances known to have a super-constant inapproximability result. The hardness result easily generalizes to versions of the problem that consider the p-norm of the assignment costs (weighted distances) as the objective function. We give n^{1- 1/p - epsilon}-approximation hardness for this problem, for p>1. We complement the hardness result by showing a simple n-approximation algorithm for this problem. We also give a bi-criteria constant factor approximation algorithm, for the case of uniform capacities, which opens at most 2k centers.

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Aounon Kumar. Capacitated k-Center Problem with Vertex Weights. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 8:1-8:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{kumar:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.8,
  author =	{Kumar, Aounon},
  title =	{{Capacitated k-Center Problem with Vertex Weights}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68438},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: approximation hardness, k-center, gadget reduction}
}
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Faster Exact and Parameterized Algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set in Bipartite Tournaments

Authors: Mithilesh Kumar and Daniel Lokshtanov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)


Abstract
A bipartite tournament is a directed graph T:=(A cup B, E) such that every pair of vertices (a,b), a in A, b in B are connected by an arc, and no arc connects two vertices of A or two vertices of B. A feedback vertex set is a set S of vertices in T such that T - S is acyclic. In this article we consider the Feedback Vertex Set problem in bipartite tournaments. Here the input is a bipartite tournament T on n vertices together with an integer k, and the task is to determine whether T has a feedback vertex set of size at most k. We give a new algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set in Bipartite Tournaments. The running time of our algorithm is upper-bounded by O(1.6181^k + n^{O(1)}), improving over the previously best known algorithm with running time (2^k)k^{O(1)} + n^{O(1)} [Hsiao, ISAAC 2011]. As a by-product, we also obtain the fastest currently known exact exponential-time algorithm for the problem, with running time O(1.3820^n).

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Mithilesh Kumar and Daniel Lokshtanov. Faster Exact and Parameterized Algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set in Bipartite Tournaments. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 24:1-24:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{kumar_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.24,
  author =	{Kumar, Mithilesh and Lokshtanov, Daniel},
  title =	{{Faster Exact and Parameterized Algorithm for Feedback Vertex Set in Bipartite Tournaments}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68591},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Parameterized algorithms, Exact algorithms, Feedback vertex set, Tour- naments, Bipartite tournaments}
}
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Most Likely Voronoi Diagrams in Higher Dimensions

Authors: Nirman Kumar, Benjamin Raichel, Subhash Suri, and Kevin Verbeek

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)


Abstract
The Most Likely Voronoi Diagram is a generalization of the well known Voronoi Diagrams to a stochastic setting, where a stochastic point is a point associated with a given probability of existence, and the cell for such a point is the set of points which would classify the given point as its most likely nearest neighbor. We investigate the complexity of this subdivision of space in d dimensions. We show that in the general case, the complexity of such a subdivision is Omega(n^{2d}) where n is the number of points. This settles an open question raised in a recent (ISAAC 2014) paper of Suri and Verbeek, which first defined the Most Likely Voronoi Diagram. We also show that when the probabilities are assigned using a random permutation of a fixed set of values, in expectation the complexity is only ~O(n^{ceil{d/2}}) where the ~O(*) means that logarithmic factors are suppressed. In the worst case, this bound is tight up to polylog factors.

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Nirman Kumar, Benjamin Raichel, Subhash Suri, and Kevin Verbeek. Most Likely Voronoi Diagrams in Higher Dimensions. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 31:1-31:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{kumar_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.31,
  author =	{Kumar, Nirman and Raichel, Benjamin and Suri, Subhash and Verbeek, Kevin},
  title =	{{Most Likely Voronoi Diagrams in Higher Dimensions}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68667},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Uncertainty, Lower bounds, Voronoi Diagrams, Stochastic}
}
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Finer Separations Between Shallow Arithmetic Circuits

Authors: Mrinal Kumar and Ramprasad Saptharishi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)


Abstract
In this paper, we show that there is a family of polynomials P_n, where P_n is a polynomial in n variables of degree at most d = O(log^2(n)), such that * P_n can be computed by linear sized homogeneous depth-5 arithmetic circuits, * P_n can be computed by poly(n) sized non-homogeneous depth-3 arithmetic circuits. * Any homogeneous depth-4 arithmetic circuit computing P_n must have size at least n^{Omega(sqrt(d))}. This shows that the parameters for the depth reduction results of [Agrawal-Vinay 08, Koiran 12, Tavenas 13] are tight for extremely restricted classes of arithmetic circuits, for instance homogeneous depth-5 circuits and non-homogeneous depth-3 circuits, and over an appropriate range of parameters, qualitatively improve a result of [Kumar-Saraf 14], which showed that the parameters of depth reductions are optimal for algebraic branching programs. As an added advantage, our proofs are much shorter and simpler than the two known proofs of n^{Omega(sqrt(d))} lower bound for homogeneous depth-4 circuits [Kayal-Limaye-Saha-Srinivasan 14, Kumar-Saraf 14], albeit our proofs only work when d = O(log^2(n)).

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Mrinal Kumar and Ramprasad Saptharishi. Finer Separations Between Shallow Arithmetic Circuits. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 38:1-38:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{kumar_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.38,
  author =	{Kumar, Mrinal and Saptharishi, Ramprasad},
  title =	{{Finer Separations Between Shallow Arithmetic Circuits}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68730},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: arithmetic circuits, lower bounds, separations, depth reduction}
}
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Sum of Products of Read-Once Formulas

Authors: Ramya C. and B. V. Raghavendra Rao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)


Abstract
We study limitations of polynomials computed by depth two circuits built over read-once formulas (ROFs). In particular, 1. We prove an exponential lower bound for the sum of ROFs computing the 2n-variate polynomial in VP defined by Raz and Yehudayoff [CC,2009]. 2. We obtain an exponential lower bound on the size of arithmetic circuits computing sum of products of restricted ROFs of unbounded depth computing the permanent of an n by n matrix. The restriction is on the number of variables with + gates as a parent in a proper sub formula of the ROF to be bounded by sqrt(n). Additionally, we restrict the product fan in to be bounded by a sub linear function. This proves an exponential lower bound for a subclass of possibly non-multilinear formulas of unbounded depth computing the permanent polynomial. 3. We also show an exponential lower bound for the above model against a polynomial in VP. 4. Finally we observe that the techniques developed yield an exponential lower bound on the size of sums of products of syntactically multilinear arithmetic circuits computing a product of variable disjoint linear forms where the bottom sum gate and product gates at the second level have fan in bounded by a sub linear function. Our proof techniques are built on the measure developed by Kumar et al.[ICALP 2013] and are based on a non-trivial analysis of ROFs under random partitions. Further, our results exhibit strengths and provide more insight into the lower bound techniques introduced by Raz [STOC 2004].

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Ramya C. and B. V. Raghavendra Rao. Sum of Products of Read-Once Formulas. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 39:1-39:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{c._et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.39,
  author =	{C., Ramya and Rao, B. V. Raghavendra},
  title =	{{Sum of Products of Read-Once Formulas}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.39},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68741},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: Arithmetic Circuits, Permanent, Computational Complexity, Algebraic Complexity Theory}
}
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Parameterized Communicating Automata: Complementation and Model Checking

Authors: Benedikt Bollig, Paul Gastin, and Akshay Kumar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 29, 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)


Abstract
We study the language-theoretical aspects of parameterized communicating automata (PCAs), in which processes communicate via rendez-vous. A given PCA can be run on any topology of bounded degree such as pipelines, rings, ranked trees, and grids. We show that, under a context bound, which restricts the local behavior of each process, PCAs are effectively complementable. Complementability is considered a key aspect of robust automata models and can, in particular, be exploited for verification. In this paper, we use it to obtain a characterization of context-bounded PCAs in terms of monadic second-order (MSO) logic. As the emptiness problem for context-bounded PCAs is decidable for the classes of pipelines, rings, and trees, their model-checking problem wrt. MSO properties also becomes decidable. While previous work on model checking parameterized systems typically uses temporal logics without next operator, our MSO logic allows one to express several natural next modalities.

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Benedikt Bollig, Paul Gastin, and Akshay Kumar. Parameterized Communicating Automata: Complementation and Model Checking. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 29, pp. 625-637, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@InProceedings{bollig_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.625,
  author =	{Bollig, Benedikt and Gastin, Paul and Kumar, Akshay},
  title =	{{Parameterized Communicating Automata: Complementation and Model Checking}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)},
  pages =	{625--637},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-77-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{29},
  editor =	{Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.625},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48761},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.625},
  annote =	{Keywords: parameterized verification, complementation, monadic second-order logic}
}
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Model checking time-constrained scenario-based specifications

Authors: S. Akshay, Paul Gastin, Madhavan Mukund, and K. Narayan Kumar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 8, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2010)


Abstract
We consider the problem of model checking message-passing systems with real-time requirements. As behavioural specifications, we use message sequence charts (MSCs) annotated with timing constraints. Our system model is a network of communicating finite state machines with local clocks, whose global behaviour can be regarded as a timed automaton. Our goal is to verify that all timed behaviours exhibited by the system conform to the timing constraints imposed by the specification. In general, this corresponds to checking inclusion for timed languages, which is an undecidable problem even for timed regular languages. However, we show that we can translate regular collections of time-constrained MSCs into a special class of event-clock automata that can be determinized and complemented, thus permitting an algorithmic solution to the model checking problem.

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S. Akshay, Paul Gastin, Madhavan Mukund, and K. Narayan Kumar. Model checking time-constrained scenario-based specifications. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2010). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 8, pp. 204-215, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{akshay_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2010.204,
  author =	{Akshay, S. and Gastin, Paul and Mukund, Madhavan and Narayan Kumar, K.},
  title =	{{Model checking time-constrained scenario-based specifications}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2010)},
  pages =	{204--215},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-23-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{8},
  editor =	{Lodaya, Kamal and Mahajan, Meena},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2010.204},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-28649},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2010.204},
  annote =	{Keywords: model-checking, message-passing system, time-constrained MSC}
}
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