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Finding Large Set Covers Faster via the Representation Method

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  • Exact Exponential Algorithms
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Abstract

The worst-case fastest known algorithm for the Set Cover problem on universes with n elements still essentially is the simple O^*(2^n)-time dynamic programming algorithm, and no non-trivial consequences of an O^*(1.01^n)-time algorithm are known. Motivated by this chasm, we study the following natural question: Which instances of Set Cover can we solve faster than the simple dynamic programming algorithm? Specifically, we give a Monte Carlo algorithm that determines the existence of a set cover of size sigma*n in O^*(2^{(1-Omega(sigma^4))n}) time. Our approach is also applicable to Set Cover instances with exponentially many sets: By reducing the task of finding the chromatic number chi(G) of a given n-vertex graph G to Set Cover in the natural way, we show there is an O^*(2^{(1-Omega(sigma^4))n})-time randomized algorithm that given integer s = sigma*n, outputs NO if chi(G) > s  and YES with constant probability if \chi(G) <= s - 1.

On a high level, our results are inspired by the "representation method" of Howgrave-Graham and Joux~[EUROCRYPT'10] and obtained by only evaluating a randomly sampled subset of the table entries of a dynamic programming algorithm.

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Jesper Nederlof. Finding Large Set Covers Faster via the Representation Method. In 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 57, pp. 69:1-69:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.69

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