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FPT-Algorithms for Computing Gromov-Hausdorff and Interleaving Distances Between Trees

Authors Elena Farahbakhsh Touli, Yusu Wang

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Elena Farahbakhsh Touli
  • Stockholm University, Sweden
Yusu Wang
  • The Ohio State University, USA

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This work is partially supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants CCF-1740761, IIS-1815697 and CCF-1618247, as well as by National Institute of Health (NIH) under grant R01EB022899.

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We thank reviewers for helpful comments. We would like to thank Kyle Fox, for suggesting an elegant double-binary search procedure, to improve the time complexity of the optimal interleaving distance by almost a factor of n^2 (see Theorem 12), which further leads to a similar improvement for approximating the Gromov-Hausdorff distance (Theorem 13).

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Elena Farahbakhsh Touli and Yusu Wang. FPT-Algorithms for Computing Gromov-Hausdorff and Interleaving Distances Between Trees. In 27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 144, pp. 83:1-83:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2019.83

Abstract

The Gromov-Hausdorff distance is a natural way to measure the distortion between two metric spaces. However, there has been only limited algorithmic development to compute or approximate this distance. We focus on computing the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric trees. Roughly speaking, a metric tree is a metric space that can be realized by the shortest path metric on a tree. Any finite tree with positive edge weight can be viewed as a metric tree where the weight is treated as edge length and the metric is the induced shortest path metric in the tree. Previously, Agarwal et al. showed that even for trees with unit edge length, it is NP-hard to approximate the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between them within a factor of 3. In this paper, we present a fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm that can approximate the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two general metric trees within a multiplicative factor of 14. 
Interestingly, the development of our algorithm is made possible by a connection between the Gromov-Hausdorff distance for metric trees and the interleaving distance for the so-called merge trees. The merge trees arise in practice naturally as a simple yet meaningful topological summary (it is a variant of the Reeb graphs and contour trees), and are of independent interest. It turns out that an exact or approximation algorithm for the interleaving distance leads to an approximation algorithm for the Gromov-Hausdorff distance. One of the key contributions of our work is that we re-define the interleaving distance in a way that makes it easier to develop dynamic programming approaches to compute it. We then present a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm to compute the interleaving distance between two merge trees exactly, which ultimately leads to an FPT-algorithm to approximate the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between two metric trees. This exact FPT-algorithm to compute the interleaving distance between merge trees is of interest itself, as it is known that it is NP-hard to approximate it within a factor of 3, and previously the best known algorithm has an approximation factor of O(sqrt{n}) even for trees with unit edge length.

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • Gromov-Hausdorff distance
  • Interleaving distance
  • Merge trees

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