An Extension of Plücker Relations with Applications to Subdeterminant Maximization

Authors Nima Anari, Thuy-Duong Vuong



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Nima Anari
  • Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, USA
Thuy-Duong Vuong
  • Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, USA

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We would like to thank Aleksandar Nikolov for initial discussions about general subdeterminant maximization.

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Nima Anari and Thuy-Duong Vuong. An Extension of Plücker Relations with Applications to Subdeterminant Maximization. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 176, pp. 56:1-56:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2020.56

Abstract

Given a matrix A and k ≥ 0, we study the problem of finding the k × k submatrix of A with the maximum determinant in absolute value. This problem is motivated by the question of computing the determinant-based lower bound of cite{LSV86} on hereditary discrepancy, which was later shown to be an approximate upper bound as well [Matoušek, 2013]. The special case where k coincides with one of the dimensions of A has been extensively studied. Nikolov gave a 2^{O(k)}-approximation algorithm for this special case, matching known lower bounds; he also raised as an open problem the question of designing approximation algorithms for the general case. We make progress towards answering this question by giving the first efficient approximation algorithm for general k× k subdeterminant maximization with an approximation ratio that depends only on k. Our algorithm finds a k^{O(k)}-approximate solution by performing a simple local search. Our main technical contribution, enabling the analysis of the approximation ratio, is an extension of Plücker relations for the Grassmannian, which may be of independent interest; Plücker relations are quadratic polynomial equations involving the set of k× k subdeterminants of a k× n matrix. We find an extension of these relations to k× k subdeterminants of general m× n matrices.

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  • Theory of computation → Approximation algorithms analysis
  • Theory of computation → Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
  • Theory of computation → Randomized local search
Keywords
  • Plücker relations
  • determinant maximization
  • local search
  • exchange property
  • discrete concavity
  • discrepancy

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