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The Minimization of Random Hypergraphs

Authors Thomas Bläsius, Tobias Friedrich , Martin Schirneck



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Thomas Bläsius
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Tobias Friedrich
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Martin Schirneck
  • Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany

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The authors thank Benjamin Doerr, Timo Kötzing, and Martin Krejca for the fruitful discussions on the Chernoff-Hoeffding theorem, including valuable pointers to the literature.

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Thomas Bläsius, Tobias Friedrich, and Martin Schirneck. The Minimization of Random Hypergraphs. In 28th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 173, pp. 21:1-21:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2020.21

Abstract

We investigate the maximum-entropy model B_{n,m,p} for random n-vertex, m-edge multi-hypergraphs with expected edge size pn. We show that the expected size of the minimization min(B_{n,m,p}), i.e., the number of inclusion-wise minimal edges of B_{n,m,p}, undergoes a phase transition with respect to m. If m is at most 1/(1-p)^{(1-p)n}, then E[|min(B_{n,m,p})|] is of order Θ(m), while for m ≥ 1/(1-p)^{(1-p+ε)n} for any ε > 0, it is Θ(2^{(H(α) + (1-α) log₂ p) n}/√n). Here, H denotes the binary entropy function and α = - (log_{1-p} m)/n. The result implies that the maximum expected number of minimal edges over all m is Θ((1+p)ⁿ/√n). Our structural findings have algorithmic implications for minimizing an input hypergraph. This has applications in the profiling of relational databases as well as for the Orthogonal Vectors problem studied in fine-grained complexity. We make several technical contributions that are of independent interest in probability. First, we improve the Chernoff-Hoeffding theorem on the tail of the binomial distribution. In detail, we show that for a binomial variable Y ∼ Bin(n,p) and any 0 < x < p, it holds that P[Y ≤ xn] = Θ(2^{-D(x‖p) n}/√n), where D is the binary Kullback-Leibler divergence between Bernoulli distributions. We give explicit upper and lower bounds on the constants hidden in the big-O notation that hold for all n. Secondly, we establish the fact that the probability of a set of cardinality i being minimal after m i.i.d. maximum-entropy trials exhibits a sharp threshold behavior at i^* = n + log_{1-p} m.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Information theory
  • Mathematics of computing → Hypergraphs
  • Theory of computation → Random network models
  • Mathematics of computing → Random graphs
Keywords
  • Chernoff-Hoeffding theorem
  • maximum entropy
  • maximization
  • minimization
  • phase transition
  • random hypergraphs

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