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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.9
Optimal Volume-Sensitive Bounds for Polytope Approximation

Authors: Sunil Arya and David M. Mount

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 258, 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023)

Abstract
Approximating convex bodies is a fundamental question in geometry and has a wide variety of applications. Consider a convex body K of diameter Δ in ℝ^d for fixed d. The objective is to minimize the number of vertices (alternatively, the number of facets) of an approximating polytope for a given Hausdorff error ε. It is known from classical results of Dudley (1974) and Bronshteyn and Ivanov (1976) that Θ((Δ/ε)^{(d-1)/2}) vertices (alternatively, facets) are both necessary and sufficient. While this bound is tight in the worst case, that of Euclidean balls, it is far from optimal for skinny convex bodies. A natural way to characterize a convex object’s skinniness is in terms of its relationship to the Euclidean ball. Given a convex body K, define its volume diameter Δ_d to be the diameter of a Euclidean ball of the same volume as K, and define its surface diameter Δ_{d-1} analogously for surface area. It follows from generalizations of the isoperimetric inequality that Δ ≥ Δ_{d-1} ≥ Δ_d. Arya, da Fonseca, and Mount (SoCG 2012) demonstrated that the diameter-based bound could be made surface-area sensitive, improving the above bound to O((Δ_{d-1}/ε)^{(d-1)/2}). In this paper, we strengthen this by proving the existence of an approximation with O((Δ_d/ε)^{(d-1)/2}) facets. This improvement is a result of the combination of a number of new ideas. As in prior work, we exploit properties of the original body and its polar dual. In order to obtain a volume-sensitive bound, we explore the following more general problem. Given two convex bodies, one nested within the other, find a low-complexity convex polytope that is sandwiched between them. We show that this problem can be reduced to a covering problem involving a natural intermediate body based on the harmonic mean. Our proof relies on a geometric analysis of a relative notion of fatness involving these bodies.
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Sunil Arya and David M. Mount. Optimal Volume-Sensitive Bounds for Polytope Approximation. In 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 258, pp. 9:1-9:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{arya_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.9,
  author =	{Arya, Sunil and Mount, David M.},
  title =	{{Optimal Volume-Sensitive Bounds for Polytope Approximation}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-273-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{258},
  editor =	{Chambers, Erin W. and Gudmundsson, Joachim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-178592},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2023.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation algorithms, convexity, Macbeath regions}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.3
Approximate Convex Intersection Detection with Applications to Width and Minkowski Sums

Authors: Sunil Arya, Guilherme D. da Fonseca, and David M. Mount

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 112, 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)

Abstract
Approximation problems involving a single convex body in R^d have received a great deal of attention in the computational geometry community. In contrast, works involving multiple convex bodies are generally limited to dimensions d <= 3 and/or do not consider approximation. In this paper, we consider approximations to two natural problems involving multiple convex bodies: detecting whether two polytopes intersect and computing their Minkowski sum. Given an approximation parameter epsilon > 0, we show how to independently preprocess two polytopes A,B subset R^d into data structures of size O(1/epsilon^{(d-1)/2}) such that we can answer in polylogarithmic time whether A and B intersect approximately. More generally, we can answer this for the images of A and B under affine transformations. Next, we show how to epsilon-approximate the Minkowski sum of two given polytopes defined as the intersection of n halfspaces in O(n log(1/epsilon) + 1/epsilon^{(d-1)/2 + alpha}) time, for any constant alpha > 0. Finally, we present a surprising impact of these results to a well studied problem that considers a single convex body. We show how to epsilon-approximate the width of a set of n points in O(n log(1/epsilon) + 1/epsilon^{(d-1)/2 + alpha}) time, for any constant alpha > 0, a major improvement over the previous bound of roughly O(n + 1/epsilon^{d-1}) time.
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Sunil Arya, Guilherme D. da Fonseca, and David M. Mount. Approximate Convex Intersection Detection with Applications to Width and Minkowski Sums. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 3:1-3:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{arya_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.3,
  author =	{Arya, Sunil and da Fonseca, Guilherme D. and Mount, David M.},
  title =	{{Approximate Convex Intersection Detection with Applications to Width and Minkowski Sums}},
  booktitle =	{26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-081-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{112},
  editor =	{Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-94664},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Minkowski sum, convex intersection, width, approximation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.10
Near-Optimal epsilon-Kernel Construction and Related Problems

Authors: Sunil Arya, Guilherme D. da Fonseca, and David M. Mount

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 77, 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)

Abstract
The computation of (i) eps-kernels, (ii) approximate diameter, and (iii) approximate bichromatic closest pair are fundamental problems in geometric approximation. In each case the input is a set of points in d-dimensional space for a constant d and an approximation parameter eps > 0. In this paper, we describe new algorithms for these problems, achieving significant improvements to the exponent of the eps-dependency in their running times, from roughly d to d/2 for the first two problems and from roughly d/3 to d/4 for problem (iii). These results are all based on an efficient decomposition of a convex body using a hierarchy of Macbeath regions, and contrast to previous solutions that decomposed the space using quadtrees and grids. By further application of these techniques, we also show that it is possible to obtain near-optimal preprocessing time for the most efficient data structures for (iv) approximate nearest neighbor searching, (v) directional width queries, and (vi) polytope membership queries.
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Sunil Arya, Guilherme D. da Fonseca, and David M. Mount. Near-Optimal epsilon-Kernel Construction and Related Problems. In 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 77, pp. 10:1-10:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{arya_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.10,
  author =	{Arya, Sunil and da Fonseca, Guilherme D. and Mount, David M.},
  title =	{{Near-Optimal epsilon-Kernel Construction and Related Problems}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-038-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{77},
  editor =	{Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-72257},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation, diameter, kernel, coreset, nearest neighbor, polytope membership, bichromatic closest pair, Macbeath regions}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.11
On the Combinatorial Complexity of Approximating Polytopes

Authors: Sunil Arya, Guilherme D. da Fonseca, and David M. Mount

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 51, 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)

Abstract
Approximating convex bodies succinctly by convex polytopes is a fundamental problem in discrete geometry. A convex body K of diameter $diam(K)$ is given in Euclidean d-dimensional space, where $d$ is a constant. Given an error parameter eps > 0, the objective is to determine a polytope of minimum combinatorial complexity whose Hausdorff distance from K is at most eps diam(K). By combinatorial complexity we mean the total number of faces of all dimensions of the polytope. A well-known result by Dudley implies that O(1/eps^{(d-1)/2}) facets suffice, and a dual result by Bronshteyn and Ivanov similarly bounds the number of vertices, but neither result bounds the total combinatorial complexity. We show that there exists an approximating polytope whose total combinatorial complexity is O-tilde(1/eps^{(d-1)/2}), where O-tilde conceals a polylogarithmic factor in 1/eps. This is an improvement upon the best known bound, which is roughly O(1/eps^{d-2}). Our result is based on a novel combination of both new and old ideas. First, we employ Macbeath regions, a classical structure from the theory of convexity. The construction of our approximating polytope employs a new stratified placement of these regions. Second, in order to analyze the combinatorial complexity of the approximating polytope, we present a tight analysis of a width-based variant of Barany and Larman's economical cap covering, which may be of independent interest. Finally, we use a deterministic variation of the witness-collector technique (developed recently by Devillers et al.) in the context of our stratified construction.
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Sunil Arya, Guilherme D. da Fonseca, and David M. Mount. On the Combinatorial Complexity of Approximating Polytopes. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 11:1-11:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{arya_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.11,
  author =	{Arya, Sunil and da Fonseca, Guilherme D. and Mount, David M.},
  title =	{{On the Combinatorial Complexity of Approximating Polytopes}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-009-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{51},
  editor =	{Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Lubiw, Anna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59034},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polytope approximation, Convex polytopes, Macbeath regions}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.781
Approximate Geometric MST Range Queries

Authors: Sunil Arya, David M. Mount, and Eunhui Park

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 34, 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)

Abstract
Range searching is a widely-used method in computational geometry for efficiently accessing local regions of a large data set. Typically, range searching involves either counting or reporting the points lying within a given query region, but it is often desirable to compute statistics that better describe the structure of the point set lying within the region, not just the count. In this paper we consider the geometric minimum spanning tree (MST) problem in the context of range searching where approximation is allowed. We are given a set P of n points in R^d. The objective is to preprocess P so that given an admissible query region Q, it is possible to efficiently approximate the weight of the minimum spanning tree of the subset of P lying within Q. There are two natural sources of approximation error, first by treating Q as a fuzzy object and second by approximating the MST weight itself. To model this, we assume that we are given two positive real approximation parameters eps_q and eps_w. Following the typical practice in approximate range searching, the range is expressed as two shapes Q^- and Q^+, where Q^- is contained in Q which is contained in Q^+, and their boundaries are separated by a distance of at least eps_q diam(Q). Points within Q^- must be included and points external to Q^+ cannot be included. A weight W is a valid answer to the query if there exist subsets P' and P'' of P, such that Q^- is contained in P' which is contained in P'' which is contained in Q^+ and wt(MST(P')) <= W <= (1+eps_w) wt(MST(P'')). In this paper, we present an efficient data structure for answering such queries. Our approach uses simple data structures based on quadtrees, and it can be applied whenever Q^- and Q^+ are compact sets of constant combinatorial complexity. It uses space O(n), and it answers queries in time O(log n + 1/(eps_q eps_w)^{d + O(1)}). The O(1) term is a small constant independent of dimension, and the hidden constant factor in the overall running time depends on d, but not on eps_q or eps_w. Preprocessing requires knowledge of eps_w, but not eps_q.
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Sunil Arya, David M. Mount, and Eunhui Park. Approximate Geometric MST Range Queries. In 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 34, pp. 781-795, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{arya_et_al:LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.781,
  author =	{Arya, Sunil and Mount, David M. and Park, Eunhui},
  title =	{{Approximate Geometric MST Range Queries}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2015)},
  pages =	{781--795},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-83-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{34},
  editor =	{Arge, Lars and Pach, J\'{a}nos},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.781},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-51233},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SOCG.2015.781},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometric data structures, Minimum spanning trees, Range searching, Approximation algorithms}
}
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