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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.50

On Min-Max Graph Balancing with Strict Negative Correlation Constraints

Authors: Ting-Yu Kuo, Yu-Han Chen, Andrea Frosini, Sun-Yuan Hsieh, Shi-Chun Tsai, and Mong-Jen Kao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 283, 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)

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We consider the min-max graph balancing problem with strict negative correlation (SNC) constraints. The graph balancing problem arises as an equivalent formulation of the classic unrelated machine scheduling problem, where we are given a hypergraph G = (V,E) with vertex-dependent edge weight function p: E×V ↦ ℤ^{≥0} that represents the processing time of the edges (jobs). The SNC constraints, which are given as edge subsets C_1,C_2,…,C_k, require that the edges in the same subset cannot be assigned to the same vertex at the same time. Under these constraints, the goal is to compute an edge orientation (assignment) that minimizes the maximum workload of the vertices. In this paper, we conduct a general study on the approximability of this problem. First, we show that, in the presence of SNC constraints, the case with max_{e ∈ E} |e| = max_i |C_i| = 2 is the only case for which approximation solutions can be obtained. Further generalization on either direction, e.g., max_{e ∈ E} |e| or max_i |C_i|, will directly make computing a feasible solution an NP-complete problem to solve. Then, we present a 2-approximation algorithm for the case with max_{e ∈ E} |e| = max_i |C_i| = 2, based on a set of structural simplifications and a tailored assignment LP for this problem. We note that our approach is general and can be applied to similar settings, e.g., scheduling with SNC constraints to minimize the weighted completion time, to obtain similar approximation guarantees. Further cases are discussed to describe the landscape of the approximability of this prbolem. For the case with |V| ≤ 2, which is already known to be NP-hard, we present a fully-polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS). On the other hand, we show that the problem is at least as hard as vertex cover to approximate when |V| ≥ 3.

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Ting-Yu Kuo, Yu-Han Chen, Andrea Frosini, Sun-Yuan Hsieh, Shi-Chun Tsai, and Mong-Jen Kao. On Min-Max Graph Balancing with Strict Negative Correlation Constraints. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 50:1-50:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{kuo_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.50,
  author =	{Kuo, Ting-Yu and Chen, Yu-Han and Frosini, Andrea and Hsieh, Sun-Yuan and Tsai, Shi-Chun and Kao, Mong-Jen},
  title =	{{On Min-Max Graph Balancing with Strict Negative Correlation Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-289-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{283},
  editor =	{Iwata, Satoru and Kakimura, Naonori},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-193524},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: Unrelated Scheduling, Graph Balancing, Strict Correlation Constraints}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.20

An Efficient Fixed-Parameter Algorithm for the 2-Plex Bipartition Problem

Authors: Li-Hsuan Chen, Sun-Yuan Hsieh, Ling-Ju Hung, and Peter Rossmanith

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 92, 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)

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Given a graph G=(V, E), an s-plex S\subseteq V is a vertex subset such that for v\in S the degree of v in G[S] is at least |S|-s. An s-plex bipartition \mathcal{P}=(V_1, V_2) is a bipartition of G=(V, E), V=V_1\uplus V_2, satisfying that both V_1 and V_2 are s-plexes. Given an instance G=(V, E) and a parameter k, the s-Plex Bipartition problem asks whether there exists an s-plex bipartition of G such that min{|V_1|, |V_2|\}\leq k. The s-Plex Bipartition problem is NP-complete. However, it is still open whether this problem is fixed-parameter tractable. In this paper, we give a fixed-parameter algorithm for 2-Plex Bipartition running in time O*(2.4143^k). A graph G = (V, E) is called defective (p, d)-colorable if it admits a vertex coloring with p colors such that each color class in G induces a subgraph of maximum degree at most d. A graph G admits an s-plex bipartition if and only if the complement graph of G, \bar{G}, admits a defective (2, s-1)-coloring such that one of the two color classes is of size at most k. By applying our fixed-parameter algorithm as a subroutine, one can find a defective (2,1)-coloring with one of the two colors of minimum cardinality for a given graph in O*(1.5539^n) time where n is the number of vertices in the input graph.

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Li-Hsuan Chen, Sun-Yuan Hsieh, Ling-Ju Hung, and Peter Rossmanith. An Efficient Fixed-Parameter Algorithm for the 2-Plex Bipartition Problem. In 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 92, pp. 20:1-20:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.20,
  author =	{Chen, Li-Hsuan and Hsieh, Sun-Yuan and Hung, Ling-Ju and Rossmanith, Peter},
  title =	{{An Efficient Fixed-Parameter Algorithm for the 2-Plex Bipartition Problem}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-054-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{92},
  editor =	{Okamoto, Yoshio and Tokuyama, Takeshi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-82458},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: 2-plex, 2-plex bipartition, bounded-degree-1 set bipartition, defective (2,1)-coloring}
}

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