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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.14
Improved Guarantees for the a Priori TSP

Authors: Jannis Blauth, Meike Neuwohner, Luise Puhlmann, and Jens Vygen

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

Abstract
We revisit the a priori TSP (with independent activation) and prove stronger approximation guarantees than were previously known. In the a priori TSP, we are given a metric space (V,c) and an activation probability p(v) for each customer v ∈ V. We ask for a TSP tour T for V that minimizes the expected length after cutting T short by skipping the inactive customers. All known approximation algorithms select a nonempty subset S of the customers and construct a master route solution, consisting of a TSP tour for S and two edges connecting every customer v ∈ V⧵S to a nearest customer in S. We address the following questions. If we randomly sample the subset S, what should be the sampling probabilities? How much worse than the optimum can the best master route solution be? The answers to these questions (we provide almost matching lower and upper bounds) lead to improved approximation guarantees: less than 3.1 with randomized sampling, and less than 5.9 with a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm.
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Jannis Blauth, Meike Neuwohner, Luise Puhlmann, and Jens Vygen. Improved Guarantees for the a Priori TSP. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 14:1-14:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{blauth_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.14,
  author =	{Blauth, Jannis and Neuwohner, Meike and Puhlmann, Luise and Vygen, Jens},
  title =	{{Improved Guarantees for the a Priori TSP}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:16},
  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.2023.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-193161},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: A priori TSP, random sampling, stochastic combinatorial optimization}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.80
Approximating Maximum Integral Multiflows on Bounded Genus Graphs

Authors: Chien-Chung Huang, Mathieu Mari, Claire Mathieu, and Jens Vygen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)

Abstract
We devise the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for finding an integral multi-commodity flow of maximum total value for instances where the supply graph together with the demand edges can be embedded on an orientable surface of bounded genus. This extends recent results for planar instances. Our techniques include an uncrossing algorithm, which is significantly more difficult than in the planar case, a partition of the cycles in the support of an LP solution into free homotopy classes, and a new rounding procedure for freely homotopic non-separating cycles.
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Chien-Chung Huang, Mathieu Mari, Claire Mathieu, and Jens Vygen. Approximating Maximum Integral Multiflows on Bounded Genus Graphs. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 80:1-80:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{huang_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.80,
  author =	{Huang, Chien-Chung and Mari, Mathieu and Mathieu, Claire and Vygen, Jens},
  title =	{{Approximating Maximum Integral Multiflows on Bounded Genus Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{80:1--80:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.80},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141491},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.80},
  annote =	{Keywords: Multi-commodity flows, approximation algorithms, bounded genus graphs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2017.17
On the Integrality Gap of the Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest LP

Authors: Jochen Könemann, Neil Olver, Kanstantsin Pashkovich, R. Ravi, Chaitanya Swamy, and Jens Vygen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 81, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2017)

Abstract
In the prize-collecting Steiner forest (PCSF) problem, we are given an undirected graph G=(V,E), nonnegative edge costs {c_e} for e in E, terminal pairs {(s_i,t_i)} for i=1,...,k, and penalties {pi_i} for i=1,...,k for each terminal pair; the goal is to find a forest F to minimize c(F) + sum{ pi_i: (s_i,t_i) is not connected in F }. The Steiner forest problem can be viewed as the special case where pi_i are infinite for all i. It was widely believed that the integrality gap of the natural (and well-studied) linear-programming (LP) relaxation for PCSF (PCSF-LP) is at most 2. We dispel this belief by showing that the integrality gap of this LP is at least 9/4 even if the input instance is planar. We also show that using this LP, one cannot devise a Lagrangian-multiplier-preserving (LMP) algorithm with approximation guarantee better than 4. Our results thus show a separation between the integrality gaps of the LP-relaxations for prize-collecting and non-prize-collecting (i.e., standard) Steiner forest, as well as the approximation ratios achievable relative to the optimal LP solution by LMP- and non-LMP-approximation algorithms for PCSF. For the special case of prize-collecting Steiner tree (PCST), we prove that the natural LP relaxation admits basic feasible solutions with all coordinates of value at most 1/3 and all edge variables positive. Thus, we rule out the possibility of approximating PCST with guarantee better than 3 using a direct iterative rounding method.
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Jochen Könemann, Neil Olver, Kanstantsin Pashkovich, R. Ravi, Chaitanya Swamy, and Jens Vygen. On the Integrality Gap of the Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest LP. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 81, pp. 17:1-17:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{konemann_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2017.17,
  author =	{K\"{o}nemann, Jochen and Olver, Neil and Pashkovich, Kanstantsin and Ravi, R. and Swamy, Chaitanya and Vygen, Jens},
  title =	{{On the Integrality Gap of the Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest LP}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2017)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-044-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{81},
  editor =	{Jansen, Klaus and Rolim, Jos\'{e} D. P. and Williamson, David P. and Vempala, Santosh S.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2017.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-75665},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2017.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Integrality gap, Steiner tree, Steiner forest, prize-collecting, Lagrangianmultiplier- preserving}
}
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