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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.7
Techniques for Generalized Colorful k-Center Problems

Authors: Georg Anegg, Laura Vargas Koch, and Rico Zenklusen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 244, 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)

Abstract
Fair clustering enjoyed a surge of interest recently. One appealing way of integrating fairness aspects into classical clustering problems is by introducing multiple covering constraints. This is a natural generalization of the robust (or outlier) setting, which has been studied extensively and is amenable to a variety of classic algorithmic techniques. In contrast, for the case of multiple covering constraints (the so-called colorful setting), specialized techniques have only been developed recently for k-Center clustering variants, which is also the focus of this paper. While prior techniques assume covering constraints on the clients, they do not address additional constraints on the facilities, which has been extensively studied in non-colorful settings. In this paper, we present a quite versatile framework to deal with various constraints on the facilities in the colorful setting, by combining ideas from the iterative greedy procedure for Colorful k-Center by Inamdar and Varadarajan with new ingredients. To exemplify our framework, we show how it leads, for a constant number γ of colors, to the first constant-factor approximations for both Colorful Matroid Supplier with respect to a linear matroid and Colorful Knapsack Supplier. In both cases, we readily get an O(2^γ)-approximation. Moreover, for Colorful Knapsack Supplier, we show that it is possible to obtain constant approximation guarantees that are independent of the number of colors γ, as long as γ = O(1), which is needed to obtain a polynomial running time. More precisely, we obtain a 7-approximation by extending a technique recently introduced by Jia, Sheth, and Svensson for Colorful k-Center.
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Georg Anegg, Laura Vargas Koch, and Rico Zenklusen. Techniques for Generalized Colorful k-Center Problems. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 7:1-7:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{anegg_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.7,
  author =	{Anegg, Georg and Vargas Koch, Laura and Zenklusen, Rico},
  title =	{{Techniques for Generalized Colorful k-Center Problems}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169458},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Fair Clustering, Colorful k-Center}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.52
Submodular Maximization Subject to Matroid Intersection on the Fly

Authors: Moran Feldman, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Ola Svensson, and Rico Zenklusen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 244, 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)

Abstract
Despite a surge of interest in submodular maximization in the data stream model, there remain significant gaps in our knowledge about what can be achieved in this setting, especially when dealing with multiple constraints. In this work, we nearly close several basic gaps in submodular maximization subject to k matroid constraints in the data stream model. We present a new hardness result showing that super polynomial memory in k is needed to obtain an o(k/(log k))-approximation. This implies near optimality of prior algorithms. For the same setting, we show that one can nevertheless obtain a constant-factor approximation by maintaining a set of elements whose size is independent of the stream size. Finally, for bipartite matching constraints, a well-known special case of matroid intersection, we present a new technique to obtain hardness bounds that are significantly stronger than those obtained with prior approaches. Prior results left it open whether a 2-approximation may exist in this setting, and only a complexity-theoretic hardness of 1.91 was known. We prove an unconditional hardness of 2.69.
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Moran Feldman, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Ola Svensson, and Rico Zenklusen. Submodular Maximization Subject to Matroid Intersection on the Fly. In 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 244, pp. 52:1-52:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{feldman_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.52,
  author =	{Feldman, Moran and Norouzi-Fard, Ashkan and Svensson, Ola and Zenklusen, Rico},
  title =	{{Submodular Maximization Subject to Matroid Intersection on the Fly}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169902},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Submodular Maximization, Matroid Intersection, Streaming Algorithms}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.59
Streaming Submodular Maximization Under Matroid Constraints

Authors: Moran Feldman, Paul Liu, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Ola Svensson, and Rico Zenklusen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)

Abstract
Recent progress in (semi-)streaming algorithms for monotone submodular function maximization has led to tight results for a simple cardinality constraint. However, current techniques fail to give a similar understanding for natural generalizations, including matroid constraints. This paper aims at closing this gap. For a single matroid of rank k (i.e., any solution has cardinality at most k), our main results are: - A single-pass streaming algorithm that uses Õ(k) memory and achieves an approximation guarantee of 0.3178. - A multi-pass streaming algorithm that uses Õ(k) memory and achieves an approximation guarantee of (1-1/e - ε) by taking a constant (depending on ε) number of passes over the stream. This improves on the previously best approximation guarantees of 1/4 and 1/2 for single-pass and multi-pass streaming algorithms, respectively. In fact, our multi-pass streaming algorithm is tight in that any algorithm with a better guarantee than 1/2 must make several passes through the stream and any algorithm that beats our guarantee of 1-1/e must make linearly many passes (as well as an exponential number of value oracle queries). Moreover, we show how the approach we use for multi-pass streaming can be further strengthened if the elements of the stream arrive in uniformly random order, implying an improved result for p-matchoid constraints.
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Moran Feldman, Paul Liu, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Ola Svensson, and Rico Zenklusen. Streaming Submodular Maximization Under Matroid Constraints. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 59:1-59:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{feldman_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.59,
  author =	{Feldman, Moran and Liu, Paul and Norouzi-Fard, Ashkan and Svensson, Ola and Zenklusen, Rico},
  title =	{{Streaming Submodular Maximization Under Matroid Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{59:1--59:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.59},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164007},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.59},
  annote =	{Keywords: Submodular maximization, streaming, matroid, random order}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.26
Max-Sum Diversity Via Convex Programming

Authors: Alfonso Cevallos, Friedrich Eisenbrand, and Rico Zenklusen

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

Abstract
Diversity maximization is an important concept in information retrieval, computational geometry and operations research. Usually, it is a variant of the following problem: Given a ground set, constraints, and a function f that measures diversity of a subset, the task is to select a feasible subset S such that f(S) is maximized. The sum-dispersion function f(S) which is the sum of the pairwise distances in S, is in this context a prominent diversification measure. The corresponding diversity maximization is the "max-sum" or "sum-sum" diversification. Many recent results deal with the design of constant-factor approximation algorithms of diversification problems involving sum-dispersion function under a matroid constraint. In this paper, we present a PTAS for the max-sum diversity problem under a matroid constraint for distances d(.,.) of negative type. Distances of negative type are, for example, metric distances stemming from the l_2 and l_1 norms, as well as the cosine or spherical, or Jaccard distance which are popular similarity metrics in web and image search. Our algorithm is based on techniques developed in geometric algorithms like metric embeddings and convex optimization. We show that one can compute a fractional solution of the usually non-convex relaxation of the problem which yields an upper bound on the optimum integer solution. Starting from this fractional solution, we employ a deterministic rounding approach which only incurs a small loss in terms of objective, thus leading to a PTAS. This technique can be applied to other previously studied variants of the max-sum dispersion function, including combinations of diversity with linear-score maximization, improving over the previous constant-factor approximation algorithms.
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Alfonso Cevallos, Friedrich Eisenbrand, and Rico Zenklusen. Max-Sum Diversity Via Convex Programming. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 26:1-26:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{cevallos_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.26,
  author =	{Cevallos, Alfonso and Eisenbrand, Friedrich and Zenklusen, Rico},
  title =	{{Max-Sum Diversity Via Convex Programming}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:14},
  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.2016.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59186},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geometric Dispersion, Embeddings, Approximation Algorithms, Convex Programming, Matroids}
}
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