6 Search Results for "Bartal, Yair"


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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Parameterized Algorithms for Steiner Forest in Bounded Width Graphs

Authors: Andreas Emil Feldmann and Michael Lampis

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
In this paper we reassess the parameterized complexity and approximability of the well-studied Steiner Forest problem in several graph classes of bounded width. The problem takes an edge-weighted graph and pairs of vertices as input, and the aim is to find a minimum cost subgraph in which each given vertex pair lies in the same connected component. It is known that this problem is APX-hard in general, and NP-hard on graphs of treewidth 3, treedepth 4, and feedback vertex set size 2. However, Bateni, Hajiaghayi and Marx [JACM, 2011] gave an approximation scheme with a runtime of n^O(k²/ε) on graphs of treewidth k. Our main result is a much faster efficient parameterized approximation scheme (EPAS) with a runtime of 2^O(k²/ε log k/ε)⋅n^O(1). If k instead is the vertex cover number of the input graph, we show how to compute the optimum solution in 2^O(k log k)⋅n^O(1) time, and we also prove that this runtime dependence on k is asymptotically best possible, under ETH. Furthermore, if k is the size of a feedback edge set, then we obtain a faster 2^O(k)⋅n^O(1) time algorithm, which again cannot be improved under ETH.

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Andreas Emil Feldmann and Michael Lampis. Parameterized Algorithms for Steiner Forest in Bounded Width Graphs. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 61:1-61:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{feldmann_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.61,
  author =	{Feldmann, Andreas Emil and Lampis, Michael},
  title =	{{Parameterized Algorithms for Steiner Forest in Bounded Width Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{61:1--61:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.61},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202048},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.61},
  annote =	{Keywords: Steiner Forest, Approximation Algorithms, FPT algorithms}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Optimal Electrical Oblivious Routing on Expanders

Authors: Cella Florescu, Rasmus Kyng, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, and Sushant Sachdeva

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the question of whether the electrical flow routing is a good oblivious routing scheme on an m-edge graph G = (V, E) that is a Φ-expander, i.e. where |∂ S| ≥ Φ ⋅ vol(S) for every S ⊆ V, vol(S) ≤ vol(V)/2. Beyond its simplicity and structural importance, this question is well-motivated by the current state-of-the-art of fast algorithms for 𝓁_∞ oblivious routings that reduce to the expander-case which is in turn solved by electrical flow routing. Our main result proves that the electrical routing is an O(Φ^{-1} log m)-competitive oblivious routing in the 𝓁₁- and 𝓁_∞-norms. We further observe that the oblivious routing is O(log² m)-competitive in the 𝓁₂-norm and, in fact, O(log m)-competitive if 𝓁₂-localization is O(log m) which is widely believed. Using these three upper bounds, we can smoothly interpolate to obtain upper bounds for every p ∈ [2, ∞] and q given by 1/p + 1/q = 1. Assuming 𝓁₂-localization in O(log m), we obtain that in 𝓁_p and 𝓁_q, the electrical oblivious routing is O(Φ^{-(1-2/p)}log m) competitive. Using the currently known result for 𝓁₂-localization, this ratio deteriorates by at most a sublogarithmic factor for every p, q ≠ 2. We complement our upper bounds with lower bounds that show that the electrical routing for any such p and q is Ω(Φ^{-(1-2/p)} log m)-competitive. This renders our results in 𝓁₁ and 𝓁_∞ unconditionally tight up to constants, and the result in any 𝓁_p- and 𝓁_q-norm to be tight in case of 𝓁₂-localization in O(log m).

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Cella Florescu, Rasmus Kyng, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, and Sushant Sachdeva. Optimal Electrical Oblivious Routing on Expanders. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 65:1-65:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{florescu_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.65,
  author =	{Florescu, Cella and Kyng, Rasmus and Gutenberg, Maximilian Probst and Sachdeva, Sushant},
  title =	{{Optimal Electrical Oblivious Routing on Expanders}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{65:1--65:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.65},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202083},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.65},
  annote =	{Keywords: Expanders, Oblivious routing for 𝓁\underlinep, Electrical flow routing}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies

Authors: Augusto Modanese and Yuichi Yoshida

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
Given the full topology of a network, how hard is it to test if it is evolving according to a local rule or is far from doing so? Inspired by the works of Goldreich and Ron (J. ACM, 2017) and Nakar and Ron (ICALP, 2021), we initiate the study of property testing in dynamic environments with arbitrary topologies. Our focus is on the simplest non-trivial rule that can be tested, which corresponds to the 1-BP rule of bootstrap percolation and models a simple spreading behavior: Every "infected" node stays infected forever, and each "healthy" node becomes infected if and only if it has at least one infected neighbor. Our results are subdivided into two main groups: - If we are testing a single time step of evolution, then the query complexity is O(Δ/ε) or Õ(√n/ε) (whichever is smaller), where Δ and n are the maximum degree of a node and the number of vertices in the underlying graph, respectively. We also give lower bounds for both one- and two-sided error testers that match our upper bounds up to Δ = o(√n) and Δ = O(n^{1/3}), respectively. If ε is constant, then the first of these also holds against adaptive testers. - When testing the environment over T time steps, we have two algorithms that need O(Δ^{T-1}/εT) and Õ(|E|/εT) queries, respectively, where E is the set of edges of the underlying graph. All of our algorithms are one-sided error, and all of them are also non-adaptive, with the single exception of the more complex Õ(√n/ε)-query tester for the case T = 2.

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Augusto Modanese and Yuichi Yoshida. Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 112:1-112:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{modanese_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.112,
  author =	{Modanese, Augusto and Yoshida, Yuichi},
  title =	{{Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{112:1--112:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.112},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202554},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.112},
  annote =	{Keywords: Property testing, bootstrap percolation, local phenomena, expander graphs}
}
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Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Dimensionality Reduction for Practical Measures

Authors: Yair Bartal, Ora Nova Fandina, and Kasper Green Larsen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 224, 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)


Abstract
It is well known that the Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimensionality reduction method is optimal for worst case distortion. While in practice many other methods and heuristics are used, not much is known in terms of bounds on their performance. The question of whether the JL method is optimal for practical measures of distortion was recently raised in [Yair Bartal et al., 2019] (NeurIPS'19). They provided upper bounds on its quality for a wide range of practical measures and showed that indeed these are best possible in many cases. Yet, some of the most important cases, including the fundamental case of average distortion were left open. In particular, they show that the JL transform has 1+ε average distortion for embedding into k-dimensional Euclidean space, where k = O(1/ε²), and for more general q-norms of distortion, k = O(max{1/ε²,q/ε}), whereas tight lower bounds were established only for large values of q via reduction to the worst case. In this paper we prove that these bounds are best possible for any dimensionality reduction method, for any 1 ≤ q ≤ O((log (2ε² n))/ε) and ε ≥ 1/(√n), where n is the size of the subset of Euclidean space. Our results also imply that the JL method is optimal for various distortion measures commonly used in practice, such as stress, energy and relative error. We prove that if any of these measures is bounded by ε then k = Ω(1/ε²), for any ε ≥ 1/(√n), matching the upper bounds of [Yair Bartal et al., 2019] and extending their tightness results for the full range moment analysis. Our results may indicate that the JL dimensionality reduction method should be considered more often in practical applications, and the bounds we provide for its quality should be served as a measure for comparison when evaluating the performance of other methods and heuristics.

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Yair Bartal, Ora Nova Fandina, and Kasper Green Larsen. Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Dimensionality Reduction for Practical Measures. In 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 224, pp. 13:1-13:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{bartal_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.13,
  author =	{Bartal, Yair and Fandina, Ora Nova and Larsen, Kasper Green},
  title =	{{Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Dimensionality Reduction for Practical Measures}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-227-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{224},
  editor =	{Goaoc, Xavier and Kerber, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160219},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: average distortion, practical dimensionality reduction, JL transform}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Covering Metric Spaces by Few Trees

Authors: Yair Bartal, Nova Fandina, and Ofer Neiman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 132, 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019)


Abstract
A tree cover of a metric space (X,d) is a collection of trees, so that every pair x,y in X has a low distortion path in one of the trees. If it has the stronger property that every point x in X has a single tree with low distortion paths to all other points, we call this a Ramsey tree cover. Tree covers and Ramsey tree covers have been studied by [Yair Bartal et al., 2005; Anupam Gupta et al., 2004; T-H. Hubert Chan et al., 2005; Gupta et al., 2006; Mendel and Naor, 2007], and have found several important algorithmic applications, e.g. routing and distance oracles. The union of trees in a tree cover also serves as a special type of spanner, that can be decomposed into a few trees with low distortion paths contained in a single tree; Such spanners for Euclidean pointsets were presented by [S. Arya et al., 1995]. In this paper we devise efficient algorithms to construct tree covers and Ramsey tree covers for general, planar and doubling metrics. We pay particular attention to the desirable case of distortion close to 1, and study what can be achieved when the number of trees is small. In particular, our work shows a large separation between what can be achieved by tree covers vs. Ramsey tree covers.

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Yair Bartal, Nova Fandina, and Ofer Neiman. Covering Metric Spaces by Few Trees. In 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 132, pp. 20:1-20:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{bartal_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.20,
  author =	{Bartal, Yair and Fandina, Nova and Neiman, Ofer},
  title =	{{Covering Metric Spaces by Few Trees}},
  booktitle =	{46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-109-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{132},
  editor =	{Baier, Christel and Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Flocchini, Paola and Leonardi, Stefano},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-105967},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: tree cover, Ramsey tree cover, probabilistic hierarchical family}
}
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Dimension Reduction Techniques for l_p (1<p<2), with Applications

Authors: Yair Bartal and Lee-Ad Gottlieb

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


Abstract
For Euclidean space (l_2), there exists the powerful dimension reduction transform of Johnson and Lindenstrauss [Conf. in modern analysis and probability, AMS 1984], with a host of known applications. Here, we consider the problem of dimension reduction for all l_p spaces 1<p<2. Although strong lower bounds are known for dimension reduction in l_1, Ostrovsky and Rabani [JACM 2002] successfully circumvented these by presenting an l_1 embedding that maintains fidelity in only a bounded distance range, with applications to clustering and nearest neighbor search. However, their embedding techniques are specific to l_1 and do not naturally extend to other norms. In this paper, we apply a range of advanced techniques and produce bounded range dimension reduction embeddings for all of 1<p<2, thereby demonstrating that the approach initiated by Ostrovsky and Rabani for l_1 can be extended to a much more general framework. We also obtain improved bounds in terms of the intrinsic dimensionality. As a result we achieve improved bounds for proximity problems including snowflake embeddings and clustering.

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Yair Bartal and Lee-Ad Gottlieb. Dimension Reduction Techniques for l_p (1<p<2), with Applications. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 16:1-16:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{bartal_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.16,
  author =	{Bartal, Yair and Gottlieb, Lee-Ad},
  title =	{{Dimension Reduction Techniques for l\underlinep (1\langlep\langle2), with Applications}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:15},
  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.2016.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59081},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dimension reduction, embeddings}
}
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