Approximation schemes for multi-budgeted independence systems

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Abstract

A natural way to deal with multiple, partially conflicting objectives is turning all the objectives but one into budget constraints. Some classical optimization problems, such as spanning tree and forest, shortest path, (perfect) matching, independent set (basis) in a matroid or in the intersection of two matroids, become NP-hard even with one budget constraint. Still, for most of these problems efficient deterministic and randomized approximation schemes are known. For two or more budgets, typically only multi-criteria approximation schemes are available, which return slightly infeasible solutions. Not much is known however for strict budget constraints: filling this gap is the main goal of this paper. It is not hard to see that the above-mentioned problems whose solution sets do not correspond to independence systems are inapproximable already for two budget constraints. For the remaining problems, we present approximation schemes for a constant number k of budget constraints using a variety of techniques: i) we present a simple and powerful mechanism to transform multi-criteria approximation schemes into pure approximation schemes. This leads to deterministic and randomized approximation schemes for various of the above-mentioned problems; ii) we show that points in low-dimensional faces of any matroid polytope are almost integral, an interesting result on its own. This gives a deterministic approximation scheme for k-budgeted matroid independent set; iii) we present a deterministic approximation scheme for 2-budgeted matching. The backbone of this result is a purely topological property of curves in ℝ2. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

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Grandoni, F., & Zenklusen, R. (2010). Approximation schemes for multi-budgeted independence systems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6346 LNCS, pp. 536–548). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15775-2_46

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