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Towards a better understanding of randomized greedy matching | |
Zhihao Gavin Tang1; Xiaowei Wu2; Yuhao Zhang3 | |
2020-06-08 | |
Conference Name | 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2020 |
Source Publication | Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing |
Pages | 1097-1110 |
Conference Date | 22-26 June 2020 |
Conference Place | Chicago |
Country | USA |
Abstract | There has been a long history for studying randomized greedy matching algorithms since the work by Dyer and Frieze(RSA 1991). We follow this trend and consider the problem formulated in the oblivious setting, in which the algorithm makes (random) decisions that are essentially oblivious to the input graph. We revisit the Modified Randomized Greedy (MRG) algorithm by Aronson et al.(RSA 1995) which is proved to be (0.5+epsilon)-approximate. In particular, we study a weaker version of the algorithm named Random Decision Order (RDO) that in each step, randomly picks an unmatched vertex and matches it to an arbitrary neighbor if exists. We prove the RDO algorithm is 0.639-approximate and 0.531-approximate for bipartite graphs and general graphs respectively. As a corollary, we substantially improve the approximation ratio of MRG. Furthermore, we generalize the RDO algorithm to the edge-weighted case and prove that it achieves a 0.501 approximation ratio. This result solves the open question by Chan et al.(SICOMP 2018) about the existence of an algorithm that beats greedy in this setting. As a corollary, it also solves the open questions by Gamlath et al.(SODA 2019) in the stochastic setting. |
Keyword | Oblivious Matching Randomized Greedy Matching Randomized Primal Dual |
DOI | 10.1145/3357713.3384265 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | CPCI-S |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Computer Science ; Operations Research & Management Science ; Mathematics |
WOS Subject | Computer Science, Theory & Methods ; Operations Research & Management Science ; Mathematics, Applied |
WOS ID | WOS:000614624700088 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85086756089 |
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Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | THE STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITY (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU) |
Corresponding Author | Zhihao Gavin Tang |
Affiliation | 1.ITCS, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China 2.IOTSC, University of Macau Macau, China 3.Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhihao Gavin Tang,Xiaowei Wu,Yuhao Zhang. Towards a better understanding of randomized greedy matching[C], 2020, 1097-1110. |
APA | Zhihao Gavin Tang., Xiaowei Wu., & Yuhao Zhang (2020). Towards a better understanding of randomized greedy matching. Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 1097-1110. |
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