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有序拟阵秘书问题的强算法

Strong Algorithms for the Ordinal Matroid Secretary Problem

José A. Soto, Abner Turkieltaub, Victor Verdugo

摘要:

在有序拟阵秘书问题(MSP)中,来自加权拟阵的元素以随机顺序呈现给算法,该算法必须递增地选择大权重独立集。然而,该算法只能比较暴露的元素对,而不使用其数值。如果来自最优值的每个元素在输出中出现的概率为$1/α$,则该算法是$α$概率竞争性的。我们提出了一种设计具有强概率竞争比的算法的技术,提高了文献中考虑的几乎所有拟阵类的保证:例如,我们得到图形拟阵的比率为4(Korula和Pál在$2e$上的改进[ICALP 2009]),层状拟阵的比率为5.19(Ma等人在9.6上的改进[THEOR COMPUT SYST 2016])。我们还获得了新的结果,超类的$k$列稀疏拟阵,超图拟阵,某些gammoids和图包装拟阵,和$1+O(\sqrt{\log ρ/ρ})$概率竞争算法的均匀拟阵秩$ρ$的基础上Kleinberg的$1+O(\sqrt{1/ρ})$效用竞争算法[SODA 2005],该类。我们的第二个贡献是算法的顺序MSP任意拟阵的秩$ρ$。我们设计了一个$O(\log ρ)$概率竞争算法和一个$O(\log\log ρ)$顺序竞争算法,一个较弱的竞争力的概念,但强于实用程序的变体。这些算法基于Feldman等人的$O(\log\log ρ)$效用竞争算法。[SODA 2015年]。

英文摘要:

In the ordinal Matroid Secretary Problem (MSP), elements from a weighted matroid are presented in random order to an algorithm that must incrementally select a large weight independent set. However, the algorithm can only compare pairs of revealed elements without using its numerical value. An algorithm is $α$ probability-competitive if every element from the optimum appears with probability $1/α$ in the output. We present a technique to design algorithms with strong probability-competitive ratios, improving the guarantees for almost every matroid class considered in the literature: e.g., we get ratios of 4 for graphic matroids (improving on $2e$ by Korula and Pál [ICALP 2009]) and of 5.19 for laminar matroids (improving on 9.6 by Ma et al. [THEOR COMPUT SYST 2016]). We also obtain new results for superclasses of $k$ column sparse matroids, for hypergraphic matroids, certain gammoids and graph packing matroids, and a $1+O(\sqrt{\log ρ/ρ})$ probability-competitive algorithm for uniform matroids of rank $ρ$ based on Kleinberg's $1+O(\sqrt{1/ρ})$ utility-competitive algorithm [SODA 2005] for that class. Our second contribution are algorithms for the ordinal MSP on arbitrary matroids of rank $ρ$. We devise an $O(\log ρ)$ probability-competitive algorithm and an $O(\log\log ρ)$ ordinal-competitive algorithm, a weaker notion of competitiveness but stronger than the utility variant. These are based on the $O(\log\log ρ)$ utility-competitive algorithm by Feldman et al.~[SODA 2015].

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