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无约束XOS最大化的紧逼近

Tight Approximation for Unconstrained XOS Maximization

Yuval Filmus, Yasushi Kawase, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yutaro Yamaguchi

摘要:

一个集合函数被称为XOS,如果它可以由最大的加法函数表示。当这样的表示固定时,定义XOS函数所需的加法函数的数量称为宽度。本文研究了在价值预言机模型中最大化XOS函数的问题。对于宽度为$1$的XOS函数来说,这个问题是微不足道的,因为它们只是可加的,但即使宽度限制为$2$,这个问题也已经是不平凡的了。我们展示了两种类型的紧界的多项式时间逼近这个问题。首先,一般来说,近似边界在$O(n)$和$Ω(n / \log n)$之间,如果允许随机化,则精确地为$Θ(n / \log n)$,其中$n$是基集大小。第二,当输入XOS函数的宽度由常数$k \geq 2$限定时,对于任何$ε> 0$,近似边界在$k - 1$和$k - 1 - ε$之间。特别是,我们给出了一个线性时间算法,找到一个确切的最大化给定的XOS功能的宽度$2$,而我们表明,任何精确的算法需要指数数量的值Oracle调用,即使当宽度被限制为$3$。

英文摘要:

A set function is called XOS if it can be represented by the maximum of additive functions. When such a representation is fixed, the number of additive functions required to define the XOS function is called the width. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing XOS functions in the value oracle model. The problem is trivial for the XOS functions of width $1$ because they are just additive, but it is already nontrivial even when the width is restricted to $2$. We show two types of tight bounds on the polynomial-time approximability for this problem. First, in general, the approximation bound is between $O(n)$ and $Ω(n / \log n)$, and exactly $Θ(n / \log n)$ if randomization is allowed, where $n$ is the ground set size. Second, when the width of the input XOS functions is bounded by a constant $k \geq 2$, the approximation bound is between $k - 1$ and $k - 1 - ε$ for any $ε> 0$. In particular, we give a linear-time algorithm to find an exact maximizer of a given XOS function of width $2$, while we show that any exact algorithm requires an exponential number of value oracle calls even when the width is restricted to $3$.

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