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arXiv 1906.04899cs.DScs.GT
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拟阵与图的交的Prophet不等式

Prophet Inequalities on the Intersection of a Matroid and a Graph

Jackie Baek, Will Ma

摘要:

我们认为先知不平等的设置代理对应于两个元素的拟阵和顶点图。一组智能体是可行的,如果它们形成拟阵中的独立集和图中的独立集。我们的主要结果是一个事前1/(2d+2)-预言不等式,其中d是一个图参数,其上界为任意顶点邻域内的一个独立集的最大尺寸.我们通过一个框架建立了这个结果,该框架既为拟阵中的元素设置动态价格(使用平衡阈值的方法),又为图中的顶点设置静态但歧视性的价格(受到近似动态规划的最新发展的启发)。接受代理人的门槛就是这两个价格之和。我们表明,由一定的家庭的间隔调度约束,d的值是1。因此,我们的框架提供了第一个常数因子先知不平等时,既有拟阵独立的约束和时间间隔调度约束。它还统一和改进了文献中的几个结果,导致1/2-先知不等式时,代理人有XOS的一组项目的估值函数,并使用它们为一个有限的时间间隔,更一般地说,1/(d+1)-先知不等式时,这些项目都需要一捆d资源采购。

英文摘要:

We consider prophet inequalities in a setting where agents correspond to both elements in a matroid and vertices in a graph. A set of agents is feasible if they form both an independent set in the matroid and an independent set in the graph. Our main result is an ex-ante 1/(2d+2)-prophet inequality, where d is a graph parameter upper-bounded by the maximum size of an independent set in the neighborhood of any vertex. We establish this result through a framework that sets both dynamic prices for elements in the matroid (using the method of balanced thresholds), and static but discriminatory prices for vertices in the graph (motivated by recent developments in approximate dynamic programming). The threshold for accepting an agent is then the sum of these two prices. We show that for graphs induced by a certain family of interval-scheduling constraints, the value of d is 1. Our framework thus provides the first constant-factor prophet inequality when there are both matroid-independence constraints and interval-scheduling constraints. It also unifies and improves several results from the literature, leading to a 1/2-prophet inequality when agents have XOS valuation functions over a set of items and use them for a finite interval duration, and more generally, a 1/(d+1)-prophet inequality when these items each require a bundle of d resources to procure.

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