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关于部分集合覆盖的逼近及其推广

On Approximating Partial Set Cover and Generalizations

Chandra Chekuri, Kent Quanrud, Zhao Zhang

摘要:

部分集合覆盖(PSC)是集合覆盖问题(SC)的推广。在PSC中,输入由整数$k$和集合系统$(U,S)$组成,其中$U$是有限集合,而$S \subseteq 2^U$是$U$的子集的集合。目标是找到具有最小基数的子集$S' \subseteq S$,使得$S'$中的集合至少覆盖$U$的$k$元素;即$|\cup_{A \in S'} A| \ge k$。SC是PSC在$k = |U|$时的一种特殊情况。在加权版本中,每个集合$X \in S$具有非负权重$w(X)$,目标是找到覆盖$k$元素的最小权重子集。SC的近似算法已被改编,以获得可比的算法PSC在各种有趣的情况下。在最近的工作中,Inamdar和Varadarajan受到几何集合系统的启发,获得了一种简单而优雅的方法,通过自然的LP松弛将PSC减少到SC。他们表明,如果一个删除封闭的家庭SC承认$β$ -近似通过自然的LP松弛,然后可以获得一个$2(β+ 1)$ -近似PSC对同一家庭。在随后的论文中,他们还考虑了PSC的一个推广,它具有多个部分覆盖约束,这部分受到Bera等人之前关于顶点覆盖问题的工作的启发。我们在本文中的主要目标是证明一些有用的连接在以前的工作和子模块性的结果。这使我们能够简化,并在某些情况下改善他们的结果。我们改进了PSC到$(1-1/e)(β+ 1)$的近似。我们将以前的工作扩展到稀疏设置。

英文摘要:

Partial Set Cover (PSC) is a generalization of the well-studied Set Cover problem (SC). In PSC the input consists of an integer $k$ and a set system $(U,S)$ where $U$ is a finite set, and $S \subseteq 2^U$ is a collection of subsets of $U$. The goal is to find a subcollection $S' \subseteq S$ of smallest cardinality such that sets in $S'$ cover at least $k$ elements of $U$; that is $|\cup_{A \in S'} A| \ge k$. SC is a special case of PSC when $k = |U|$. In the weighted version each set $X \in S$ has a non-negative weight $w(X)$ and the goal is to find a minimum weight subcollection to cover $k$ elements. Approximation algorithms for SC have been adapted to obtain comparable algorithms for PSC in various interesting cases. In recent work Inamdar and Varadarajan, motivated by geometric set systems, obtained a simple and elegant approach to reduce PSC to SC via the natural LP relaxation. They showed that if a deletion-closed family of SC admits a $β$-approximation via the natural LP relaxation, then one can obtain a $2(β+ 1)$-approximation for PSC on the same family. In a subsequent paper, they also considered a generalization of PSC that has multiple partial covering constraints which is partly inspired by and generalizes previous work of Bera et al on the Vertex Cover problem. Our main goal in this paper is to demonstrate some useful connections between the results in previous work and submodularity. This allows us to simplify, and in some cases improve their results. We improve the approximation for PSC to $(1-1/e)(β+ 1)$. We extend the previous work to the sparse setting.

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