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arXiv 2006.05490cs.DS
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度量TSP费用估计的次线性算法和下界

Sublinear Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Metric TSP Cost Estimation

Yu Chen, Sampath Kannan, Sanjeev Khanna

摘要:

我们考虑的问题,设计次线性时间算法估计成本的最小度量旅行商(TSP)旅游。具体地,给定对指定$n$点之间的成对距离的$n \times n$距离矩阵$D$的访问,目标是通过仅执行次线性(以$D$的大小)查询来估计TSP成本。对于估计度量最小生成树(MST)的权重的密切相关的问题,已知对于任何$\varepsilon > 0$,存在返回MST成本的$(1 + \varepsilon)$近似估计的$\tilde{O}(n/\varepsilon^{O(1)})$时间算法。该结果立即暗示了$\tilde{O}(n/\varepsilon^{O(1)})$时间算法,以将TSP成本估计到任何$\varepsilon > 0$的$(2 + \varepsilon)$因子内。然而,没有$o(n^2)$时间算法是已知的近似度量TSP的一个因素,严格优于$2$。另一方面,也没有已知的障碍,排除存在的$(1 + \varepsilon)$ -近似估计算法的度量TSP与$\tilde{O}(n)$时间为任何固定的$\varepsilon > 0$。在本文中,我们取得了进展的算法和下界估计度量TSP成本。我们还表明,估计度量TSP成本的问题是密切相关的问题,估计在一个图中的最大匹配的大小。

英文摘要:

We consider the problem of designing sublinear time algorithms for estimating the cost of a minimum metric traveling salesman (TSP) tour. Specifically, given access to a $n \times n$ distance matrix $D$ that specifies pairwise distances between $n$ points, the goal is to estimate the TSP cost by performing only sublinear (in the size of $D$) queries. For the closely related problem of estimating the weight of a metric minimum spanning tree (MST), it is known that for any $\varepsilon > 0$, there exists an $\tilde{O}(n/\varepsilon^{O(1)})$ time algorithm that returns a $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximate estimate of the MST cost. This result immediately implies an $\tilde{O}(n/\varepsilon^{O(1)})$ time algorithm to estimate the TSP cost to within a $(2 + \varepsilon)$ factor for any $\varepsilon > 0$. However, no $o(n^2)$ time algorithms are known to approximate metric TSP to a factor that is strictly better than $2$. On the other hand, there were also no known barriers that rule out the existence of $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximate estimation algorithms for metric TSP with $\tilde{O}(n)$ time for any fixed $\varepsilon > 0$. In this paper, we make progress on both algorithms and lower bounds for estimating metric TSP cost. We also show that the problem of estimating metric TSP cost is closely connected to the problem of estimating the size of a maximum matching in a graph.

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