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arXiv 2010.08142cs.DS
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随机匹配问题的改进近似算法

Improved Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic-Matching Problems

Marek Adamczyk, Brian Brubach, Fabrizio Grandoni, Karthik A. Sankararaman, Aravind Srinivasan, Pan Xu

摘要:

我们考虑随机匹配问题,这是出于肾脏交换和在线约会的应用程序。在这个问题中,我们给出了一个无向图。每个边被分配一个已知的、独立的存在概率和一个正权重(或利润)。我们必须探测一个边缘,以发现它是否存在。每个节点都被分配一个正整数,称为超时(或耐心)。在这个随机图上,我们正在执行一个过程,该过程逐个探测边并逐渐构建匹配。这一进程受到两方面的限制。首先,如果存在探测的边,则必须将其可扩展地添加到匹配中(查询提交模型)。第二,节点$v$的超时使可以探测的与$v$关联的边的数量上界。目标是最大化构造的匹配的期望权重。对于这个问题,Bansal等人(Micromica 2012)提供了二分图的$0.33$ -近似算法和一般图的$0.25$ -近似算法。我们改进的逼近因子$0.39$和$0.269$,分别。在我们的研究结果的主要技术成分是一种新的方式探测边缘根据一个不均匀的随机排列。用一种最适合大概率边缘的算法(加上额外的想法)修补这种方法,可以改进近似因子。

英文摘要:

We consider the Stochastic Matching problem, which is motivated by applications in kidney exchange and online dating. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph. Each edge is assigned a known, independent probability of existence and a positive weight (or profit). We must probe an edge to discover whether or not it exists. Each node is assigned a positive integer called a timeout (or a patience). On this random graph we are executing a process, which probes the edges one-by-one and gradually constructs a matching. The process is constrained in two ways. First, if a probed edge exists, it must be added irrevocably to the matching (the query-commit model). Second, the timeout of a node $v$ upper-bounds the number of edges incident to $v$ that can be probed. The goal is to maximize the expected weight of the constructed matching. For this problem, Bansal et al. (Algorithmica 2012) provided a $0.33$-approximation algorithm for bipartite graphs and a $0.25$-approximation for general graphs. We improve the approximation factors to $0.39$ and $0.269$, respectively. The main technical ingredient in our result is a novel way of probing edges according to a not-uniformly-random permutation. Patching this method with an algorithm that works best for large-probability edges (plus additional ideas) leads to our improved approximation factors.

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