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拟阵秘书等价于竞争消解

Matroid Secretary Is Equivalent to Contention Resolution

Shaddin Dughmi

摘要:

我们证明了拟阵秘书问题等价于在线随机序模型中的相关竞争解决。具体地说,拟阵秘书猜想是真实的,当且仅当每个拟阵承认一个在线的随机顺序的竞争解决方案,给定一个任意的(可能相关的)先验分布的子集的地面集,匹配的平衡比最好的离线计划的分布到一个常数。我们称这种方案为普遍方案。我们的研究结果表明,拟阵秘书问题的核心挑战在于解决正相关输入的竞争,特别是当正相关性是良性的,尽可能多的离线竞争解决的关注。我们的结果建立在我们以前的工作,建立了一个方向的这种等价性,即秘书猜想意味着普遍的随机顺序的竞争决议,以及弱逆,从一个随机顺序的竞争决议计划,只有部分知识的分布派生出一个拟阵秘书算法。正是这种弱逆,我们加强在本文中:我们表明,普遍的随机顺序的竞争解决拟阵,在通常的设置一个完全已知的先验分布,足以解决拟阵秘书猜想的肯定。我们的证明是三个归约的合成。首先,我们使用对偶参数减少拟阵秘书问题的拟阵先知秘书问题与任意相关的分布。其次,我们引入了一个广义的竞争决议,我们称之为竞争决议,我们减少了相关的拟阵先知秘书问题。最后,我们结合重复的元素与限制参数,以减少标记的竞争解决经典的竞争解决。

英文摘要:

We show that the matroid secretary problem is equivalent to correlated contention resolution in the online random-order model. Specifically, the matroid secretary conjecture is true if and only if every matroid admits an online random-order contention resolution scheme which, given an arbitrary (possibly correlated) prior distribution over subsets of the ground set, matches the balance ratio of the best offline scheme for that distribution up to a constant. We refer to such a scheme as universal. Our result indicates that the core challenge of the matroid secretary problem lies in resolving contention for positively correlated inputs, in particular when the positive correlation is benign in as much as offline contention resolution is concerned. Our result builds on our previous work which establishes one direction of this equivalence, namely that the secretary conjecture implies universal random-order contention resolution, as well as a weak converse, which derives a matroid secretary algorithm from a random-order contention resolution scheme with only partial knowledge of the distribution. It is this weak converse that we strengthen in this paper: We show that universal random-order contention resolution for matroids, in the usual setting of a fully known prior distribution, suffices to resolve the matroid secretary conjecture in the affirmative. Our proof is the composition of three reductions. First, we use duality arguments to reduce the matroid secretary problem to the matroid prophet secretary problem with arbitrarily correlated distributions. Second, we introduce a generalization of contention resolution we term labeled contention resolution, to which we reduce the correlated matroid prophet secretary problem. Finally, we combine duplication of elements with limiting arguments to reduce labeled contention resolution to classical contention resolution.

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