We revisit the simultaneous approximation model for the correlation clustering problem introduced by Davies, Moseley, and Newman[DMN24]. The objective is to find a clustering that minimizes given norms of the disagreement vector over all vertices.
We present an efficient algorithm that produces a clustering that is simultaneously a $63.3$-approximation for all monotone symmetric norms. This significantly improves upon the previous approximation ratio of $6348$ due to Davies, Moseley, and Newman[DMN24], which works only for $\ell_p$-norms.
To achieve this result, we first reduce the problem to approximating all top-$k$ norms simultaneously, using the connection between monotone symmetric norms and top-$k$ norms established by Chakrabarty and Swamy [CS19]. Then we develop a novel procedure that constructs a $12.66$-approximate fractional clustering for all top-$k$ norms. Our $63.3$-approximation ratio is obtained by combining this with the $5$-approximate rounding algorithm by Kalhan, Makarychev, and Zhou[KMZ19].
We then demonstrate that with a loss of $ε$ in the approximation ratio, the algorithm can be adapted to run in nearly linear time and in the MPC (massively parallel computation) model with poly-logarithmic number of rounds.
By allowing a further trade-off in the approximation ratio to $(359+ε)$, the number of MPC rounds can be reduced to a constant.
Approximating Nash Equilibria and Dense Subgraphs via an Approximate Version of Carathéodory's Theorem
我们提出的算法应用的近似版本的Carathéodory定理。该定理指出,给定$\mathbb{R}^d$中的一组向量$X$,对于$X$的凸包中的每个向量,存在一个$\varepsilon$ -闭(对于$2\leq p < \infty$,在$p$ -范数距离下)向量,该向量可以表示为$X$的至多$b$向量的凸组合,其中,约束$b$取决于$\varepsilon$和范数$p$,并且与维度$d$无关。这个定理可以通过实例化Maurey引理来推导,早期的参考文献可以在Pisier(1981)和Carl(1985)的工作中找到。然而,在本文中,我们提出了一个独立的证明这一结果。利用这个定理,我们建立了在一个具有$ n \times n$支付矩阵$A, B$的双矩阵博弈中,如果$A+B$的任何一列中的非零元素的个数至多为$s$,那么这个博弈的$\varepsilon$ -纳什均衡可以在时间上计算出$n^{O\left(\frac{\log s }{\varepsilon^2}\right)}$ .这,特别是,给我们一个多项式时间近似计划纳什均衡在游戏中固定列稀疏$s$。此外,对于任意双矩阵游戏-因为$s$最多可以是$n$ -我们算法的运行时间与Lipton,Markakis和Mehta(2003)获得的最著名的上限相匹配。近似Carathéodory定理也导致了一个加性近似算法的规范化den…
Approximating Hamiltonian dynamics with the Nyström method
INRIA(法国国家信息与自动化研究所);University College London(伦敦大学学院);Rahko Ltd.(拉赫科有限公司);University of Texas at Austin(得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);University of Oxford(牛津大学);IIT(意大利理工学院)