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New and Improved Bounds for the Minimum Set Cover Problem

机译:最小集覆盖问题的新边界和改进边界

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We study the relationship between the approximation factor for the Set-Cover problem and the parameters Δ : the maximum cardinality of any subset, and k : the maximum number of subsets containing any element of the ground set. We show an LP rounding based approximation of (k - 1)(1 - e~(-in Δ/k-1)) + 1, which is substantially better than the classical algorithms in the range k ≈ ln Δ, and also improves on related previous works [19,22]. For the interesting case when k = θ(log Δ) we also exhibit an integrality gap which essentially matches our approximation algorithm. We also prove a hardness of approximation factor of Ω (log Δ/(log log Δ)~2 ) when k = θ(log Δ). This is the first study of the hardness factor specifically for this range of k and Δ, and improves on the only other such result implicitly proved in [18].
机译:我们研究了Set-Cover问题的近似因子与参数Δ之间的关系:Δ:任何子集的最大基数,k:包含地面集合的任何元素的子集的最大数目。我们展示了基于LP舍入的(k-1)(1- e〜(-inΔ/ k-1))+ 1的近似值,它在k≈lnΔ范围内明显优于经典算法,并且还提高了关于以前的相关作品[19,22]。对于有趣的情况,当k =θ(logΔ)时,我们还表现出了一个与我们的近似算法基本匹配的完整性缺口。当k =θ(logΔ)时,我们还证明了近似系数Ω的硬度(logΔ/(log logΔ)〜2)。这是专门针对k和Δ范围的硬度因子的首次研究,并且对[18]中隐含证明的唯一其他此类结果进行了改进。

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