On Constructing Spanners from Random Gaussian Projections

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Název: On Constructing Spanners from Random Gaussian Projections
Autoři: Assadi, Sepehr, Kapralov, Michael, Yu, Huacheng
Přispěvatelé: Sepehr Assadi and Michael Kapralov and Huacheng Yu
Publication Status: Preprint
Informace o vydavateli: arXiv, 2022.
Rok vydání: 2022
Témata: FOS: Computer and information sciences, sketching algorithm, graph spanner, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), 0102 computer and information sciences, ddc:004, lower bound, 01 natural sciences
Popis: Graph sketching is a powerful paradigm for analyzing graph structure via linear measurements introduced by Ahn, Guha, and McGregor (SODA'12) that has since found numerous applications in streaming, distributed computing, and massively parallel algorithms, among others. Graph sketching has proven to be quite successful for various problems such as connectivity, minimum spanning trees, edge or vertex connectivity, and cut or spectral sparsifiers. Yet, the problem of approximating shortest path metric of a graph, and specifically computing a spanner, is notably missing from the list of successes. This has turned the status of this fundamental problem into one of the most longstanding open questions in this area. We present a partial explanation of this lack of success by proving a strong lower bound for a large family of graph sketching algorithms that encompasses prior work on spanners and many (but importantly not also all) related cut-based problems mentioned above. Our lower bound matches the algorithmic bounds of the recent result of Filtser, Kapralov, and Nouri (SODA'21), up to lower order terms, for constructing spanners via the same graph sketching family. This establishes near-optimality of these bounds, at least restricted to this family of graph sketching techniques, and makes progress on a conjecture posed in this latter work.
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.14775
DOI: 10.4230/lipics.approx/random.2023.57
Přístupová URL adresa: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14775
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2023.57
Rights: CC BY
Přístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....6330720c87d916dd49ad11e97cf9114f
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Graph sketching is a powerful paradigm for analyzing graph structure via linear measurements introduced by Ahn, Guha, and McGregor (SODA'12) that has since found numerous applications in streaming, distributed computing, and massively parallel algorithms, among others. Graph sketching has proven to be quite successful for various problems such as connectivity, minimum spanning trees, edge or vertex connectivity, and cut or spectral sparsifiers. Yet, the problem of approximating shortest path metric of a graph, and specifically computing a spanner, is notably missing from the list of successes. This has turned the status of this fundamental problem into one of the most longstanding open questions in this area. We present a partial explanation of this lack of success by proving a strong lower bound for a large family of graph sketching algorithms that encompasses prior work on spanners and many (but importantly not also all) related cut-based problems mentioned above. Our lower bound matches the algorithmic bounds of the recent result of Filtser, Kapralov, and Nouri (SODA'21), up to lower order terms, for constructing spanners via the same graph sketching family. This establishes near-optimality of these bounds, at least restricted to this family of graph sketching techniques, and makes progress on a conjecture posed in this latter work.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2209.14775