Approximation Schemes for Low-rank Binary Matrix Approximation Problems

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Abstract: We provide a randomized linear time approximation scheme for a generic problem about clustering of binary vectors subject to additional constrains. The new constrained clustering problem encompasses a number of problems and by solving it, we obtain the first linear time-approximation schemes for a number of well-studied fundamental problems concerning clustering of binary vectors and low-rank approximation of binary matrices. Among the problems solvable by our approach are extsc{Low GF(2)-Rank Approximation}, extsc{Low Boolean-Rank Approximation}, and various versions of extsc{Binary Clustering}. For example, for extsc{Low GF(2)-Rank Approximation} problem, where for an mimesn binary matrix A and integer r>0, we seek for a binary matrix B of GF2 rank at most r such that ell0 norm of matrix AB is minimum, our algorithm, for any epsilon>0 in time f(r,epsilon)cdotncdotm, where f is some computable function, outputs a (1+epsilon)-approximate solution with probability at least (1frac1e). Our approximation algorithms substantially improve the running times and approximation factors of previous works. We also give (deterministic) PTASes for these problems running in time nf(r)frac1epsilon2logfrac1epsilon, where f is some function depending on the problem. Our algorithm for the constrained clustering problem is based on a novel sampling lemma, which is interesting in its own.











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