Approximation and Parameterized Algorithms for Geometric Independent Set with Shrinking

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.MFCS.2017.42zbMATH Open1441.68270arXiv1611.06501OpenAlexW2550398909MaRDI QIDQ5111257FDOQ5111257

Erik Jan van Leeuwen, Andreas Wiese, Michał Pilipczuk

Publication date: 26 May 2020

Abstract: Consider the Maximum Weight Independent Set problem for rectangles: given a family of weighted axis-parallel rectangles in the plane, find a maximum-weight subset of non-overlapping rectangles. The problem is notoriously hard both in the approximation and in the parameterized setting. The best known polynomial-time approximation algorithms achieve super-constant approximation ratios [Chalermsook and Chuzhoy, SODA 2009; Chan and Har-Peled, Discrete & Comp. Geometry 2012], even though there is a $(1+epsilon)$-approximation running in quasi-polynomial time [Adamaszek and Wiese, FOCS 2013; Chuzhoy and Ene, FOCS 2016]. When parameterized by the target size of the solution, the problem is $mathsfW[1]$-hard even in the unweighted setting [Marx, FOCS 2007]. To achieve tractability, we study the following shrinking model: one is allowed to shrink each input rectangle by a multiplicative factor $1-delta$ for some fixed $delta>0$, but the performance is still compared against the optimal solution for the original, non-shrunk instance. We prove that in this regime, the problem admits an EPTAS with running time $f(epsilon,delta)cdot{n}^{mathcalO(1)}$, and an FPT algorithm with running time $f(k,delta)cdot{n}^{mathcalO(1)}$, in the setting where a maximum-weight solution of size at most $k$ is to be computed. This improves and significantly simplifies a PTAS given earlier for this problem [Adamaszek et al., APPROX 2015], and provides the first parameterized results for the shrinking model. Furthermore, we explore kernelization in the shrinking model, by giving efficient kernelization procedures for several variants of the problem when the input rectangles are squares.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06501

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zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial optimizationapproximation algorithmsfixed-parameter algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial optimization (90C27) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Approximation algorithms (68W25) Parameterized complexity, tractability and kernelization (68Q27)

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