Simulated annealing is a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the minimum spanning tree problem

DOI10.1007/S00453-023-01135-XarXiv2204.02097MaRDI QIDQ6185935FDOQ6185935

Authors: Benjamin Doerr, Amirhossein Rajabi, Carsten Witt 

Publication date: 9 January 2024

Published in: Algorithmica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that Simulated Annealing with an appropriate cooling schedule computes arbitrarily tight constant-factor approximations to the minimum spanning tree problem in polynomial time. This result was conjectured by Wegener (2005). More precisely, denoting by $n,m,w_{max}$, and $w_{min}$ the number of vertices and edges as well as the maximum and minimum edge weight of the MST instance, we prove that simulated annealing with initial temperature $T_{0}ge{w}_{max}$ and multiplicative cooling schedule with factor $1-1/ell$, where $ell=omega(mnln(m))$, with probability at least $1-1/m$ computes in time $O(ell(lnln(ell)+ln(T_0/w_{min})))$ a spanning tree with weight at most $1+kappa$ times the optimum weight, where $1+kappa=frac(1+o(1))ln(ellm)ln(ell)-ln(mnln(m))$. Consequently, for any $epsilon>0$, we can choose $ell$ in such a way that a $(1+epsilon)$-approximation is found in time $O((mnln(n){)}^{1+1/epsilon+o(1)}(lnlnn+ln(T_0/w_{min})))$ with probability at least $1-1/m$. In the special case of so-called $(1+epsilon)$-separated weights, this algorithm computes an optimal solution (again in time $O((mnln(n){)}^{1+1/epsilon+o(1)}(lnlnn+ln(T_0/w_{min})))$), which is a significant speed-up over Wegener's runtime guarantee of $O(m^{8+8/epsilon})$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02097

zbMATH Keywords

simulated annealingtheoryminimum spanning treesapproximation schemeruntime analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algorithms in computer science (68Wxx) Graph theory (05Cxx)

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