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Dhruv Rohatgi
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2019
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Dhruv Rohatgi
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The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two sets of points $A, B subseteq mathbb{R}^d$ with $|A| = |B|$ is the minimum total Euclidean distance of any perfect matching between $A$ and $B$. One of its generalizations is asymmetric EMD, which is the minimum total Euclidean distance of any matching of size $|A|$ between sets of points $A,B subseteq mathbb{R}^d$ with $|A| leq |B|$. The problems of computing EMD and asymmetric EMD are well-studied and have many applications in computer science, some of which also ask for the EMD-optimal matching itself. Unfortunately, all known algorithms require at least quadratic time to compute EMD exactly. Approximation algorithms with nearly linear time complexity in $n$ are known (even for finding approximately optimal matchings), but suffer from exponential dependence on the dimension. In this paper we show that significant improvements in exact and approximate algorithms for EMD would contradict conjectures in fine-grained complexity. In particular, we prove the following results: (1) Under the Orthogonal Vectors Conjecture, there is some $c>0$ such that EMD in $Omega(c^{log^* n})$ dimensions cannot be computed in truly subquadratic time. (2) Under the Hitting Set Conjecture, for every $delta>0$, no truly subquadratic time algorithm can find a $(1 + 1/n^delta)$-approximate EMD matching in $omega(log n)$ dimensions. (3) Under the Hitting Set Conjecture, for every $eta = 1/omega(log n)$, no truly subquadratic time algorithm can find a $(1 + eta)$-approximate asymmetric EMD matching in $omega(log n)$ dimensions.
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