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This paper presents an efficient parallel approximation scheme for a new class of min-max problems. The algorithm is derived from the matrix multiplicative weights update method and can be used to find near-optimal strategies for competitive two-party classical or quantum interactions in which a referee exchanges any number of messages with one party followed by any number of additional messages with the other. It considerably extends the class of interactions which admit parallel solutions, demonstrating for the first time the existence of a parallel algorithm for an interaction in which one party reacts adaptively to the other. As a consequence, we prove that several competing-provers complexity classes collapse to PSPACE such as QRG(2), SQG and two new classes called DIP and DQIP. A special case of our result is a parallel approximation scheme for a specific class of semidefinite programs whose feasible region consists of lists of semidefinite matrices that satisfy a transcript-like consistency condition. Applied to this special case, our algorithm yields a direct polynomial-space simulation of multi-message quantum interactive proofs resulting in a first-principles proof of QIP=PSPACE.
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In the ${-1,0,1}$-APSP problem the goal is to compute all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) on a directed graph whose edge weights are all from ${-1,0,1}$. In the (min,max)-product problem the input is two $ntimes n$ matrices $A$ and $B$, and the goal is to output the (min,max)-product of $A$ and $B$. This paper provides a new algorithm for the ${-1,0,1}$-APSP problem via a simple reduction to the target-(min,max)-product problem where the input is three $ntimes n$ matrices $A,B$, and $T$, and the goal is to output a Boolean $ntimes n$ matrix $C$ such that the $(i,j)$ entry of $C$ is 1 if and only if the $(i,j)$ entry of the (min,max)-product of $A$ and $B$ is exactly the $(i,j)$ entry of the target matrix $T$. If (min,max)-product can be solved in $T_{MM}(n) = Omega(n^2)$ time then it is straightforward to solve target-(min,max)-product in $O(T_{MM}(n))$ time. Thus, given the recent result of Bringmann, Kunnemann, and Wegrzycki [STOC 2019], the ${-1,0,1}$-APSP problem can be solved in the same time needed for solving approximate APSP on graphs with positive weights. Moreover, we design a simple algorithm for target-(min,max)-product when the inputs are restricted to the family of inputs generated by our reduction. Using fast rectangular matrix multiplication, the new algorithm is faster than the current best known algorithm for (min,max)-product.
Asadpour, Feige, and Saberi proved that the integrality gap of the configuration LP for the restricted max-min allocation problem is at most $4$. However, their proof does not give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm. A lot of efforts have been devoted to designing an efficient algorithm whose approximation ratio can match this upper bound for the integrality gap. In ICALP 2018, we present a $(6 + delta)$-approximation algorithm where $delta$ can be any positive constant, and there is still a gap of roughly $2$. In this paper, we narrow the gap significantly by proposing a $(4+delta)$-approximation algorithm where $delta$ can be any positive constant. The approximation ratio is with respect to the optimal value of the configuration LP, and the running time is $mathit{poly}(m,n)cdot n^{mathit{poly}(frac{1}{delta})}$ where $n$ is the number of players and $m$ is the number of resources. We also improve the upper bound for the integrality gap of the configuration LP to $3 + frac{21}{26} approx 3.808$.
MAX CLIQUE problem (MCP) is an NPO problem, which asks to find the largest complete sub-graph in a graph $G, G = (V, E)$ (directed or undirected). MCP is well known to be $NP-Hard$ to approximate in polynomial time with an approximation ratio of $1 + epsilon$, for every $epsilon > 0$ [9] (and even a polynomial time approximation algorithm with a ratio $n^{1 - epsilon}$ has been conjectured to be non-existent [2] for MCP). Up to this date, the best known approximation ratio for MCP of a polynomial time algorithm is $O(n(log_2(log_2(n)))^2 / (log_2(n))^3)$ given by Feige [1]. In this paper, we show that MCP can be approximated with a constant factor in polynomial time through approximation ratio preserving reductions from MCP to MAX DNF and from MAX DNF to MIN SAT. A 2-approximation algorithm for MIN SAT was presented in [6]. An approximation ratio preserving reduction from MIN SAT to min vertex cover improves the approximation ratio to $2 - Theta(1/ sqrt{n})$ [10]. Hence we prove false the infamous conjecture, which argues that there cannot be a polynomial time algorithm for MCP with an approximation ratio of any constant factor.
We consider a max-min variation of the classical problem of maximizing a linear function over the base of a polymatroid. In our problem we assume that the vector of coefficients of the linear function is not a known parameter of the problem but is some vertex of a simplex, and we maximize the linear function in the worst case. Equivalently, we view the problem as a zero-sum game between a maximizing player whose mixed strategy set is the base of the polymatroid and a minimizing player whose mixed strategy set is a simplex. We show how to efficiently obtain optimal strategies for both players and an expression for the value of the game. Furthermore, we give a characterization of the set of optimal strategies for the minimizing player. We consider fou
We study the ridge method for min-max problems, and investigate its convergence without any convexity, differentiability or qualification assumption. The central issue is to determine whether the parametric optimality formula provides a conservative field, a notion of generalized derivative well suited for optimization. The answer to this question is positive in a semi-algebraic, and more generally definable, context. The proof involves a new characterization of definable conservative fields which is of independent interest. As a consequence, the ridge method applied to definable objectives is proved to have a minimizing behavior and to converge to a set of equilibria which satisfy an optimality condition. Definability is key to our proof: we show that for a more general class of nonsmooth functions, conservativity of the parametric optimality formula may fail, resulting in an absurd behavior of the ridge method.
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