Probability-boosting technique for combinatorial optimization

Autor: Sanpawat Kantabutra
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: PeerJ Computer Science, Vol 10, p e2499 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2376-5992
DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.2499
Popis: In many combinatorial optimization problems we want a particular set of k out of n items with some certain properties (or constraints). These properties may involve the k items. In the worst case a deterministic algorithm must scan n−k items in the set to verify the k items. If we pick a set of k items randomly and verify the properties, it will take about (n/k)k verifications, which can be a really large number for some values of k and n. In this article we introduce a significantly faster randomized strategy with very high probability to pick the set of such k items by amplifying the probability of obtaining a target set of k items and show how this probability boosting technique can be applied to solve three different combinatorial optimization problems efficiently. In all three applications algorithms that use the probability boosting technique show superiority over their deterministic counterparts.
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