Abstract
Consider an optimization problem with $n$ binary variables and $d+1$ linear objective functions. Each valid solution $x \in {0,1}n$ gives rise to an objective vector in $\R{d+1}$, and one often wants to enumerate the Pareto optima among them. In the worst case there may be exponentially many Pareto optima; however, it was recently shown that in (a generalization of) the smoothed analysis framework, the expected number is polynomial in $n$. Unfortunately, the bound obtained had a rather bad dependence on $d$; roughly $n{dd}$. In this paper we show a significantly improved bound of $n{2d}$. Our proof is based on analyzing two algorithms. The first algorithm, on input a Pareto optimal $x$, outputs a "testimony" containing clues about $x$'s objective vector, $x$'s coordinates, and the region of space $B$ in which $x$'s objective vector lies. The second algorithm can be regarded as a {\em speculative} execution of the first -- it can uniquely reconstruct $x$ from the testimony's clues and just \emph{some} of the probability space's outcomes. The remainder of the probability space's outcomes are just enough to bound the probability that $x$'s objective vector falls into the region $B$.
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