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Time-Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Matching and Vertex Cover (2106.02942v3)

Published 5 Jun 2021 in cs.DS and cs.DC

Abstract: We study the problem of estimating the size of maximum matching and minimum vertex cover in sublinear time. Denoting the number of vertices by $n$ and the average degree in the graph by $\bar{d}$, we obtain the following results for both problems: * A multiplicative $(2+\epsilon)$-approximation that takes $\tilde{O}(n/\epsilon2)$ time using adjacency list queries. * A multiplicative-additive $(2, \epsilon n)$-approximation in $\tilde{O}((\bar{d} + 1)/\epsilon2)$ time using adjacency list queries. * A multiplicative-additive $(2, \epsilon n)$-approximation in $\tilde{O}(n/\epsilon{3})$ time using adjacency matrix queries. All three results are provably time-optimal up to polylogarithmic factors culminating a long line of work on these problems. Our main contribution and the key ingredient leading to the bounds above is a new and near-tight analysis of the average query complexity of the randomized greedy maximal matching algorithm which improves upon a seminal result of Yoshida, Yamamoto, and Ito [STOC'09].

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