Almost tight bounds for online hypergraph matching

IF 0.8 4区管理学 Q4 OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Operations Research Letters Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.orl.2024.107143

Thorben Tröbst , Rajan Udwani

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Abstract

In the online hypergraph matching problem, hyperedges of size k over a common ground set arrive online in adversarial order. The goal is to obtain a maximum matching (disjoint set of hyperedges). A naïve greedy algorithm for this problem achieves a competitive ratio of $\frac{1}{k}$ . We show that no (randomized) online algorithm has competitive ratio better than $\frac{2 + o (1)}{k}$ . If edges are allowed to be assigned fractionally, we give a deterministic online algorithm with competitive ratio $\frac{1 - o (1)}{\ln (k)}$ and show that no online algorithm can have competitive ratio strictly better than $\frac{1 + o (1)}{\ln (k)}$ . Lastly, we give a $\frac{1 - o (1)}{\ln (k)}$ competitive algorithm for the fractional edge-weighted version of the problem under a free disposal assumption.

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Operations Research Letters 管理科学-运筹学与管理科学

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

9.10%

发文量

111

审稿时长

83 days

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