Title
An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Knapsack Median Using Sparsification.
Abstract
Knapsack median is a generalization of the classic -median problem in which we replace the cardinality constraint with a knapsack constraint. It is currently known to be 32-approximable. We improve on the best known algorithms in several ways, including adding randomization and applying sparsification as a preprocessing step. The latter improvement produces the first LP for this problem with bounded integrality gap. The new algorithm obtains an approximation factor of 17.46. We also give a 3.05 approximation with small budget violation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s00453-017-0294-4
Algorithmica
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Approximation algorithm,Combinatorial optimization,Randomized algorithm,Facility-location problems
Journal
80
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0178-4617
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaroslaw Byrka152331.45
Thomas Pensyl2292.81
Bartosz Rybicki3434.80
Joachim Spoerhase411214.12
Aravind Srinivasan53531291.42
Khoa Trinh61026.32