Title
Approximation and parameterized complexity of minimax approval voting
Abstract
AbstractWe present three results on the complexity of MINNIMAX APPROVAL VOTING. First, we study MINNIMAX APPROVAL VOTING parameterized by the Hamming distance d from the solution to the votes. We show MINNIMAX APPROVAL VOTING admits no algorithm running in time O*(2o(d log d)), unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) fails. This means that the O*(d2d) algorithm of Misra, Nabeel and Singh is essentially optimal. Motivated by this, we then show a parameterized approximation scheme, running in time O*((3/ε)2d), which is essentially tight assuming ETH. Finally, we get a new polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme for MINNIMAX APPROVAL VOTING, which runs in time nO(1/ε2·log(1/ε)) · poly(m), where n is a number of voters and m is a number of alternatives. It almost matches the running time of the fastest known PTAS for Closest String due to Ma and Sun.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1613/jair.1.11253
Hosted Content
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
63
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1076-9757
1
0.35
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marek Cygan155640.52
Łukasz Kowalik2111.26
Arkadiusz Socala3114.37
Krzysztof Sornat463.20