{"title":"Matroid-based TSP rounding for half-integral solutions","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10107-024-02065-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>We show how to round any half-integral solution to the subtour-elimination relaxation for the TSP, while losing a less-than<span> <span>\\(-\\)</span> </span> 1.5 factor. Such a rounding algorithm was recently given by Karlin, Klein, and Oveis Gharan based on sampling from max-entropy distributions. We build on an approach of Haddadan and Newman to show how sampling from the matroid intersection polytope, combined with a novel use of max-entropy sampling, can give better guarantees.</p>","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"274 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mathematical Programming","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-024-02065-4","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We show how to round any half-integral solution to the subtour-elimination relaxation for the TSP, while losing a less-than\(-\) 1.5 factor. Such a rounding algorithm was recently given by Karlin, Klein, and Oveis Gharan based on sampling from max-entropy distributions. We build on an approach of Haddadan and Newman to show how sampling from the matroid intersection polytope, combined with a novel use of max-entropy sampling, can give better guarantees.
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Mathematical Programming publishes original articles dealing with every aspect of mathematical optimization; that is, everything of direct or indirect use concerning the problem of optimizing a function of many variables, often subject to a set of constraints. This involves theoretical and computational issues as well as application studies. Included, along with the standard topics of linear, nonlinear, integer, conic, stochastic and combinatorial optimization, are techniques for formulating and applying mathematical programming models, convex, nonsmooth and variational analysis, the theory of polyhedra, variational inequalities, and control and game theory viewed from the perspective of mathematical programming.
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