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Improved approximation algorithms for capacitated cluster editing
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We study the minimum-disagreement cluster editing problem that, from a complete edge-signed graph, where a positive edge represents two vertices agreeing to each other while a negative represents a disagreement, constructs disjoint cliques of upper bounded size such that the total number of negative edges inside cliques and positive edges outside cliques is minimized. When the sizes of the candidate cliques are unbounded, the problem is NP-hard and APX-hard, and many approximation algorithms with improving ratios have been proposed in the literature and the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of $α= 1.3865 + ε$. The capacitated variant, in which the candidate cliques have sizes no greater than a given $k$, is less studied and the best approximation ratio is $5.37$. In this paper, we study the latter problem. We first present a downsizing procedure that achieves an approximation ratio of $α_k = 2 α+ 1$, based on any $α$-approximation algorithm for the uncapacitated problem. Secondly, we propose a hybrid of cluster-LP sampling and pivoting and show that for every fractional capacitated cluster-LP solution of cost $L$, the hybrid using ordinary pivoting has an expected cost at most $\frac 95 L + \frac 1{10} \OPT_k$, and the hybrid using conditional pivoting has an expected cost at most $\frac {306}{203} L + \frac {50}{203} \OPT_k$. A cardinality-constrained adaptation of the approximate dual-separation framework of García-Soriano and Schohn supplies the required fractional solution and yields a randomized $(1.9 + ε)$-approximation algorithm and a randomized $(1.7537 + ε)$-approximation algorithm, respectively.
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Improved approximation algorithms for capacitated cluster editing
We study the minimum-disagreement cluster editing problem that, from a complete edge-signed graph, where a positive edge represents two vertices agreeing to each other while a negative represents a disagreement, constructs disjoint cliques of upper bounded size such that the total number of negative edges inside cliques and positive edges outside cliques is minimized. When the sizes of the candidate cliques are unbounded, the problem is NP-hard and APX-hard, and many approximation algorithms with improving ratios have been proposed in the literature and the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of $α= 1.3865 + ε$. The capacitated variant, in which the candidate cliques have sizes no greater than a given $k$, is less studied and the best approximation ratio is $5.37$. In this paper, we study the latter problem. We first present a downsizing procedure that achieves an approximation ratio of $α_k = 2 α+ 1$, based on any $α$-approximation algorithm for the uncapacitated problem. Secondly, we propose a hybrid of cluster-LP sampling and pivoting and show that for every fractional capacitated cluster-LP solution of cost $L$, the hybrid using ordinary pivoting has an expected cost at most $\frac 95 L + \frac 1{10} \OPT_k$, and the hybrid using conditional pivoting has an expected cost at most $\frac {306}{203} L + \frac {50}{203} \OPT_k$. A cardinality-constrained adaptation of the approximate dual-separation framework of García-Soriano and Schohn supplies the required fractional solution and yields a randomized $(1.9 + ε)$-approximation algorithm and a randomized $(1.7537 + ε)$-approximation algorithm, respectively.
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