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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.75
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-170136
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/17013/
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Kumabe, Soh ; Yoshida, Yuichi

Average Sensitivity of the Knapsack Problem

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Abstract

In resource allocation, we often require that the output allocation of an algorithm is stable against input perturbation because frequent reallocation is costly and untrustworthy. Varma and Yoshida (SODA'21) formalized this requirement for algorithms as the notion of average sensitivity. Here, the average sensitivity of an algorithm on an input instance is, roughly speaking, the average size of the symmetric difference of the output for the instance and that for the instance with one item deleted, where the average is taken over the deleted item.
In this work, we consider the average sensitivity of the knapsack problem, a representative example of a resource allocation problem. We first show a (1-ε)-approximation algorithm for the knapsack problem with average sensitivity O(ε^{-1}log ε^{-1}). Then, we complement this result by showing that any (1-ε)-approximation algorithm has average sensitivity Ω(ε^{-1}). As an application of our algorithm, we consider the incremental knapsack problem in the random-order setting, where the goal is to maintain a good solution while items arrive one by one in a random order. Specifically, we show that for any ε > 0, there exists a (1-ε)-approximation algorithm with amortized recourse O(ε^{-1}log ε^{-1}) and amortized update time O(log n+f_ε), where n is the total number of items and f_ε > 0 is a value depending on ε.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{kumabe_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2022.75,
  author =	{Kumabe, Soh and Yoshida, Yuichi},
  title =	{{Average Sensitivity of the Knapsack Problem}},
  booktitle =	{30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)},
  pages =	{75:1--75:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-247-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{244},
  editor =	{Chechik, Shiri and Navarro, Gonzalo and Rotenberg, Eva and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17013},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-170136},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2022.75},
  annote =	{Keywords: Average Sensitivity, Knapsack Problem, FPRAS}
}

Keywords: Average Sensitivity, Knapsack Problem, FPRAS
Collection: 30th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 01.09.2022

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