Abstract
We design an algorithm to embed graph metrics into ℓp with dimension and distortion both dependent only upon the bandwidth of the graph. In particular we show that any graph of bandwidth k embeds with distortion polynomial in k into O(log k) dimensional ℓp, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. Prior to our result the only known embedding with distortion independent of n was into high dimensional ℓ1 and had distortion exponential in k. Our low dimensional embedding is based on a general method for reducing dimension in an ℓp embedding, satisfying certain conditions, to the intrinsic dimension of the point set, without substantially increasing the distortion. As we observe that the family of graphs with bounded bandwidth are doubling, our result can be viewed as a positive answer to a conjecture of Assouad [2], limited to this family. We also study an extension to graphs of bounded tree-bandwidth.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization |
Subtitle of host publication | Algorithms and Techniques - 14th International Workshop, APPROX 2011 and 15th International Workshop, RANDOM 2011, Proceedings |
Pages | 50-61 |
Number of pages | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2011 |
Event | 14th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2011 and the 15th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2011 - Princeton, NJ, United States Duration: 17 Aug 2011 → 19 Aug 2011 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 6845 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 14th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2011 and the 15th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2011 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Princeton, NJ |
Period | 17/08/11 → 19/08/11 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y. Bartal), [email protected] (D.E. Carroll), [email protected] (A. Meyerson), [email protected] (O. Neiman). 1 The work was done in part while the author was at the Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech, and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. Supported in part by a grant from the Israeli Science Foundation (195/02) and in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF CCF-065253). 2 Research done while a student at UCLA. 3 Research supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CCF-106540. 4 Supported by ISF grant No. 523/12 and by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. 303809.