Computer Science – Data Structures and Algorithms
Scientific paper
2009-04-21
Computer Science
Data Structures and Algorithms
31 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
Let $(L; \sqcap, \sqcup)$ be a finite lattice and let $n$ be a positive integer. A function $f : L^n \to \mathbb{R}$ is said to be submodular if $f(\tup{a} \sqcap \tup{b}) + f(\tup{a} \sqcup \tup{b}) \leq f(\tup{a}) + f(\tup{b})$ for all $\tup{a}, \tup{b} \in L^n$. In this paper we study submodular functions when $L$ is a diamond. Given oracle access to $f$ we are interested in finding $\tup{x} \in L^n$ such that $f(\tup{x}) = \min_{\tup{y} \in L^n} f(\tup{y})$ as efficiently as possible. We establish a min--max theorem, which states that the minimum of the submodular function is equal to the maximum of a certain function defined over a certain polyhedron; and a good characterisation of the minimisation problem, i.e., we show that given an oracle for computing a submodular $f : L^n \to \mathbb{Z}$ and an integer $m$ such that $\min_{\tup{x} \in L^n} f(\tup{x}) = m$, there is a proof of this fact which can be verified in time polynomial in $n$ and $\max_{\tup{t} \in L^n} \log |f(\tup{t})|$; and a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm for the minimisation problem, i.e., given an oracle for computing a submodular $f : L^n \to \mathbb{Z}$ one can find $\min_{\tup{t} \in L^n} f(\tup{t})$ in time bounded by a polynomial in $n$ and $\max_{\tup{t} \in L^n} |f(\tup{t})|$.
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