Computer Science – Data Structures and Algorithms
Scientific paper
2010-10-20
Computer Science
Data Structures and Algorithms
To appear in SODA 2011
Scientific paper
In this paper, we consider the following graph partitioning problem: The input is an undirected graph $G=(V,E),$ a balance parameter $b \in (0,1/2]$ and a target conductance value $\gamma \in (0,1).$ The output is a cut which, if non-empty, is of conductance at most $O(f),$ for some function $f(G, \gamma),$ and which is either balanced or well correlated with all cuts of conductance at most $\gamma.$ Spielman and Teng gave an $\tilde{O}(|E|/\gamma^{2})$-time algorithm for $f= \sqrt{\gamma \log^{3}|V|}$ and used it to decompose graphs into a collection of near-expanders. We present a new spectral algorithm for this problem which runs in time $\tilde{O}(|E|/\gamma)$ for $f=\sqrt{\gamma}.$ Our result yields the first nearly-linear time algorithm for the classic Balanced Separator problem that achieves the asymptotically optimal approximation guarantee for spectral methods. Our method has the advantage of being conceptually simple and relies on a primal-dual semidefinite-programming SDP approach. We first consider a natural SDP relaxation for the Balanced Separator problem. While it is easy to obtain from this SDP a certificate of the fact that the graph has no balanced cut of conductance less than $\gamma,$ somewhat surprisingly, we can obtain a certificate for the stronger correlation condition. This is achieved via a novel separation oracle for our SDP and by appealing to Arora and Kale's framework to bound the running time. Our result contains technical ingredients that may be of independent interest.
Orecchia Lorenzo
Vishnoi Nisheeth K.
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