A nearly optimal randomized algorithm for explorable heap selection
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| author | Borst, Sander Dadush, Daniel Huiberts, Sophie Kashaev, Danish |
| author_facet | Borst, Sander Dadush, Daniel Huiberts, Sophie Kashaev, Danish |
| contents | Explorable heap selection is the problem of selecting the $n$th smallest value in a binary heap. The key values can only be accessed by traversing through the underlying infinite binary tree, and the complexity of the algorithm is measured by the total distance traveled in the tree (each edge has unit cost). This problem was originally proposed as a model to study search strategies for the branch-and-bound algorithm with storage restrictions by Karp, Saks and Widgerson (FOCS '86), who gave deterministic and randomized $n\cdot \exp(O(\sqrt{\log{n}}))$ time algorithms using $O(\log(n)^{2.5})$ and $O(\sqrt{\log n})$ space respectively. We present a new randomized algorithm with running time $O(n\log(n)^3)$ using $O(\log n)$ space, substantially improving the previous best randomized running time at the expense of slightly increased space usage. We also show an $Ω(\log(n)n/\log(\log(n)))$ for any algorithm that solves the problem in the same amount of space, indicating that our algorithm is nearly optimal. |
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| spellingShingle | A nearly optimal randomized algorithm for explorable heap selection Borst, Sander Dadush, Daniel Huiberts, Sophie Kashaev, Danish Data Structures and Algorithms Optimization and Control Explorable heap selection is the problem of selecting the $n$th smallest value in a binary heap. The key values can only be accessed by traversing through the underlying infinite binary tree, and the complexity of the algorithm is measured by the total distance traveled in the tree (each edge has unit cost). This problem was originally proposed as a model to study search strategies for the branch-and-bound algorithm with storage restrictions by Karp, Saks and Widgerson (FOCS '86), who gave deterministic and randomized $n\cdot \exp(O(\sqrt{\log{n}}))$ time algorithms using $O(\log(n)^{2.5})$ and $O(\sqrt{\log n})$ space respectively. We present a new randomized algorithm with running time $O(n\log(n)^3)$ using $O(\log n)$ space, substantially improving the previous best randomized running time at the expense of slightly increased space usage. We also show an $Ω(\log(n)n/\log(\log(n)))$ for any algorithm that solves the problem in the same amount of space, indicating that our algorithm is nearly optimal. |
| title | A nearly optimal randomized algorithm for explorable heap selection |
| topic | Data Structures and Algorithms Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05982 |