Olver, Neil 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8897-5459 and Végh, László A. ORCID: 0000-0003-1152-200X
(2017)
A simpler and faster strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization.
In:
STOC: ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing.
ACM Press, 100 - 111.
ISBN 9781450345286
Abstract
We present a new strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization. The first strongly polynomial algorithm for this problem was given very recently by Végh; our new algorithm is much simpler, and much faster. The complexity bound O((m+nlogn)mnlog(n2/m)) improves on the previous estimate obtained by Végh by almost a factor O(n2). Even for small numerical parameter values, our algorithm is essentially as fast as the best weakly polynomial algorithms. The key new technical idea is relaxing primal feasibility conditions. This allows us to work almost exclusively with integral flows, in contrast to all previous algorithms.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3055399 |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 ACM |
| Divisions: | Mathematics |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2020 00:42 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2024 17:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103086 |
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