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H. Xu, K. Sun, S. Koenig and S. Kumar. A Warning Propagation-Based Linear-Time-and-Space Algorithm for the Minimum Vertex Cover Problem on Giant Graphs. In International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR), pages 567-584, 2018.Abstract: A vertex cover (VC) of a graph G is a subset of vertices in G such that at least one endpoint vertex of each edge in G is in this subset. The minimum VC (MVC) problem is to identify a VC of minimum size (cardinality) and is known to be NP-hard. Although many local search algorithms have been developed to solve the MVC problem close-to-optimally, their applicability on giant graphs (with no less than 100,000 vertices) is limited. For such graphs, there are two reasons why it would be beneficial to have linear-time-and-space algorithms that produce small VCs. Such algorithms can: (a) serve as preprocessing steps to produce good starting states for local search algorithms and (b) also be useful for many applications that require finding small VCs quickly. In this paper, we develop a new linear-time-and-space algorithm, called MVC-WP, for solving the MVC problem on giant graphs based on the idea of warning propagation, which has so far only been used as a theoretical tool for studying properties of MVCs on infinite random graphs. We empirically show that it outperforms other known linear-time-and-space algorithms in terms of sizes of produced VCs.
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