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Fast Local Search Algorithm for Weighted Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments

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Fast Local Search Algorithm for Weighted Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments
We present a fast local search algorithm that finds an improved solution (if there is any) in the k-exchange neighborhood of the given solution to an instance of WEIGHTED FEEDBACK ARC SET IN TOURNAMENTS. More precisely, given an arc weighted tournament T on n vertices and a feedback arc set F (a set of arcs whose deletion from T turns it into a directed acyclic graph), our algorithm decides in time O(2o(k) n log n) if there is a feedback arc set of smaller weight and that differs from F in at most k arcs. To our knowledge this is the first algorithm searching the k-exchange neighborhood of an NP-complete problem that runs in (parameterized) subexponential time. Using this local search algorithm for WEIGHTED FEEDBACK ARC SET IN TOURNAMENTS, we obtain subexponential time algorithms for a local search variant of KEMENY RANKING
Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Venkatesh Raman
Added 29 Oct 2010
Updated 29 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where AAAI
Authors Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Venkatesh Raman, Saket Saurabh
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