\RequirePackage{scrlfile} \makeatletter \AfterPackage{beamerbasemodes}{\beamer@amssymbfalse} \makeatother \documentclass[aspectratio=169,handout]{beamer} \usefonttheme{professionalfonts} \usetheme{moloch} % new metropolis % fonts \usepackage{fontspec} \setsansfont[ ItalicFont={Fira Sans Italic}, BoldFont={Fira Sans Medium}, BoldItalicFont={Fira Sans Medium Italic} ]{Fira Sans} \setmonofont[BoldFont={Fira Mono Medium}]{Fira Mono} \AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{% \addfontfeature{Numbers={Monospaced}} } \usepackage{lete-sans-math} \usepackage{booktabs} \title{Connectivity Interdiction \& \\ Perturbed Graphic Matroid Cogirth} \date{\today} \author{Cong Yu} \institute{Algorithm \& Logic Group, UESTC} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{Connectivity interdiction} \begin{frame}{Connectivity interdiction} \textit{What is the maximum change of edge connectivity in a network when some limited set of edges is being removed?} \pause \medskip \begin{problem}[{[Zenklusen ORL'14]}] Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph with edge weights $w:E\to\mathbb{Z}_+$ and edge removal costs $c:E\to\mathbb{Z}_+$ and let $B\in \mathbb Z_+$ be the budget. Find $F\subset E$ with $w(F)\leq B$ s.t. the min-cut in $G-F$ is minimized. \end{problem} \pause \medskip connectivity interdiction $\approx$ min-cut + knapsack Is there an FPTAS? \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Previous works} \begin{table}[h] \centering \begin{tabular}{c c c c} \toprule unit cost $w(\cdot)=1$ & general case & random? & ref \\ \midrule $O(m^2n^4\log n)$ & $O(m^{2+1/\varepsilon}n^4\log n)$ & $\times$ & [Zenklusen ORL'14] \\ $O(mn^4\log^2 n)$ & $O(m^{1+1/\varepsilon}n^4\log^2 n)$ & $\checkmark$ & [Zenklusen ORL'14] \\ $\tilde O(m+n^4 B)$ & $O(\frac{m^2n^4}{\varepsilon}\log(Bnw_{\max}))$ & $\times$ & [C.-C. Huang et al. IPCO'24]\\ $\tilde O(n^3m\log w_{\max})$ & - & $\checkmark$ & [Drange et al. AAAI'26]\\ $\tilde O(m^2+n^3B)$ & $\tilde O(m^2+mn^3+\frac{n^3}{\varepsilon})$ & $\times$ & this work\\ $\tilde O(m+n^3B)$ & $\tilde O(mn^3+\frac{n^3}{\varepsilon})$ & $\checkmark$ & this work\\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \caption{PTASes for connectivity interdiction} \end{table} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Method in [C.-C. Huang et al. IPCO'24]} They use an intemediate problem called \emph{normalized min-cut}. \begin{problem}[{[Chalermsook ICALP'22]}] Given the same input as connectivity interdiction, find a cut $C$ and a subset of its edges $F\subset C$ satisfying $0\leq c(F)\leq B$, so that $\frac{w(C-F)}{B-c(F)+1}$ is minimized. \end{problem} \pause\medskip Normalized min-cut is first considered in [Chalermsook ICALP'22] as a subproblem in MWU framework when solving minimum $k$-edge connected spanning subgraph (ECSS) problem. \pause\medskip ... \end{frame} \begin{frame}{LP method} \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} \min& & \sum_{e} x_e w(e)& & & \\ s.t.& & \sum_{e\in T} x_e+y_e&\geq 1 & &\forall T\quad \text{($x+y$ is a cut)}\\ & & \sum_{e} y_e c(e) &\leq B & &\text{(budget for $F$)}\\ & & y_e,x_e&\in\{0,1\} & &\forall e \end{aligned} \end{equation*} \end{frame} \section{Computing cogirth in perturbed graphic matroids} \begin{frame}{Perturbed graphic matroids} \end{frame} \end{document}