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New Geometry-Inspired Relaxations and Algorithms for the Metric Steiner Tree Problem
Abstract. Determining the integrality gap of the bidirected cut relaxation for the metric Steiner tree problem, and exploiting it algorithmically, is a long-standing open problem. ...
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Nikhil R. Devanur, Vijay V....
RANDOM
2001
Springer
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On the Equivalence between the Primal-Dual Schema and the Local-Ratio Technique
We discuss two approximation approaches, the primal-dual schema and the local-ratio technique. We present two relatively simple frameworks, one for each approach, which extend know...
Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Dror Rawitz