Hardness of Online Sleeping Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Authors: Satyen Kale, Chansoo Lee, David Pal
NeurIPS 2016 | Conference PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Theoretical | In this paper, we resolve this open problem and prove that ONLINE SABOTAGED SHORTEST PATH problem is computationally hard. Specifically, we show that a polynomial-time low-regret algorithm for this problem implies a polynomial-time algorithm for PAC learning DNF expressions, which is a long-standing open problem. The best known algorithm for PAC learning DNF expressions on n variables has time complexity 2 e O(n1/3) [Klivans and Servedio, 2001]. Our reduction framework (Section 4) in fact shows a general result that any online sleeping combinatorial optimization problem with two simple structural properties is as hard as PAC learning DNF expressions. |
| Researcher Affiliation | Collaboration | Satyen Kale Yahoo Research satyen@satyenkale.com Chansoo Lee Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor chansool@umich.edu D avid P al Yahoo Research dpal@yahoo-inc.com Current affiliation: Google Research. This work was done while the authors were at Yahoo Research. |
| Pseudocode | Yes | Algorithm 1 ALGORITHM ALGDISJ FOR LEARNING DISJUNCTIONS |
| Open Source Code | No | The paper is theoretical and does not mention releasing any source code for its proposed framework or analysis. |
| Open Datasets | No | This is a theoretical paper focused on hardness proofs and reductions, not empirical experiments. Therefore, no datasets are used or specified for training. |
| Dataset Splits | No | This is a theoretical paper focused on hardness proofs and reductions, not empirical experiments. Therefore, no training/validation/test splits are relevant or provided. |
| Hardware Specification | No | This is a theoretical paper and does not describe any computational experiments or hardware used. |
| Software Dependencies | No | This is a theoretical paper focused on hardness proofs and reductions, not empirical experiments or software implementation details that would require specific versioned dependencies. |
| Experiment Setup | No | This is a theoretical paper and does not describe any empirical experimental setup, hyperparameters, or training configurations. |