On the Advantage over Random for Maximum Acyclic Subgraph

  • Authors:
  • Moses Charikar;Konstantin Makarychev;Yury Makarychev

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '07 Proceedings of the 48th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new approximation algorithm for the MAX ACYCLIC SUBGRAPH problem. Given an instance where the maximum acyclic subgraph contains 1/2 + \delta fraction of all edges, our algorithm finds an acyclic subgraph with 1/2 + \Omega (\delta /\log n) fraction of all edges.