Online embeddings

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Indyk;Avner Magen;Anastasios Sidiropoulos;Anastasios Zouzias

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT;University of Toronto;Toyota Technological Institute;University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • APPROX/RANDOM'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Approximation, and 14 the International conference on Randomization, and combinatorial optimization: algorithms and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We initiate the study of on-line metric embeddings. In such an embedding we are given a sequence of n points X = x1, ..., xn one by one, from a metric space M = (X,D). Our goal is to compute a low-distortion embedding of M into some host space, which has to be constructed in an on-line fashion, so that the image of each xi depends only on x1, ..., xi. We prove several results translating existing embeddings to the on-line setting, for the case of embedding into lp spaces, and into distributions over ultrametrics.