Efficient approximation for triangulation of minimum treewidth

  • Authors:
  • Eyal Amir

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • UAI'01 Proceedings of the Seventeenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present four novel approximation algorithms for finding triangulation of minimum treewidth. Two of the algorithms improve on the running times of algorithms by Robertson and Seymour, and Becker and Geiger that approximate the optimum by factors of 4 and 32/3, respectively. A third algorithm is faster than those but gives an approximation factor of 41/2. The last algorithm is yet faster, producing factor-O(lgk) approximations in polynomial time. Finding triangulations of minimum treewidth for graphs is central to many problems in computer science. Realworld problems in artificial intelligence, VLSI design and databases are efficiently solvable if we have an efficient approximation algorithm for them. We report on experimental results confirming the effectiveness of our algorithms for large graphs associated with real-world problems.