Deterministic sublinear-time approximations for metric 1-median selection

  • Authors:
  • Ching-Lueh Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Given oracle access to an n-point metric space (M,d), let metric 1-median be the problem of finding argmin"x"@?"M@?"y"@?"Md(x,y), breaking ties arbitrarily. We show that metric 1-median has a deterministic nonadaptive O(n^3^/^2)-time 4-approximation algorithm.