Approximation Algorithms for Unique Games

  • Authors:
  • Luca Trevisan

  • Affiliations:
  • U.C. Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '05 Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a polynomial time algorithm based on semidefinite programming that, given a unique game of value 1 - O(1/ log n), satisfies a constant fraction of constraints, where n is the number of variables. For suficiently large alphabets, it improves an algorithm of Khot (STOC驴02) that satisfies a constant fraction of constraints in unique games of value 1 - O(1/(k^{10} (\log k)^5 )), where k is the size of the alphabet. We also present a simpler algorithm for the special case of unique games with linear constraints.Finally, we present a simple approximation algorithm for 2-to-1 games.