Clustering with a Knapsack Constraint: Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for the Knapsack Median Problem
摘要
The Knapsack Median problem was known to be W[2]-hard if parameterized by the maximal number of opened facilities in feasible solutions (denoted by k), implying that exactly solving this problem in FPT(k) time is unlikely. We focus on parameterized approximation algorithms for the Knapsack Median problem. We give a sampling-based approach for reducing the solution search space, which yields a \((3+\varepsilon )\) -approximation algorithm that runs in \((k\varepsilon ^{-1})^{O(k)}n^{O(1)}\) time in general metric spaces and a \((1+\varepsilon )\) -approximation algorithm with similar running time in d-dimensional Euclidean space.