Approximation Algorithms for Preference Aggregation Using CP-Nets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09162v2
• Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:06:57 GMT
• Title: Approximation Algorithms for Preference Aggregation Using CP-Nets
• Authors: Abu Mohammmad Hammad Ali, Boting Yang, Sandra Zilles
• Abstract summary: This paper studies the design and analysis of approximation algorithms for aggregating preferences over Conditional Preference Networks (CP-nets) Its focus is on aggregating preferences over so-called emphswaps, for which optimal solutions in general are already known to be of exponential size.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper studies the design and analysis of approximation algorithms for aggregating preferences over combinatorial domains, represented using Conditional Preference Networks (CP-nets). Its focus is on aggregating preferences over so-called \emph{swaps}, for which optimal solutions in general are already known to be of exponential size. We first analyze a trivial 2-approximation algorithm that simply outputs the best of the given input preferences, and establish a structural condition under which the approximation ratio of this algorithm is improved to $4/3$. We then propose a polynomial-time approximation algorithm whose outputs are provably no worse than those of the trivial algorithm, but often substantially better. A family of problem instances is presented for which our improved algorithm produces optimal solutions, while, for any $\varepsilon$, the trivial algorithm can\emph{not}\/ attain a $(2-\varepsilon)$-approximation. These results may lead to the first polynomial-time approximation algorithm that solves the CP-net aggregation problem for swaps with an approximation ratio substantially better than $2$.

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