TY - GEN
T1 - The minrank of random graphs
AU - Golovnev, Alexander
AU - Regev, Oded
AU - Weinstein, Omri
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Alexander Golovnev, Oded Regev, and Omri Weinstein.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - The minrank of a directed graph G is the minimum rank of a matrix M that can be obtained from the adjacency matrix of G by switching some ones to zeros (i.e., deleting edges) and then setting all diagonal entries to one. This quantity is closely related to the fundamental informationtheoretic problems of (linear) index coding (Bar-Yossef et al., FOCS'06), network coding and distributed storage, and to Valiant's approach for proving superlinear circuit lower bounds (Valiant, Boolean Function Complexity '92). We prove tight bounds on the minrank of directed Erdos-Rényi random graphs G(n, p) for all regimes of p 2 [0, 1]. In particular, for any constant p, we show that minrk(G) = (n/ log n) with high probability, where G is chosen from G(n, p). This bound gives a near quadratic improvement over the previous best lower bound of (p n) (Haviv and Langberg, ISIT'12), and partially settles an open problem raised by Lubetzky and Stav (FOCS '07). Our lower bound matches the wellknown upper bound obtained by the "clique covering" solution, and settles the linear index coding problem for random graphs. Finally, our result suggests a new avenue of attack, via derandomization, on Valiant's approach for proving superlinear lower bounds for logarithmic-depth semilinear circuits.
AB - The minrank of a directed graph G is the minimum rank of a matrix M that can be obtained from the adjacency matrix of G by switching some ones to zeros (i.e., deleting edges) and then setting all diagonal entries to one. This quantity is closely related to the fundamental informationtheoretic problems of (linear) index coding (Bar-Yossef et al., FOCS'06), network coding and distributed storage, and to Valiant's approach for proving superlinear circuit lower bounds (Valiant, Boolean Function Complexity '92). We prove tight bounds on the minrank of directed Erdos-Rényi random graphs G(n, p) for all regimes of p 2 [0, 1]. In particular, for any constant p, we show that minrk(G) = (n/ log n) with high probability, where G is chosen from G(n, p). This bound gives a near quadratic improvement over the previous best lower bound of (p n) (Haviv and Langberg, ISIT'12), and partially settles an open problem raised by Lubetzky and Stav (FOCS '07). Our lower bound matches the wellknown upper bound obtained by the "clique covering" solution, and settles the linear index coding problem for random graphs. Finally, our result suggests a new avenue of attack, via derandomization, on Valiant's approach for proving superlinear lower bounds for logarithmic-depth semilinear circuits.
KW - Circuit complexity
KW - Index coding
KW - Information theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028709052&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2017.46
DO - https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2017.46
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
T3 - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
BT - Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques - 20th International Workshop, APPROX 2017 and 21st International Workshop, RANDOM 2017
A2 - Rolim, Jose D. P.
A2 - Jansen, Klaus
A2 - Williamson, David P.
A2 - Vempala, Santosh S.
PB - Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
T2 - 20th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, APPROX 2017 and the 21st International Workshop on Randomization and Computation, RANDOM 2017
Y2 - 16 August 2017 through 18 August 2017
ER -