[Theory] REMINDER: [TTIC Talks] 5/12 Research at TTIC: Yury Makarychev, TTIC

[Brandie Jones]

*When:*         Friday, May 12th* at 12:30pm CT  *


*Where:*        Talk will be given *live, in-person* at

                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue

                        5th Floor, Room 530


*Virtually:*     via Panopto (Livestream
<https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ec243af6-1ad5-4610-bc35-af1901007029>
)



*Who:*           Yury Makarychev, TTIC



*T**itle:*           Higher-Order Cheeger Inequality for Partitioning with
Buffers


*Abstract:  * We prove a new generalization of the higher-order Cheeger
inequality for partitioning with buffers. Consider a graph G. The buffered
expansion of a set of vertices S with a buffer B is the edge expansion of S
after removing all the edges from S to its buffer B. An ε-buffered
k-partitioning of graph G is a partitioning of G into disjoint components
P_1, ..., P_k and buffers B_1, ..., B_k in which the size of buffer B_i is
at most ε|P_i|. We prove that there exists an ε-buffered k-partitioning of
G, in which the buffered expansion of each P_i with buffer B_i is at most
O_𝛿((log k) / ε) λ_{k'}, where where λ_{k'} is the k'-th smallest
eigenvalue of the normalized Laplacian of G and k' = (1 + 𝛿) k.

Our inequality is constructive and avoids the “square-root loss” that is
present in the standard Cheeger inequalities (even for k=2). We also
provide a complementary lower bound, and a generalization to the setting
with arbitrary vertex weights and edge costs. Moreover our result implies
and generalizes the standard higher-order Cheeger inequalities and another
recent Cheeger-type inequality by Kwok, Lau, and Lee (2017) involving
robust vertex expansion.

Joint work with Konstantin Makarychev, Liren Shan, and Aravindan
Vijayaraghavan



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*Brandie Jones *
*Executive **Administrative Assistant*
Toyota Technological Institute
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
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