arXiv:2606.18807cs.DScs.LG2026-06

用机器学习预测加速指数级精确算法,哪怕预测不准也能提速。

Learning Augmented Exact Exponential Algorithms

  • 用学习预测缩小搜索空间,改进经典指数算法
  • 预测稍好于随机即能显著提速,速度随预测质量平滑提升
  • 无需知道预测准确率,对预测依赖更宽松,适合实际应用

学习增强算法领域表明,机器学习预测可突破多种问题的最坏情况下界。但以往研究主要集中于多项式时间算法,以改善竞争比、近似保证或运行时间。本文首次探讨预测能否推动NP难问题的精确指数时间算法边界。我们提出一种通用方法,可增强多种子集选择问题的前沿精确算法。研究表明,仅略优于随机猜测的噪声预测即可严格减少搜索空间,且提速效果随预测质量平滑增长。重要的是,我们的算法仅需预测的成对独立性,或完全无需知晓预测准确率——这两种假设均比通常假设更弱且更现实。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The field of learning-augmented algorithms has demonstrated that machine-learned predictions can bypass worst-case lower bounds across a wide range of problems. So far, however, the focus has been almost exclusively on polynomial-time algorithms, where predictions improve competitive ratios, approximation guarantees, or running times. In this paper, we raise the question of whether predictions can push the frontier of exact exponential-time algorithms for NP-hard problems. We answer this question affirmatively by proposing a general approach that augments an entire family of state-of-the-art exact algorithms for a variety of subset selection problems. We show that a noisy predictor that is only marginally better than random guessing suffices to provably reduce the search space, and that the resulting runtime speedup scales smoothly with the prediction quality. Importantly, our algorithms require only pairwise independence of predictions or, alternatively, do not require the knowledge of the predictor's accuracy - both strictly weaker and more realistic settings than typically assumed.

学习增强指数算法预测优化

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