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Improved Approximation Ratios for Multiway Cut

partialconfidence 70%

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Precise statement

New upper and lower bounds on the approximation ratio achievable for Multiway Cut via large mixtures of new and old rounding schemes for the CKR relaxation, advancing the ratio ladder that has run since Călinescu-Karloff-Rabani (1998).

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What AI did

ChatGPT

"We acknowledge help from ChatGPT while writing the code for discovering new rounding schemes and while preparing some of the plots. We emphasize that we did not use ChatGPT or any other LLM model while writing our verification code."

Provider: OpenAI · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

unreviewed

No verification note supplied.

Correctness: unknown · statement fidelity: unaudited · peer review: none

Timeline

  1. arXiv

    Record bounds on the ratio; the exact approximability of Multiway Cut remains open.

Known method families

computation (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: computation.

Independent: unknown · difference confidence: 0

What remains uncertain

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