The Maximum Matrix Contraction Problem

06/02/2023

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by   Dimitri Watel, et al.

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In this paper, we introduce the Maximum Matrix Contraction problem, where we aim to contract as much as possible a binary matrix in order to maximize its density. We study the complexity and the polynomial approximability of the problem. Especially, we prove this problem to be NP-Complete and that every algorithm solving this problem is at most a 2√(n)-approximation algorithm where n is the number of ones in the matrix. We then focus on efficient algorithms to solve the problem: an integer linear program and three heuristics.