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Optimal 4-Approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem
September 21, 2025 Β· Declared Dead Β· π IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
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Authors
Nikhil Bansal, Zhiyi Huang, Zixuan Zhu
arXiv ID
2509.17029
Category
cs.DS: Data Structures & Algorithms
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Venue
IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
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Abstract
The Correlated Pandora's Problem posed by Chawla et al. (2020) generalizes the classical Pandora's Problem by allowing the numbers inside the Pandora's boxes to be correlated. It also generalizes the Min Sum Set Cover problem, and is related to the Uniform Decision Tree problem. This paper gives an optimal 4-approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem, matching the lower bound of 4 from Min Sum Set Cover.
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