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arxiv: 1401.2195 · v1 · pith:ANDOIELQnew · submitted 2014-01-09 · 💻 cs.DS

A lower bound for metric 1-median selection

classification 💻 cs.DS
keywords metricproblemalgorithmsapproximationaverageboundconsiderdeterministic
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Consider the problem of finding a point in an n-point metric space with the minimum average distance to all points. We show that this problem has no deterministic $o(n^2)$-query $(4-\Omega(1))$-approximation algorithms.

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