The Feedback Arc Set Problem with Triangle Inequality Is a Vertex Cover Problem
We consider the (precedence constrained) Minimum Feedback Arc Set problem with triangle inequalities on the weights, which finds important applications in problems of ranking with inconsistent information. We present a surprising structural insight showing that the problem is a special case of the minimum vertex cover in hypergraphs with edges of size at most 3.
feedback arc set problem approximation algorithms integer linear program formulation