Abstract
A technique for clustering data by common attribute values involves grouping rows and columns of a binary matrix to make the minimum number of submatrices all 1's. As binary matrices can be viewed as adjacency matrices of bipartite graphs, the problem is equivalent to partitioning a bipartite graph into the smallest number of complete bipartite sub-graphs (commonly called bicliques). We show that the Biclique Partition Problem (BPP) does not have a polynomial time α-approximation algorithm, for any α ≥ 1, unless P=NP. We also show that the Biclique Partition Problem, restricted to whether at most k bicliques are sufficient (i.e. BPP(k)) for each positive integer k, has a polynomial time 2-approximation algorithm. In addition, we give an O(VE) time algorithm and BPP(2), and an O(V) algorithm to find an optimum biclique partition of trees.
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