A brief note on approximate optimization of submodular functions
Optimization and Control
2025-10-21 v1
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Alen Alexanderian
Abstract
We briefly discuss the greedy method and a couple of its more efficient variants for approximately maximizing monotone submodular functions.
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@article{arxiv.2510.17610,
title = {A brief note on approximate optimization of submodular functions},
author = {Alen Alexanderian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17610},
year = {2025}
}
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