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Convex Matroid Optimization

Combinatorics 2018-08-21 v1 Discrete Mathematics Optimization and Control Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We consider a problem of optimizing convex functionals over matroid bases. It is richly expressive and captures certain quadratic assignment and clustering problems. While generally NP-hard, we show it is polynomial time solvable when a suitable parameter is restricted.

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@article{arxiv.math/0207136,
  title  = {Convex Matroid Optimization},
  author = {Shmuel Onn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0207136},
  year   = {2018}
}