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In this paper, we study the stochastic submodular maximization problem with dependent items subject to packing constraints such as matroid and knapsack constraints. The input of our problem is a finite set of items, and each item is in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Shaojie Tang

In this paper, we study the tradeoff between the approximation guarantee and adaptivity for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint. The adaptivity of an algorithm is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under a matroid constraint is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning. We study this classic problem in the fully dynamic setting, where elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

In this paper, we study the non-monotone adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a cardinality constraint. We first revisit the adaptive random greedy algorithm proposed in \citep{gotovos2015non}, where they show that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Shaojie Tang

Adaptive sequential decision making is one of the central challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In such problems, the goal is to design an interactive policy that plans for an action to take, from a finite set of $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Hossein Esfandiari , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni

In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing the difference between an adaptive submodular (revenue) function and an non-negative modular (cost) function under the adaptive setting. The input of our problem is a set of $n$ items, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

Submodular maximization is one of the central topics in combinatorial optimization. It has found numerous applications in the real world. In the past decades, a series of algorithms have been proposed for this problem. However, most of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Zhijie Zhang

Constrained submodular maximization problems encompass a wide variety of applications, including personalized recommendation, team formation, and revenue maximization via viral marketing. The massive instances occurring in modern day…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

We investigate the performance of a deterministic GREEDY algorithm for the problem of maximizing functions under a partition matroid constraint. We consider non-monotone submodular functions and monotone subadditive functions. Even though…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Francesco Quinzan , Ralf Rothenberger

A set function can be extended to the unit cube in various ways; the correlation gap measures the ratio between two natural extensions. This quantity has been identified as the performance guarantee in a range of approximation algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Edin Husić , Zhuan Khye Koh , Georg Loho , László A. Végh

We consider fast algorithms for monotone submodular maximization subject to a matroid constraint. We assume that the matroid is given as input in an explicit form, and the goal is to obtain the best possible running times for important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular set function subject to linear packing constraints. An instance of this problem consists of a matrix $A \in [0,1]^{m \times n}$, a vector $b \in [1,\infty)^m$, and a monotone…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Yossi Azar , Iftah Gamzu

We present an optimal, combinatorial 1-1/e approximation algorithm for monotone submodular optimization over a matroid constraint. Compared to the continuous greedy algorithm (Calinescu, Chekuri, Pal and Vondrak, 2008), our algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yuval Filmus , Justin Ward

The problem of maximizing a constrained monotone set function has many practical applications and generalizes many combinatorial problems. Unfortunately, it is generally not possible to maximize a monotone set function up to an acceptable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Moran Feldman , Rani Izsak

In a stochastic probing problem we are given a universe $E$, where each element $e \in E$ is active independently with probability $p_e$, and only a probe of e can tell us whether it is active or not. On this universe we execute a process…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Marek Adamczyk , Maxim Sviridenko , Justin Ward

While greedy algorithms have long been observed to perform well on a wide variety of problems, up to now approximation ratios have only been known for their application to problems having submodular objective functions $f$. Since many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 J. David Smith , My T. Thai

Solving stochastic optimization problems under partial observability, where one needs to adaptively make decisions with uncertain outcomes, is a fundamental but notoriously difficult challenge. In this paper, we introduce the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Daniel Golovin , Andreas Krause

Submodular maximization constitutes a prominent research topic in combinatorial optimization and theoretical computer science, with extensive applications across diverse domains. While substantial advancements have been achieved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shengminjie Chen , Yiwei Gao , Kaifeng Lin , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

With the rapid growth of data in modern applications, parallel algorithms for maximizing non-monotone submodular functions have gained significant attention. In the parallel computation setting, the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yixin Chen , Wenjing Chen , Alan Kuhnle

We study a stochastic variant of monotone submodular maximization problem as follows. We are given a monotone submodular function as an objective function and a feasible domain defined on a finite set, and our goal is to find a feasible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Takanori Maehara , Yutaro Yamaguchi