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It is known that greedy methods perform well for maximizing monotone submodular functions. At the same time, such methods perform poorly in the face of non-monotonicity. In this paper, we show - arguably, surprisingly - that invoking the…
Identifying breakpoints in piecewise regression is critical in enhancing the reliability and interpretability of data fitting. In this paper, we propose novel algorithms based on the greedy algorithm to accurately and efficiently identify…
Finding efficient tensor contraction paths is essential for a wide range of problems, including model counting, quantum circuits, graph problems, and language models. There exist several approaches to find efficient paths, such as the…
We consider the online transportation problem set in a metric space containing parking garages of various capacities. Cars arrive over time, and must be assigned to an unfull parking garage upon their arrival. The objective is to minimize…
We investigate the problem of reconstructing sparse multivariate trigonometric polynomials from few randomly taken samples by Basis Pursuit and greedy algorithms such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) and Thresholding. While recovery by…
We study mechanisms that use greedy allocation rules and pay-your-bid pricing to allocate resources subject to a matroid constraint. We show that all such mechanisms obtain a constant fraction of the optimal welfare at any equilibrium of…
We consider the maximum bipartite matching problem in stochastic settings, namely the query-commit and price-of-information models. In the query-commit model, an edge e independently exists with probability $p_e$. We can query whether an…
We consider classes of objective functions of cardinality constrained maximization problems for which the greedy algorithm guarantees a constant approximation. We propose the new class of $\gamma$-$\alpha$-augmentable functions and prove…
The greedy algorithm adapted from Kruskal's algorithm is an efficient and folklore way to produce a $k$-spanner with girth at least $k+2$. The greedy algorithm has shown to be `existentially optimal', while it's not `universally optimal'…
Greedy algorithms have long been a workhorse for learning graphical models, and more broadly for learning statistical models with sparse structure. In the context of learning directed acyclic graphs, greedy algorithms are popular despite…
The random greedy algorithm for constructing a large partial Steiner-Triple-System is defined as follows. We begin with a complete graph on $n$ vertices and proceed to remove the edges of triangles one at a time, where each triangle removed…
We analyze greedy algorithms for the Hierarchical Aggregation (HAG) problem, a strategy introduced in [Jia et al., KDD 2020] for speeding up learning on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The idea of HAG is to identify and remove redundancies in…
We revisit the complexity analysis of the recursive version of the randomized greedy algorithm for computing a maximal independent set (MIS), originally analyzed by Yoshida, Yamamoto, and Ito (2009). They showed that, on average per vertex,…
We present a series of results regarding conceptually simple algorithms for bipartite matching in various online and related models. We first consider a deterministic adversarial model. The best approximation ratio possible for a one-pass…
In this paper, we study weights for the Thresholding Greedy Algorithm (TGA). While previous work focused on sequential weights $\varsigma = (s_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ on each positive integer, we study a more general weight $\omega =…
The objective of the paper is to establish a computable upper bound for the almost sure convergence rate for a class of ratio consensus algorithms defined via column-stochastic matrices. Our result extends the works of Iutzeler et al.…
Submodular functions -- functions exhibiting diminishing returns -- are central to machine learning. When the objective is monotone and non-negative, the greedy algorithm achieves a tight $63\%$ approximation. But many practical objectives…
We analyse the size of an independent set in a random graph on $n$ vertices with specified vertex degrees, constructed via a simple greedy algorithm: order the vertices arbitrarily, and, for each vertex in turn, place it in the independent…
We show the reverse greedy algorithm is between a $(2k-2)$- and a $2k$-approximation for $k$-center.
We propose a \textit{purely combinatorial algorithm} for \mkvc{} in bipartite graphs, achieving approximation ratio~0.7. The only combinatorial algorithms currently known until now for this problem are the natural greedy algorithm, that…