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We investigate two new optimization problems -- minimizing a submodular function subject to a submodular lower bound constraint (submodular cover) and maximizing a submodular function subject to a submodular upper bound constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Rishabh Iyer , Jeff Bilmes

In this paper we study the problem of minimizing a submodular function $f : 2^V \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that is guaranteed to have a $k$-sparse minimizer. We give a deterministic algorithm that computes an additive $\epsilon$-approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Andrei Graur , Haotian Jiang , Aaron Sidford

In this work we give two new algorithms that use similar techniques for (non-monotone) submodular function maximization subject to a cardinality constraint. The first is an offline fixed parameter tractable algorithm that guarantees a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aviad Rubinstein , Junyao Zhao

Optimization problems with set submodular objective functions have many real-world applications. In discrete scenarios, where the same item can be selected more than once, the domain is generalized from a 2-element set to a bounded integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Alberto Schiabel , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek

Maximizing submodular functions has been increasingly used in many applications of machine learning, such as data summarization, recommendation systems, and feature selection. Moreover, there has been a growing interest in both submodular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

Submodular functions describe a variety of discrete problems in machine learning, signal processing, and computer vision. However, minimizing submodular functions poses a number of algorithmic challenges. Recent work introduced an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Robert Nishihara , Stefanie Jegelka , Michael I. Jordan

Non-monotone constrained submodular maximization plays a crucial role in various machine learning applications. However, existing algorithms often struggle with a trade-off between approximation guarantees and practical efficiency. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Murad Tukan , Loay Mualem , Moran Feldman

We consider maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint or a knapsack constraint in the streaming setting. In particular, the elements arrive sequentially and at any point of time, the algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Chien-Chung Huang , Naonori Kakimura

Maximizing a single submodular set function subject to a cardinality constraint is a well-studied and central topic in combinatorial optimization. However, finding a set that maximizes multiple functions at the same time is much less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Fabian Spaeh , Atsushi Miyauchi

The problem of maximizing non-negative submodular functions has been studied extensively in the last few years. However, most papers consider submodular set functions. Recently, several advances have been made for the more general case of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Corinna Gottschalk , Britta Peis

In this work, we consider robust submodular maximization with matroid constraints. We give an efficient bi-criteria approximation algorithm that outputs a small family of feasible sets whose union has (nearly) optimal objective value. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Sebastian Pokutta , Mohit Singh , Alfredo Torrico

Minimizing a sum of simple submodular functions of limited support is a special case of general submodular function minimization that has seen numerous applications in machine learning. We develop fast techniques for instances where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Submodular function minimization is a key problem in a wide variety of applications in machine learning, economics, game theory, computer vision, and many others. The general solver has a complexity of $O(n^3 \log^2 n . E +n^4 {\log}^{O(1)}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Srikumar Ramalingam , Chris Russell , Lubor Ladicky , Philip H. S. Torr

Clustering with submodular functions has been of interest over the last few years. Symmetric submodular functions are of particular interest as minimizing them is significantly more efficient and they include many commonly used functions in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Amit Dhurandhar , Karthik Gurumoorthy

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

Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems, maximum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-03 Jon Lee , Vahab Mirrokni , Viswanath Nagarjan , Maxim Sviridenko

For the problem of maximizing a monotone, submodular function with respect to a cardinality constraint $k$ on a ground set of size $n$, we provide an algorithm that achieves the state-of-the-art in both its empirical performance and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yixin Chen , Tonmoy Dey , Alan Kuhnle

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone $k$-submodular function $f$ under a knapsack constraint, where a $k$-submodular function is a natural generalization of a submodular function to $k$ dimensions. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang , Hau Chan

Submodular functions are a broad class of set functions, which naturally arise in diverse areas. Many algorithms have been suggested for the maximization of these functions. Unfortunately, once the function deviates from submodularity, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Lin Chen , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

We study the recently introduced idea of worst-case sensitivity for monotone submodular maximization with cardinality constraint $k$, which captures the degree to which the output argument changes on deletion of an element in the input. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Conor McMeel , Yuichi Yoshida