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Submodular optimization generalizes many classic problems in combinatorial optimization and has recently found a wide range of applications in machine learning (e.g., feature engineering and active learning). For many large-scale…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Matthew Fahrbach , Vahab Mirrokni , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

In this paper, we focus on activating only a few sensors, among many available, to estimate the state of a stochastic process of interest. This problem is important in applications such as target tracking and simultaneous localization and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Vasileios Tzoumas , Nikolay A. Atanasov , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Submodular maximization under matroid and cardinality constraints are classical problems with a wide range of applications in machine learning, auction theory, and combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we consider these problems in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

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

The submodular partitioning problem asks to minimize, over all partitions $P$ of a ground set $V$, the sum of a given submodular function $f$ over the parts of $P$. The problem has seen considerable work in approximability, as it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kristóf Bérczi , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Tamás Király , Daniel P. Szabo

We consider fast algorithms for monotone submodular maximization with a general matroid constraint. We present a randomized $(1 - 1/e - \epsilon)$-approximation algorithm that requires $\tilde{O}_{\epsilon}(\sqrt{r} n)$ independence oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

Many large-scale machine learning problems--clustering, non-parametric learning, kernel machines, etc.--require selecting a small yet representative subset from a large dataset. Such problems can often be reduced to maximizing a submodular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Amin Karbasi , Rik Sarkar , Andreas Krause

The problem of maximizing non-negative monotone submodular functions under a certain constraint has been intensively studied in the last decade. In this paper, we address the problem for functions defined over the integer lattice. Suppose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Tasuku Soma , Yuichi Yoshida

The maximization of submodular functions have found widespread application in areas such as machine learning, combinatorial optimization, and economics, where practitioners often wish to enforce various constraints; the matroid constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Monika Henzinger , Paul Liu , Jan Vondrak , Da Wei Zheng

Stochastic optimization of continuous objectives is at the heart of modern machine learning. However, many important problems are of discrete nature and often involve submodular objectives. We seek to unleash the power of stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Mario Lucic , Hamed Hassani , Andreas Krause

The task of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint is at the core of many machine learning and data mining applications, including data summarization, sparse regression and coverage problems. We study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Silvio Lattanzi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakub Tarnawski , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We study the online submodular maximization problem with free disposal under a matroid constraint. Elements from some ground set arrive one by one in rounds, and the algorithm maintains a feasible set that is independent in the underlying…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-26 T-H. Hubert Chan , Zhiyi Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Ning Kang , Zhihao Gavin Tang

In the submodular cover problem, we are given a non-negative monotone submodular function $f$ over a ground set $E$ of items, and the goal is to choose a smallest subset $S \subseteq E$ such that $f(S) = Q$ where $Q = f(E)$. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Arpit Agarwal , Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna

We propose and study a novel stochastic inertial primal-dual approach to solve composite optimization problems. These latter problems arise naturally when learning with penalized regularization schemes. Our analysis provide convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Bang Cong Vu

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under noise. There has been a great deal of work on optimization of submodular functions under various constraints, resulting in algorithms that provide desirable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Avinatan Hassidim , Yaron Singer

We introduce the \emph{submodular objectives chasing problem}, which generalizes many natural and previously-studied problems: a sequence of constrained submodular maximization problems is revealed over time, with both the objective and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , David Wajc

The multilinear framework has achieved the breakthrough $1-1/e$ approximation for maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. This framework has a continuous optimization part and a rounding part. We extend…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Richard Santiago , Bruce Shepherd

Maximizing a submodular function is a fundamental task in machine learning and in this paper we study the deletion robust version of the problem under the classic matroids constraint. Here the goal is to extract a small size summary of the…

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

Constrained submodular optimization problems play a key role in the area of combinatorial optimization as they capture many NP-hard optimization problems. So far, Pareto optimization approaches using multi-objective formulations have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Frank Neumann , Günter Rudolph

Large-scale subset selection asks for a small useful set of examples, features, sensors, seed users, or context passages from an enormous ground set. Submodular maximization is a canonical model for such diminishing-returns problems, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Alan Kuhnle