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In this paper we study the fundamental problems of maximizing a continuous non-monotone submodular function over the hypercube, both with and without coordinate-wise concavity. This family of optimization problems has several applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Rad Niazadeh , Tim Roughgarden , Joshua R. Wang

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

The simplex algorithm for linear programming is based on the fact that any local optimum with respect to the polyhedral neighborhood is also a global optimum. We show that a similar result carries over to submodular maximization. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Simon Bruggmann , Rico Zenklusen

Several large-scale machine learning tasks, such as data summarization, can be approached by maximizing functions that satisfy submodularity. These optimization problems often involve complex side constraints, imposed by the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Francesco Quinzan , Vanja Doskoč , Andreas Göbel , Tobias Friedrich

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

In this paper, we develop the first one-pass streaming algorithm for submodular maximization that does not evaluate the entire stream even once. By carefully subsampling each element of data stream, our algorithm enjoys the tightest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi , Ehsan Kazemi

We study the canonical problem of maximizing a stochastic submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint, where the goal is to select a subset from a ground set of items with uncertain individual performances to maximize their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shreyas Sekar , Milan Vojnovic , Se-Young Yun

The problem of monotone submodular maximization has been studied extensively due to its wide range of applications. However, there are cases where one can only access the objective function in a distorted or noisy form because of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Lingxiao Huang , Yuyi Wang , Chunxue Yang , Huanjian Zhou

We consider the problem of monotone, submodular maximization over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$. For this problem, we introduce the first deterministic algorithms with linear time complexity; these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alan Kuhnle

We initiate the study of numerical linear algebra in the sliding window model, where only the most recent $W$ updates in a stream form the underlying data set. We first introduce a unified row-sampling based framework that gives randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Vladimir Braverman , Petros Drineas , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Jalaj Upadhyay , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Variants of the GSEMO algorithm using multi-objective formulations have been successfully analyzed and applied to optimize chance-constrained submodular functions. However, due to the effect of the increasing population size of the GSEMO…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xiankun Yan , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Balkanski and Singer [5] recently initiated the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for constrained submodular function maximization, and studied the setting of a cardinality constraint. Very recent improvements for this problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

We study the problem of finding a maximum matching in a graph given by an input stream listing its edges in some arbitrary order, where the quantity to be maximized is given by a monotone submodular function on subsets of edges. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Amit Chakrabarti , Sagar Kale

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

Submodular maximization has found extensive applications in various domains within the field of artificial intelligence, including but not limited to machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. With the increasing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Shuang Cui , Kai Han , Jing Tang , Xueying Li , Aakas Zhiyuli , Hanxiao Li

We introduce several generalizations of classical computer science problems obtained by replacing simpler objective functions with general submodular functions. The new problems include submodular load balancing, which generalizes load…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Zoya Svitkina , Lisa Fleischer

We explore clustering problems in the streaming sliding window model in both general metric spaces and Euclidean space. We present the first polylogarithmic space $O(1)$-approximation to the metric $k$-median and metric $k$-means problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Vladimir Braverman , Harry Lang , Keith Levin , Morteza Monemizadeh

This paper addresses the problem of sequential submodular maximization: selecting and ranking items in a sequence to optimize some composite submodular function. In contrast to most of the previous works, which assume access to the utility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jing Yuan , Shaojie Tang

Streaming algorithms are generally judged by the quality of their solution, memory footprint, and computational complexity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in the streaming setting with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ehsan Kazemi , Marko Mitrovic , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Silvio Lattanzi , Amin Karbasi

In this paper, we introduce a novel technique for constrained submodular maximization, inspired by barrier functions in continuous optimization. This connection not only improves the running time for constrained submodular maximization but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Amin Karbasi , Ehsan Kazemi , Jan Vondrak