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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Chandra Chekuri , Jan Vondrák , Rico Zenklusen

Continuous submodular functions are a category of generally non-convex/non-concave functions with a wide spectrum of applications. The celebrated property of this class of functions - continuous submodularity - enables both exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yatao Bian , Joachim M. Buhmann , Andreas Krause

We consider the classical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint, which, due to its numerous applications, has recently been studied in various computational models. We consider a clean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Moran Feldman , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

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

Maximizing a submodular function has a wide range of applications in machine learning and data mining. One such application is data summarization whose goal is to select a small set of representative and diverse data items from a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jing Yuan , Shaojie Tang

Finding diverse solutions to optimization problems has been of practical interest for several decades, and recently enjoyed increasing attention in research. While submodular optimization has been rigorously studied in many fields, its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

In this paper, we study the non-monotone adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a knapsack and a $k$-system constraints. The input of our problem is a set of items, where each item has a particular state drawn from a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Shaojie Tang

Submodular maximization has been widely studied over the past decades, mostly because of its numerous applications in real-world problems. It is well known that the standard greedy algorithm guarantees a worst-case approximation factor of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Alfredo Torrico , Mohit Singh , Sebastian Pokutta

We consider a robust formulation, introduced by Krause et al. (2008), of the classical cardinality constrained monotone submodular function maximization problem, and give the first constant factor approximation results. The robustness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-31 James B. Orlin , Andreas S. Schulz , Rajan Udwani

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

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

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

Many sequential decision making problems, including pool-based active learning and adaptive viral marketing, can be formulated as an adaptive submodular maximization problem. Most of existing studies on adaptive submodular optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

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

In this work we consider the diversity maximization problem, where given a data set $X$ of $n$ elements, and a parameter $k$, the goal is to pick a subset of $X$ of size $k$ maximizing a certain diversity measure. [CH01] defined a variety…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Sepideh Mahabadi , Shyam Narayanan

In the Maximize Phylogenetic Diversity problem, we are given a phylogenetic tree that represents the genetic proximity of species, and we are asked to select a subset of species of maximum phylogenetic diversity to be preserved through…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Niels Holtgrefe , Jannik Schestag , Norbert Zeh

We consider the problem of multi-objective maximization of monotone submodular functions subject to cardinality constraint, often formulated as $\max_{|A|=k}\min_{i\in\{1,\dots,m\}}f_i(A)$. While it is widely known that greedy methods work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Rajan Udwani

The submodular knapsack problem (SKP), which seeks to maximize a submodular set function by selecting a subset of elements within a given budget, is an important discrete optimization problem. The majority of existing approaches to solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yimin Hao , Yi Zhou , Chao Xu , Zhang-Hua Fu

An effective technique for solving optimization problems over massive data sets is to partition the data into smaller pieces, solve the problem on each piece and compute a representative solution from it, and finally obtain a solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Vahab Mirrokni , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Maximizing a monotone submodular function under cardinality constraint $k$ is a core problem in machine learning and database with many basic applications, including video and data summarization, recommendation systems, feature extraction,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh