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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

We study the correlated stochastic knapsack problem of a submodular target function, with optional additional constraints. We utilize the multilinear extension of submodular function, and bundle it with an adaptation of the relaxed linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Sheng Yang , Samir Khuller , Sunav Choudhary , Subrata Mitra , Kanak Mahadik

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a knapsack constraint. We show that, for any fixed $\epsilon > 0$, there exists a polynomial-time algorithm with an approximation ratio $1-c/e-\epsilon$, where $c…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Yuichi Yoshida

A $k$-submodular function is a generalization of the submodular set function. Many practical applications can be modeled as maximizing a $k$-submodular function, such as multi-cooperative games, sensor placement with $k$ type sensors,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Hongyang Zhang , Wenchang Luo

In this paper, we study stochastic submodular maximization problems with general matroid constraints, that naturally arise in online learning, team formation, facility location, influence maximization, active learning and sensing objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Gözde Özcan , Stratis Ioannidis

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a matroid independence constraint. For more than a decade, a rich body of work has studied this problem. Initially, a tight approximation of $ (1-\frac{1}{e})$ was…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Amit Ganz Rozenman , Ariel Kulik , Roy Schwartz , Mohit Singh

In this paper we design a new primal-dual algorithm for the classic discrete optimization problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint achieving the optimal approximation of $(1-1/e)$. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Luc Cote

We study the following problem: Given a variable of interest, we would like to find a best linear predictor for it by choosing a subset of $k$ relevant variables obeying a matroid constraint. This problem is a natural generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Theophile Thiery , Justin Ward

Submodular maximization arises in many applications, and has attracted a lot of research attentions from various areas such as artificial intelligence, finance and operations research. Previous studies mainly consider only one kind of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu-Ran Gu , Chao Bian , Chao Qian

Submodular maximization generalizes many fundamental problems in discrete optimization, including Max-Cut in directed/undirected graphs, maximum coverage, maximum facility location and marketing over social networks. In this paper we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-18 Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai , Tami Tamir

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under multiple knapsack constraints. We propose a simple discrete greedy algorithm to approach this problem, and prove that it yields strong approximation guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Vanja Doskoč , Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Francesco Quinzan

We consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function with access to a noisy value oracle for the function instead of an exact value oracle. Similar to prior work, we assume that the noisy oracle is persistent in that multiple calls…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kshipra Bhawalkar , Yang Cai , Zhe Feng , Christopher Liaw , Tao Lin

The greedy algorithm for monotone submodular function maximization subject to cardinality constraint is guaranteed to approximate the optimal solution to within a $1-1/e$ factor. Although it is well known that this guarantee is essentially…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Aviad Rubinstein , Junyao Zhao

The problem of maximizing nonnegative monotone submodular functions under a certain constraint has been intensively studied in the last decade, and a wide range of efficient approximation algorithms have been developed for this problem.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Akbar Rafiey , Yuichi Yoshida

In this work we present the first practical $\left(\frac{1}{e}-\epsilon\right)$-approximation algorithm to maximise a general non-negative submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. Our algorithm is based on combining the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Pau Segui-Gasco , Hyo-Sang Shin

The classical problem of maximizing a submodular function under a matroid constraint is considered. Defining a new measure for the increments made by the greedy algorithm at each step, called the discriminant, improved approximation ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Nived Rajaraman , Rahul Vaze

The problem of selecting a small-size representative summary of a large dataset is a cornerstone of machine learning, optimization and data science. Motivated by applications to recommendation systems and other scenarios with query-limited…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Samson Zhou

We investigate a more generalized form of submodular maximization, referred to as $k$-submodular maximization, with applications across social networks and machine learning domains. In this work, we propose the multilinear extension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Lingxiao Huang , Baoxiang Wang , Huanjian Zhou

Motivated by a wide range of applications in data mining and machine learning, we consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function subject to supermodular cost constraints. In contrast to the well-understood setting of cardinality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ajitesh Srivastava , Shanghua Teng

In this work, we present a new algorithm for maximizing a non-monotone submodular function subject to a general constraint. Our algorithm finds an approximate fractional solution for maximizing the multilinear extension of the function over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen