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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

The Column Subset Selection Problem provides a natural framework for unsupervised feature selection. Despite being a hard combinatorial optimization problem, there exist efficient algorithms that provide good approximations. The drawback of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Bruno Ordozgoiti , Alberto Mozo , Jesús García López de Lacalle

We consider a class of multi-agent optimal coverage problems in which the goal is to determine the optimal placement of a group of agents in a given mission space so that they maximize a coverage objective that represents a blend of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Shirantha Welikala , Christos G. Cassandras

A fundamental task underlying many important optimization problems, from influence maximization to sensor placement to content recommendation, is to select the optimal group of $k$ items from a larger set. Submodularity has been very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jon Kleinberg , Emily Ryu , Éva Tardos

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

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under a matroid constraint is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning. We study this classic problem in the fully dynamic setting, where elements…

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

In this work, we study the classical problem of maximizing a submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. We develop deterministic algorithms that are very parsimonious with respect to querying the submodular function, for both the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Eric Balkanski , Steven DiSilvio , Alan Kuhnle , ChunLi Peng

We consider interactive learning and covering problems, in a setting where actions may incur different costs, depending on the response to the action. We propose a natural greedy algorithm for response-dependent costs. We bound the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Sivan Sabato

Submodular function maximization has been studied extensively in recent years under various constraints and models. The problem plays a major role in various disciplines. We study a natural online variant of this problem in which elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman , Roy Schwartz

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone, non-negative submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. The prior best-known deterministic approximation ratio for this problem is $\frac{1}{4}-\epsilon$ under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Kai Han , Zongmai Cao , Shuang Cui , Benwei Wu

Many problems in signal processing and machine learning can be formalized as weak submodular optimization tasks. For such problems, a simple greedy algorithm (\textsc{Greedy}) is guaranteed to find a solution achieving the objective with a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo , Gustavo de Veciana

Motivated by applications in machine learning, such as subset selection and data summarization, we consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to mixed packing and covering constraints. We present a tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Eyal Mizrachi , Roy Schwartz , Joachim Spoerhase , Sumedha Uniyal

In this paper, we apply a Threshold-Decreasing Algorithm to maximize $k$-submodular functions under a matroid constraint, which reduces the query complexity of the algorithm compared to the greedy algorithm with little loss in approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shuxian Niu , Qian Liu , Yang Zhou , Min Li

A matroid is a notion of independence in combinatorial optimization which is closely related to computational efficiency. In particular, it is well known that the maximum of a constrained modular function can be found greedily if and only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Branislav Kveton , Zheng Wen , Azin Ashkan , Hoda Eydgahi , Brian Eriksson

In this paper we consider a generalization of the well-known budgeted maximum coverage problem. We are given a ground set of elements and a set of bins. The goal is to find a subset of elements along with an associated set of bins, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Francesco Cellinese , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Gianpiero Monaco , Yllka Velaj

Submodular function optimization has numerous applications in machine learning and data analysis, including data summarization which aims to identify a concise and diverse set of data points from a large dataset. It is important to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan , Twumasi Mensah-Boateng

Many important problems can be regarded as maximizing submodular functions under some constraints. A simple multi-objective evolutionary algorithm called GSEMO has been shown to achieve good approximation for submodular functions…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Anh Viet Do , Frank Neumann

In this paper we study submodular maximization under a matroid constraint in the adaptive complexity model. This model was recently introduced in the context of submodular optimization in [BS18a] to quantify the information theoretic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Eric Balkanski , Aviad Rubinstein , Yaron Singer

We study adaptive combinatorial maximization, which is a core challenge in machine learning, with applications in active learning as well as many other domains. We study the Bayesian setting, and consider the objectives of maximization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shlomi Weitzman , Sivan Sabato

The batched greedy strategy is an approximation algorithm to maximize a set function subject to a matroid constraint. Starting with the empty set, the batched greedy strategy iteratively adds to the current solution set a batch of elements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Yajing Liu , Zhenliang Zhang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki