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We explore a novel problem in streaming submodular maximization, inspired by the dynamics of news-recommendation platforms. We consider a setting where users can visit a news website at any time, and upon each visit, the website must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Honglian Wang , Sijing Tu , Lutz Oettershagen , Aristides Gionis

We study the classical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint k, with two additional twists: (i) elements arrive in a streaming fashion, and (ii) m items from the algorithm's memory are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Slobodan Mitrović , Ilija Bogunovic , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakub Tarnawski , Volkan Cevher

We study the problem of extracting a small subset of representative items from a large data stream. In many data mining and machine learning applications such as social network analysis and recommender systems, this problem can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yanhao Wang , Francesco Fabbri , Michael Mathioudakis

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under cardinality constraints is a classic optimization task with several applications in data mining and machine learning. In this paper we study this problem in a dynamic environment with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We consider the problem of maximizing submodular functions in single-pass streaming and secretaries-with-shortlists models, both with random arrival order. For cardinality constrained monotone functions, Agrawal, Shadravan, and Stein gave a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Paul Liu , Aviad Rubinstein , Jan Vondrak , Junyao Zhao

In this paper, we study streaming algorithms that minimize the number of changes made to their internal state (i.e., memory contents). While the design of streaming algorithms typically focuses on minimizing space and update time, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Streaming submodular maximization is a natural model for the task of selecting a representative subset from a large-scale dataset. If datapoints have sensitive attributes such as gender or race, it becomes important to enforce fairness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Marwa El Halabi , Federico Fusco , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakab Tardos , Jakub Tarnawski

Data summarization has become a valuable tool in understanding even terabytes of data. Due to their compelling theoretical properties, submodular functions have been in the focus of summarization algorithms. These algorithms offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sebastian Buschjäger , Philipp-Jan Honysz , Lukas Pfahler , Katharina Morik

In this paper we describe a new algorithm called Fast Adaptive Sequencing Technique (FAST) for maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint $k$ whose approximation ratio is arbitrarily close to $1-1/e$, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Adam Breuer , Eric Balkanski , Yaron Singer

We propose subsampling as a unified algorithmic technique for submodular maximization in centralized and online settings. The idea is simple: independently sample elements from the ground set, and use simple combinatorial techniques (such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Christopher Harshaw , Ehsan Kazemi , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

We propose a streaming submodular maximization algorithm "stream clipper" that performs as well as the offline greedy algorithm on document/video summarization in practice. It adds elements from a stream either to a solution set $S$ or to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Tianyi Zhou , Jeff Bilmes

We initiate the study of the classical Submodular Cover (SC) problem in the data streaming model which we refer to as the Streaming Submodular Cover (SSC). We show that any single pass streaming algorithm using sublinear memory in the size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Abbas Bazzi , Marwa El Halabi , Ilija Bogunovic , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Volkan Cevher

Many sequential decision making problems can be formulated as an adaptive submodular maximization problem. However, most of existing studies in this field focus on pool-based setting, where one can pick items in any order, and there have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

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

First, for the for the submodular $k$-secretary problem with shortlists [1], we provide a near optimal $1-1/e-\epsilon$ approximation using shortlist of size $O(k poly(1/\epsilon))$. In particular, we improve the size of shortlist used in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Mohammad Shadravan

In this work, we study the classic submodular maximization problem under knapsack constraints and beyond. We first present an $(7/16-\varepsilon)$-approximate algorithm for single knapsack constraint, which requires…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Wenxin Li

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a maximum matching in the semi-streaming model when edges arrive in a random order. In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm receives a stream of edges and it is allowed to have a memory of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Tung Mai , Anup Rao , Ryan A. Rossi

In this work we give two new algorithms that use similar techniques for (non-monotone) submodular function maximization subject to a cardinality constraint. The first is an offline fixed parameter tractable algorithm that guarantees a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aviad Rubinstein , Junyao Zhao

In submodular $k$-secretary problem, the goal is to select $k$ items in a randomly ordered input so as to maximize the expected value of a given monotone submodular function on the set of selected items. In this paper, we introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Shipra Agrawal , Mohammad Shadravan , Cliff Stein

In this paper we study the extraction of representative elements in the data stream model in the form of submodular maximization. Different from the previous work on streaming submodular maximization, we are interested only in the recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Jiecao Chen , Huy L. Nguyen , Qin Zhang