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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

It is known that greedy methods perform well for maximizing monotone submodular functions. At the same time, such methods perform poorly in the face of non-monotonicity. In this paper, we show - arguably, surprisingly - that invoking the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Moran Feldman , Christopher Harshaw , Amin Karbasi

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a knapsack constraint. Our main contribution is an algorithm that achieves a nearly-optimal, $1 - 1/e - \epsilon$ approximation, using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint in the streaming model. Our main contribution is a single-pass (semi-)streaming algorithm that uses roughly $O(k / \varepsilon^2)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Naor Alaluf , Alina Ene , Moran Feldman , Huy L. Nguyen , Andrew Suh

We study the problem of maximizing a function that is approximately submodular under a cardinality constraint. Approximate submodularity implicitly appears in a wide range of applications as in many cases errors in evaluation of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Thibaut Horel , Yaron Singer

In this paper, we provide the first deterministic algorithm that achieves the tight $1-1/e$ approximation guarantee for submodular maximization under a cardinality (size) constraint while making a number of queries that scales only linearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenxin Li , Moran Feldman , Ehsan Kazemi , Amin Karbasi

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

Submodular optimization finds applications in machine learning and data mining. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing functions of the form $h = f-c$, where $f$ is a monotone, non-negative, weakly submodular set function and $c$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yanhui Zhu , Samik Basu , A. Pavan

Optimization problems with set submodular objective functions have many real-world applications. In discrete scenarios, where the same item can be selected more than once, the domain is generalized from a 2-element set to a bounded integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Alberto Schiabel , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek

In this paper, the monotone submodular maximization problem (SM) is studied. SM is to find a subset of size $\kappa$ from a universe of size $n$ that maximizes a monotone submodular objective function $f$. We show using a novel analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Victoria G. Crawford

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

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

Submodular optimization has numerous applications such as crowdsourcing and viral marketing. In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of non-negative submodular function maximization subject to a $k$-system constraint, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kai Han , Shuang Cui , Tianshuai Zhu , Jing Tang , Benwei Wu , He Huang

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

The problem of non-monotone $k$-submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint ($\kSMK$) over the ground set size $n$ has been raised in many applications in machine learning, such as data summarization, information propagation, etc.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Dung T. K. Ha , Canh V. Pham , Tan D. Tran , Huan X. Hoang

With the rapid growth of data in modern applications, parallel algorithms for maximizing non-monotone submodular functions have gained significant attention. In the parallel computation setting, the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yixin Chen , Wenjing Chen , Alan Kuhnle

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

In this work, we study the problem of finding the maximum value of a non-negative submodular function subject to a limit on the number of items selected, a ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications, such as data summarization and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yixin Chen , Alan Kuhnle

We define a new class of set functions that in addition to being monotone and subadditive, also admit a very limited form of submodularity defined over a permutation of the ground set. We refer to this permutation as a submodular order.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Rajan Udwani

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