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Constrained $k$-submodular maximization is a general framework that captures many discrete optimization problems such as ad allocation, influence maximization, personalized recommendation, and many others. In many of these applications,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fabian Spaeh , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

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

In this paper we study the adaptivity of submodular maximization. Adaptivity quantifies the number of sequential rounds that an algorithm makes when function evaluations can be executed in parallel. Adaptivity is a fundamental concept that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Eric Balkanski , Aviad Rubinstein , Yaron Singer

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

Many tasks in machine learning and data mining, such as data diversification, non-parametric learning, kernel machines, clustering etc., require extracting a small but representative summary from a massive dataset. Often, such problems can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakub Tarnawski , Slobodan Mitrović , Amir Zandieh , Aida Mousavifar , Ola Svensson

The need for real time analysis of rapidly producing data streams (e.g., video and image streams) motivated the design of streaming algorithms that can efficiently extract and summarize useful information from massive data "on the fly".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Stefanie Jegelka , Andreas Krause

Maximizing a non-negative, monontone, submodular function $f$ over $n$ elements under a cardinality constraint $k$ (SMCC) is a well-studied NP-hard problem. It has important applications in, e.g., machine learning and influence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Philip Cervenjak , Junhao Gan , Anthony Wirth

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

In this work, we present a combinatorial, deterministic single-pass streaming algorithm for the problem of maximizing a submodular function, not necessarily monotone, with respect to a cardinality constraint (SMCC). In the case the function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alan Kuhnle

We study submodular maximization problems with matroid constraints, in particular, problems where the objective can be expressed via compositions of analytic and multilinear functions. We show that for functions of this form, the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Gözde Özcan , Armin Moharrer , Stratis Ioannidis

Submodularity is a fundamental phenomenon in combinatorial optimization. Submodular functions occur in a variety of combinatorial settings such as coverage problems, cut problems, welfare maximization, and many more. Therefore, a lot of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Shaddin Dughmi

We consider the maximization of a submodular objective function $f:2^U\to\mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$, where the objective $f$ is not accessed as a value oracle but instead subject to noisy queries. We introduce a versatile adaptive sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Wenjing Chen , Shuo Xing , Victoria G. Crawford

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

The problem of maximizing non-negative submodular functions has been studied extensively in the last few years. However, most papers consider submodular set functions. Recently, several advances have been made for the more general case of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Corinna Gottschalk , Britta Peis

Submodularity is an important property of set functions and has been extensively studied in the literature. It models set functions that exhibit a diminishing returns property, where the marginal value of adding an element to a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Gamal Sallam , Zizhan Zheng , Jie Wu , Bo Ji

Submodular functions are a broad class of set functions, which naturally arise in diverse areas. Many algorithms have been suggested for the maximization of these functions. Unfortunately, once the function deviates from submodularity, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Lin Chen , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

We give improved multi-pass streaming algorithms for the problem of maximizing a monotone or arbitrary non-negative submodular function subject to a general $p$-matchoid constraint in the model in which elements of the ground set arrive one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Chien-Chung Huang , Theophile Thiery , Justin Ward

Submodular maximization has become established as the method of choice for the task of selecting representative and diverse summaries of data. However, if datapoints have sensitive attributes such as gender or age, such machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Marwa El Halabi , Slobodan Mitrović , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakab Tardos , Jakub Tarnawski

Constrained submodular set function maximization problems often appear in multi-agent decision-making problems with a discrete feasible set. A prominent example is the problem of multi-agent mobile sensor placement over a discrete domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Navid Rezazadeh , Solmaz S. Kia

In the classical selection problem, the input consists of a collection of elements and the goal is to pick a subset of elements from the collection such that some objective function $f$ is maximized. This problem has been studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Sofia Maria Nikolakaki , Alina Ene , Evimaria Terzi