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For the problem of maximizing a monotone, submodular function with respect to a cardinality constraint $k$ on a ground set of size $n$, we provide an algorithm that achieves the state-of-the-art in both its empirical performance and its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yixin Chen , Tonmoy Dey , Alan Kuhnle

In a conventional Federated Learning framework, client selection for training typically involves the random sampling of a subset of clients in each iteration. However, this random selection often leads to disparate performance among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Andrés Catalino Castillo Jiménez , Ege C. Kaya , Lintao Ye , Abolfazl Hashemi

We consider a class of submodular maximization problems in which decision-makers have limited access to the objective function. We explore scenarios where the decision-maker can observe only pairwise information, i.e., can evaluate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Andrew Downie , Bahman Gharesifard , Stephen L. Smith

While greedy algorithms have long been observed to perform well on a wide variety of problems, up to now approximation ratios have only been known for their application to problems having submodular objective functions $f$. Since many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 J. David Smith , My T. Thai

A deterministic approximation algorithm is presented for the maximization of non-monotone submodular functions over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$; the algorithm is based upon the idea of interlacing two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Alan Kuhnle

Given a collection of monotone submodular functions, the goal of Two-Stage Submodular Maximization (2SSM) [Balkanski et al., 2016] is to restrict the ground set so an objective selected u.a.r. from the collection attains a high maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Iasonas Nikolaou , Miltiadis Stouras , Stratis Ioannidis , Evimaria Terzi

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

We introduce the problem of maximizing approximately $k$-submodular functions subject to size constraints. In this problem, one seeks to select $k$-disjoint subsets of a ground set with bounded total size or individual sizes, and maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Leqian Zheng , Hau Chan , Grigorios Loukides , Minming Li

A natural and important generalization of submodularity -- $k$-submodularity -- applies to set functions with $k$ arguments and appears in a broad range of applications, such as infrastructure design, machine learning, and healthcare. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Qimeng Yu , Simge Küçükyavuz

Given a dataset of points in a metric space and an integer $k$, a diversity maximization problem requires determining a subset of $k$ points maximizing some diversity objective measure, e.g., the minimum or the average distance between two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

In this paper, we study a fundamental problem in submodular optimization, which is called sequential submodular maximization. Specifically, we aim to select and rank a group of $k$ items from a ground set $V$ such that the weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

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

We study the problem of estimating a random process from the observations collected by a network of sensors that operate under resource constraints. When the dynamics of the process and sensor observations are described by a state-space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Mahsa Ghasemi , Haris Vikalo , Ufuk Topcu

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint $k$, with the added twist that a number of items $\tau$ from the returned set may be removed. We focus on the worst-case setting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Ilija Bogunovic , Slobodan Mitrović , Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

We consider non-monotone DR-submodular function maximization, where DR-submodularity (diminishing return submodularity) is an extension of submodularity for functions over the integer lattice based on the concept of the diminishing return…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Tasuku Soma , Yuichi Yoshida

Max-norm regularizer has been extensively studied in the last decade as it promotes an effective low-rank estimation for the underlying data. However, such max-norm regularized problems are typically formulated and solved in a batch manner,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-17 Jie Shen , Huan Xu , Ping Li

Submodular maximization is one of the central topics in combinatorial optimization. It has found numerous applications in the real world. Streaming algorithms for submodule maximization have gained attention in recent years, allowing for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Shuo Zhang

Submodular maximization under matroid and cardinality constraints are classical problems with a wide range of applications in machine learning, auction theory, and combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we consider these problems in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

We study a submodular maximization problem motivated by applications in online retail. A platform displays a list of products to a user in response to a search query. The user inspects the first $k$ items in the list for a $k$ chosen at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Arash Asadpour , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli

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