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Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Francesco Quinzan , Ralf Rothenberger

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

The problem of maximizing a constrained monotone set function has many practical applications and generalizes many combinatorial problems. Unfortunately, it is generally not possible to maximize a monotone set function up to an acceptable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Moran Feldman , Rani Izsak

We study the problem of maximizing a stochastic monotone submodular function with respect to a matroid constraint. Due to the presence of diminishing marginal values in real-world problems, our model can capture the effect of stochasticity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Arash Asadpour , Hamid Nazerzadeh

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

We provide a formula for the lower bound in the form of $|F| \ge K$, in such a way that the decision version of unweighted non-bipartite matching can be solved in polynomial time. ~The parameter $K$ can vary from instance to instance. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Prabhu Manyem

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

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

A regularization algorithm (AR1pGN) for unconstrained nonlinear minimization is considered, which uses a model consisting of a Taylor expansion of arbitrary degree and regularization term involving a possibly non-smooth norm. It is shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Serge Gratton , Philippe L. Toint

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 generalize the monotone local search approach of Fomin, Gaspers, Lokshtanov and Saurabh [J. ACM 2019], by establishing a connection between parameterized approximation and exponential-time approximation algorithms for monotone subset…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Barış Can Esmer , Ariel Kulik , Dániel Marx , Daniel Neuen , Roohani Sharma

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

Submodular functions are a fundamental object of study in combinatorial optimization, economics, machine learning, etc. and exhibit a rich combinatorial structure. Many subclasses of submodular functions have also been well studied and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Nikhil R. Devanur , Shaddin Dughmi , Roy Schwartz , Ankit Sharma , Mohit Singh

In this paper, we study the problem of monotone (weakly) DR-submodular continuous maximization. While previous methods require the gradient information of the objective function, we propose a derivative-free algorithm LDGM for the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yibo Zhang , Chao Qian , Ke Tang

Submodular maximization subject to matroid constraints is a central problem with many applications in machine learning. As algorithms are increasingly used in decision-making over datapoints with sensitive attributes such as gender or race,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sepideh Mahabadi , Sherry Sarkar , Jakub Tarnawski

We consider fast algorithms for monotone submodular maximization subject to a matroid constraint. We assume that the matroid is given as input in an explicit form, and the goal is to obtain the best possible running times for important…

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

There are distributed graph algorithms for finding maximal matchings and maximal independent sets in $O(\Delta + \log^* n)$ communication rounds; here $n$ is the number of nodes and $\Delta$ is the maximum degree. The lower bound by Linial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Juho Hirvonen , Dennis Olivetti , Mikaël Rabie , Jukka Suomela

In this paper, we consider the optimization problem \scpl (\scp), which is to find a minimum cost subset of a ground set $U$ such that the value of a submodular function $f$ is above a threshold $\tau$. In contrast to most existing work on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Victoria G. Crawford

In recent years, maximization of DR-submodular continuous functions became an important research field, with many real-worlds applications in the domains of machine learning, communication systems, operation research and economics. Most of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Loay Mualem , Moran Feldman

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone $k$-submodular function $f$ under a knapsack constraint, where a $k$-submodular function is a natural generalization of a submodular function to $k$ dimensions. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang , Hau Chan