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We investigate pseudopolynomial-time algorithms for Bounded Knapsack and Bounded Subset Sum. Recent years have seen a growing interest in settling their fine-grained complexity with respect to various parameters. For Bounded Knapsack, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Lin Chen , Jiayi Lian , Yuchen Mao , Guochuan Zhang

In this work, we study the Stochastic Budgeted Multi-round Submodular Maximization (SBMSm) problem, where we aim to adaptively maximize the sum, over multiple rounds, of a monotone and submodular objective function defined on subsets of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Vincenzo Auletta , Diodato Ferraioli , Cosimo Vinci

The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Hubert Villuendas , Mathieu Besançon , Jérôme Malick

We present an optimal, combinatorial 1-1/e approximation algorithm for monotone submodular optimization over a matroid constraint. Compared to the continuous greedy algorithm (Calinescu, Chekuri, Pal and Vondrak, 2008), our algorithm is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yuval Filmus , Justin Ward

In machine learning and big data, the optimization objectives based on set-cover, entropy, diversity, influence, feature selection, etc. are commonly modeled as submodular functions. Submodular (function) maximization is generally NP-hard,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Haotian Zhang , Rao Li , Zewei Wu , Guodong Sun

Pareto optimization via evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been shown to efficiently solve constrained monotone submodular functions. Traditionally when solving multiple problems, the algorithm is run for each problem separately.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liam Wigney , Frank Neumann

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 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

In this paper, we focus on applications in machine learning, optimization, and control that call for the resilient selection of a few elements, e.g. features, sensors, or leaders, against a number of adversarial denial-of-service attacks or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Vasileios Tzoumas , Konstantinos Gatsis , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

We study incremental knapsack problems with profits given by a special class of monotone submodular functions, that we dub all-or-nothing. We show that these problems are not harder to approximate than a less general class of modular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Federico D'Onofrio , Yuri Faenza , Lingyi Zhang

The "0-1 knapsack problem" stands as a classical combinatorial optimization conundrum, necessitating the selection of a subset of items from a given set. Each item possesses inherent values and weights, and the primary objective is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour

We consider the distributed version of the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP), where $m$ items are to be distributed amongst $n$ processors, each with a knapsack. We propose different distributed approximation algorithms with a tradeoff…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Ananth Murthy , Chandan Yeshwanth , Shrisha Rao

The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important Combinatorial Optimization problems in optimization and has a lot of real-world applications. Many approximation algorithms have been presented for this problem because of its NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan , Mojtaba Eslahi

We consider a problem of maximizing a monotone DR-submodular function under multiple order-consistent knapsack constraints on a distributive lattice. Since a distributive lattice is used to represent a dependency constraint, the problem can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Takanori Maehara , So Nakashima , Yutaro Yamaguchi

We consider a large family of problems in which an ordering (or, more precisely, a chain of subsets) of a finite set must be chosen to minimize some weighted sum of costs. This family includes variations of Min Sum Set Cover (MSSC), several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Felix Happach , Lisa Hellerstein , Thomas Lidbetter

The set of 2-dimensional packing problems builds an important class of optimization problems and Strip Packing together with 2-dimensional Bin Packing and 2-dimensional Knapsack is one of the most famous of these problems. Given a set of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Klaus Jansen , Malin Rau

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

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained submodular maximization problem. We propose the first algorithm for this problem that achieves a tight $(1/2-\varepsilon)$-approximation guarantee using $\tilde{O}(\varepsilon^{-1})$ adaptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Lin Chen , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

We consider the chance-constrained binary knapsack problem (CKP), where the item weights are independent and normally distributed. We introduce a continuous relaxation for the CKP, represented as a non-convex optimization problem, which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Junyoung Kim , Kyungsik Lee

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