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Submodular maximization constitutes a prominent research topic in combinatorial optimization and theoretical computer science, with extensive applications across diverse domains. While substantial advancements have been achieved in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shengminjie Chen , Yiwei Gao , Kaifeng Lin , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

In this paper we describe a new algorithm called Fast Adaptive Sequencing Technique (FAST) for maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint $k$ whose approximation ratio is arbitrarily close to $1-1/e$, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Adam Breuer , Eric Balkanski , Yaron Singer

Balkanski and Singer [5] recently initiated the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for constrained submodular function maximization, and studied the setting of a cardinality constraint. Very recent improvements for this problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

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

This paper presents a polynomial-time $1/2$-approximation algorithm for maximizing nonnegative $k$-submodular functions. This improves upon the previous $\max\{1/3, 1/(1+a)\}$-approximation by Ward and \v{Z}ivn\'y~(SODA'14), where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Satoru Iwata , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Yuichi Yoshida

Submodular maximization is one of the central topics in combinatorial optimization. It has found numerous applications in the real world. In the past decades, a series of algorithms have been proposed for this problem. However, most of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Zhijie Zhang

We study the problem of maximizing constrained non-monotone submodular functions and provide approximation algorithms that improve existing algorithms in terms of either the approximation factor or simplicity. Our algorithms combine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Salman Fadaei , MohammadAmin Fazli , MohammadAli Safari

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

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

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone nondecreasing set function under multiple constraints, where the constraints are also characterized by monotone nondecreasing set functions. We propose two greedy algorithms to solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Lintao Ye , Zhi-Wei Liu , Ming Chi , Vijay Gupta

In this paper, we apply a Threshold-Decreasing Algorithm to maximize $k$-submodular functions under a matroid constraint, which reduces the query complexity of the algorithm compared to the greedy algorithm with little loss in approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shuxian Niu , Qian Liu , Yang Zhou , Min Li

In large-data applications, it is desirable to design algorithms with a high degree of parallelization. In the context of submodular optimization, adaptive complexity has become a widely-used measure of an algorithm's "sequentiality".…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Wenzheng Li , Paul Liu , Jan Vondrak

Adaptive sequential decision making is one of the central challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. In such problems, the goal is to design an interactive policy that plans for an action to take, from a finite set of $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Hossein Esfandiari , Amin Karbasi , Vahab Mirrokni

In this paper, we study the non-monotone adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a cardinality constraint. We first revisit the adaptive random greedy algorithm proposed in \citep{gotovos2015non}, where they show that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Shaojie Tang

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

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

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 study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a matroid constraint, and present for it a deterministic non-oblivious local search algorithm that has an approximation guarantee of $1 - 1/e - \varepsilon$ (for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman

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

Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems, maximum…

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