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In this paper, we show that if the optimization function is restricted-strongly-convex (RSC) and restricted-smooth (RSM) -- a rich subclass of weakly submodular functions -- then a streaming algorithm with constant factor approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Amit Dhurandhar

Cardinality constrained submodular function maximization, which aims to select a subset of size at most $k$ to maximize a monotone submodular utility function, is the key in many data mining and machine learning applications such as data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Junzhou Zhao , Shuo Shang , Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Xiangliang Zhang

In this paper, we provide the first deterministic algorithm that achieves the tight $1-1/e$ approximation guarantee for submodular maximization under a cardinality (size) constraint while making a number of queries that scales only linearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenxin Li , Moran Feldman , Ehsan Kazemi , Amin Karbasi

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

We consider the classical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint, which, due to its numerous applications, has recently been studied in various computational models. We consider a clean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Moran Feldman , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

Submodular maximization is a general optimization problem with a wide range of applications in machine learning (e.g., active learning, clustering, and feature selection). In large-scale optimization, the parallel running time of an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Matthew Fahrbach , Vahab Mirrokni , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Team formation problem is a very important problem in the labor market, and it is proved to be NP-hard. In this paper, we design an efficient bicriteria streaming algorithms to construct a balance between gain and cost in a team formation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jingjing Tan

We introduce a new computational model for data streams: asymptotically exact streaming algorithms. These algorithms have an approximation ratio that tends to one as the length of the stream goes to infinity while the memory used by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Marc Heinrich , Alexander Munteanu , Christian Sohler

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

We study dynamic algorithms for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function over a stream of $n$ insertions and deletions. We show that any algorithm that maintains a $(0.5+\epsilon)$-approximate solution under a cardinality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xi Chen , Binghui Peng

We explore a novel problem in streaming submodular maximization, inspired by the dynamics of news-recommendation platforms. We consider a setting where users can visit a news website at any time, and upon each visit, the website must…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Honglian Wang , Sijing Tu , Lutz Oettershagen , Aristides Gionis

We study the classic NP-Hard problem of finding the maximum $k$-set coverage in the data stream model: given a set system of $m$ sets that are subsets of a universe $\{1,\ldots,n \}$, find the $k$ sets that cover the most number of distinct…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Andrew McGregor , Hoa T. Vu

Submodular maximization problems belong to the family of combinatorial optimization problems and enjoy wide applications. In this paper, we focus on the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a $d$-knapsack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Qilian Yu , Easton Li Xu , Shuguang Cui

We present a new approach for finding matchings in dense graphs by building on Szemer\'edi's celebrated Regularity Lemma. This allows us to obtain non-trivial albeit slight improvements over longstanding bounds for matchings in streaming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Sanjeev Khanna , Huan Li

Diversity maximization is a fundamental problem with wide applications in data summarization, web search, and recommender systems. Given a set $X$ of $n$ elements, it asks to select a subset $S$ of $k \ll n$ elements with maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yanhao Wang , Francesco Fabbri , Michael Mathioudakis

We study the classical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint k, with two additional twists: (i) elements arrive in a streaming fashion, and (ii) m items from the algorithm's memory are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Slobodan Mitrović , Ilija Bogunovic , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Jakub Tarnawski , Volkan Cevher

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

We study streaming algorithms for the interval selection problem: finding a maximum cardinality subset of disjoint intervals on the line. A deterministic 2-approximation streaming algorithm for this problem is developed, together with an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Yuval Emek , Magnus M. Halldorsson , Adi Rosen

In this paper, we study streaming algorithms that minimize the number of changes made to their internal state (i.e., memory contents). While the design of streaming algorithms typically focuses on minimizing space and update time, these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rajesh Jayaram , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

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