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Submodularity is one of the most important properties in combinatorial optimization, and $k$-submodularity is a generalization of submodularity. Maximization of a $k$-submodular function requires an exponential number of value oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Hiroki Oshima

In this paper, we study the non-monotone adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a knapsack and a $k$-system constraints. The input of our problem is a set of items, where each item has a particular state drawn from a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Shaojie Tang

We consider the problem of maximizing a nonnegative submodular set function $f:2^{\mathcal{N}} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+$ subject to a $p$-matchoid constraint in the single-pass streaming setting. Previous work in this context has considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Chandra Chekuri , Shalmoli Gupta , Kent Quanrud

Many important problems in discrete optimization require maximization of a monotonic submodular function subject to matroid constraints. For these problems, a simple greedy algorithm is guaranteed to obtain near-optimal solutions. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Daniel Golovin , Andreas Krause

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

The simplex algorithm for linear programming is based on the fact that any local optimum with respect to the polyhedral neighborhood is also a global optimum. We show that a similar result carries over to submodular maximization. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Simon Bruggmann , Rico Zenklusen

In this work we present the first practical $\left(\frac{1}{e}-\epsilon\right)$-approximation algorithm to maximise a general non-negative submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. Our algorithm is based on combining the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Pau Segui-Gasco , Hyo-Sang Shin

This paper addresses the problem of sequential submodular maximization: selecting and ranking items in a sequence to optimize some composite submodular function. In contrast to most of the previous works, which assume access to the utility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jing Yuan , Shaojie Tang

A wide variety of problems in machine learning, including exemplar clustering, document summarization, and sensor placement, can be cast as constrained submodular maximization problems. A lot of recent effort has been devoted to developing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Rafael da Ponte Barbosa , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen , Justin Ward

The goal of a sequential decision making problem is to design an interactive policy that adaptively selects a group of items, each selection is based on the feedback from the past, in order to maximize the expected utility of selected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Shaojie Tang

This work studies the non-monotone DR-submodular Maximization over a ground set of $n$ subject to a size constraint $k$. We propose two approximation algorithms for solving this problem named FastDrSub and FastDrSub++. FastDrSub offers an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tan D. Tran , Canh V. Pham

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

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…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-03 Jon Lee , Vahab Mirrokni , Viswanath Nagarjan , Maxim Sviridenko

Maximizing submodular functions under cardinality constraints lies at the core of numerous data mining and machine learning applications, including data diversification, data summarization, and coverage problems. In this work, we study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Alessandro Epasto , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Submodular function optimization has numerous applications in machine learning and data analysis, including data summarization which aims to identify a concise and diverse set of data points from a large dataset. It is important to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan , Twumasi Mensah-Boateng

Running machine learning algorithms on large and rapidly growing volumes of data is often computationally expensive, one common trick to reduce the size of a data set, and thus reduce the computational cost of machine learning algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

We propose subsampling as a unified algorithmic technique for submodular maximization in centralized and online settings. The idea is simple: independently sample elements from the ground set, and use simple combinatorial techniques (such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Christopher Harshaw , Ehsan Kazemi , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

Submodular functions and their optimization have found applications in diverse settings ranging from machine learning and data mining to game theory and economics. In this work, we consider the constrained maximization of a submodular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Moran Feldman , Alan Kuhnle

We consider the problem of maximizing a non-negative submodular set function $f:2^N \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ over a ground set $N$ subject to a variety of packing type constraints including (multiple) matroid constraints, knapsack…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Chandra Chekuri , Jan Vondrák , Rico Zenklusen

Maximizing submodular objectives under constraints is a fundamental problem in machine learning and optimization. We study the maximization of a nonnegative, non-monotone $\gamma$-weakly DR-submodular function over a down-closed convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Hareshkumar Jadav , Ranveer Singh , Vaneet Aggarwal