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Submodular function minimization is well studied, and existing algorithms solve it exactly or up to arbitrary accuracy. However, in many applications, such as structured sparse learning or batch Bayesian optimization, the objective function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Marwa El Halabi , Stefanie Jegelka

We connect high-dimensional subset selection and submodular maximization. Our results extend the work of Das and Kempe (2011) from the setting of linear regression to arbitrary objective functions. For greedy feature selection, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-13 Ethan R. Elenberg , Rajiv Khanna , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sahand Negahban

In this paper, we study stochastic submodular maximization problems with general matroid constraints, that naturally arise in online learning, team formation, facility location, influence maximization, active learning and sensing objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Gözde Özcan , Stratis Ioannidis

We study the problem of estimating a random process from the observations collected by a network of sensors that operate under resource constraints. When the dynamics of the process and sensor observations are described by a state-space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Mahsa Ghasemi , Haris Vikalo , Ufuk Topcu

This letter studies the problem of minimizing increasing set functions, or equivalently, maximizing decreasing set functions, over the base of a matroid. This setting has received great interest, since it generalizes several applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Orcun Karaca , Daniel Tihanyi , Maryam Kamgarpour

The standard greedy algorithm has been recently shown to enjoy approximation guarantees for constrained non-submodular nondecreasing set function maximization. While these recent results allow to better characterize the empirical success of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Khashayar Gatmiry , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

We study submodular maximization problems with matroid constraints, in particular, problems where the objective can be expressed via compositions of analytic and multilinear functions. We show that for functions of this form, the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Gözde Özcan , Armin Moharrer , Stratis Ioannidis

Chance constraints are frequently used to limit the probability of constraint violations in real-world optimization problems where the constraints involve stochastic components. We study chance-constrained submodular optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Xiankun Yan , Anh Viet Do , Feng Shi , Xiaoyu Qin , Frank Neumann

A $k$-submodular function is an extension of a submodular function in that its input is given by $k$ disjoint subsets instead of a single subset. For unconstrained nonnegative $k$-submodular maximization, Ward and \v{Z}ivn\'y proposed a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Shinsaku Sakaue

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

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

Finding diverse solutions to optimization problems has been of practical interest for several decades, and recently enjoyed increasing attention in research. While submodular optimization has been rigorously studied in many fields, its…

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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…

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We study the problem of selecting a subset of vectors from a large set, to obtain the best signal representation over a family of functions. Although greedy methods have been widely used for tackling this problem and many of those have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ehsan Tohidi , Mario Coutino , David Gesbert

A $k$-submodular function naturally generalizes submodular functions by taking as input $k$ disjoint subsets, rather than a single subset. Unlike standard submodular maximization, which only requires selecting elements for the solution,…

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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

We consider the problem of sparse atomic optimization, where the notion of "sparsity" is generalized to meaning some linear combination of few atoms. The definition of atomic set is very broad; popular examples include the standard basis,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Thomas Zhang

We study a pair of budget- and performance-constrained weak-submodular maximization problems. For computational efficiency, we explore the use of stochastic greedy algorithms which limit the search space via random sampling instead of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Ege C. Kaya , Michael Hibbard , Takashi Tanaka , Ufuk Topcu , Abolfazl Hashemi

We investigate the performance of a deterministic GREEDY algorithm for the problem of maximizing functions under a partition matroid constraint. We consider non-monotone submodular functions and monotone subadditive functions. Even though…

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

We introduce the problem of maximizing approximately $k$-submodular functions subject to size constraints. In this problem, one seeks to select $k$-disjoint subsets of a ground set with bounded total size or individual sizes, and maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Leqian Zheng , Hau Chan , Grigorios Loukides , Minming Li