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In this work, we study the classical problem of maximizing a submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. We develop deterministic algorithms that are very parsimonious with respect to querying the submodular function, for both the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Eric Balkanski , Steven DiSilvio , Alan Kuhnle , ChunLi Peng

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

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

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

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

We consider the problem of multi-objective maximization of monotone submodular functions subject to cardinality constraint, often formulated as $\max_{|A|=k}\min_{i\in\{1,\dots,m\}}f_i(A)$. While it is widely known that greedy methods work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Rajan Udwani

Constrained submodular maximization problems encompass a wide variety of applications, including personalized recommendation, team formation, and revenue maximization via viral marketing. The massive instances occurring in modern day…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

Several large-scale machine learning tasks, such as data summarization, can be approached by maximizing functions that satisfy submodularity. These optimization problems often involve complex side constraints, imposed by the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Francesco Quinzan , Vanja Doskoč , Andreas Göbel , Tobias Friedrich

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

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under a matroid constraint is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning. We study this classic problem in the fully dynamic setting, where elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We investigate two new optimization problems -- minimizing a submodular function subject to a submodular lower bound constraint (submodular cover) and maximizing a submodular function subject to a submodular upper bound constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Rishabh Iyer , Jeff Bilmes

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

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

Optimization problems with set submodular objective functions have many real-world applications. In discrete scenarios, where the same item can be selected more than once, the domain is generalized from a 2-element set to a bounded integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Alberto Schiabel , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek

Streaming algorithms are generally judged by the quality of their solution, memory footprint, and computational complexity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in the streaming setting with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ehsan Kazemi , Marko Mitrovic , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Silvio Lattanzi , Amin Karbasi

The problem of maximizing nonnegative monotone submodular functions under a certain constraint has been intensively studied in the last decade, and a wide range of efficient approximation algorithms have been developed for this problem.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Akbar Rafiey , Yuichi Yoshida

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular set function subject to linear packing constraints. An instance of this problem consists of a matrix $A \in [0,1]^{m \times n}$, a vector $b \in [1,\infty)^m$, and a monotone…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Yossi Azar , Iftah Gamzu

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

Submodular function maximization has been studied extensively in recent years under various constraints and models. The problem plays a major role in various disciplines. We study a natural online variant of this problem in which elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman , Roy Schwartz

We study the recently introduced idea of worst-case sensitivity for monotone submodular maximization with cardinality constraint $k$, which captures the degree to which the output argument changes on deletion of an element in the input. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Conor McMeel , Yuichi Yoshida