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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

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

In the matroid secretary problem, the elements of a matroid $\mathcal{M}$ arrive in random order. Once we observe an item we need to irrevocably decide whether or not to accept it. The set of selected elements should form an independent set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Mohammad Shadravan

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

While the basic greedy algorithm gives a semi-streaming algorithm with an approximation guarantee of $2$ for the \emph{unweighted} matching problem, it was only recently that Paz and Schwartzman obtained an analogous result for weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Paritosh Garg , Linus Jordan , Ola Svensson

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

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

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint in the streaming model. Our main contribution is a single-pass (semi-)streaming algorithm that uses roughly $O(k / \varepsilon^2)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Naor Alaluf , Alina Ene , Moran Feldman , Huy L. Nguyen , Andrew Suh

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

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

Submodular maximization is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning; there, the growing need to deal with massive instances motivates the design of algorithms balancing the quality of the…

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

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 maximization over a matroid constraint is a fundamental problem with various applications in machine learning. Some of these applications involve decision-making over datapoints with sensitive attributes such as gender or race.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Marwa El Halabi , Jakub Tarnawski , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Thuy-Duong Vuong

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

First, for the for the submodular $k$-secretary problem with shortlists [1], we provide a near optimal $1-1/e-\epsilon$ approximation using shortlist of size $O(k poly(1/\epsilon))$. In particular, we improve the size of shortlist used in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Mohammad Shadravan

In this work, we study the problem of monotone non-submodular maximization with partition matroid constraint. Although a generalization of this problem has been studied in literature, our work focuses on leveraging properties of partition…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Lan N. Nguyen , My T. Thai

We consider the problem of maximizing a nonnegative (possibly non-monotone) submodular set function with or without constraints. Feige et al. [FOCS'07] showed a 2/5-approximation for the unconstrained problem and also proved that no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Shayan Oveis Gharan , Jan Vondrák

The problem of non-monotone $k$-submodular maximization under a knapsack constraint ($\kSMK$) over the ground set size $n$ has been raised in many applications in machine learning, such as data summarization, information propagation, etc.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Dung T. K. Ha , Canh V. Pham , Tan D. Tran , Huan X. Hoang

In this work, we consider the Submodular Maximization under Knapsack (SMK) constraint problem over the ground set of size $n$. The problem recently attracted a lot of attention due to its applications in various domains of combination…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Canh V. Pham

Constrained $k$-submodular maximization is a general framework that captures many discrete optimization problems such as ad allocation, influence maximization, personalized recommendation, and many others. In many of these applications,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fabian Spaeh , Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen