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Given an undirected graph representing similarities between a set of items and an additive measure evaluating the items, we treat the position of a special subset of items in an ordinal ranking through a collection of combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samuel Boardman

In this work we give two new algorithms that use similar techniques for (non-monotone) submodular function maximization subject to a cardinality constraint. The first is an offline fixed parameter tractable algorithm that guarantees a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aviad Rubinstein , Junyao Zhao

We extend the work of Narasimhan and Bilmes [30] for minimizing set functions representable as a dierence between submodular functions. Similar to [30], our new algorithms are guaranteed to monotonically reduce the objective function at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Rishabh Iyer , Jeff A. Bilmes

Submodular optimization has received significant attention in both practice and theory, as a wide array of problems in machine learning, auction theory, and combinatorial optimization have submodular structure. In practice, these problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Paul Liu , Jan Vondrak

The feasibility of a classification-by-rank program for modular categories follows from the Rank-Finiteness Theorem. We develop arithmetic, representation theoretic and algebraic methods for classifying modular categories by rank. As an…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Paul Bruillard , Siu-Hung Ng , Eric C. Rowell , Zhenghan Wang

We show that for the problem of minimizing (or maximizing) the ratio of two supermodular functions, no bounded approximation ratio can be achieved via polynomial number of queries, if the two supermodular functions are both monotone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wenxin Li

One of the simplest matrix-valued function with a single variable matrix $X$ is given by $A + BXC$. In this this note, analytical formulas are established for calculating the maximal and minimal ranks of $A + BXC$ when the rank of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-17 Yongge Tian

Two seemingly unrelated problems, scheduling a multiclass queueing system and minimizing a submodular function, share a rather deep connection via the polymatroid that is characterized by a submodular set function on the one hand and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-09 Yingdong Lu , David Yao

We consider a class of sparsity-inducing regularization terms based on submodular functions. While previous work has focused on non-decreasing functions, we explore symmetric submodular functions and their \lova extensions. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Francis Bach

We consider the pointwise approximation of a subharmonic function by the logarithm of the modulus of an entire function up to a bounded quantity. In the case of finite order an estimate from below of the planar Lebesgue measure of an…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Markiyan Hirnyk

In this work, we treat the problem of multi-task submodular optimization from the perspective of local distributional robustness within the neighborhood of a reference distribution which assigns an importance score to each task. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ege C. Kaya , Abolfazl Hashemi

This work explores the novel idea of learning a submodular scoring function to improve the specificity/selectivity of existing feature attribution methods. Submodular scores are natural for attribution as they are known to accurately model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Piyushi Manupriya , Tarun Ram Menta , J. Saketha Nath , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Superposition is an established decision procedure for a variety of first-order logic theories represented by sets of clauses. A satisfiable theory, saturated by superposition, implicitly defines a minimal term-generated model for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-11-30 Matthias Horbach , Christoph Weidenbach

Consider the following online version of the submodular maximization problem under a matroid constraint: We are given a set of elements over which a matroid is defined. The goal is to incrementally choose a subset that remains independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , R. Ravi , Mohit Singh

Submodular functions allow to model many real-world optimisation problems. This paper introduces approaches for computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for submodular optimisation problems. We first present diversifying greedy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aneta Neumann , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

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

We consider the maximization problem in the value oracle model of functions defined on $k$-tuples of sets that are submodular in every orthant and $r$-wise monotone, where $k\geq 2$ and $1\leq r\leq k$. We give an analysis of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Justin Ward , Stanislav Zivny

The scope of this work is the constraint-based synthesis of termination arguments for the restricted class of programs called linear lasso programs. A termination argument consists of a ranking function as well as a set of supporting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Jan Leike

Functional decomposition is the process of breaking down a function $f$ into a composition $f=g(f_1,\dots,f_k)$ of simpler functions $f_1,\dots,f_k$ belonging to some class $\mathcal{F}$. This fundamental notion can be used to model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Wim Van den Broeck

We propose a computational framework for computing low-rank approximations to the ensemble of solutions of a parametrized system of the form $A(\xi)x(\xi)+g(x(\xi))=b(\xi)$ for multiple parameter values. The central idea is to reinterpret…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Marco Sutti , Tommaso Vanzan