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Maximizing a monotone submodular function is a fundamental task in machine learning. In this paper, we study the deletion robust version of the problem under the classic matroids constraint. Here the goal is to extract a small size summary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 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

We design new approximation algorithms for the problems of optimizing submodular and supermodular functions subject to a single matroid constraint. Specifically, we consider the case in which we wish to maximize a nondecreasing submodular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-15 Maxim Sviridenko , Jan Vondrák , Justin Ward

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

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 study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a matroid constraint, and present for it a deterministic non-oblivious local search algorithm that has an approximation guarantee of $1 - 1/e - \varepsilon$ (for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman

The maximization of submodular functions have found widespread application in areas such as machine learning, combinatorial optimization, and economics, where practitioners often wish to enforce various constraints; the matroid constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Monika Henzinger , Paul Liu , Jan Vondrak , Da Wei Zheng

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

Let $V$ be a finite set of $n$ elements, $f: 2^V \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ be a nonnegative monotone supermodular function, and $k$ be a positive integer no greater than $n$. This paper addresses the problem of maximizing $f(S)$ over all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang , Qingjie Ye

We study the problem of maximizing a function that is approximately submodular under a cardinality constraint. Approximate submodularity implicitly appears in a wide range of applications as in many cases errors in evaluation of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Thibaut Horel , Yaron Singer

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under noise. There has been a great deal of work on optimization of submodular functions under various constraints, resulting in algorithms that provide desirable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Avinatan Hassidim , Yaron Singer

We consider fast algorithms for monotone submodular maximization with a general matroid constraint. We present a randomized $(1 - 1/e - \epsilon)$-approximation algorithm that requires $\tilde{O}_{\epsilon}(\sqrt{r} n)$ independence oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yusuke Kobayashi , Tatsuya Terao

We initiate the study of the submodular cover problem in dynamic setting where the elements of the ground set are inserted and deleted. In the classical submodular cover problem, we are given a monotone submodular function $f : 2^{V} \to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kiarash Banihashem , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

In this paper, we develop fast algorithms for two stochastic submodular maximization problems. We start with the well-studied adaptive submodular maximization problem subject to a cardinality constraint. We develop the first linear-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Shaojie Tang

Despite a surge of interest in submodular maximization in the data stream model, there remain significant gaps in our knowledge about what can be achieved in this setting, especially when dealing with multiple constraints. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Moran Feldman , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

Balkanski and Singer [5] recently initiated the study of adaptivity (or parallelism) for constrained submodular function maximization, and studied the setting of a cardinality constraint. Very recent improvements for this problem by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

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

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 maximizing a non-monotone DR-submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint. Diminishing returns (DR) submodularity is a generalization of the diminishing returns property for functions defined over the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Ali Khodabakhsh , Evdokia Nikolova

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