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We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint $k$, with the added twist that a number of items $\tau$ from the returned set may be removed. We focus on the worst-case setting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Ilija Bogunovic , Slobodan Mitrović , Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

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

Submodular maximization subject to matroid constraints is a central problem with many applications in machine learning. As algorithms are increasingly used in decision-making over datapoints with sensitive attributes such as gender or race,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sepideh Mahabadi , Sherry Sarkar , Jakub Tarnawski

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

In this paper, we study the tradeoff between the approximation guarantee and adaptivity for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint. The adaptivity of an algorithm is the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

Constrained submodular maximization problems have long been studied, with near-optimal results known under a variety of constraints when the submodular function is monotone. The case of non-monotone submodular maximization is less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-07 Anupam Gupta , Aaron Roth , Grant Schoenebeck , Kunal Talwar

In this work, we consider robust submodular maximization with matroid constraints. We give an efficient bi-criteria approximation algorithm that outputs a small family of feasible sets whose union has (nearly) optimal objective value. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Sebastian Pokutta , Mohit Singh , Alfredo Torrico

In this paper, we provide the first deterministic algorithm that achieves the tight $1-1/e$ approximation guarantee for submodular maximization under a cardinality (size) constraint while making a number of queries that scales only linearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Wenxin Li , Moran Feldman , Ehsan Kazemi , Amin Karbasi

Constrained submodular function maximization has been used in subset selection problems such as selection of most informative sensor locations. While these models have been quite popular, the solutions Constrained submodular function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Alfredo Torrico , Mohit Singh , Sebastian Pokutta , Nika Haghtalab , Joseph , Naor , Nima Anari

In this paper we study the fundamental problems of maximizing a continuous non-monotone submodular function over the hypercube, both with and without coordinate-wise concavity. This family of optimization problems has several applications…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Rad Niazadeh , Tim Roughgarden , Joshua R. Wang

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

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

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

Maximizing submodular functions under cardinality constraints lies at the core of numerous data mining and machine learning applications, including data diversification, data summarization, and coverage problems. In this work, we study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Alessandro Epasto , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We study the online submodular maximization problem with free disposal under a matroid constraint. Elements from some ground set arrive one by one in rounds, and the algorithm maintains a feasible set that is independent in the underlying…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-26 T-H. Hubert Chan , Zhiyi Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Ning Kang , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone submodular objective $f$ subject to the intersection of $k$ arbitrary matroid constraints. The natural greedy algorithm guarantees $(k+1)$-approximation for this problem, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Moran Feldman , Justin Ward

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Kai Han , Shuang Cui , Tianshuai Zhu , Jing Tang , Benwei Wu , He Huang

Recent progress in (semi-)streaming algorithms for monotone submodular function maximization has led to tight results for a simple cardinality constraint. However, current techniques fail to give a similar understanding for natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Moran Feldman , Paul Liu , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

Submodular maximization is one of the central topics in combinatorial optimization. It has found numerous applications in the real world. Streaming algorithms for submodule maximization have gained attention in recent years, allowing for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Shuo Zhang

The problem of maximizing non-negative monotone submodular functions under a certain constraint has been intensively studied in the last decade. In this paper, we address the problem for functions defined over the integer lattice. Suppose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Tasuku Soma , Yuichi Yoshida