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We study submodular maximization problems with matroid constraints, in particular, problems where the objective can be expressed via compositions of analytic and multilinear functions. We show that for functions of this form, the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Gözde Özcan , Armin Moharrer , Stratis Ioannidis

Designing efficient and fair algorithms for sharing multiple resources between heterogeneous demands is becoming increasingly important. Applications include compute clusters shared by multi-task jobs and routers equipped with middleboxes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Thomas Bonald , James Roberts

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

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

Motivated by, e.g., sensitivity analysis and end-to-end learning, the demand for differentiable optimization algorithms has been significantly increasing. In this paper, we establish a theoretically guaranteed versatile framework that makes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Shinsaku Sakaue

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

In this paper, we demonstrate a formulation for optimizing coupled submodular maximization problems with provable sub-optimality bounds. In robotics applications, it is quite common that optimization problems are coupled with one another…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Jun Liu , Ryan K. Williams

We study a sequential decision-making model where a set of items is repeatedly matched to the same set of agents over multiple rounds. The objective is to determine a sequence of matchings that either maximizes the utility of the least…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eugene Lim , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

Chance constraints are frequently used to limit the probability of constraint violations in real-world optimization problems where the constraints involve stochastic components. We study chance-constrained submodular optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Xiankun Yan , Anh Viet Do , Feng Shi , Xiaoyu Qin , Frank Neumann

A deterministic approximation algorithm is presented for the maximization of non-monotone submodular functions over a ground set of size $n$ subject to cardinality constraint $k$; the algorithm is based upon the idea of interlacing two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Alan Kuhnle

The problem of allocating indivisible resources to agents arises in a wide range of domains, including treatment distribution and social support programs. An important goal in algorithm design for this problem is fairness, where the focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Niclas Boehmer , Luca Kreisel

A variety of large-scale machine learning problems can be cast as instances of constrained submodular maximization. Existing approaches for distributed submodular maximization have a critical drawback: The capacity - number of instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-01 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Andreas Krause

Submodular functions are an important class of functions in combinatorial optimization which satisfy the natural properties of decreasing marginal costs. The study of these functions has led to strong structural properties with applications…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Gagan Goel , Pushkar Tripathi , Lei Wang

For many optimization problems in machine learning, finding an optimal solution is computationally intractable and we seek algorithms that perform well in practice. Since computational intractability often results from pathological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Eric Balkanski , Sharon Qian , Yaron Singer

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

The greedy strategy is an approximation algorithm to solve optimization problems arising in decision making with multiple actions. How good is the greedy strategy compared to the optimal solution? In this survey, we mainly consider two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Yajing Liu , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Zhenliang Zhang

The study of combinatorial optimization problems with a submodular objective has attracted much attention in recent years. Such problems are important in both theory and practice because their objective functions are very general. Obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Niv Buchbinder , Moran Feldman

We initiate the study of fair distribution of delivery tasks among a set of agents wherein delivery jobs are placed along the vertices of a graph. Our goal is to fairly distribute delivery costs (modeled as a submodular function) among a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hadi Hosseini , Shivika Narang , Tomasz Wąs

Submodular optimization has become increasingly prominent in machine learning and fairness has drawn much attention. In this paper, we propose to study the fair $k$-submodular maximization problem and develop a $\frac{1}{3}$-approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yanhui Zhu , Samik Basu , A. Pavan

Pareto optimization via evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been shown to efficiently solve constrained monotone submodular functions. Traditionally when solving multiple problems, the algorithm is run for each problem separately.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liam Wigney , Frank Neumann