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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

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

While greedy algorithms have long been observed to perform well on a wide variety of problems, up to now approximation ratios have only been known for their application to problems having submodular objective functions $f$. Since many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 J. David Smith , My T. Thai

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

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

The classical problem of maximizing a submodular function under a matroid constraint is considered. Defining a new measure for the increments made by the greedy algorithm at each step, called the discriminant, improved approximation ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Nived Rajaraman , Rahul Vaze

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a knapsack constraint. We show that, for any fixed $\epsilon > 0$, there exists a polynomial-time algorithm with an approximation ratio $1-c/e-\epsilon$, where $c…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Yuichi Yoshida

Submodular functions are a broad class of set functions, which naturally arise in diverse areas. Many algorithms have been suggested for the maximization of these functions. Unfortunately, once the function deviates from submodularity, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Lin Chen , Moran Feldman , Amin Karbasi

We consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function with access to a noisy value oracle for the function instead of an exact value oracle. Similar to prior work, we assume that the noisy oracle is persistent in that multiple calls…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kshipra Bhawalkar , Yang Cai , Zhe Feng , Christopher Liaw , Tao Lin

Motivated by a wide range of applications in data mining and machine learning, we consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function subject to supermodular cost constraints. In contrast to the well-understood setting of cardinality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ajitesh Srivastava , Shanghua Teng

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone, non-negative submodular function subject to a matroid constraint. The prior best-known deterministic approximation ratio for this problem is $\frac{1}{4}-\epsilon$ under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Kai Han , Zongmai Cao , Shuang Cui , Benwei Wu

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

Monotone submodular maximization with a knapsack constraint is NP-hard. Various approximation algorithms have been devised to address this optimization problem. In this paper, we revisit the widely known modified greedy algorithm. First, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jing Tang , Xueyan Tang , Andrew Lim , Kai Han , Chongshou Li , Junsong Yuan

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

Non-monotone constrained submodular maximization plays a crucial role in various machine learning applications. However, existing algorithms often struggle with a trade-off between approximation guarantees and practical efficiency. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Murad Tukan , Loay Mualem , Moran Feldman

In this work, we study the problem of finding the maximum value of a non-negative submodular function subject to a limit on the number of items selected, a ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications, such as data summarization and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yixin Chen , Alan Kuhnle

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 function subject to a matroid independence constraint. For more than a decade, a rich body of work has studied this problem. Initially, a tight approximation of $ (1-\frac{1}{e})$ was…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Amit Ganz Rozenman , Ariel Kulik , Roy Schwartz , Mohit Singh

An effective technique for solving optimization problems over massive data sets is to partition the data into smaller pieces, solve the problem on each piece and compute a representative solution from it, and finally obtain a solution…

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