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We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a Multiple Knapsack constraint. The input is a set $I$ of items, each has a non-negative weight, and a set of bins of arbitrary capacities. Also, we are given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yaron Fairstein , Ariel Kulik , Joseph , Naor , Danny Raz , Hadas Shachnai

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a knapsack constraint. Our main contribution is an algorithm that achieves a nearly-optimal, $1 - 1/e - \epsilon$ approximation, using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Alina Ene , Huy L. Nguyen

We study the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function under multiple knapsack constraints. We propose a simple discrete greedy algorithm to approach this problem, and prove that it yields strong approximation guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Vanja Doskoč , Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Francesco Quinzan

With the rapid growth of data in modern applications, parallel algorithms for maximizing non-monotone submodular functions have gained significant attention. In the parallel computation setting, the state-of-the-art approximation ratio of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yixin Chen , Wenjing Chen , Alan Kuhnle

We investigate two new optimization problems -- minimizing a submodular function subject to a submodular lower bound constraint (submodular cover) and maximizing a submodular function subject to a submodular upper bound constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Rishabh Iyer , Jeff Bilmes

We propose the first adversarially robust algorithm for monotone submodular maximization under single and multiple knapsack constraints with scalable implementations in distributed and streaming settings. For a single knapsack constraint,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Dmitrii Avdiukhin , Slobodan Mitrović , Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Samson Zhou

In this paper we study submodular maximization under a matroid constraint in the adaptive complexity model. This model was recently introduced in the context of submodular optimization in [BS18a] to quantify the information theoretic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Eric Balkanski , Aviad Rubinstein , Yaron Singer

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone $k$-submodular function $f$ under a knapsack constraint, where a $k$-submodular function is a natural generalization of a submodular function to $k$ dimensions. We present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang , Hau Chan

Several large-scale machine learning tasks, such as data summarization, can be approached by maximizing functions that satisfy submodularity. These optimization problems often involve complex side constraints, imposed by the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Francesco Quinzan , Vanja Doskoč , Andreas Göbel , Tobias Friedrich

Submodular maximization arises in many applications, and has attracted a lot of research attentions from various areas such as artificial intelligence, finance and operations research. Previous studies mainly consider only one kind of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yu-Ran Gu , Chao Bian , Chao Qian

In this paper, we introduce a novel technique for constrained submodular maximization, inspired by barrier functions in continuous optimization. This connection not only improves the running time for constrained submodular maximization but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Amin Karbasi , Ehsan Kazemi , Jan Vondrak

A multiple knapsack constraint over a set of items is defined by a set of bins of arbitrary capacities, and a weight for each of the items. An assignment for the constraint is an allocation of subsets of items to the bins which adheres to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yaron Fairstein , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

The submodular knapsack problem (SKP), which seeks to maximize a submodular set function by selecting a subset of elements within a given budget, is an important discrete optimization problem. The majority of existing approaches to solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yimin Hao , Yi Zhou , Chao Xu , Zhang-Hua Fu

In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing $k$-submodular functions subject to a knapsack constraint. For monotone objective functions, we present a $\frac{1}{2}(1-e^{-2})\approx 0.432$ greedy approximation algorithm. For the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Hao Xiao , Qian Liu , Yang Zhou , Min Li

In this paper we study the adaptivity of submodular maximization. Adaptivity quantifies the number of sequential rounds that an algorithm makes when function evaluations can be executed in parallel. Adaptivity is a fundamental concept that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Eric Balkanski , Aviad Rubinstein , Yaron Singer

This paper presents a polynomial-time $1/2$-approximation algorithm for maximizing nonnegative $k$-submodular functions. This improves upon the previous $\max\{1/3, 1/(1+a)\}$-approximation by Ward and \v{Z}ivn\'y~(SODA'14), where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Satoru Iwata , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Yuichi Yoshida

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone increasing submodular function over a set of weighted elements subject to a knapsack constraint. Although this problem is NP-hard, many applications require exact solutions, as approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sabine Münch , Stephen Raach

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

Submodularity is one of the most important properties in combinatorial optimization, and $k$-submodularity is a generalization of submodularity. Maximization of a $k$-submodular function requires an exponential number of value oracle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Hiroki Oshima

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