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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

We introduce the problem of maximizing approximately $k$-submodular functions subject to size constraints. In this problem, one seeks to select $k$-disjoint subsets of a ground set with bounded total size or individual sizes, and maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Leqian Zheng , Hau Chan , Grigorios Loukides , Minming Li

We consider the problem of maximizing a monotone nondecreasing set function under multiple constraints, where the constraints are also characterized by monotone nondecreasing set functions. We propose two greedy algorithms to solve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Lintao Ye , Zhi-Wei Liu , Ming Chi , Vijay Gupta

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

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

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 study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function with viability constraints. This problem originates from computational biology, where we are given a phylogenetic tree over a set of species and a directed graph, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wolfgang Dvořák , Monika Henzinger , David P. Williamson

Budget feasible mechanisms, recently initiated by Singer (FOCS 2010), extend algorithmic mechanism design problems to a realistic setting with a budget constraint. We consider the problem of designing truthful budget feasible mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-23 Ning Chen , Nick Gravin , Pinyan Lu

Fair clustering enjoyed a surge of interest recently. One appealing way of integrating fairness aspects into classical clustering problems is by introducing multiple covering constraints. This is a natural generalization of the robust (or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Georg Anegg , Laura Vargas Koch , Rico Zenklusen

We study the correlated stochastic knapsack problem of a submodular target function, with optional additional constraints. We utilize the multilinear extension of submodular function, and bundle it with an adaptation of the relaxed linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Sheng Yang , Samir Khuller , Sunav Choudhary , Subrata Mitra , Kanak Mahadik

We introduce the \emph{submodular objectives chasing problem}, which generalizes many natural and previously-studied problems: a sequence of constrained submodular maximization problems is revealed over time, with both the objective and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , David Wajc

Robust Optimization is becoming increasingly important in machine learning applications. This paper studies the problem of robust submodular minimization subject to combinatorial constraints. Constrained Submodular Minimization arises in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Rishabh Iyer

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

The problem of maximizing a constrained monotone set function has many practical applications and generalizes many combinatorial problems. Unfortunately, it is generally not possible to maximize a monotone set function up to an acceptable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Moran Feldman , Rani Izsak

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 non-negative submodular set function $f:2^N \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ over a ground set $N$ subject to a variety of packing type constraints including (multiple) matroid constraints, knapsack…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Chandra Chekuri , Jan Vondrák , 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

In many submodular optimization applications, datasets are naturally partitioned into disjoint subsets. These scenarios give rise to submodular optimization problems with partition-based constraints, where the desired solution set should be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wenjing Chen , Yixin Chen , Victoria G. Crawford

In this work, we study online submodular maximization, and how the requirement of maintaining a stable solution impacts the approximation. In particular, we seek bounds on the best-possible approximation ratio that is attainable when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We investigate a more generalized form of submodular maximization, referred to as $k$-submodular maximization, with applications across social networks and machine learning domains. In this work, we propose the multilinear extension of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Lingxiao Huang , Baoxiang Wang , Huanjian Zhou