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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

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

This article provides a comprehensive exploration of submodular maximization problems, focusing on those subject to uniform and partition matroids. Crucial for a wide array of applications in fields ranging from computer science to systems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Solmaz S. Kia

Submodular function optimization has numerous applications in machine learning and data analysis, including data summarization which aims to identify a concise and diverse set of data points from a large dataset. It is important to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan , Twumasi Mensah-Boateng

In machine learning and big data, the optimization objectives based on set-cover, entropy, diversity, influence, feature selection, etc. are commonly modeled as submodular functions. Submodular (function) maximization is generally NP-hard,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Haotian Zhang , Rao Li , Zewei Wu , Guodong Sun

We give improved multi-pass streaming algorithms for the problem of maximizing a monotone or arbitrary non-negative submodular function subject to a general $p$-matchoid constraint in the model in which elements of the ground set arrive one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Chien-Chung Huang , Theophile Thiery , Justin Ward

A $k$-submodular function naturally generalizes submodular functions by taking as input $k$ disjoint subsets, rather than a single subset. Unlike standard submodular maximization, which only requires selecting elements for the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Chenhao Wang

In the matroid secretary problem, the elements of a matroid $\mathcal{M}$ arrive in random order. Once we observe an item we need to irrevocably decide whether or not to accept it. The set of selected elements should form an independent set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Mohammad Shadravan

The maximization of submodular functions have found widespread application in areas such as machine learning, combinatorial optimization, and economics, where practitioners often wish to enforce various constraints; the matroid constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Monika Henzinger , Paul Liu , Jan Vondrak , Da Wei Zheng

Submodular maximization under matroid and cardinality constraints are classical problems with a wide range of applications in machine learning, auction theory, and combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we consider these problems in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kiarash Banihashem , Leyla Biabani , Samira Goudarzi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Peyman Jabbarzade , Morteza Monemizadeh

This paper introduces consensus-based primal-dual methods for distributed online optimization where the time-varying system objective function $f_t(\mathbf{x})$ is given as the sum of local agents' objective functions, i.e.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos

We study the problem of Regularized Unconstrained Submodular Maximization (RegularizedUSM) as defined by Bodek and Feldman [BF22]. In this problem, you are given a non-monotone non-negative submodular function $f:2^{\mathcal N}\to \mathbb…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Benjamin Qi

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

Despite a surge of interest in submodular maximization in the data stream model, there remain significant gaps in our knowledge about what can be achieved in this setting, especially when dealing with multiple constraints. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Moran Feldman , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Ola Svensson , Rico Zenklusen

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

Many prediction domains, such as ad placement, recommendation, trajectory prediction, and document summarization, require predicting a set or list of options. Such lists are often evaluated using submodular reward functions that measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Stephane Ross , Jiaji Zhou , Yisong Yue , Debadeepta Dey , J. Andrew Bagnell

We study planning with submodular objective functions, where instead of maximizing the cumulative reward, the goal is to maximize the objective value induced by a submodular function. Our framework subsumes standard planning and submodular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ruosong Wang , Hanrui Zhang , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Denis Garagić , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Finding diverse solutions to optimization problems has been of practical interest for several decades, and recently enjoyed increasing attention in research. While submodular optimization has been rigorously studied in many fields, its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

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 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