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The Quickest Transshipment Problem is to route flow as quickly as possible from sources with supplies to sinks with demands in a network with capacities and transit times on the arcs. It is of fundamental importance for numerous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Miriam Schlöter , Martin Skutella , Khai Van Tran

Maximizing a single submodular set function subject to a cardinality constraint is a well-studied and central topic in combinatorial optimization. However, finding a set that maximizes multiple functions at the same time is much less…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Fabian Spaeh , Atsushi Miyauchi

Considering a 2D matrix of positive and negative numbers, how might one draw a rectangle within it whose contents sum higher than all other rectangles'? This fundamental problem, commonly known the maximum rectangle problem or subwindow…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Max Reuter , Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea , Liana Fong

This paper considers submodular function minimization (SFM) restricted to a family of subsets. We show that SFM over complements of families with certain hierarchical structures can be solved in polynomial-time. This yields a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Ryuhei Mizutani

First, for the for the submodular $k$-secretary problem with shortlists [1], we provide a near optimal $1-1/e-\epsilon$ approximation using shortlist of size $O(k poly(1/\epsilon))$. In particular, we improve the size of shortlist used in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Mohammad Shadravan

In the classical selection problem, the input consists of a collection of elements and the goal is to pick a subset of elements from the collection such that some objective function $f$ is maximized. This problem has been studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Sofia Maria Nikolakaki , Alina Ene , Evimaria Terzi

As evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimization algorithms, recent theoretical studies have tried to analyze their performance for solving general problem classes, with the goal of providing a general theoretical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chao Qian

In this paper we present a new algorithm for solving linear programs that requires only $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{rank(A)}L)$ iterations to solve a linear program with $m$ constraints, $n$ variables, and constraint matrix $A$, and bit complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

The submodular partitioning problem asks to minimize, over all partitions $P$ of a ground set $V$, the sum of a given submodular function $f$ over the parts of $P$. The problem has seen considerable work in approximability, as it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kristóf Bérczi , Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Tamás Király , Daniel P. Szabo

Large-scale subset selection asks for a small useful set of examples, features, sensors, seed users, or context passages from an enormous ground set. Submodular maximization is a canonical model for such diminishing-returns problems, but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Alan Kuhnle

We study the complexity of approximate representation and learning of submodular functions over the uniform distribution on the Boolean hypercube $\{0,1\}^n$. Our main result is the following structural theorem: any submodular function is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Vitaly Feldman , Pravesh Kothari , Jan Vondrak

In this paper, we study the non-monotone DR-submodular function maximization over integer lattice. Functions over integer lattice have been defined submodular property that is similar to submodularity of set functions. DR-submodular is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Shuyang Gu , Chuangen Gao , Jun Huang , Weili Wu

A major challenge in current optimization research for deep learning is to automatically find optimal step sizes for each update step. The optimal step size is closely related to the shape of the loss in the update step direction. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Maximus Mutschler , Andreas Zell

We study the classical problem of minimizing the total weighted completion time on a fixed set of $m$ identical machines working in parallel, the $Pm||\sum w_jC_j$ problem in the standard three field notation for scheduling problems. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Danny Hermelin , Tomohiro Koana , Dvir Shabtay

Maximizing monotone submodular functions under a matroid constraint is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning. We study this classic problem in the fully dynamic setting, where elements…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Paul Dütting , Federico Fusco , Silvio Lattanzi , Ashkan Norouzi-Fard , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

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

The problem of maximizing non-negative submodular functions has been studied extensively in the last few years. However, most papers consider submodular set functions. Recently, several advances have been made for the more general case of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Corinna Gottschalk , Britta Peis

In this paper, we consider approximating the parameter-to-solution maps of parametric partial differential equations (PPDEs) using deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose an efficient approach combining reduced collocation methods (RCMs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Guanhang Lei , Zhen Lei , Lei Shi , Chenyu Zeng

We introduce a new fundamental algorithm called Matrix-POAFD to solve the matrix least square problem. The method is based on the matching pursuit principle. The method directly extracts, among the given features as column vectors of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Wei Qu , Chi Tin Hon , Yiqiao Zhang , Tao Qian

Consider a set $P$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$. In the discrete median line segment problem, the objective is to find a line segment bounded by a pair of points in $P$ such that the sum of the Euclidean distances from $P$ to the line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Ovidiu Daescu , Ka Yaw Teo