Towards Minimizing k-Submodular Functions
Discrete Mathematics
2013-09-24 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
In this paper we investigate k-submodular functions. This natural family of discrete functions includes submodular and bisubmodular functions as the special cases k = 1 and k = 2 respectively. In particular we generalize the known Min-Max-Theorem for submodular and bisubmodular functions. This theorem asserts that the minimum of the (bi)submodular function can be found by solving a maximization problem over a (bi)submodular polyhedron. We define and investigate a k-submodular polyhedron and prove a Min-Max-Theorem for k-submodular functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.5469,
title = {Towards Minimizing k-Submodular Functions},
author = {Anna Huber and Vladimir Kolmogorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5469},
year = {2013}
}