Optimization for approximate submodularity

Avinatan Hassidim, Yaron Singer

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Abstract

We consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function when given access to its approximate version. Submodular functions are heavily studied in a wide variety of disciplines since they are used to model many real world phenomena and are amenable to optimization. There are many cases however in which the phenomena we observe is only approximately submodular and the optimization guarantees cease to hold. In this paper we describe a technique that yields strong guarantees for maximization of monotone submodular functions from approximate surrogates under cardinality and intersection of matroid constraints. In particular, we show tight guarantees for maximization under a cardinality constraint and 1/(1 + P) approximation under intersection of P matroids.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)396-407
Number of pages12
JournalAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Volume2018-December
StatePublished - 2018
Event32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2018 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 2 Dec 20188 Dec 2018

Bibliographical note

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Funding

Acknowledgements. A.H. is supported by 1394/16 and by a BSF grant. Y.S. is supported by NSF grant CAREER CCF 1452961, NSF CCF 1301976, BSF grant 2014389, NSF USICCS proposal 1540428, a Google Research award, and a Facebook research award.

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationCCF 1452961, 2014389, CCF 1301976, 1540428
Bloom's Syndrome Foundation
Google

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