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非单调次模函数与线性函数之和的最大化:理解无约束情形

Maximizing Sums of Non-monotone Submodular and Linear Functions: Understanding the Unconstrained Case

Kobi Bodek, Moran Feldman

摘要:

受实际应用的启发,最近的工作考虑了子模函数$g$和线性函数$\ell$的和的最大化。几乎所有这样的作品,到目前为止,只研究了特殊情况下,这个问题,其中$g$也保证是单调的。因此,在本文中,我们系统地研究这个问题的最简单的版本,其中$g$是允许的非单调,即无约束的变体,我们称之为正则无约束次模最大化(RegularizedUSM)。我们的主要算法结果是一般RegularizedUSM的第一个非平凡保证。对于RegularizedUSM的特殊情况,其中线性函数$\ell$是非正的,我们证明了两个不可逼近的结果,表明这种情况下的算法结果暗示由以前的作品是不远的最佳。最后,我们重新分析了已知的双贪心算法,以获得改进的保证RegularizedUSM的特殊情况下,其中的线性函数$\ell$是非负的,我们补充这些保证表明,这是不可能获得(1/2,1)-近似这种情况下(尽管直观的参数表明,这种近似保证是自然的)。

英文摘要:

Motivated by practical applications, recent works have considered maximization of sums of a submodular function $g$ and a linear function $\ell$. Almost all such works, to date, studied only the special case of this problem in which $g$ is also guaranteed to be monotone. Therefore, in this paper we systematically study the simplest version of this problem in which $g$ is allowed to be non-monotone, namely the unconstrained variant, which we term Regularized Unconstrained Submodular Maximization (RegularizedUSM). Our main algorithmic result is the first non-trivial guarantee for general RegularizedUSM. For the special case of RegularizedUSM in which the linear function $\ell$ is non-positive, we prove two inapproximability results, showing that the algorithmic result implied for this case by previous works is not far from optimal. Finally, we reanalyze the known Double Greedy algorithm to obtain improved guarantees for the special case of RegularizedUSM in which the linear function $\ell$ is non-negative; and we complement these guarantees by showing that it is not possible to obtain (1/2, 1)-approximation for this case (despite intuitive arguments suggesting that this approximation guarantee is natural).

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