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2022, THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, Pages 661-690 (volume: 74)

Fast Adaptive Non-Monotone Submodular Maximization Subject to a Knapsack Constraint (01a Articolo in rivista)

Amanatidis Georgios, Fusco Federico, Lazos Filippos, Leonardi Stefano, Reiffenhauser REBECCA EVA MARIA

Constrained submodular maximization problems encompass a wide variety of applications, including personalized recommendation, team formation, and revenue maximization via viral marketing. The massive instances occurring in modern-day applications can render existing algorithms prohibitively slow. Moreover, frequently those instances are also inherently stochastic. Focusing on these challenges, we revisit the classic problem of maximizing a (possibly non-monotone) submodular function subject to a knapsack constraint. We present a simple randomized greedy algorithm that achieves a 5.83-approximation and runs in O(n log n) time, i.e., at least a factor n faster than other state-of-the-art algorithms. The versatility of our approach allows us to further transfer it to a stochastic version of the problem. There, we obtain a (9 + ε)-approximation to the best adaptive policy, which is the first constant approximation for non-monotone objectives. Experimental evaluation of our algorithms showcases their improved performance on real and synthetic data.
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