Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints

Details Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints

2009-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0353v1

Computer Science

Computational Complexity

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Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems, maximum entropy sampling, and maximum facility location problems. Unlike submodular minimization, submodular maximization is NP-hard. For the problem of maximizing a non-monotone submodular function, Feige, Mirrokni, and Vondr\'ak recently developed a $2\over 5$-approximation algorithm \cite{FMV07}, however, their algorithms do not handle side constraints.} In this paper, we give the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for maximizing any non-negative submodular function subject to multiple matroid or knapsack constraints. We emphasize that our results are for {\em non-monotone} submodular functions. In particular, for any constant $k$, we present a $({1\over k+2+{1\over k}+\epsilon})$-approximation for the submodular maximization problem under $k$ matroid constraints, and a $({1\over 5}-\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for this problem subject to $k$ knapsack constraints ($\epsilon>0$ is any constant). We improve the approximation guarantee of our algorithm to ${1\over k+1+{1\over k-1}+\epsilon}$ for $k\ge 2$ partition matroid constraints. This idea also gives a $({1\over k+\epsilon})$-approximation for maximizing a {\em monotone} submodular function subject to $k\ge 2$ partition matroids, which improves over the previously best known guarantee of $\frac{1}{k+1}$.

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