Instance specific approximations for submodular maximization

E Balkanski, S Qian, Y Singer - International Conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
The predominant measure for the performance of an algorithm is its worst-case
approximation guarantee. While worst-case approximations give desirable robustness …

Bilu-linial stability, certified algorithms and the independent set problem

H Angelidakis, P Awasthi, A Blum… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We study the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem under the notion of stability
introduced by Bilu and Linial (2010): a weighted instance of MIS is $\gamma $-stable if it has …

On the unreasonable effectiveness of the greedy algorithm: Greedy adapts to sharpness

S Pokutta, M Singh, A Torrico - International Conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
It is well known that the standard greedy algorithm guarantees a worst-case approximation
factor of $1-1/e $ when maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality …

A new approximation guarantee for monotone submodular function maximization via discrete convexity

T Soma, Y Yoshida - arxiv preprint arxiv:1709.02910, 2017 - arxiv.org
In monotone submodular function maximization, approximation guarantees based on the
curvature of the objective function have been extensively studied in the literature. However …

The Power of Greedy for Online Minimum Cost Matching on the Line

E Balkanski, Y Faenza, N Périvier - … of the 24th ACM Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In the online minimum cost matching problem, there are n servers and, at each of n time
steps, a request arrives and must be irrevocably matched to a server that has not yet been …

Budget-smoothed analysis for submodular maximization

A Rubinstein, J Zhao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2102.05782, 2021 - arxiv.org
The greedy algorithm for monotone submodular function maximization subject to cardinality
constraint is guaranteed to approximate the optimal solution to within a $1-1/e $ factor …

[LIBRO][B] Hierarchical clustering with global objectives: Approximation algorithms and hardness results

E Chatziafratis - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Hierarchical Clustering is an important tool for data analysis, used in diverse areas ranging
from Phylogenetics in Biology to YouTube video recommendations and everything in …

Dual-mode greedy algorithms can save energy

B Geissmann, S Leucci, CH Liu… - … on Algorithms and …, 2019 - drops.dagstuhl.de
In real world applications, important resources like energy are saved by deliberately using
so-called low-cost operations that are less reliable. Some of these approaches are based on …

Efficiently approximating vertex cover on scale-free networks with underlying hyperbolic geometry

T Bläsius, T Friedrich, M Katzmann - Algorithmica, 2023 - Springer
Finding a minimum vertex cover in a network is a fundamental NP-complete graph problem.
One way to deal with its computational hardness, is to trade the qualitative performance of …

New Separations and Beyond-Worst-Case Analysis in Algorithmic Game Theory and Submodular Optimization

J Zhao - 2024 - search.proquest.com
In algorithmic game theory, we analyze games and design mechanisms through
computational lens. We prefer mechanisms that are simple, deterministic and incentive …