TY - GEN
T1 - Online submodular maximization with preemption
AU - Buchbinder, Niv
AU - Feldman, Moran
AU - Schwartz, Roy
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Submodular function maximization has been studied extensively in recent years under various constraints and models. The problem plays a major role in various disciplines. We study a natural online variant of this problem in which elements arrive one-by-one and the algorithm has to maintain a solution obeying certain constraints at all times. Upon arrival of an element, the algorithm has to decide whether to accept the element into its solution and may preempt previously chosen elements. The goal is to maximize a sub-modular function over the set of elements in the solution. We study two special cases of this general problem and derive upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio. Specifically, we design a 1/e-competitive algorithm for the unconstrained case in which the algorithm may hold any subset of the elements, and constant competitive ratio algorithms for the case where the algorithm may hold at most k elements in its solution.
AB - Submodular function maximization has been studied extensively in recent years under various constraints and models. The problem plays a major role in various disciplines. We study a natural online variant of this problem in which elements arrive one-by-one and the algorithm has to maintain a solution obeying certain constraints at all times. Upon arrival of an element, the algorithm has to decide whether to accept the element into its solution and may preempt previously chosen elements. The goal is to maximize a sub-modular function over the set of elements in the solution. We study two special cases of this general problem and derive upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio. Specifically, we design a 1/e-competitive algorithm for the unconstrained case in which the algorithm may hold any subset of the elements, and constant competitive ratio algorithms for the case where the algorithm may hold at most k elements in its solution.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84938265398&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1137/1.9781611973730.80
DO - 10.1137/1.9781611973730.80
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AN - SCOPUS:84938265398
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
SP - 1202
EP - 1216
BT - Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 26th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2015
Y2 - 4 January 2015 through 6 January 2015
ER -