Submodular Maximization via Gradient Ascent: The Case of Deep Submodular Functions

We study the problem of maximizing deep submodular functions (DSFs) [13, 3] subject to a matroid constraint. DSFs are an expressive class of submodular functions that include, as strict subfamilies, the facility location, weighted coverage, and sums of concave composed with modular functions. We use...

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Vydané v:Advances in neural information processing systems Ročník 2018; s. 7989
Hlavní autori: Bai, Wenruo, Noble, William S, Bilmes, Jeff A
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States 01.12.2018
ISSN:1049-5258
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Shrnutí:We study the problem of maximizing deep submodular functions (DSFs) [13, 3] subject to a matroid constraint. DSFs are an expressive class of submodular functions that include, as strict subfamilies, the facility location, weighted coverage, and sums of concave composed with modular functions. We use a strategy similar to the continuous greedy approach [6], but we show that the multilinear extension of any DSF has a natural and computationally attainable concave relaxation that we can optimize using gradient ascent. Our results show a guarantee of with a running time of ( ) plus time for pipage rounding [6] to recover a discrete solution, where is the rank of the matroid constraint. This bound is often better than the standard 1 - 1 guarantee of the continuous greedy algorithm, but runs much faster. Our bound also holds even for fully curved ( = 1) functions where the guarantee of 1 - degenerates to 1 - 1 where is the curvature of [37]. We perform computational experiments that support our theoretical results.
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ISSN:1049-5258