Streaming Submodular Maximization Under Matroid Constraints


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2022

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Conference Paper

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Abstract

Recent progress in (semi-)streaming algorithms for monotone submodular function maximization has led to tight results for a simple cardinality constraint. However, current techniques fail to give a similar understanding for natural generalizations, including matroid constraints. This paper aims at closing this gap. For a single matroid of rank k (i.e., any solution has cardinality at most k), our main results are: A single-pass streaming algorithm that uses Õ(k) memory and achieves an approximation guarantee of 0.3178. A multi-pass streaming algorithm that uses Õ(k) memory and achieves an approximation guarantee of (1 − 1/e − ε) by taking a constant (depending on ε) number of passes over the stream. This improves on the previously best approximation guarantees of 1/4 and 1/2 for single-pass and multi-pass streaming algorithms, respectively. In fact, our multi-pass streaming algorithm is tight in that any algorithm with a better guarantee than 1/2 must make several passes through the stream and any algorithm that beats our guarantee of 1 − 1/e must make linearly many passes (as well as an exponential number of value oracle queries). Moreover, we show how the approach we use for multi-pass streaming can be further strengthened if the elements of the stream arrive in uniformly random order, implying an improved result for p-matchoid constraints.

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published

Book title

49th EATCS International Conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming

Volume

229

Pages / Article No.

59

Publisher

Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik

Event

49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)

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Submodular maximization; streaming, matroid; random order

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09487 - Zenklusen, Rico / Zenklusen, Rico check_circle

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184622 - Toward Stronger Approximation Algorithms for Fundamental Network Design and Optimization Problems (SNF)

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