Submodular Maximization over Multiple Matroids via Generalized Exchange Properties

  • Authors:
  • Jon Lee;Maxim Sviridenko;Jan Vondrák

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,;IBM Almaden Research Center,

  • Venue:
  • APPROX '09 / RANDOM '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop and 13th International Workshop on Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing a non-negative submodular function f , defined on a (finite) ground set N , subject to matroid constraints. A function $f: 2^N \rightarrow {\mathbb R}$ is submodular if for all S , T *** N , f (S *** T ) + f (S *** T ) ≤ f (S ) + f (T ). Furthermore, all submodular functions that we deal with are assumed to be non-negative. Throughout, we assume that our submodular function f is given by a value oracle ; i.e., for a given set S *** N , an algorithm can query an oracle to find the value f (S ). Without loss of generality, we take the ground set N to be [n ] = {1,2,...,n }.