Publications related to Theory of Computation Laboratory 2

Robust Submodular Maximization: A Non-Uniform Partitioning Approach

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett, Ilija Bogunovic, Slobodan Mitrovic

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint

k

, with the added twist that a number of items

\tau

from the returned set may be removed. We focus on the worst-case setting considered in Orlin et al ...

2017

Quasi-Polynomial Local Search for Restricted Max-Min Fair Allocation

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Lukas Polacek

The restricted max-min fair allocation problem (also known as the restricted Santa Claus problem) is one of few problems that enjoys the intriguing status of having a better estimation algorithm than approximation algorithm. Indeed, Asadpour et al. [2012] ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Constant Factor Approximation for ATSP with Two Edge Weights

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski

We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem on shortest path metrics of directed graphs with two different edge weights. For the case of unit edge weights, the first constant factor approximation was give ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

An Efficient Streaming Algorithm for the Submodular Cover Problem

Volkan Cevher, Ilija Bogunovic, Ya-Ping Hsieh, Ashkan Norouzi Fard, Abbas Bazzi, Marwa El Halabi

We initiate the study of the classical Submodular Cover (SC) problem in the data streaming model which we refer to as the Streaming Submodular Cover (SSC). We show that any single pass streaming algorithm using sublinear memory in the size of the stream wi ...

2016

A New Framework for Distributed Submodular Maximization

Justin Dean Ward

A wide variety of problems in machine learning, including exemplar clustering, document summarization, and sensor placement, can be cast as constrained submodular maximization problems. A lot of recent effort has been devoted to developing distributed algo ...

Ieee2016

Improved hardness results for unique shortest vector problem

Divesh Aggarwal

The unique shortest vector problem on a rational lattice is the problem of finding the shortest non-zero vector under the promise that it is unique (up to multiplication by -1). We give several incremental improvements on the known hardness of the unique s ...

Elsevier2016

Removing and Adding Edges for the Traveling Salesman Problem

Ola Nils Anders Svensson

We present a framework for approximating the metric TSP based on a novel use of matchings. Traditionally, matchings have been used to add edges to make a given graph Eulerian, whereas our approach also allows for the removal of certain edges leading to a d ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Maximizing k-Submodular Functions and Beyond

Justin Dean Ward

We consider the maximization problem in the value oracle model of functions defined on k-tuples of sets that are submodular in every orthant and r-wise monotone, where k >= 2 and 1

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Tracking Interacting Objects Using Intertwined Flows

Pascal Fua, François Fleuret, Engin Türetken, Xinchao Wang

In this paper, we show that tracking different kinds of interacting objects can be formulated as a network-flow Mixed Integer Program. This is made possible by tracking all objects simultaneously using intertwined flow variables and expressing the fact tha ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Centrality of trees for capacitated -center

Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Hyung Chan An, Aditya Bhaskara

We consider the capacitated -center problem. In this problem we are given a finite set of locations in a metric space and each location has an associated non-negative integer capacity. The goal is to choose (open) locations (called centers) and assign each ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

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Robust Submodular Maximization: A Non-Uniform Partitioning Approach

Quasi-Polynomial Local Search for Restricted Max-Min Fair Allocation

Constant Factor Approximation for ATSP with Two Edge Weights

An Efficient Streaming Algorithm for the Submodular Cover Problem

A New Framework for Distributed Submodular Maximization

Improved hardness results for unique shortest vector problem

Removing and Adding Edges for the Traveling Salesman Problem

Maximizing k-Submodular Functions and Beyond

Tracking Interacting Objects Using Intertwined Flows

Centrality of trees for capacitated -center

Robust Submodular Maximization: A Non-Uniform Partitioning Approach

Quasi-Polynomial Local Search for Restricted Max-Min Fair Allocation

An Efficient Streaming Algorithm for the Submodular Cover Problem

Removing and Adding Edges for the Traveling Salesman Problem

Improved hardness results for unique shortest vector problem

A New Framework for Distributed Submodular Maximization

Tracking Interacting Objects Using Intertwined Flows

Maximizing k-Submodular Functions and Beyond

Centrality of trees for capacitated -center

Constant Factor Approximation for ATSP with Two Edge Weights