A refined analysis of submodular Greedy

Ariel Kulik; Roy Schwartz; Hadas Shachnai

doi:10.1016/j.orl.2021.04.006

A refined analysis of submodular Greedy

Ariel Kulik, Roy Schwartz, Hadas Shachnai

Computer Science

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Many algorithms for maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a knapsack constraint rely on the natural greedy heuristic. We present a novel refined analysis of this greedy heuristic which enables us to: (1) reduce the enumeration in the tight (1−e⁻¹)-approximation of [Sviridenko 04] from subsets of size three to two; (2) present an improved upper bound of 0.42945 for the classic algorithm which returns the better between a single element and the output of the greedy heuristic.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	507-514
Number of pages	8
Journal	Operations Research Letters
Volume	49
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2021.04.006
State	Published - 1 Jul 2021

Keywords

Approximation algorithms
Knapsack constraint
Submodular functions

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Management Science and Operations Research
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Applied Mathematics

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