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Approximation Algorithms for Maximization of k-Submodular Function Under a Matroid Constraint
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2024, 29(6): 1633-1641
Published: 20 June 2024
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In this paper, we design a deterministic 1/3-approximation algorithm for the problem of maximizing non-monotone k-submodular function under a matroid constraint. In order to reduce the complexity of this algorithm, we also present a randomized 1/3-approximation algorithm with the probability of 1ε, where ε is the probability of algorithm failure. Moreover, we design a streaming algorithm for both monotone and non-monotone objective k-submodular functions.

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Robust Correlation Clustering Problem with Locally Bounded Disagreements
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2024, 29(1): 66-75
Published: 21 August 2023
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Min-max disagreements are an important generalization of the correlation clustering problem (CorCP). It can be defined as follows. Given a marked complete graph G=(V,E), each edge in the graph is marked by a positive label " +" or a negative label " -" based on the similarity of the connected vertices. The goal is to find a clustering 𝒞 of vertices V, so as to minimize the number of disagreements at the vertex with the most disagreements. Here, the disagreements are the positive cut edges and the negative non-cut edges produced by clustering 𝒞. This paper considers two robust min-max disagreements: min-max disagreements with outliers and min-max disagreements with penalties. Given parameter δ(0,1/14), we first provide a threshold-based iterative clustering algorithm based on LP-rounding technique, which is a (1/δ,7/(1-14δ))-bi-criteria approximation algorithm for both the min-max disagreements with outliers and the min-max disagreements with outliers on one-sided complete bipartite graphs. Next, we verify that the above algorithm can achieve an approximation ratio of 21 for min-max disagreements with penalties when we set parameter δ=1/21.

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k-Submodular Maximization with a Knapsack Constraint and p Matroid Constraints
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28(5): 896-905
Published: 19 May 2023
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A k-submodular function is a generalization of a submodular function, its definition domain is extended from the collection of single subsets to the collection of k disjoint subsets. The k-submodular maximization problem has a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose a nested greedy and local search algorithm for the problem of maximizing a monotone k-submodular function subject to a knapsack constraint and p matroid constraints.

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