• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: A (k+3)/2-approximation algorithm for monotone submodular k-set packing and general k-exchange systems
  • Contributor: Ward, Justin [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2012
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2012.42
  • Keywords: local search ; k-set packing ; approximation algorithms ; k-exchange systems ; submodular maximization
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  • Description: We consider the monotone submodular k-set packing problem in the context of the more general problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in a k-exchange system. These systems, introduced by Feldman et al. [Feldman,2011], generalize the matroid k-parity problem in a wide class of matroids and capture many other combinatorial optimization problems. We give a deterministic, non-oblivious local search algorithm that attains an approximation ratio of (k + 3)/2 + epsilon for the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in a k-exchange system, improving on the best known result of k+epsilon, and answering an open question posed by Feldman et al.
  • Access State: Open Access