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Poster
Thu Jul 12 09:15 AM -- 12:00 PM (PDT) @ Hall B #145
Fast Maximization of Non-Submodular, Monotonic Functions on the Integer Lattice
Alan Kuhnle · J. Smith · Victoria Crawford · My T. Thai
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The optimization of submodular functions on the integer lattice has received much attention recently, but the objective functions of many applications are non-submodular. We provide two approximation algorithms for maximizing a non-submodular function on the integer lattice subject to a cardinality constraint; these are the first algorithms for this purpose that have polynomial query complexity. We propose a general framework for influence maximization on the integer lattice that generalizes prior works on this topic, and we demonstrate the efficiency of our algorithms in this context.