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Fast Approximation Algorithm for Non-Monotone DR-submodular Maximization under Size Constraint

Published: November 4, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.02254v1

By: Tan D. Tran, Canh V. Pham

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This work studies the non-monotone DR-submodular Maximization over a ground set of $n$ subject to a size constraint $k$. We propose two approximation algorithms for solving this problem named FastDrSub and FastDrSub++. FastDrSub offers an approximation ratio of $0.044$ with query complexity of $O(n \log(k))$. The second one, FastDrSub++, improves upon it with a ratio of $1/4-\epsilon$ within query complexity of $(n \log k)$ for an input parameter $\epsilon >0$. Therefore, our proposed algorithms are the first constant-ratio approximation algorithms for the problem with the low complexity of $O(n \log(k))$. Additionally, both algorithms are experimentally evaluated and compared against existing state-of-the-art methods, demonstrating their effectiveness in solving the Revenue Maximization problem with DR-submodular objective function. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithms significantly outperform existing approaches in terms of both query complexity and solution quality.

Page Count
21 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Data Structures and Algorithms