Locally Adaptive Optimization: Adaptive Seeding for Monotone Submodular Functions

DOI10.1137/1.9781611974331.CH31zbMATH Open1423.90157arXiv1507.02351OpenAlexW2951391163MaRDI QIDQ4575608FDOQ4575608

Authors: Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru, Aviad Rubinstein, Lior Seeman, Y. Singer, Christos Papadimitriou 

Publication date: 16 July 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Adaptive Seeding problem is an algorithmic challenge motivated by influence maximization in social networks: One seeks to select among certain accessible nodes in a network, and then select, adaptively, among neighbors of those nodes as they become accessible in order to maximize a global objective function. More generally, adaptive seeding is a stochastic optimization framework where the choices in the first stage affect the realizations in the second stage, over which we aim to optimize. Our main result is a $(1-1/e{)}^2$-approximation for the adaptive seeding problem for any monotone submodular function. While adaptive policies are often approximated via non-adaptive policies, our algorithm is based on a novel method we call emph{locally-adaptive} policies. These policies combine a non-adaptive global structure, with local adaptive optimizations. This method enables the $(1-1/e{)}^2$-approximation for general monotone submodular functions and circumvents some of the impossibilities associated with non-adaptive policies. We also introduce a fundamental problem in submodular optimization that may be of independent interest: given a ground set of elements where every element appears with some small probability, find a set of expected size at most $k$ that has the highest expected value over the realization of the elements. We show a surprising result: there are classes of monotone submodular functions (including coverage) that can be approximated almost optimally as the probability vanishes. For general monotone submodular functions we show via a reduction from extsc{Planted-Clique} that approximations for this problem are not likely to be obtainable. This optimization problem is an important tool for adaptive seeding via non-adaptive policies, and its hardness motivates the introduction of emph{locally-adaptive} policies we use in the main result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02351

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Stochastic programming (90C15) Approximation algorithms (68W25)

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