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9. Density Functions subject to a Co-Matroid Constraint

Author

Chakaravarthy, Venkatesan T., Modani, Natwar, Natarajan, Sivaramakrishnan R., Roy, Sambuddha, and Sabharwal, Yogish

Subjects
Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics, F.2.2
Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of finding the {\em densest} subset subject to {\em co-matroid constraints}. We are given a {\em monotone supermodular} set function $f$ defined over a universe $U$, and the density of a subset $S$ is defined to be $f(S)/\crd{S}$. This generalizes the concept of graph density. Co-matroid constraints are the following: given matroid $\calM$ a set $S$ is feasible, iff the complement of $S$ is {\em independent} in the matroid. Under such constraints, the problem becomes $\np$-hard. The specific case of graph density has been considered in literature under specific co-matroid constraints, for example, the cardinality matroid and the partition matroid. We show a 2-approximation for finding the densest subset subject to co-matroid constraints. Thus, for instance, we improve the approximation guarantees for the result for partition matroids in the literature.

Published
2012

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