Lecture 2-1 Submodular Maximization Weili Wu Ding-Zhu Du University of Texas at Dallas
Outline Kate Middleton effect Max Submodular Function 2
The trend effect that Kate, Duchess of Cambridge has on others, from cosmetic surgery for brides, to sales of coral-colored jeans.” “Kate Middleton effect Kate Middleton effect 3
According to Newsweek, "The Kate Effect may be worth £1 billion to the UK fashion industry." Tony DiMasso, L. K. Bennett’s US president, stated in 2012, "...when she does wear something, it always seems to go on a waiting list." Hike in Sales of Special Products 4
Influential persons often have many friends. Kate is one of the persons that have many friends in this social network. For more Kates, it’s not as easy as you might think! How to Find Kate? 5
Given a digraph and k>0, Find k seeds (Kates) to maximize the number of influenced persons (in one step). Domination Maximization 6
7 Theorem Proof
Outline Kate Middleton effect Submodular Maximization 8
Max Coverage Given a collection C of subsets of a set E, find a subcollection C’ of C, with |C’|<k, to maximize the number of elements covered by C’. Influence Maximization is a special case of Max Coverage.
Max Coverage Given a collection C of subsets of a set E, find a subcollection C’ of C, with |C’|<k, to maximize the number of elements covered by C’.
Submadular Function Max 11
Greedy Algorithm 12
Performance Ratio 13 Theorem (Nemhauser et al. 1978) Proof
14 Monotone increasing Why? Submodular!
Theorem 15
Exercise 16
Section
Independent System Consider a set E and a collection C of subsets of E. (E,C) is called an independent system if
Maximization c: E→R max c(A) s.t. AεC c(A) = Σ xεA c(x) +
Greedy Approximation MAX
Theorem
Proof
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