Learning and Testing Submodular Functions Grigory Yaroslavtsev Slides at CIS 625: Computational Learning Theory
Submodularity
Approximating everywhere
Approximate learning
Goemans, Harvey, Iwata, Mirrokni Balcan, Harvey Gupta, Hardt, Roth, Ullman Cheraghchi, Klivans, Kothari, Lee Raskhodnikova, Y. Learning TimePoly(|X|) Extra features Under arbitrary distribution Tolerant queries SQ- queries, Agnostic
Learning: Bigger picture XOS = Fractionally subadditive Subadditive Submodular Gross substitutes OXS [Badanidiyuru, Dobzinski, Fu, Kleinberg, Nisan, Roughgarden,SODA’12] Additive (linear) Coverage (valuations)
Discrete convexity
Monotone submodular Submodular
Discrete monotone submodularity
Representation by a formula
Discrete submodularity
Proof
Coverage by monotone lower bounds
Learning pB-formulas and k-DNF
Learning Fourier coefficients
Property testing
Testing by implicit learning
Previous work on testing submodularity
Directions