Structured Convex Optimization Under Submodular Constraints
Abstract
A number of discrete and continuous optimization problems in machine learning are related to convex minimization problems under submodular constraints. In this paper, we deal with a submodular function with a directed graph structure, and we show that a wide range of convex optimization problems under submodular constraints can be solved much more efficiently than general submodular optimization methods by a reduction to a maximum flow problem. Furthermore, we give some applications, including sparse optimization methods, in which the proposed methods are effective. Additionally, we evaluate the performance of the proposed method through computational experiments.
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Nagano and Kawahara. "Structured Convex Optimization Under Submodular Constraints." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2013.Markdown
[Nagano and Kawahara. "Structured Convex Optimization Under Submodular Constraints." Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2013.](https://mlanthology.org/uai/2013/nagano2013uai-structured/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{nagano2013uai-structured,
title = {{Structured Convex Optimization Under Submodular Constraints}},
author = {Nagano, Kiyohito and Kawahara, Yoshinobu},
booktitle = {Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2013},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/uai/2013/nagano2013uai-structured/}
}