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Andrew An Bian

2 accepted papers

2017

Guaranteed Non-convex Optimization: Submodular Maximization over Continuous Domains

AISTATS 2017poster

Submodular continuous functions are a category of (generally) non-convex/non-concave functions with a wide spectrum of applications. We characterize these functions and demonstrate that they can be maximized efficiently with approximation guarantees. Specifically, i) We introduce the weak DR proper…

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2017

Guarantees for Greedy Maximization of Non-submodular Functions with Applications

ICML 2017poster

We investigate the performance of the standard Greedy algorithm for cardinality constrained maximization of non-submodular nondecreasing set functions. While there are strong theoretical guarantees on the performance of Greedy for maximizing submodular functions, there are few guarantees for non-sub…