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'Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)'
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We present an efficient algorithm to find nonempty minimizers of a symmetric submodular function f over any family of sets I closed under inclusion. Our algorithm makes O(n[superscript 3]) oracle calls to f and I, where n is the cardinality of the ground set. In contrast, the problem of minimizing a general submodular function under a cardinality constraint is known to be inapproximable within o(√n/log n) [Z. Svitkina and L. Fleischer, in Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, IEEE, Washington, DC, 2008, pp. 697--706]. We also present two extensions of the above algorithm. The first extension reports all nontrivial inclusionwise minimal minimizers of f over I using O(n[superscript 3]) oracle calls, and the second reports all extreme subsets of f using O(n[superscript 4]) oracle calls. Our algorithms are similar to a procedure by Nagamochi and Ibaraki [Inform. Process. Lett., 67 (1998), pp. 239--244] that finds all nontrivial inclusionwise minimal minimizers of a symmetric submodular function over a set of size n using O(n[superscript 3]) oracle calls. Their procedure in turn is based on Queyranne's algorithm [M. Queyranne, Math. Program., 82 (1998), pp. 3--12] to minimize a symmetric submodular function by finding pendent pairs. Our results extend to any class of functions for which we can find a pendent pair whose head is not a given element.National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Contract CCF-0829878)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Contrac tCCF-1115849)United States. Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-11-1-0053
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