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  1. Settling the Computational Complexity of Max-Min Allocation with Ternary Valuations

    Oct 4, 2026Thi Ngoc Anh Vu, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Khaled Elbassioni +1Submodular FunctionsMaximization

    Faculty of Computer Science, Phenikaa University, Hanoi 12116, Vietnam · DataOptLab, National Economics University, Hanoi 11616, Vietnam · Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi 127788, UAE +1

  2. Redundancy Meets Synergy: Dependency-aware Expert Selection for MoE via Submodular Optimization

    Sep 30, 2026Zheng Lin, Shaoke Fang, Yuxin Zhang +6Mixture-Of-ExpertsLocalized Lora-Moe

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Department of Computer Science, Peking University, China · Institute of Space Internet, Fudan University, China +4

  3. Geometry-Dependent Bounds for Online Non-Monotone DR-Submodular Maximization

    Sep 30, 2026Vaneet AggarwalSubmodular Functions\Widetilde{\Mathcal{O}}(\Sqrt{T})$ Regret

    Purdue University

  4. Poisson Exchange Beyond Submodularity: Effective Approximation Algorithms for Offline and Online Subset Selection over Matroids

    Sep 21, 2026Shi Fu, Youming Qiao, Dacheng Tao +2Submodular FunctionsApproximation Algorithms

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney, Australia · School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, China

  5. FedFIbOS: Fisher Importance based Optimal Submodelling for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

    Sep 17, 2026Yasmeen Afzal, Jeremiah D. Deng, Haibo ZhangHeterogeneous Federated LearningFederated Learning

    School of Computing, University of Otago, New Zealand · School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

  6. Strong and Compact Policies for Submodular Markov Decision Processes via LP-Based Submodular Orienteering

    Sep 14, 2026Lars Rohwedder, Rico ZenklusenMarkov Decision ProcessesSubmodular Functions

    University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark · ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  7. Deriving the Pure Price of Anarchy for Networked Resource Allocation Games

    Sep 14, 2026Vartika Singh, Philip N. BrownGame TheoryUtility Maximization

    University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, 80918 USA · Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  8. Truncated Noisy Best-Response Algorithms: Toward Game Theoretic Learning with Safety Guarantees

    Sep 11, 2026Vartika Singh, Philip N. BrownNash EquilibriumMulti-Agent Coordination

    Blue Yonder, India · University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA

  9. A Sharp Barrier for Consistent Submodular Maximization: Any Improvement over 2−22-\sqrt{2} Entails Exponential Queries or Linear Recourse

    Sep 9, 2026Shi Fu, Qixin Zhang, Dacheng TaoSubmodular FunctionsFirst Order Oracle Complexity

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  10. Dec-BFTRL: Squre-Root Regret for Decentralized Online Upper-Linearizable Optimization under Separation Access with Application to Continuous Submodular Maximization

    Aug 31, 2026Yiyang Lu, Mohammad Pedramfar, Vaneet AggarwalSubmodular FunctionsDecentralized Optimization

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · Mila - Quebec AI Institute/McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  11. MASCOT: Model-Aware Submodular Coverage for Composite-Attribute Text-to-Image Retrieval

    Aug 12, 2026Aaryan Sharma, Vishak Prasad C, Virendra Singh +1Composed Image RetrievalMultimodal Retrieval

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Department of Electrical Engineering Mumbai, India · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mumbai, India

  12. Adversarial Resilience of Poisson-Process Submodular Maximization over Matroids: From Robust Offline Optimization to Full-Bandit Learning

    Aug 12, 2026Vaneet AggarwalSubmodular FunctionsRobust Optimization

    V. Aggarwal is with Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA

  13. Multitask Pareto Optimization for Monotone Submodular Problems with Dynamic Constraints

    Aug 11, 2026Liam Wigney, Frank NeumannSubmodular FunctionsMulti-Objective Optimization

    Optimisation and Logistics School of Computer Science and Information Technology Adelaide University Adelaide, Australia

  14. Understanding Submodular Information Measure Based Objectives for Representation Learning: A Variance and Separation Perspective

    Jul 30, 2026Rishabh Iyer, Truong Pham, Anay MajeeMutual InformationRepresentational Similarity Analysis

    The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA · Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA

  15. Fair Division with Strictly Increasing Valuations: A Tight Threshold for Two-Agent EF1 and PO

    Jul 25, 2026Nicholas TehWelfareSubmodular Functions

    University of Oxford, UK

  16. Structured Reinforcement Learning for Bayesian Persuasion : Application to Intelligent Interactive Driving

    Jul 15, 2026Merlin Paul, Anup ApremTraffic Signal ControlHuman Driving

  17. Diversified Multinomial Logit Contextual Bandits

    Jul 13, 2026Heesang Ann, Taehyun Hwang, Min-hwan OhAssortmentStochastic Multi-Armed Bandits

    Seoul National University

  18. Advancing Optimal Subset Oracle via Learning Relaxation of Neural Set Functions

    Jul 13, 2026Yongquan Shi, Zijing Ou, Shiping Wang +1Variational InferenceSurrogate Gradient

    Fuzhou University · Imperial College London · National University of Singapore

  19. Data-dependent Evaluations for Budgeted Submodular Maximization

    Jul 7, 2026Lejian Zhang, Xueyan Tang, Jing TangSubmodular FunctionsKnapsack Constraint

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Data Science and Analytics Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  20. Coresets Before Score Sets: Evaluation-Unsupervised Prompt Subset Selection for LLM Benchmarks

    Jul 2, 2026Jihan Yao, Gantavya Bhatt, Arnav Das +16Large Language Model BenchmarksGeometry-Aware Uncertainty Coresets

    University of Washington, Seattle · 6NVIDIA · 5LMSYS +3

  21. What Survives Into Context: A Diagnostic for Budget-Constrained Multi-Hop RAG and When Submodular Evidence Packing Improves It

    Jul 1, 2026Ananto Nayan BalaAnswerFactual Recall

    Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology

  22. Distributed Online Bandit Submodular Maximization with Bounded Sampling Violations

    Jul 1, 2026Bin Du, Chang Liu, Dingqi Zhu +2Submodular FunctionsBandits

    College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA

  23. Three-Objective Integral R2 Subset Selection: NP-Hardness and Submodular Approximation

    Jun 25, 2026Michael T. M. EmmerichSubmodular FunctionsMulti-Objective Optimization

  24. Toward Trustworthy AI: Multi-Target Adversarial Attacks and Robust Defenses for Continuous Data Summarization

    Jun 10, 2026Yuefang Lian, Longkun Guo, Zhongrui Zhao +5Black-Box Adversarial AttacksTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    Nankai University · James Cook University · Western Sydney University +5

  25. Avoiding Exponential Blow-Up in Distributive Lattice Submodular Minimization

    Jun 8, 2026Ishant ShanuSubmodular FunctionsLattice

  26. A General Framework for Dynamic Consistent Submodular Maximization

    Jun 3, 2026Paul Dütting, Federico Fusco, Silvio Lattanzi +3Submodular FunctionsApproximation Algorithms

    1Google Research · 2Dept. of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome · 3EPFL

  27. Complement Submodular Information Measures for Balanced and Robust Data Selection

    May 23, 2026Rishabh IyerSubmodular FunctionsFeature Selection

    Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080

  28. Smooth Partial Lotteries for Stable Randomized Selection

    May 19, 2026Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. ShahLotteriesSubmodular Functions

    Carnegie Mellon University

  29. Catching a Moving Subspace: Low-Rank Bandits Beyond Stationarity

    May 18, 2026Hamed Khosravi, Xiaoming HuoContextual Bandit FrameworkBandits

    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332

  30. Polyhedral Instability Governs Regret in Online Learning

    May 13, 2026Yuetai Li, Fengqing Jiang, Yichen Feng +6\Widetilde{\Mathcal{O}}(\Sqrt{T})$ RegretSubmodular Functions

    ♣University of Washington · ♢Western Washington University · ♠King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology ♡HUMAIN

  31. Efficient Ensemble Selection from Binary and Pairwise Feedback

    May 10, 2026Tzeh Yuan Neoh, Nicholas Teh, Je Qin Chooi +2EnsembleSubmodular Functions

    Harvard University, USA · University of Oxford, UK

  32. Curvature Beyond Positivity: Greedy Guarantees for Arbitrary Submodular Functions

    May 8, 2026Yixin Chen, Alan KuhnleSubmodular FunctionsLocal Curvature

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University

  33. Maximizing Rollout Informativeness under a Fixed Budget: A Submodular View of Tree Search for Tool-Use Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    May 6, 2026Yuelin Hu, Zhenbo Yu, Zhengxue Cheng +2Group-Based Reinforcement LearningTree Search

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Maritime University

  34. Selective Prediction from Agreement: A Lipschitz-Consistent Version Space Approach

    May 4, 2026Mohamadsadegh KhosravaniDecision BoundariesUnlabeled Data

    University of Regina

  35. Submodular Benchmark Selection

    May 4, 2026Alexander SmolaSubmodular FunctionsMutual Information

    Boson AI 4677 Old Ironsides Dr Santa Clara CA 95054

  36. Nearly Optimal Subdata Selection

    Apr 27, 2026Min Yang, Wei Zheng, John Stufken +3Optimal DesignSubmodular Functions

    Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago · Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, University of Tennessee · Department of Statistics, George Mason University[stat.ME] +3

  37. Analysis of Multitasking Pareto Optimization for Monotone Submodular Problems

    Apr 16, 2026Liam Wigney, Frank NeumannSubmodular FunctionsKnapsack Constraint

    Optimisation and Logistics School of Computer Science and Information Technology Adelaide University Adelaide, Australia

  38. Decentralized Projection-free Online Upper-Linearizable Optimization with Applications to DR-Submodular Optimization

    Jan 30, 2025Yiyang Lu, Mohammad Pedramfar, Vaneet AggarwalDecentralized OptimizationConvex Optimization

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · Mila - Quebec AI Institute/McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada