Extended Deep Submodular Functions

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Autori principali: Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad, Jamshid, Arash, Noormousavi, Seyed Mahdi, Siavoshani, Mahdi Jafari, Omidvar, Naeimeh
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author Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad
Jamshid, Arash
Noormousavi, Seyed Mahdi
Siavoshani, Mahdi Jafari
Omidvar, Naeimeh
author_facet Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad
Jamshid, Arash
Noormousavi, Seyed Mahdi
Siavoshani, Mahdi Jafari
Omidvar, Naeimeh
contents We introduce a novel category of set functions called Extended Deep Submodular functions (EDSFs), which are neural network-representable. EDSFs serve as an extension of Deep Submodular Functions (DSFs), inheriting crucial properties from DSFs while addressing innate limitations. It is known that DSFs can represent a limiting subset of submodular functions. In contrast, through an analysis of polymatroid properties, we establish that EDSFs possess the capability to represent all monotone submodular functions, a notable enhancement compared to DSFs. Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that EDSFs can represent any monotone set function, indicating the family of EDSFs is equivalent to the family of all monotone set functions. Additionally, we prove that EDSFs maintain the concavity inherent in DSFs when the components of the input vector are non-negative real numbers-an essential feature in certain combinatorial optimization problems. Through extensive experiments, we illustrate that EDSFs exhibit significantly lower empirical generalization error than DSFs in the learning of coverage functions. This suggests that EDSFs present a promising advancement in the representation and learning of set functions with improved generalization capabilities.
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spellingShingle Extended Deep Submodular Functions
Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad
Jamshid, Arash
Noormousavi, Seyed Mahdi
Siavoshani, Mahdi Jafari
Omidvar, Naeimeh
Machine Learning
Discrete Mathematics
We introduce a novel category of set functions called Extended Deep Submodular functions (EDSFs), which are neural network-representable. EDSFs serve as an extension of Deep Submodular Functions (DSFs), inheriting crucial properties from DSFs while addressing innate limitations. It is known that DSFs can represent a limiting subset of submodular functions. In contrast, through an analysis of polymatroid properties, we establish that EDSFs possess the capability to represent all monotone submodular functions, a notable enhancement compared to DSFs. Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that EDSFs can represent any monotone set function, indicating the family of EDSFs is equivalent to the family of all monotone set functions. Additionally, we prove that EDSFs maintain the concavity inherent in DSFs when the components of the input vector are non-negative real numbers-an essential feature in certain combinatorial optimization problems. Through extensive experiments, we illustrate that EDSFs exhibit significantly lower empirical generalization error than DSFs in the learning of coverage functions. This suggests that EDSFs present a promising advancement in the representation and learning of set functions with improved generalization capabilities.
title Extended Deep Submodular Functions
topic Machine Learning
Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12053