Value of Information in Greedy Submodular Maximization.
arXiv: Data Structures and Algorithms(2018)
Abstract
The maximization of submodular functions an NP-Hard problem for certain subclasses of functions, for which a simple greedy algorithm has been shown to guarantee a solution whose quality is within 1/2 of that of the optimal. When this algorithm is implemented in a distributed way, agents sequentially make decisions based on the decisions of all previous agents. This work explores how limited access to the decisions of previous agents affects the quality of the solution of the greedy algorithm. Specifically, we provide tight upper and lower bounds on how well the algorithm performs, as a function of the information available to each agent. Intuitively, the results show that performance roughly degrades proportionally to the size of the largest group of agents which make decisions independently. Additionally, we consider the case where a system designer is given a set of agents and a global limit on the amount of information that can be accessed. Our results show that the best designs are to partition the agents into equally-sized sets, and allow agents to access the decisions of all previous agents within the same set.
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