Optimal Algorithms for Continuous Non-monotone Submodular and DR-Submodular Maximization

Rad Niazadeh, Tim Roughgarden, Joshua Wang

Neural Information Processing Systems 

In this paper we study the fundamental problems of maximizing abcontinuous non-monotone submodular function over a hypercube, with and without coordinatewise concavity. This family of optimization problems has several applications in machine learning, economics, and communication systems.