@inproceedings{Kambadur2017AdaptiveSR,
author={Prabhanjan Kambadur and Viswanath Nagarajan and Fatemeh Navidi},
booktitle={IPCO},
year={2017}
}
• Published in IPCO 5 June 2016
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We study a general adaptive ranking problem where an algorithm needs to perform a sequence of actions on a random user, drawn from a known distribution, so as to "satisfy" the user as early as possible. The satisfaction of each user is captured by an individual submodular function, where the user is said to be satisfied when the function value goes above some threshold. We obtain a logarithmic factor approximation algorithm for this adaptive ranking problem, which is the best possible. The…
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