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Nearly Tight Bounds on ℓ1 Approximation of Self-Bounding Functions

@article{Feldman2014NearlyTB,
  title={Nearly Tight Bounds on ℓ1 Approximation of Self-Bounding Functions},
  author={V. Feldman and Pravesh Kothari and J. Vondr{\'a}k},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2014},
  volume={abs/1404.4702}
}

V. Feldman, Pravesh Kothari, J. Vondrák

Published 2014

Mathematics, Computer Science

ArXiv

We study the complexity of learning and approximation of self-bounding functions over the uniform distribution on the Boolean hypercube ${0,1}^n$. Informally, a function $f:{0,1}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is self-bounding if for every $x \in {0,1}^n$, $f(x)$ upper bounds the sum of all the $n$ marginal decreases in the value of the function at $x$. Self-bounding functions include such well-known classes of functions as submodular and fractionally-subadditive (XOS) functions. They were… CONTINUE READING

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