The Power of Adaptivity for Stochastic Submodular Cover

Authors: Rohan Ghuge, Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experiments on synthetic and real datasets show qualitative improvements in the solutions as we allow more rounds of adaptivity; in practice, solutions with a few rounds of adaptivity are nearly as good as fully adaptive solutions.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. 2Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 PARtial Covering Algorithm PARCA(X, f, Q, δ)
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any explicit statements about open-source code availability or links to code repositories for the described methodology.
Open Datasets Yes We use the Epinions network and a Facebook messages dataset described in (Rossi & Ahmed, 2015) to generate instances of the stochastic set cover problem. and We use a real-world dataset called WISER 2 for our experiments. ... This dataset has been used for evaluating algorithms for similar problems in other papers (Bhavnani et al., 2007; Bellala et al., 2011; Bellala et al., 2012; Navidi et al., 2020).
Dataset Splits No The paper describes sampling new realizations and running trials for evaluation, but it does not specify explicit training, validation, or test dataset splits.
Hardware Specification Yes We conducted all of our computational experiments using Python 3.8 and Gurobi 8.1 with a 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i5 processor and 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 memory.
Software Dependencies Yes We conducted all of our computational experiments using Python 3.8 and Gurobi 8.1 with a 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i5 processor and 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 memory.
Experiment Setup Yes We use δ = 0.5 for the Epinions network. However, since the Facebook messages network is sparse, we set δ = 0.25 in the second instance. and We generate costs randomly for each test from {1, 4, 7, 10} according to the weight vector [0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.3];