Laminar Matroid Secretary: Greedy Strikes Back

08/19/2023
by   Zhiyi Huang, et al.
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We show that a simple greedy algorithm is 4.75 probability-competitive for the Laminar Matroid Secretary Problem, improving the 3√(3)≈ 5.17-competitive algorithm based on the forbidden sets technique (Soto, Turkieltaub, and Verdugo, 2018).

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