Submodular Function Minimization
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This survey describes the submodular function minimization problem (SFM); why it is important; techniques for solving it; algorithms by Cunningham [7, 11, 12], by Schrijver [69] as modified by Fleischer and Iwata [20], by Orlin [64], by Iwata, Fleischer, and Fujishige [45], and by Iwata [41, 43] for solving it; and extensions of SFM to more general families of subsets.
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