# Metadata

- Title: Submodular Function Minimization
- Authors: S. Thomas McCormick
- Year: 2007
- Venue: Survey / handbook chapter version 3
- Primary group: submodular
- Secondary tags: minimization, survey, algorithms, handbook
- Problem: broad survey of the submodular function minimization problem and its algorithmic developments
- Main guarantee: organizes the SFM literature, its importance, and the main algorithmic families rather than proposing a new approximation guarantee
- Key techniques: survey synthesis, max-flow perspective, combinatorial algorithm landscape
- Status: processed-deep, survey
- Tags: #submodular #minimization #survey #sfm #algorithms
- Inbox source: inbox/On_submodular_function_minimization.pdf