Fixed-parameter tractability of Venn diversity

Establish whether Venn diversity admits a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm in the general implicit set-system setting considered for the consistently diverse diversity measures.

Background

The paper develops an oracle-based fixed-parameter framework for diverse solutions under consistently diverse objectives, including Max-Sum Diversity, Max-Min Diversity, and Max-Coverage Diversity. The authors explicitly state that their techniques do not establish fixed-parameter tractability for Venn diversity and leave the question of whether such an algorithm exists in the general setting unresolved.

References

At the same time, our techniques do not imply fixed-parameter tractability for Venn diversity; establishing whether Venn diversity admits an algorithm in this generality remains an interesting open problem.