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DAM
2007
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Partially ordered knapsack and applications to scheduling
In the partially-ordered knapsack problem (POK) we are given a set N of items and a partial order ≺P on N. Each item has a size and an associated weight. The objective is to pac...
Stavros G. Kolliopoulos, George Steiner
COCO
2006
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Making Hard Problems Harder
We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
Joshua Buresh-Oppenheim, Rahul Santhanam
IJON
1998
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Bayesian Kullback Ying-Yang dependence reduction theory
Bayesian Kullback Ying—Yang dependence reduction system and theory is presented. Via stochastic approximation, implementable algorithms and criteria are given for parameter lear...
Lei Xu
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Maximizing Non-Monotone Submodular Functions
Submodular maximization generalizes many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems and maximum f...
Uriel Feige, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Jan Vondrák
DAM
2010
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New results on optimizing rooted triplets consistency
Abstract. A set of phylogenetic trees with overlapping leaf sets is consistent if it can be merged without conflicts into a supertree. In this paper, we study the polynomial-time a...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Sylvain Guillemot, Jesper Jansson