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2006
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
The PCP theorem by gap amplification
The PCP theorem [3, 2] says that every language in NP has a witness format that can be checked probabilistically by reading only a constant number of bits from the proof. The cele...
Irit Dinur
AGILEDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Iteration Advocate/Iteration Transition Meeting: Small Sampling of New agile Techniques Used at a Major Telecommunications Firm
This paper documents a successful implementation of agile at a major telecommunications firm. Critical aspects to mention about this particular software endeavor include a) this c...
Brian S. Boelsterli
STOC
2009
ACM
163views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints
Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hy...
Jon Lee, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Viswanath Nagarajan, M...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Approximating Optimal Policies for Agents with Limited Execution Resources
An agent with limited consumable execution resources needs policies that attempt to achieve good performance while respecting these limitations. Otherwise, an agent (such as a pla...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A simple, efficient and near optimal algorithm for compressed sensing
When sampling signals below the Nyquist rate, efficient and accurate reconstruction is nevertheless possible, whenever the sampling system is well behaved and the signal is well ...
Thomas Blumensath, Mike E. Davies