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STOC
2006
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 2 months ago
Near-optimal algorithms for unique games
Unique games are constraint satisfaction problems that can be viewed as a generalization of Max-Cut to a larger domain size. The Unique Games Conjecture states that it is hard to ...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
SODA
2001
ACM
105views Algorithms» more  SODA 2001»
15 years 3 months ago
Online point location in planar arrangements and its applications
Recently, Har-Peled [HP99b] presented a new randomized technique for online construction of the zone of a curve in a planar arrangement of arcs. In this paper, we present several ...
Sariel Har-Peled, Micha Sharir
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APPROX
2009
Springer
138views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
15 years 9 months ago
Submodular Maximization over Multiple Matroids via Generalized Exchange Properties
Submodular-function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important NP-hard problems including Max Cut in digraphs, graphs and hypergr...
Jon Lee, Maxim Sviridenko, Jan Vondrák
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JMLR
2012
13 years 5 months ago
Globally Optimizing Graph Partitioning Problems Using Message Passing
Graph partitioning algorithms play a central role in data analysis and machine learning. Most useful graph partitioning criteria correspond to optimizing a ratio between the cut a...
Elad Mezuman, Yair Weiss
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ICDM
2009
IEEE
175views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2009»
15 years 7 days ago
Maximum Margin Clustering with Multivariate Loss Function
This paper presents a simple but powerful extension of the maximum margin clustering (MMC) algorithm that optimizes multivariate performance measure specifically defined for clust...
Bin Zhao, James Tin-Yau Kwok, Changshui Zhang