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STOC
2006
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 8 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»
13 years 9 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
APPROX
2009
Springer
138views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2009»
14 years 2 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
JMLR
2012
11 years 10 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
ICDM
2009
IEEE
175views Data Mining» more  ICDM 2009»
13 years 5 months 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