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2004
ACM
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Derandomizing homomorphism testing in general groups
The main result of this paper is a near-optimal derandomization of the affine homomorphism test of Blum, Luby and Rubinfeld (Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 1993). We sho...
Amir Shpilka, Avi Wigderson
COCO
2009
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Weak Derandomization of Weak Algorithms: Explicit Versions of Yao's Lemma
—A simple averaging argument shows that given a randomized algorithm A and a function f such that for every input x, Pr[A(x) = f(x)] ≥ 1−ρ (where the probability is over the...
Ronen Shaltiel
CSR
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Proving Church's Thesis
t) Yuri Gurevich Microsoft Research The talk reflects recent joint work with Nachum Dershowitz [4]. In 1936, Church suggested that the recursive functions, which had been defined...
Yuri Gurevich
TOPLAS
2008
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Size-change termination with difference constraints
lem of inferring termination from such abstract information is not the halting problem for programs and may well be decidable. If this is the case, the decision algorithm forms a &...
Amir M. Ben-Amram
IJMMS
1998
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Knowledge modeling directed by situation-specific models
Clancey (1992) proposed the model-construction framework as a way to explain the reasoning of knowledge-based systems (KBSs), based on his realization that all KBSs construct impl...
Michel Benaroch