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SIAMCOMP
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability-Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on p...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
FORTE
1996
13 years 9 months ago
Applications of Fair Testing
In this paper we present the application of the fair testing pre-order, introduced in a previous paper, to the speci cation and analysis of distributed systems. This pre-order com...
Ed Brinksma, Arend Rensink, Walter Vogler
AML
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Relativized Schnorr tests with universal behavior
A Schnorr test relative to some oracle A may informally be called "universal" if it covers all Schnorr tests. Since no true universal Schnorr test exists, such an A cann...
Nicholas Rupprecht
APPROX
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Hierarchy Theorems for Property Testing
Referring to the query complexity of property testing, we prove the existence of a rich hierarchy of corresponding complexity classes. That is, for any relevant function q, we prov...
Oded Goldreich, Michael Krivelevich, Ilan Newman, ...
CORR
2010
Springer
124views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Property Testing via Set-Theoretic Operations
: Given two testable properties P1 and P2, under what conditions are the union, intersection or set-difference of these two properties also testable? We initiate a systematic study...
Victor Chen, Madhu Sudan, Ning Xie