—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...
While peer-to-peer (P2P) video streaming systems have achieved promising results, they introduce a large number of unnecessary traverse links, which consequently leads to substanti...
Yan Chen, Beibei Wang, W. Sabrina Lin, Yongle Wu, ...
We examine the communication required for generating random variables remotely. One party Alice will be given a distribution D, and she has to send a message to Bob, who is then r...
Prahladh Harsha, Rahul Jain, David A. McAllester, ...
—We propose a steepest descent method to compute optimal control parameters for balancing between multiple performance objectives in stateless stochastic scheduling, wherein the ...
Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Na...
The way a rational agent changes her belief in certain proposition/hypotheses in the light of new evidence lies in the heart of Bayesian inference. The basic natural assumption, a...