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TCC
2009
Springer
169views Cryptology» more  TCC 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Goldreich's One-Way Function Candidate and Myopic Backtracking Algorithms
Abstract. Goldreich (ECCC 2000) proposed a candidate one-way function construction which is parameterized by the choice of a small predicate (over d = O(1) variables) and of a bipa...
James Cook, Omid Etesami, Rachel Miller, Luca Trev...
STOC
2007
ACM
105views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Balanced allocations: the weighted case
We investigate balls-and-bins processes where m weighted balls are placed into n bins using the "power of two choices" paradigm, whereby a ball is inserted into the less...
Kunal Talwar, Udi Wieder
STOC
2004
ACM
150views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 8 months ago
Typical properties of winners and losers in discrete optimization
We present a probabilistic analysis for a large class of combinatorial optimization problems containing, e.g., all binary optimization problems defined by linear constraints and a...
René Beier, Berthold Vöcking
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Maximum Bipartite Flow in Networks with Adaptive Channel Width
Traditionally, combinatorial optimization problems (such as maximum flow, maximum matching, etc.) have been studied for networks where each link has a fixed capacity. Recent resear...
Yossi Azar, Aleksander Madry, Thomas Moscibroda, D...
WSDM
2010
ACM
188views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Anatomy of the Long Tail: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Tastes
The success of "infinite-inventory" retailers such as Amazon.com and Netflix has been ascribed to a "long tail" phenomenon. To wit, while the majority of their...
Andrei Z. Broder, Bo Pang, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Sh...