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2002
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
On the advantage over a random assignment
: We initiate the study of a new measure of approximation. This measure compares the performance of an approximation algorithm to the random assignment algorithm. This is a useful ...
Johan Håstad, Srinivasan Venkatesh
STACS
2005
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Roundings Respecting Hard Constraints
We provide a deterministic algorithm that constructs small point sets exhibiting a low star discrepancy. The algorithm is based on recent results on randomized roundings respectin...
Benjamin Doerr
LREC
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
ParsCit: an Open-source CRF Reference String Parsing Package
We describe ParsCit, a freely available, open-source implementation of a reference string parsing package. At the core of ParsCit is a trained conditional random field (CRF) model...
Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles, Min-Yen Kan
ECCC
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Extracting All the Randomness from a Weakly Random Source
In this paper, we give two explicit constructions of extractors, both of which work for a source of any min-entropy on strings of length n. The rst extracts any constant fraction ...
Salil P. Vadhan
ECCC
2011
282views ECommerce» more  ECCC 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Almost k-wise vs. k-wise independent permutations, and uniformity for general group actions
A family of permutations in Sn is k-wise independent if a uniform permutation chosen from the family maps any distinct k elements to any distinct k elements equally likely. Effici...
Noga Alon, Shachar Lovett