We give a short proof of a lemma which generalizes both the main lemma from the original construction in the author's thesis of a model with no 2-Aronszajn trees, and also th...
A nearly logarithmic lower bound on the randomized competitive ratio for the metrical task systems problem is presented. This implies a similar lower bound for the extensively stu...
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Abstract-- Current twig join algorithms incur high memory costs on queries that involve child-axis nodes. In this paper we provide an analytical explanation for this phenomenon. In...
This paper has no novel learning or statistics: it is concerned with making a wide class of preexisting statistics and learning algorithms computationally tractable when faced wit...