We study the problem of quantization of discrete probability distributions, arising in universal coding, as well as other applications. We show, that in many situations this probl...
THIS PAPER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE STUDENT PAPER AWARD. We consider distributed computation of functions of distributed data in random planar networks with noisy wireless links. We pre...
In continuous black-box optimization, various stochastic local search techniques are often employed, with various remedies for fighting the premature convergence. This paper surve...