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DAM
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
A new approximation algorithm for the multilevel facility location problem
In this paper we propose a new integer programming formulation for the multilevel facility location problem and a novel 3-approximation algorithm based on LP rounding. The linear ...
Adriana Felicia Gabor, Jan-Kees C. W. van Ommeren
ICALP
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Reconciling Data Compression and Kolmogorov Complexity
While data compression and Kolmogorov complexity are both about effective coding of words, the two settings differ in the following respect. A compression algorithm or compressor...
Laurent Bienvenu, Wolfgang Merkle
ACG
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Move-Pruning Techniques for Monte-Carlo Go
Abstract. Progressive Pruning (PP) is used in the Monte-Carlo go playing program Indigo. For each candidate move, PP launches random games starting with this move. PP gathers stati...
Bruno Bouzy
COLT
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Martingale Boosting
In recent work Long and Servedio [LS05] presented a “martingale boosting” algorithm that works by constructing a branching program over weak classifiers and has a simple anal...
Philip M. Long, Rocco A. Servedio
COCO
2004
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Language Compression and Pseudorandom Generators
The language compression problem asks for succinct descriptions of the strings in a language A such that the strings can be efficiently recovered from their description when given...
Harry Buhrman, Troy Lee, Dieter van Melkebeek