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FOCS
2004
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Hardness of Approximating the Shortest Vector Problem in Lattices
Let p > 1 be any fixed real. We show that assuming NP RP, there is no polynomial time algorithm that approximates the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) in p norm within a constant ...
Subhash Khot
NIPS
2007
15 years 6 months ago
Local Algorithms for Approximate Inference in Minor-Excluded Graphs
We present a new local approximation algorithm for computing MAP and logpartition function for arbitrary exponential family distribution represented by a finite-valued pair-wise ...
Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah
PAMI
2002
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15 years 4 months ago
Approximate Bayes Factors for Image Segmentation: The Pseudolikelihood Information Criterion (PLIC)
We propose a method for choosing the number of colors or true gray levels in an image; this allows fully automatic segmentation of images. Our underlying probability model is a hid...
Derek C. Stanford, Adrian E. Raftery
PE
2010
Springer
170views Optimization» more  PE 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Approximating passage time distributions in queueing models by Bayesian expansion
We introduce Bayesian Expansion (BE), an approximate numerical technique for passage time distribution analysis in queueing networks. BE uses a class of Bayesian networks to appro...
Giuliano Casale
SIAMCOMP
2010
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15 years 2 months ago
Faster Algorithms for All-pairs Approximate Shortest Paths in Undirected Graphs
Let G = (V, E) be a weighted undirected graph having non-negative edge weights. An estimate ˆδ(u, v) of the actual distance δ(u, v) between u, v ∈ V is said to be of stretch t...
Surender Baswana, Telikepalli Kavitha