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COCOON
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate
In the popular computer game of Tetris, the player is given a sequence of tetromino pieces and must pack them into a rectangular gameboard initially occupied by a given configurat...
Erik D. Demaine, Susan Hohenberger, David Liben-No...
CDC
2010
IEEE
136views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Pathologies of temporal difference methods in approximate dynamic programming
Approximate policy iteration methods based on temporal differences are popular in practice, and have been tested extensively, dating to the early nineties, but the associated conve...
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
COCO
2011
Springer
261views Algorithms» more  COCO 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Hardness of Max-2Lin and Max-3Lin over Integers, Reals, and Large Cyclic Groups
—In 1997, H˚astad showed NP-hardness of (1 − , 1/q + δ)-approximating Max-3Lin(Zq); however it was not until 2007 that Guruswami and Raghavendra were able to show NP-hardness...
Ryan O'Donnell, Yi Wu, Yuan Zhou
ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Hard to Approximately Evaluate or Simulate
Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are a type of probability model over the Boolean cube {-1, 1}n that have recently received much attention. We establish the intractability of ...
Philip M. Long, Rocco A. Servedio
STOC
2006
ACM
170views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 11 months ago
Hardness of approximate two-level logic minimization and PAC learning with membership queries
Producing a small DNF expression consistent with given data is a classical problem in computer science that occurs in a number of forms and has numerous applications. We consider ...
Vitaly Feldman