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CIAC
2006
Springer
135views Algorithms» more  CIAC 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Rectangle Stabbing
In the rectangle stabbing problem we are given a set of axis parallel rectangles and a set of horizontal and vertical lines, and our goal is to find a minimum size subset of lines...
Guy Even, Dror Rawitz, Shimon Shahar
TCC
2007
Springer
100views Cryptology» more  TCC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Private Approximation of Clustering and Vertex Cover
Private approximation of search problems deals with finding approximate solutions to search problems while disclosing as little information as possible. The focus of this work is ...
Amos Beimel, Renen Hallak, Kobbi Nissim
NIPS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Structured Learning with Approximate Inference
In many structured prediction problems, the highest-scoring labeling is hard to compute exactly, leading to the use of approximate inference methods. However, when inference is us...
Alex Kulesza, Fernando Pereira
SODA
2010
ACM
164views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Differentially Private Approximation Algorithms
Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients," select a set of at most k facility locations to minimize the average distance f...
Anupam Gupta, Katrina Ligett, Frank McSherry, Aaro...
AAAI
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Compact, Convex Upper Bound Iteration for Approximate POMDP Planning
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are an intuitive and general way to model sequential decision making problems under uncertainty. Unfortunately, even approx...
Tao Wang, Pascal Poupart, Michael H. Bowling, Dale...