We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Monitoring frequently occuring items is a recurring task in a variety of applications. Although a number of solutions have been proposed there has been few to address the problem i...
Close-up (CU) is a photographic technique which tightly frames a person or an object. In movies, it is applied to guide audience attention and to evoke audience emotion. In this p...
Huiying Liu, Min Xu, Qingming Huang, Jesse S. Jin,...
Spectral clustering is useful for a wide-ranging set of applications in areas such as biological data analysis, image processing and data mining. However, the computational and/or...
Ling Huang, Donghui Yan, Michael I. Jordan, Nina T...
This paper addresses the basic question of how well can a tree approximate distances of a metric space or a graph. Given a graph, the problem of constructing a spanning tree in a ...