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FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
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:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
MLDM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Distributed Monitoring of Frequent Items
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...
Robert Fuller, Mehmed M. Kantardzic
ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A close-up detection method for movies
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,...
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Spectral Clustering with Perturbed Data
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...
SODA
2007
ACM
106views Algorithms» more  SODA 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Embedding metrics into ultrametrics and graphs into spanning trees with constant average distortion
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 ...
Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal, Ofer Neiman