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COCO
1994
Springer
140views Algorithms» more  COCO 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions
A probabilistically checkable debate system (PCDS) for a language L consists of a probabilisticpolynomial-time veri er V and a debate between Player 1, who claims that the input x ...
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter ...
ACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Viterbi Training for PCFGs: Hardness Results and Competitiveness of Uniform Initialization
We consider the search for a maximum likelihood assignment of hidden derivations and grammar weights for a probabilistic context-free grammar, the problem approximately solved by ...
Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith
COCO
2005
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case Then It is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma
CC
2007
Springer
121views System Software» more  CC 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case, Then it is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma