We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...
We present error-correcting codes that achieve the information-theoretically best possible trade-off between the rate and error-correction radius. Specifically, for every 0 < R...
We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
We formulate the problem of nonprojective dependency parsing as a polynomial-sized integer linear program. Our formulation is able to handle non-local output features in an effici...
Recent research has shown that even modern hard disks have complex failure modes that do not conform to “failstop” operation. Disks exhibit partial failures like block access ...
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusse...