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CC
2002
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
On the hardness of approximating the permanent of structured matrices
We show that for several natural classes of "structured" matrices, including symmetric, circulant, Hankel and Toeplitz matrices, approximating the permanent modulo a prim...
Bruno Codenotti, Igor Shparlinski, Arne Winterhof
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 ...
ICCV
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Unifying Approach to Hard and Probabilistic Clustering
We derive the clustering problem from first principles showing that the goal of achieving a probabilistic, or ”hard”, multi class clustering result is equivalent to the algeb...
Ron Zass, Amnon Shashua
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
EUROCRYPT
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On the Hardness of Information-Theoretic Multiparty Computation
We revisit the following open problem in information-theoretic cryptography: Does the communication complexity of unconditionally secure computation depend on the computational com...
Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz