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ECCC
2006
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Energy Complexity and Entropy of Threshold Circuits
Abstract. Circuits composed of threshold gates (McCulloch-Pitts neurons, or perceptrons) are simplified models of neural circuits with the advantage that they are theoretically mor...
Wolfgang Maass, Kei Uchizawa, Rodney J. Douglas
ECCC
2007
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Parameterized Proof Complexity: a Complexity Gap for Parameterized Tree-like Resolution
We propose a proof-theoretic approach for gaining evidence that certain parameterized problems are not fixed-parameter tractable. We consider proofs that witness that a given pro...
Stefan S. Dantchev, Barnaby Martin, Stefan Szeider
ECCC
2007
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Interactive PCP
A central line of research in the area of PCPs is devoted to constructing short PCPs. In this paper, we show that if we allow an additional interactive verification phase, with v...
Yael Tauman Kalai, Ran Raz
ECCC
2007
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A (De)constructive Approach to Program Checking
Program checking, program self-correcting and program selftesting were pioneered by [Blum and Kannan] and [Blum, Luby and Rubinfeld] in the mid eighties as a new way to gain con...
Shafi Goldwasser, Dan Gutfreund, Alexander Healy, ...
ECCC
2007
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Universal Semantic Communication I
Is it possible for two intelligent beings to communicate meaningfully, without any common language or background? This question has interest on its own, but is especially relevant...
Brendan Juba, Madhu Sudan