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Intrinsic robustness of the price of anarchy
The price of anarchy (POA) is a worst-case measure of the inefficiency of selfish behavior, defined as the ratio of the objective function value of a worst Nash equilibrium of a g...
Tim Roughgarden
STOC
2009
ACM
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The detectability lemma and quantum gap amplification
The quantum analog of a constraint satisfaction problem is a sum of local Hamiltonians - each (term of the) Hamiltonian specifies a local constraint whose violation contributes to...
Dorit Aharonov, Itai Arad, Zeph Landau, Umesh V. V...
STOC
2009
ACM
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Homology flows, cohomology cuts
We describe the first algorithm to compute maximum flows in surface-embedded graphs in near-linear time. Specifically, given a graph embedded on a surface of genus g, with two spe...
Erin W. Chambers, Jeff Erickson, Amir Nayyeri
PODC
2009
ACM
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Oblivious interference scheduling
In the interference scheduling problem, one is given a set of n communication requests described by pairs of points from a metric space. The points correspond to devices in a wire...
Alexander Fanghänel, Berthold Vöcking, H...
KDD
2009
ACM
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Effective multi-label active learning for text classification
Labeling text data is quite time-consuming but essential for automatic text classification. Especially, manually creating multiple labels for each document may become impractical ...
Bishan Yang, Jian-Tao Sun, Tengjiao Wang, Zheng Ch...