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FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Succinct quantum proofs for properties of finite groups
In this paper we consider a quantum computational variant of nondeterminism based on the notion of a quantum proof, which is a quantum state that plays a role similar to a certifi...
John Watrous
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Approximating the single source unsplittable min-cost flow problem
Abstract. In the single source unsplittable min-cost flow problem, commodities must be routed simultaneously from a common source vertex to certain destination vertices in a given ...
Martin Skutella
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
How Bad is Selfish Routing?
We consider the problem of routing traffic to optimize the performance of a congested network. We are given a network, a rate of traffic between each pair of nodes, and a latency ...
Tim Roughgarden, Éva Tardos
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Cost-Distance: Two Metric Network Design
Adam Meyerson, Kamesh Munagala, Serge A. Plotkin
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient Algorithms for Universal Portfolios
A constant rebalanced portfolio is an investment strategy that keeps the same distribution of wealth among a set of stocks from day to day. There has been much work on Cover'...
Adam Kalai, Santosh Vempala
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Topological Persistence and Simplification
We formalize a notion of topological simplification within the framework of a filtration, which is the history of a growing complex. We classify a topological change that happens ...
Herbert Edelsbrunner, David Letscher, Afra Zomorod...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Clusterings - Good, Bad and Spectral
We motivate and develop a natural bicriteria measure for assessing the quality of a clustering that avoids the drawbacks of existing measures. A simple recursive heuristic is shown...
Ravi Kannan, Santosh Vempala, Adrian Vetta
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Extracting Randomness from Samplable Distributions
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
Luca Trevisan, Salil P. Vadhan
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Hardness of Graph Isomorphism
We show that the graph isomorphism problem is hard under DLOGTIME uniform AC0 many-one reductions for the complexity classes NL, PL (probabilistic logarithmic space) for every loga...
Jacobo Torán
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Extracting Randomness via Repeated Condensing
Extractors (defined by Nisan and Zuckerman) are procedures that use a small number of truly random bits (called the seed) to extract many (almost) truly random bits from arbitrar...
Omer Reingold, Ronen Shaltiel, Avi Wigderson