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FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Cryptographic Hardness for Learning Intersections of Halfspaces
We give the first representation-independent hardness results for PAC learning intersections of halfspaces, a central concept class in computational learning theory. Our hardness...
Adam R. Klivans, Alexander A. Sherstov
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Approximate Min-Max Theorems of Steiner Rooted-Orientations of Hypergraphs
Given an undirected hypergraph and a subset of vertices S ⊆ V with a specified root vertex r ∈ S, the STEINER ROOTED-ORIENTATION problem is to find an orientation of all the...
Tamás Király, Lap Chi Lau
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing in Full-Information Networks
In this paper, we use random-selection protocols in the full-information model to solve classical problems in distributed computing. Our main results are the following: • An O(l...
Shafi Goldwasser, Elan Pavlov, Vinod Vaikuntanatha...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Explicit Exclusive Set Systems with Applications to Broadcast Encryption
A family of subsets C of [n] def = {1, . . . , n} is (r, t)exclusive if for every S ⊂ [n] of size at least n − r, there exist S1, . . . , St ∈ C with S = S1∪S2∪· · · ...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan, David P. Woodruff
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Approximation algorithms for allocation problems: Improving the factor of 1 - 1/e
Combinatorial allocation problems require allocating items to players in a way that maximizes the total utility. Two such problems received attention recently, and were addressed ...
Uriel Feige, Jan Vondrák
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Balanced Allocations of Cake
Jeff Edmonds, Kirk Pruhs
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Computing Nash Equilibria: Approximation and Smoothed Complexity
We advance significantly beyond the recent progress on the algorithmic complexity of Nash equilibria by solving two major open problems in the approximation of Nash equilibria an...
Xi Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Shang-Hua Teng
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
New Limits on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
We show that quantum circuits cannot be made faulttolerant against a depolarizing noise level of ˆθ = (6 − 2 √ 2)/7 ≈ 45%, thereby improving on a previous bound of 50% (du...
Harry Buhrman, Richard Cleve, Monique Laurent, Noa...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improved Bounds for Online Routing and Packing Via a Primal-Dual Approach
In this work we study a wide range of online and offline routing and packing problems with various objectives. We provide a unified approach, based on a clean primal-dual method...
Niv Buchbinder, Joseph Naor
FOCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Subspace Polynomials and List Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes
Eli Ben-Sasson, Swastik Kopparty, Jaikumar Radhakr...