We resolve an open question raised by Feige & Scheideler by showing that the best known approximation algorithm for flow shops is essentially tight with respect to the used low...
In this paper, we show that for every constant 0 < < 1/2 and for every constant d 2, the minimum size of a depth d Boolean circuit that -approximates Majority function on n ...
The collision problem is to decide whether a function X : {1, . . . , n} {1, . . . , n} is one-to-one or two-to-one, given that one of these is the case. We show a lower bound of...
The problem of finding a local minimum of a black-box function is central for understanding local search as well as quantum adiabatic algorithms. For functions on the Boolean hype...
We prove exponential lower bounds for the refutation of a random 3-CNF with linear number of clauses by k-DNF Resolution for k log n/ log log n. For this we design a specially ta...
Abstract. In this paper, we study lower bound techniques for branchand-bound algorithms for maximum parsimony, with a focus on gene order data. We give a simple O(n3 ) time dynamic...
Abraham Bachrach, Kevin Chen, Chris Harrelson, Rad...
Since the discovery of the "Philadelphia chromosome" in chronic myelogenous leukemia in 1960, there is an ongoing intensive research of chromosomal aberrations in cancer....
The known secret-sharing schemes for most access structures are not efficient; even for a one-bit secret the length of the shares in the schemes is 2O(n) , where n is the number of...
We continue the study of approximating the number of distinct elements in a data stream of length n to within a (1? ) factor. It is known that if the stream may consist of arbitra...
A fast-growing body of research in the AI and machine learning communities addresses learning in games, where there are multiple learners with different interests. This research a...