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FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Pseudorandom Bits for Polynomials
We present a new approach to constructing pseudorandom generators that fool lowdegree polynomials over finite fields, based on the Gowers norm. Using this approach, we obtain th...
Andrej Bogdanov, Emanuele Viola
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Complexity of Nash Equilibria and Other Fixed Points (Extended Abstract)
d Abstract) Kousha Etessami LFCS, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh Mihalis Yannakakis Department of Computer Science Columbia University We reexamine what it means to...
Kousha Etessami, Mihalis Yannakakis
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Non-Preemptive Min-Sum Scheduling with Resource Augmentation
Nikhil Bansal, Ho-Leung Chan, Rohit Khandekar, Kir...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Balloon Popping With Applications to Ascending Auctions
Nicole Immorlica, Anna R. Karlin, Mohammad Mahdian...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On the Advantage over Random for Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
In this paper we present a new approximation algorithm for the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem. Given an instance where the maximum acyclic subgraph contains 1/2 + δ fraction of all...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Lower Bound for the Size of Syntactically Multilinear Arithmetic Circuits
We construct an explicit polynomial f(x1, . . . , xn), with coefficients in {0, 1}, such that the size of any syntactically multilinear arithmetic circuit computing f is at least ...
Ran Raz, Amir Shpilka, Amir Yehudayoff