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2006
ACM
170views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Hardness of approximate two-level logic minimization and PAC learning with membership queries
Producing a small DNF expression consistent with given data is a classical problem in computer science that occurs in a number of forms and has numerous applications. We consider ...
Vitaly Feldman
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ICCAD
2008
IEEE
170views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
A polynomial time approximation scheme for timing constrained minimum cost layer assignment
Abstract— As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay becomes the bottleneck of circuit performance. Compared to gate delays, wires are becoming increasing...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
KDD
2000
ACM
115views Data Mining» more  KDD 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
A framework for specifying explicit bias for revision of approximate information extraction rules
Information extraction is one of the most important techniques used in Text Mining. One of the main problems in building information extraction (IE) systems is that the knowledge ...
Ronen Feldman, Yair Liberzon, Binyamin Rosenfeld, ...
ICALP
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Improved Approximation for the Directed Spanner Problem
We present an O( √ n log n)-approximation algorithm for the problem of finding the sparsest spanner of a given directed graph G on n vertices. A spanner of a graph is a sparse ...
Piotr Berman, Arnab Bhattacharyya, Konstantin Maka...
MP
2002
176views more  MP 2002»
15 years 6 months ago
UOBYQA: unconstrained optimization by quadratic approximation
UOBYQA is a new algorithm for general unconstrained optimization calculations, that takes account of the curvature of the objective function, F say, by forming quadratic models by ...
M. J. D. Powell