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SODA
2010
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Amplified Hardness of Approximation for VCG-Based Mechanisms
If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an app...
Shaddin Dughmi, Hu Fu, Robert Kleinberg
ICML
2002
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Algorithm-Directed Exploration for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs
One of the central challenges in reinforcement learning is to balance the exploration/exploitation tradeoff while scaling up to large problems. Although model-based reinforcement ...
Carlos Guestrin, Relu Patrascu, Dale Schuurmans
MP
2006
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15 years 5 months ago
Approximate extended formulations
Mixed integer programming (MIP) formulations are typically tightened through the use of a separation algorithm and the addition of violated cuts. Using extended formulations involv...
Mathieu Van Vyve, Laurence A. Wolsey
STOC
2007
ACM
181views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
How to rank with few errors
We present a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the minimum feedback arc set problem on tournaments. A simple weighted generalization gives a PTAS for KemenyYoung ran...
Claire Kenyon-Mathieu, Warren Schudy
SODA
2010
ACM
202views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
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Counting Inversions, Offline Orthogonal Range Counting, and Related Problems
We give an O(n lg n)-time algorithm for counting the number of inversions in a permutation on n elements. This improves a long-standing previous bound of O(n lg n/ lg lg n) that ...
Timothy M. Chan, Mihai Patrascu