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2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Gowers uniformity, influence of variables, and PCPs
Gowers [Gow98, Gow01] introduced, for d 1, the notion of dimension-d uniformity Ud (f) of a function f : G C, where G is a finite abelian group. Roughly speaking, if a function ...
Alex Samorodnitsky, Luca Trevisan
MST
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Sequencing from Compomers: The Puzzle
The board game FragmindTM poses the following problem: The player has to reconstruct an (unknown) string s over the alphabet . To this end, the game reports the following informati...
Sebastian Böcker
COLT
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
When Random Play is Optimal Against an Adversary
We analyze a sequential game between a Gambler and a Casino. The Gambler allocates bets from a limited budget over a fixed menu of gambling events that are offered at equal time i...
Jacob Abernethy, Manfred K. Warmuth, Joel Yellin
FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 13 days ago
Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph
We prove that approximating the Max Acyclic Subgraph problem within a factor better than 1/2 is Unique-Games hard. Specifically, for every constant ε > 0 the following holds:...
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad R...
FM
2005
Springer
156views Formal Methods» more  FM 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Testing Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems with Spec Explorer
Abstract Colin Campbell, Wolfgang Grieskamp, Lev Nachmanson, Wolfram Schulte, Nikolai Tillmann, and Margus Veanes Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Abstract. We describe a pract...
Colin Campbell, Wolfgang Grieskamp, Lev Nachmanson...