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COCO
2009
Springer
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2009
Springer
The coding theorem is a fundamental result of algorithmic information theory. A well known theorem of G´acs shows that the analog of the coding theorem fails for continuous sample...
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COCO
2009
Springer
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2009
Springer
We study the task of randomness extraction from sources which are distributed uniformly on an unknown algebraic variety. In other words, we are interested in constructing a functi...
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COCO
2009
Springer
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2009
Springer
—We study the one-way number-on-the-forhead (NOF) communication complexity of the k-layer pointer jumping problem. Strong lower bounds for this problem would have important impli...
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COCO
2009
Springer
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2009
Springer
—We show that the rank of a depth-3 circuit (over any field) that is simple, minimal and zero is at most O(k3 log d). The previous best rank bound known was 2O(k2 ) (log d)k−2...
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COCO
2009
Springer
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2009
Springer
We study the inapproximability of Vertex Cover and Independent Set on degree d graphs. We prove that: • Vertex Cover is Unique Games-hard to approximate to within a factor 2−(...