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POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
POPL
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Free theorems in the presence of seq
Parametric polymorphism constrains the behavior of pure functional programs in a way that allows the derivation of interesting theorems about them solely from their types, i.e., v...
Janis Voigtländer, Patricia Johann
STOC
2007
ACM
105views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
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Balanced allocations: the weighted case
We investigate balls-and-bins processes where m weighted balls are placed into n bins using the "power of two choices" paradigm, whereby a ball is inserted into the less...
Kunal Talwar, Udi Wieder
STOC
2007
ACM
101views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
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The price of privacy and the limits of LP decoding
This work is at the intersection of two lines of research. One line, initiated by Dinur and Nissim, investigates the price, in accuracy, of protecting privacy in a statistical dat...
Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kunal Talwar
STOC
2006
ACM
130views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
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On the fourier tails of bounded functions over the discrete cube
In this paper we consider bounded real-valued functions over the discrete cube, f : {-1, 1}n [-1, 1]. Such functions arise naturally in theoretical computer science, combinatorics...
Irit Dinur, Ehud Friedgut, Guy Kindler, Ryan O'Don...