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2000
15 years 8 months ago
On Reversing Jensen's Inequality
Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Kernels for Feedback Arc Set In Tournaments
A tournament T = (V, A) is a directed graph in which there is exactly one arc between every pair of distinct vertices. Given a digraph on n vertices and an integer parameter k, th...
Stéphane Bessy, Fedor V. Fomin, Serge Gaspe...
WINE
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
The Geometry of Truthfulness
We study the geometrical shape of the partitions of the input space created by the allocation rule of a truthful mechanism for multi-unit auctions with multidimensional types and ...
Angelina Vidali
ECCC
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Algebrization: A New Barrier in Complexity Theory
Any proof of P = NP will have to overcome two barriers: relativization and natural proofs. Yet over the last decade, we have seen circuit lower bounds (for example, that PP does n...
Scott Aaronson, Avi Wigderson
CPAIOR
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Leveraging Belief Propagation, Backtrack Search, and Statistics for Model Counting
We consider the problem of estimating the model count (number of solutions) of Boolean formulas, and present two techniques that compute estimates of these counts, as well as eith...
Lukas Kroc, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman