We give a simple combinatorial proof of the Chernoff-Hoeffding concentration bound [Che52, Hoe63], which says that the sum of independent {0, 1}-valued random variables is highly ...
Macro forest transducers (mfts) extend macro tree transducers (mtts) from ranked to unranked trees. Mfts are more powerful than mtts (operating on binary tree encodings) because t...
It is known that interprocedural detection of copy constants and elimination of faint code in parallel programs are undecidable problems, if base statements are assumed to execute...
Belief propagation is widely used in inference of graphical models. It yields exact solutions when the underlying graph is singly connected. When the graph contains loops, double-c...
Efficient implementations of DPLL with the addition of clause learning are the fastest complete Boolean satisfiability solvers and can handle many significant real-world problem...