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2004
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Bypassing the embedding: algorithms for low dimensional metrics
The doubling dimension of a metric is the smallest k such that any ball of radius 2r can be covered using 2k balls of raThis concept for abstract metrics has been proposed as a na...
Kunal Talwar
ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Thresholded Covering Algorithms for Robust and Max-min Optimization
The general problem of robust optimization is this: one of several possible scenarios will appear tomorrow, but things are more expensive tomorrow than they are today. What should...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, R. Ravi
APPROX
2007
Springer
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13 years 12 months ago
Maximum Gradient Embeddings and Monotone Clustering
abstract Manor Mendel1 and Assaf Naor2 1 The Open University of Israel 2 Courant Institute Let (X, dX ) be an n-point metric space. We show that there exists a distribution D over ...
Manor Mendel, Assaf Naor
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Maximizing Non-Monotone Submodular Functions
Submodular maximization generalizes many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems and maximum f...
Uriel Feige, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Jan Vondrák
STOC
2009
ACM
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Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints
Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hy...
Jon Lee, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Viswanath Nagarajan, M...