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Derandomizing the Ahlswede-Winter matrix-valued Chernoff bound using pessimistic estimators, and applications
: Ahlswede and Winter [IEEE Trans. Inf. Th. 2002] introduced a Chernoff bound for matrix-valued random variables, which is a non-trivial generalization of the usual Chernoff bound ...
Avi Wigderson, David Xiao
COMBINATORICA
2008
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Parity check matrices and product representations of squares
Let NF(n, k, r) denote the maximum number of columns in an n-row matrix with entries in a finite field F in which each column has at most r nonzero entries and every k columns are...
Assaf Naor, Jacques Verstraëte
DC
2011
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Distributed algorithms for covering, packing and maximum weighted matching
Abstract This paper gives poly-logarithmic-round, distributed δ-approximation algorithms for covering problems with submodular cost and monotone covering constraints (Submodular-c...
Christos Koufogiannakis, Neal E. Young
CISS
2008
IEEE
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Detection of anomalous meetings in a social network
Abstract-- When monitoring interactions within a social network, meetings or contacts between different members of the network are recorded. This paper addresses the problem of usi...
Jorge Silva, Rebecca Willett
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...