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2010
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13 years 3 months ago
OBJCUT: Efficient Segmentation Using Top-Down and Bottom-Up Cues
—We present a probabilistic method for segmenting instances of a particular object category within an image. Our approach overcomes the deficiencies of previous segmentation tech...
M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr, Andrew Zisserma...
STOC
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Integrality gaps for Sherali-Adams relaxations
We prove strong lower bounds on integrality gaps of Sherali?Adams relaxations for MAX CUT, Vertex Cover, Sparsest Cut and other problems. Our constructions show gaps for Sherali?A...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
STOC
2006
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Gowers uniformity, influence of variables, and PCPs
Gowers [Gow98, Gow01] introduced, for d 1, the notion of dimension-d uniformity Ud (f) of a function f : G C, where G is a finite abelian group. Roughly speaking, if a function ...
Alex Samorodnitsky, Luca Trevisan