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COCO
2003
Springer
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Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on the Multi-Party Communication Complexity of Set Disjointness
We study the communication complexity of the set disjointness problem in the general multi-party model. For t players, each holding a subset of a universe of size n, we establish ...
Amit Chakrabarti, Subhash Khot, Xiaodong Sun
MOR
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
On Near Optimality of the Set of Finite-State Controllers for Average Cost POMDP
We consider the average cost problem for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDP) with finite state, observation, and control spaces. We prove that there exists an -...
Huizhen Yu, Dimitri P. Bertsekas
WADS
2005
Springer
111views Algorithms» more  WADS 2005»
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Near-Optimal Pricing in Near-Linear Time
We present efficient approximation algorithms for a number of problems that call for computing the prices that maximize the revenue of the seller on a set of items. Algorithms for ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vladlen Koltun
FOCS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
We give a general technique to obtain approximation mechanisms that are truthful in expectation. We show that for packing domains, any α-approximation algorithm that also bounds ...
Ron Lavi, Chaitanya Swamy
STOC
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
A nearly optimal oracle for avoiding failed vertices and edges
We present an improved oracle for the distance sensitivity problem. The goal is to preprocess a directed graph G = (V, E) with non-negative edge weights to answer queries of the f...
Aaron Bernstein, David R. Karger