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STOC
1994
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1994
ACM
We present new results on the well-studied problem of learning DNF expressions. We prove that an algorithm due to Kushilevitz and Mansour [13] can be used to weakly learn DNF form...
VLDB
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Developing cost models for query optimization is significantly harder for XML queries than for traditional relational queries. The reason is that XML query operators are much mor...
STOC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
This paper explores what kinds of information two parties must communicate in order to correct errors which occur in a shared secret string W. Any bits they communicate must leak ...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 days ago
2010
This paper presents a novel method for acquiring a set of query patterns to retrieve documents containing important information about an entity. Given an existing Wikipedia catego...
ECCC
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Much work has been done on learning various classes of "simple" monotone functions under the uniform distribution. In this paper we give the first unconditional lower bo...