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ISPA
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
The Monte Carlo (MC) method is a simple but effective way to perform simulations involving complicated or multivariate functions. The QuasiMonte Carlo (QMC) method is similar but...
STOC
1997
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
1997
ACM
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
PG
2007
IEEE
2007
IEEE
Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Assessing Monte Carlo Estimators: Applications to Image Synthesis
14 years 13 days ago
Image synthesis algorithms are commonly compared on the basis of running times and/or perceived quality of the generated images. In the case of Monte Carlo techniques, assessment ...
COCO
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2006
Springer
We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
14 years 3 months ago
2010
Tsinghua U.
Computation in the physical world is restricted by the following spatial locality constraint: In a single unit of time, information can only travel a bounded distance in space. A ...