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EDBT
2010
ACM
110views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 18 days ago
The hardness and approximation algorithms for l-diversity
The existing solutions to privacy preserving publication can be classified into the theoretical and heuristic categories. The former guarantees provably low information loss, whe...
Xiaokui Xiao, Ke Yi, Yufei Tao
ISAAC
2009
Springer
127views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2009»
14 years 10 days ago
Maximal Strip Recovery Problem with Gaps: Hardness and Approximation Algorithms
Abstract. Given two comparative maps, that is two sequences of markers each representing a genome, the Maximal Strip Recovery problem (MSR) asks to extract a largest sequence of ma...
Laurent Bulteau, Guillaume Fertin, Irena Rusu
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Viterbi Training for PCFGs: Hardness Results and Competitiveness of Uniform Initialization
We consider the search for a maximum likelihood assignment of hidden derivations and grammar weights for a probabilistic context-free grammar, the problem approximately solved by ...
Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith
FOCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hardness of Approximating the Minimum Distance of a Linear Code
We show that the minimum distance of a linear code is not approximable to within any constant factor in random polynomial time (RP), unless nondeterministic polynomial time (NP) eq...
Ilya Dumer, Daniele Micciancio, Madhu Sudan
PODS
2007
ACM
203views Database» more  PODS 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Decision trees for entity identification: approximation algorithms and hardness results
We consider the problem of constructing decision trees for entity identification from a given relational table. The input is a table containing information about a set of entities...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Samb...