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FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Maximizing Non-Monotone Submodular Functions
Submodular maximization generalizes many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems and maximum f...
Uriel Feige, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Jan Vondrák
STOC
1993
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Constructing small sample spaces satisfying given constraints
Abstract. The subject of this paper is nding small sample spaces for joint distributions of n discrete random variables. Such distributions are often only required to obey a certa...
Daphne Koller, Nimrod Megiddo
DC
2011
12 years 5 months ago
Distributed algorithms for covering, packing and maximum weighted matching
Abstract This paper gives poly-logarithmic-round, distributed δ-approximation algorithms for covering problems with submodular cost and monotone covering constraints (Submodular-c...
Christos Koufogiannakis, Neal E. Young
FOCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan
SIAMCOMP
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs, and Nonapproximability-Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs) and the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on p...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan