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FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Subexponential Algorithms for Unique Games and Related Problems
We give subexponential time approximation algorithms for UNIQUE GAMES and the SMALL-SET EXPANSION. Specifically, for some absolute constant c, we give:
Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, David Steurer
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
On the Queue Number of Planar Graphs
Giuseppe Di Battista, Fabrizio Frati, János...
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
On the Computational Complexity of Coin Flipping
Coin flipping is one of the most fundamental tasks in cryptographic protocol design. Informally, a coin flipping protocol should guarantee both (1) Completeness: an honest executi...
Hemanta K. Maji, Manoj Prabhakaran, Amit Sahai
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Subcubic Equivalences between Path, Matrix and Triangle Problems
We say an algorithm on n
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Ryan Williams
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Convex Concepts from Gaussian Distributions with PCA
We present a new algorithm for learning a convex set in n-dimensional space given labeled examples drawn from any Gaussian distribution. The complexity of the algorithm is bounded ...
Santosh Vempala
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A Multiplicative Weights Mechanism for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
Abstract--We consider statistical data analysis in the interactive setting. In this setting a trusted curator maintains a database of sensitive information about individual partici...
Moritz Hardt, Guy N. Rothblum
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Distance Oracles beyond the Thorup-Zwick Bound
We give the first improvement to the space/approximation trade-off of distance oracles since the seminal result of Thorup and Zwick [STOC'01]. For unweighted graphs, our dista...
Mihai Patrascu, Liam Roditty
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Stability Yields a PTAS for k-Median and k-Means Clustering
We consider k-median clustering in finite metric spaces and k-means clustering in Euclidean spaces, in the setting where k is part of the input (not a constant). For the k-means pr...
Pranjal Awasthi, Avrim Blum, Or Sheffet
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Approaching Optimality for Solving SDD Linear Systems
Ioannis Koutis, Gary L. Miller, Richard Peng
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Solving Linear Systems through Nested Dissection
Abstract--The generalized nested dissection method, developed by Lipton, Rose, and Tarjan, is a seminal method for solving a linear system Ax = b where A is a symmetric positive de...
Noga Alon, Raphael Yuster