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ECCC
2007
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An Exposition of Bourgain's 2-Source Extractor
A construction of Bourgain [Bou05] gave the first 2-source extractor to break the min-entropy rate 1/2 barrier. In this note, we write an exposition of his result, giving a high ...
Anup Rao
CC
2007
Springer
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An Improved Analysis of Linear Mergers
Mergers are procedures that, with the aid of a short random string, transform k (possibly dependent) random sources into a single random source, in a way that ensures that if one ...
Zeev Dvir, Amir Shpilka