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TCS
2011
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Smart PAC-learners
The PAC-learning model is distribution-independent in the sense that the learner must reach a learning goal with a limited number of labeled random examples without any prior know...
Malte Darnstädt, Hans-Ulrich Simon
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Two faces of active learning
An active learner has a collection of data points, each with a label that is initially hidden but can be obtained at some cost. Without spending too much, it wishes to find a cla...
Sanjoy Dasgupta
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Computing minimum distortion embeddings into a path for bipartite permutation graphs and threshold graphs
The problem of computing minimum distortion embeddings of a given graph into a line (path) was introduced in 2004 and has quickly attracted significant attention with subsequent ...
Pinar Heggernes, Daniel Meister, Andrzej Proskurow...
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Optimizing n-variate (n+k)-nomials for small k
We give a high precision polynomial-time approximation scheme for the supremum of any honest n-variate (n + 2)-nomial with a constant term, allowing real exponents as well as real...
Philippe P. Pébay, J. Maurice Rojas, David ...
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Local and global price of anarchy of graphical games
This paper initiates a study of connections between local and global properties of graphical games. Specifically, we introduce a concept of local price of anarchy that quantifie...
Oren Ben-Zwi, Amir Ronen
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Dynamic normal forms and dynamic characteristic polynomial
Abstract. We present the first fully dynamic algorithm for computing the characteristic polynomial of a matrix. In the generic symmetric case our algorithm supports rank-one updat...
Gudmund Skovbjerg Frandsen, Piotr Sankowski
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
The transposition median problem is NP-complete
During the last years, the genomes of more and more species have been sequenced, providing data for phylogenetic reconstruction based on genome rearrangement measures, where the m...
Martin Bader
TCS
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Highly concurrent multi-word synchronization
d Abstract) Hagit Attiya and Eshcar Hillel Department of Computer Science, Technion The design of concurrent data structures is greatly facilitated by the availability of synchroni...
Hagit Attiya, Eshcar Hillel