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COLT
1995
Springer
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A Comparison of New and Old Algorithms for a Mixture Estimation Problem
We investigate the problem of estimating the proportion vector which maximizes the likelihood of a given sample for a mixture of given densities. We adapt a framework developed for...
David P. Helmbold, Yoram Singer, Robert E. Schapir...
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COLT
1995
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Reductions for Learning via Queries
William I. Gasarch, Geoffrey R. Hird
COLT
1995
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
On Learning Bounded-Width Branching Programs
In this paper, we study PAC-leaming algorithms for specialized classes of deterministic finite automata (DFA). Inpartictdar, we study branchingprogrsms, and we investigate the int...
Funda Ergün, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
STOC
2000
ACM
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On the complexity of verifiable secret sharing and multiparty computation
We first study the problem of doing Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) information theoretically secure for a general access structure. We do it in the model where private channels b...
Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgård, Stefan Dziembow...