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Sampling on Lattices with Free Boundary Conditions Using Randomized Extensions
Many statistical physics models are defined on an infinite lattice by taking appropriate limits of finite lattice regions, where a key consideration is how the boundaries are d...
Sarah Cannon, Dana Randall
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2016
ACM
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Phase Transitions in Group Testing
The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of items that are “defective” based on a set of possibly noisy tests, and arises in areas such as me...
Jonathan Scarlett, Volkan Cevher
SODA
2016
ACM
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Algorithms and Adaptivity Gaps for Stochastic Probing
A stochastic probing problem consists of a set of elements whose values are independent random variables. The algorithm knows the distributions of these variables, but not the act...
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan, Sahil Singla