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FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
CGF
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Translational Covering of Closed Planar Cubic B-Spline Curves
Spline curves are useful in a variety of geometric modeling and graphics applications and covering problems abound in practical settings. This work defines a class of covering dec...
Cristina Neacsu, Karen Daniels
SIAMSC
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Simultaneously Sparse Solutions to Linear Inverse Problems with Multiple System Matrices and a Single Observation Vector
Abstract. A problem that arises in slice-selective magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiofrequency (RF) excitation pulse design is abstracted as a novel linear inverse problem with...
Adam C. Zelinski, Vivek K. Goyal, Elfar Adalsteins...
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
A Complexity View of Markets with Social Influence
: In this paper, inspired by the work of Megiddo on the formation of preferences and strategic analysis, we consider an early market model studied in the field of economic theory, ...
Xi Chen, Shang-Hua Teng
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
The Bethe Permanent of a Non-Negative Matrix
:  The Bethe Permanent of a Non-Negative Matrix Pascal O. Vontobel HP Laboratories HPL-2011-116 Bethe approximation; Bethe permanent; graph cover; partition function; perfect ma...
Pascal O. Vontobel