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CORR
2012
Springer
218views Education» more  CORR 2012»
13 years 5 months ago
On the Hardness of Welfare Maximization in Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Valuations
We present a new type of monotone submodular functions: multi-peak submodular functions. Roughly speaking, given a family of sets F, we construct a monotone submodular function f ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Jan Vondrák
ISAAC
2004
Springer
135views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2004»
15 years 3 months ago
Geometric Optimization Problems Over Sliding Windows
Abstract. We study the problem of maintaining a (1+ )-factor approximation of the diameter of a stream of points under the sliding window model. In one dimension, we give a simple ...
Timothy M. Chan, Bashir S. Sadjad
CORR
2010
Springer
128views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Sublinear Optimization for Machine Learning
Abstract--We give sublinear-time approximation algorithms for some optimization problems arising in machine learning, such as training linear classifiers and finding minimum enclos...
Kenneth L. Clarkson, Elad Hazan, David P. Woodruff
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
176views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 19 days ago
Sharing work in keyword search over databases
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Marie Jacob, Zachary G. Ives
LATIN
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Prize-Collecting Steiner Networks via Iterative Rounding
In this paper we design an iterative rounding approach for the classic prize-collecting Steiner forest problem and more generally the prize-collecting survivable Steiner network de...
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Arefeh A. Nasri