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COCOA
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A PTAS for Node-Weighted Steiner Tree in Unit Disk Graphs
Abstract. The node-weighted Steiner tree problem is a variation of classical Steiner minimum tree problem. Given a graph G = (V, E) with node weight function C : V → R+ and a sub...
Xianyue Li, Xiao-Hua Xu, Feng Zou, Hongwei Du, Pen...
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FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Fast computation of the median by successive binning
In many important problems, one uses the median instead of the mean to estimate a population's center, since the former is more robust. But in general, computing the median i...
Ryan J. Tibshirani
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ACL
1997
15 years 6 months ago
Approximating Context-Free Grammars with a Finite-State Calculus
Although adequate models of human language for syntactic analysis and semantic interpretation are of at least contextfree complexity, for applications such as speech processing in...
Edmund Grimley-Evans
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TIP
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
A Recursive Model-Reduction Method for Approximate Inference in Gaussian Markov Random Fields
This paper presents recursive cavity modeling--a principled, tractable approach to approximate, near-optimal inference for large Gauss-Markov random fields. The main idea is to su...
Jason K. Johnson, Alan S. Willsky