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FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2000
IEEE
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
ECCC
2011
13 years 5 months ago
2011
We consider the problem of extracting randomness from sources that are efficiently samplable, in the sense that each output bit of the sampler only depends on some small number d ...
FSTTCS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
We clarify the role of Kolmogorov complexity in the area of randomness extraction. We show that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it is a Kolm...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
The Common Reference String (CRS) model equips all protocol participants with a common string that is sampled from a pre-specified distribution, say the uniform distribution. Thi...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
When search is against structured documents, it is beneficial to extract information from user queries in a format that is consistent with the backend data structure. As one step...