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APPROX
2010
Springer
154views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
The Checkpoint Problem
In this paper, we consider the checkpoint problem in which given an undirected graph G, a set of sourcedestinations {(s1, t1), (s1, t1), . . . , (sk, tk)} and a set of fixed paths...
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Rohit Khandekar, Guy Kor...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
New Results for Learning Noisy Parities and Halfspaces
We address well-studied problems concerning the learnability of parities and halfspaces in the presence of classification noise. Learning of parities under the uniform distributi...
Vitaly Feldman, Parikshit Gopalan, Subhash Khot, A...
CORR
2011
Springer
167views Education» more  CORR 2011»
14 years 4 months ago
On Quadratic Programming with a Ratio Objective
Quadratic Programming (QP) is the well-studied problem of maximizing over {−1, 1} values the quadratic form i=j aijxixj. QP captures many known combinatorial optimization proble...
Aditya Bhaskara, Moses Charikar, Rajsekar Manokara...
SMA
2005
ACM
104views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Packing a trunk: now with a twist!
In an industry project with a German car manufacturer we are faced with the challenge of placing a maximum number of uniform rigid rectangular boxes in the interior of a car trunk...
Friedrich Eisenbrand, Stefan Funke, Andreas Karren...
FCT
2007
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
On Approximating Optimal Weighted Lobbying, and Frequency of Correctness Versus Average-Case Polynomial Time
We investigate issues regarding two hard problems related to voting, the optimal weighted lobbying problem and the winner problem for Dodgson elections. Regarding the former, Chris...
Gábor Erdélyi, Lane A. Hemaspaandra,...