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DAM
2010
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A new approximation algorithm for the multilevel facility location problem
In this paper we propose a new integer programming formulation for the multilevel facility location problem and a novel 3-approximation algorithm based on LP rounding. The linear ...
Adriana Felicia Gabor, Jan-Kees C. W. van Ommeren
ICALP
2007
Springer
16 years 11 days ago
Reconciling Data Compression and Kolmogorov Complexity
While data compression and Kolmogorov complexity are both about effective coding of words, the two settings differ in the following respect. A compression algorithm or compressor...
Laurent Bienvenu, Wolfgang Merkle
ACG
2006
Springer
16 years 6 days ago
Move-Pruning Techniques for Monte-Carlo Go
Abstract. Progressive Pruning (PP) is used in the Monte-Carlo go playing program Indigo. For each candidate move, PP launches random games starting with this move. PP gathers stati...
Bruno Bouzy
COLT
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Martingale Boosting
In recent work Long and Servedio [LS05] presented a “martingale boosting” algorithm that works by constructing a branching program over weak classifiers and has a simple anal...
Philip M. Long, Rocco A. Servedio
COCO
2004
Springer
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Language Compression and Pseudorandom Generators
The language compression problem asks for succinct descriptions of the strings in a language A such that the strings can be efficiently recovered from their description when given...
Harry Buhrman, Troy Lee, Dieter van Melkebeek