This work is at the intersection of two lines of research. One line, initiated by Dinur and Nissim, investigates the price, in accuracy, of protecting privacy in a statistical dat...
A family of permutations in Sn is k-wise independent if a uniform permutation chosen from the family maps any distinct k elements to any distinct k elements equally likely. Effici...
In TREC-10, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) participated in the Web track (ad hoc retrieval task and homepage finding task). The latest version of the Okapi system (Windows 2000 ve...
Jianfeng Gao, Guihong Cao, Hongzhao He, Min Zhang,...
A q-query locally testable code (LTC) is an error correcting code that can be tested by a randomized algorithm that reads at most q symbols from the given word. An important questi...
This paper is concerned with the problem of Imbalanced Classification (IC) in web mining, which often arises on the web due to the "Matthew Effect". As web IC applicatio...