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IJCNN
2000
IEEE
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Metrics that Learn Relevance
We introduce an algorithm for learning a local metric to a continuous input space that measures distances in terms of relevance to the processing task. The relevance is defined a...
Samuel Kaski, Janne Sinkkonen
STOC
1998
ACM
121views Algorithms» more  STOC 1998»
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Non-Interactive and Non-Malleable Commitment
A commitment protocol is a fundamental cryptographic primitive used as a basic buildingblock throughoutmodern cryptography. In STOC 1991, Dolev Dwork and Naor showed that in many ...
Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovs...
STOC
1997
ACM
111views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
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The Swendsen-Wang Process Does Not Always Mix Rapidly
The Swendsen-Wang process provides one possible dynamics for the Qstate Potts model in statistical physics. Computer simulations of this process are widely used to estimate the ex...
Vivek Gore, Mark Jerrum
GCB
1997
Springer
77views Biometrics» more  GCB 1997»
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Statistics of large scale sequence searching
Motivation: Database search programs such as FASTA, BLAST or a rigorous Smith–Waterman algorithm produce lists of database entries, which are assumed to be related to the query....
Rainer Spang, Martin Vingron
WDAG
1992
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  WDAG 1992»
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Choice Coordination with Multiple Alternatives (Preliminary Version)
Abstract. The Choice Coordination Problem with k alternatives (kCCP) was introduced by Rabin in 1982 [Rab82]. The goal is to design a wait-free protocol for n asynchronous processe...
David S. Greenberg, Gadi Taubenfeld, Da-Wei Wang