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2008
15 years 5 days ago
On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes
We address the problem of auditing an election when precincts may have different sizes. Prior work in this field has emphasized the simpler case when all precincts have the same s...
Javed A. Aslam, Raluca A. Popa, Ronald L. Rivest
JACM
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Finding a maximum likelihood tree is hard
Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) is an increasingly popular optimality criterion for selecting evolutionary trees [Felsenstein 1981]. Finding optimal ML trees appears to be a very...
Benny Chor, Tamir Tuller
MOC
2002
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14 years 9 months ago
The error bounds and tractability of quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms in infinite dimension
Dimensionally unbounded problems are frequently encountered in practice, such as in simulations of stochastic processes, in particle and light transport problems and in the problem...
Fred J. Hickernell, Xiaoqun Wang
ECCC
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Query Complexity Lower Bounds for Reconstruction of Codes
We investigate the problem of local reconstruction, as defined by Saks and Seshadhri (2008), in the context of error correcting codes. The first problem we address is that of me...
Sourav Chakraborty, Eldar Fischer, Arie Matsliah
ICCV
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Multiclass Spectral Clustering
We propose a principled account on multiclass spectral clustering. Given a discrete clustering formulation, we first solve a relaxed continuous optimization problem by eigendecomp...
Stella X. Yu, Jianbo Shi