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ECCC
2010
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14 years 9 months ago
Matching Vector Codes
An (r, , )-locally decodable code encodes a k-bit message x to an N-bit codeword C(x), such that for every i [k], the i-th message bit can be recovered with probability 1 - , by ...
Zeev Dvir, Parikshit Gopalan, Sergey Yekhanin
WSCG
2004
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14 years 10 months ago
Metropolis Iteration for Global Illumination
This paper presents a stochastic iteration algorithm solving the global illumination problem, where the random sampling is governed by classical importance sampling and also by th...
László Szirmay-Kalos, Bálazs ...
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INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Network coding for large scale content distribution
— We propose a new scheme for content distribution of large files that is based on network coding. With network coding, each node of the distribution network is able to generate...
Christos Gkantsidis, Pablo Rodriguez
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VLDB
2007
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
A genetic approach for random testing of database systems
Testing a database engine has been and continues to be a challenging task. The space of possible SQL queries along with their possible access paths is practically unbounded. Moreo...
Hardik Bati, Leo Giakoumakis, Steve Herbert, Aleks...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Extracting Randomness from Samplable Distributions
Randomness extractors convert weak sources of randomness into an almost uniform distribution; the conversion uses a small amount of pure randomness. In algorithmic applications, t...
Luca Trevisan, Salil P. Vadhan