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2002
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Strict polynomial-time in simulation and extraction
The notion of efficient computation is usually identified in cryptography and complexity with (strict) probabilistic polynomial time. However, until recently, in order to obtain c...
Boaz Barak, Yehuda Lindell
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2003
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16 years 26 days ago
Numerical document queries
A query against a database behind a site like Napster may search, e.g., for all users who have downloaded more jazz titles than pop music titles. In order to express such queries,...
Helmut Seidl, Thomas Schwentick, Anca Muscholl
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2004
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16 years 26 days ago
On the Memory Requirements of XPath Evaluation over XML Streams
The important challenge of evaluating XPath queries over XML streams has sparked much interest in the past few years. A number of algorithms have been proposed, supporting wider f...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski
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2006
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Approximate quantiles and the order of the stream
Recently, there has been an increased focus on modeling uncertainty by distributions. Suppose we wish to compute a function of a stream whose elements are samples drawn independen...
Sudipto Guha, Andrew McGregor
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2010
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BQP and the Polynomial Hierarchy
The relationship between BQP and PH has been an open problem since the earliest days of quantum computing. We present evidence that quantum computers can solve problems outside th...
Scott Aaronson