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CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Planar Cycle Covering Graphs
We describe a new variational lower-bound on the minimum energy configuration of a planar binary Markov Random Field (MRF). Our method is based on adding auxiliary nodes to every...
Julian Yarkony, Alexander T. Ihler, Charless C. Fo...
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Algorithms for Implicit Hitting Set Problems
A hitting set for a collection of sets is a set that has a nonempty intersection with each set in the collection; the hitting set problem is to find a hitting set of minimum card...
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Richard Karp, Erick Mo...
COLT
1997
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
On-line Learning and the Metrical Task System Problem
We relate two problems that have been explored in two distinct communities. The first is the problem of combining expert advice, studied extensively in the computational learning...
Avrim Blum, Carl Burch
FSTTCS
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Place-Boundedness for Vector Addition Systems with one zero-test
Reachability and boundedness problems have been shown decidable for Vector Addition Systems with one zero-test. Surprisingly, place-boundedness remained open. We provide here a va...
Rémi Bonnet, Alain Finkel, Jérô...
SODA
2007
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Matroids, secretary problems, and online mechanisms
We study a generalization of the classical secretary problem which we call the “matroid secretary problem”. In this problem, the elements of a matroid are presented to an onli...
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, Robert Kleinberg