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COCO
1994
Springer
140views Algorithms» more  COCO 1994»
15 years 9 months ago
Random Debaters and the Hardness of Approximating Stochastic Functions
A probabilistically checkable debate system (PCDS) for a language L consists of a probabilisticpolynomial-time veri er V and a debate between Player 1, who claims that the input x ...
Anne Condon, Joan Feigenbaum, Carsten Lund, Peter ...
ACL
2010
15 years 3 months ago
Viterbi Training for PCFGs: Hardness Results and Competitiveness of Uniform Initialization
We consider the search for a maximum likelihood assignment of hidden derivations and grammar weights for a probabilistic context-free grammar, the problem approximately solved by ...
Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith
COCO
2005
Springer
123views Algorithms» more  COCO 2005»
15 years 10 months ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case Then It is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma
CC
2007
Springer
121views System Software» more  CC 2007»
15 years 5 months ago
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case, Then it is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
We prove that if NP ⊆ BPP, i.e., if SAT is worst-case hard, then for every probabilistic polynomial-time algorithm trying to decide SAT, there exists some polynomially samplable ...
Dan Gutfreund, Ronen Shaltiel, Amnon Ta-Shma