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2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Dynamic and Non-uniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization
We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with n items caters to m buyers with unknown subadditive valuati...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zhiyi Huang, Sanjeev Khanna
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Reducibility among Fractional Stability Problems
— In a landmark paper [32], Papadimitriou introduced a number of syntactic subclasses of TFNP based on proof styles that (unlike TFNP) admit complete problems. A recent series of...
Shiva Kintali, Laura J. Poplawski, Rajmohan Rajara...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces Is Hard
— We prove the following strong hardness result for learning: Given a distribution on labeled examples from the hypercube such that there exists a monomial (or conjunction) consi...
Vitaly Feldman, Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Ragha...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Extracting Correlations
Abstract— Motivated by applications in cryptography, we consider a generalization of randomness extraction and the related notion of privacy amplification to the case of two cor...
Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, A...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
(Meta) Kernelization
Polynomial time preprocessing to reduce instance size is one of the most commonly deployed heuristics to tackle computationally hard problems. In a parameterized problem, every in...
Hans L. Bodlaender, Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshta...