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Extractors: optimal up to constant factors
This paper provides the first explicit construction of extractors which are simultaneously optimal up to constant factors in both seed length and output length. More precisely, fo...
Chi-Jen Lu, Omer Reingold, Salil P. Vadhan, Avi Wi...
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2003
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Near-optimal network design with selfish agents
We introduce a simple network design game that models how independent selfish agents can build or maintain a large network. In our game every agent has a specific connectivity requ...
Elliot Anshelevich, Anirban Dasgupta, Éva T...
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2003
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On metric ramsey-type phenomena
The main question studied in this article may be viewed as a nonlinear analogue of Dvoretzky's theorem in Banach space theory or as part of Ramsey theory in combinatorics. Gi...
Yair Bartal, Nathan Linial, Manor Mendel, Assaf Na...
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2003
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Some 3CNF properties are hard to test
For a Boolean formula on n variables, the associated property P is the collection of n-bit strings that satisfy . We study the query complexity of tests that distinguish (with hig...
Eli Ben-Sasson, Prahladh Harsha, Sofya Raskhodniko...
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2003
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Boosting in the presence of noise
Boosting algorithms are procedures that "boost" low-accuracy weak learning algorithms to achieve arbitrarily high accuracy. Over the past decade boosting has been widely...
Adam Kalai, Rocco A. Servedio