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Near-optimal extractors against quantum storage
We give near-optimal constructions of extractors secure against quantum bounded-storage adversaries. One instantiation gives the first such extractor to achieve an output length (...
Anindya De and Thomas Vidick
STOC
2010
ACM
261views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
An Improved LP-based Approximation for Steiner Tree
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most fundamental ÆÈ-hard problems: given a weighted undirected graph and a subset of terminal nodes, find a minimum weight tree spanning ...
Jaroslaw Byrka, Fabrizio Grandoni, Thomas Rothvoss...
STOC
2010
ACM
194views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Multi-parameter mechanism design and sequential posted pricing
We study the classic mathematical economics problem of Bayesian optimal mechanism design where a principal aims to optimize expected revenue when allocating resources to self-inte...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec and Bal...
STOC
2010
ACM
195views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Efficiently Learning Mixtures of Two Gaussians
Given data drawn from a mixture of multivariate Gaussians, a basic problem is to accurately estimate the mixture parameters. We provide a polynomial-time algorithm for this proble...
Adam Tauman Kalai, Ankur Moitra, and Gregory Valia...
SIAMDM
2010
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14 years 4 months ago
The VPN Problem with Concave Costs
We consider the following network design problem. We are given an undirected network with costs on the edges, a set of terminals, and an upper bound for each terminal limiting the ...
Samuel Fiorini, Gianpaolo Oriolo, Laura Sanit&agra...