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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
Global Alignment of Molecular Sequences via Ancestral State Reconstruction
Alexandr Andoni, Constantinos Daskalakis, Avinatan...
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
Are Stable Instances Easy?
We introduce the notion of a stable instance for a discrete optimization problem, and argue that in many practical situations only sufficiently stable instances are of interest. T...
Yonatan Bilu, Nathan Linial
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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
A New Approximation Technique for Resource-Allocation Problems
Barna Saha, Aravind Srinivasan
93
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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
On the Construction of One-Way Functions from Average Case Hardness
In this paper we study the possibility of proving the existence of one-way functions based on average case hardness. It is well-known that if there exists a polynomial-time sample...
Noam Livne
99
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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
Proof-Carrying Data and Hearsay Arguments from Signature Cards
: Design of secure systems can often be expressed as ensuring that some property is maintained at every step of a distributed computation among mutually-untrusting parties. Special...
Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer
86
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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
Distribution-Specific Agnostic Boosting
We consider the problem of boosting the accuracy of weak learning algorithms in the agnostic learning framework of Haussler (1992) and Kearns et al. (1992). Known algorithms for t...
Vitaly Feldman
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ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
15 years 8 months ago
Space-Efficient Estimation of Robust Statistics and Distribution Testing
: The generic problem of estimation and inference given a sequence of i.i.d. samples has been extensively studied in the statistics, property testing, and learning communities. A n...
Steve Chien, Katrina Ligett, Andrew McGregor