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83 papers

YearTitle / Authors
2008(Acyclic) JobShops are Hard to Approximate.
Monaldo Mastrolilli, Ola Svensson
2008(Data) STRUCTURES.
Mihai Patrascu
200849th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2008, Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 25-28, 2008
2008A Counterexample to Strong Parallel Repetition.
Ran Raz
2008A Dichotomy Theorem for the Resolution Complexity of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
Siu On Chan, Michael Molloy
2008A Geometric Approach to Lower Bounds for Approximate Near-Neighbor Search and Partial Match.
Rina Panigrahy, Kunal Talwar, Udi Wieder
2008A Hypercontractive Inequality for Matrix-Valued Functions with Applications to Quantum Computing and LDCs.
Avraham Ben-Aroya, Oded Regev, Ronald de Wolf
2008A Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for Euclidean Steiner Forest.
Glencora Borradaile, Philip N. Klein, Claire Mathieu
2008A Simpler Linear Time Algorithm for Embedding Graphs into an Arbitrary Surface and the Genus of Graphs of Bounded Tree-Width.
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Bojan Mohar, Bruce A. Reed
2008Algorithmic Barriers from Phase Transitions.
Dimitris Achlioptas, Amin Coja-Oghlan
2008Algorithms for Single-Source Vertex Connectivity.
Julia Chuzhoy, Sanjeev Khanna
2008Almost-Natural Proofs.
Timothy Y. Chow
2008Approximate Kernel Clustering.
Subhash Khot, Assaf Naor
2008Approximation Algorithms for Single-minded Envy-free Profit-maximization Problems with Limited Supply.
Maurice Cheung, Chaitanya Swamy
2008Arithmetic Circuits: A Chasm at Depth Four.
Manindra Agrawal, V. Vinay
2008Average-case Complexity.
Luca Trevisan
2008Beating the Random Ordering is Hard: Inapproximability of Maximum Acyclic Subgraph.
Venkatesan Guruswami, Rajsekar Manokaran, Prasad Raghavendra
2008Broadcasting with Side Information.
Noga Alon, Eyal Lubetzky, Uri Stav, Amit Weinstein, Avinatan Hassidim
2008Clock Synchronization with Bounded Global and Local Skew.
Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Roger Wattenhofer
2008Computing the Tutte Polynomial in Vertex-Exponential Time.
Andreas Björklund, Thore Husfeldt, Petteri Kaski, Mikko Koivisto
2008Constant-Time Approximation Algorithms via Local Improvements.
Huy N. Nguyen, Krzysztof Onak
2008Degree Bounded Network Design with Metric Costs.
Yuk Hei Chan, Wai Shing Fung, Lap Chi Lau, Chun Kong Yung
2008Dense Subsets of Pseudorandom Sets.
Omer Reingold, Luca Trevisan, Madhur Tulsiani, Salil P. Vadhan
2008Discretized Multinomial Distributions and Nash Equilibria in Anonymous Games.
Constantinos Daskalakis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
2008Dynamic Connectivity: Connecting to Networks and Geometry.
Timothy M. Chan, Mihai Patrascu, Liam Roditty
2008Eigenvalue Bounds, Spectral Partitioning, and Metrical Deformations via Flows.
Punyashloka Biswal, James R. Lee, Satish Rao
2008Elections Can be Manipulated Often.
Ehud Friedgut, Gil Kalai, Noam Nisan
2008Embeddings of Topological Graphs: Lossy Invariants, Linearization, and 2-Sums.
Amit Chakrabarti, Alexander Jaffe, James R. Lee, Justin Vincent
2008Entangled Games are Hard to Approximate.
Julia Kempe, Hirotada Kobayashi, Keiji Matsumoto, Ben Toner, Thomas Vidick
2008Fast Modular Composition in any Characteristic.
Kiran S. Kedlaya, Christopher Umans
2008Gaussian Bounds for Noise Correlation of Functions and Tight Analysis of Long Codes.
Elchanan Mossel
2008Hardness of Minimizing and Learning DNF Expressions.
Subhash Khot, Rishi Saket
2008Hardness of Nearest Neighbor under L-infinity.
Alexandr Andoni, Dorian Croitoru, Mihai Patrascu
2008Holographic Algorithms by Fibonacci Gates and Holographic Reductions for Hardness.
Jin-Yi Cai, Pinyan Lu, Mingji Xia
2008Inapproximability for Metric Embeddings into R^d.
Jirí Matousek, Anastasios Sidiropoulos
2008Isomorhism of Hypergraphs of Low Rank in Moderately Exponential Time.
László Babai, Paolo Codenotti
2008Isotropic PCA and Affine-Invariant Clustering.
S. Charles Brubaker, Santosh S. Vempala
2008Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors.
Zeev Dvir, Avi Wigderson
2008Leakage-Resilient Cryptography.
Stefan Dziembowski, Krzysztof Pietrzak
2008Learning Geometric Concepts via Gaussian Surface Area.
Adam R. Klivans, Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio
2008Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs.
Grant Schoenebeck
2008Locally Testing Direct Product in the Low Error Range.
Irit Dinur, Elazar Goldenberg
2008Lower Bounds for Noisy Wireless Networks using Sampling Algorithms.
Chinmoy Dutta, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
2008Market Equilibria in Polynomial Time for Fixed Number of Goods or Agents.
Nikhil R. Devanur, Ravi Kannan
2008Matrix Sparsification for Rank and Determinant Computations via Nested Dissection.
Raphael Yuster
2008Minimizing Movement in Mobile Facility Location Problems.
Zachary Friggstad, Mohammad R. Salavatipour
2008Mixing Time of Exponential Random Graphs.
Shankar Bhamidi, Guy Bresler, Allan Sly
2008Multi-unit Auctions with Budget Limits.
Shahar Dobzinski, Ron Lavi, Noam Nisan
2008Multilinear Formulas, Maximal-Partition Discrepancy and Mixed-Sources Extractors.
Ran Raz, Amir Yehudayoff
2008Near-Optimal Sparse Recovery in the L1 Norm.
Piotr Indyk, Milan Ruzic
2008Nearly Tight Low Stretch Spanning Trees.
Ittai Abraham, Yair Bartal, Ofer Neiman
2008Network Extractor Protocols.
Yael Tauman Kalai, Xin Li, Anup Rao, David Zuckerman
2008Noise Tolerance of Expanders and Sublinear Expander Reconstruction.
Satyen Kale, Yuval Peres, C. Seshadhri
2008On Basing Lower-Bounds for Learning on Worst-Case Assumptions.
Benny Applebaum, Boaz Barak, David Xiao
2008On the Approximability of Budgeted Allocations and Improved Lower Bounds for Submodular Welfare Maximization and GAP.
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Gagan Goel
2008On the Hardness of Being Truthful.
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron Singer
2008On the Impossibility of Basing Identity Based Encryption on Trapdoor Permutations.
Dan Boneh, Periklis A. Papakonstantinou, Charles Rackoff, Yevgeniy Vahlis, Brent Waters
2008On the Union of Cylinders in Three Dimensions.
Esther Ezra
2008On the Value of Multiple Read/Write Streams for Approximating Frequency Moments.
Paul Beame, Dang-Trinh Huynh-Ngoc
2008Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers.
Michael Ben-Or, Avinatan Hassidim, Haran Pilpel
2008Rounding Parallel Repetitions of Unique Games.
Boaz Barak, Moritz Hardt, Ishay Haviv, Anup Rao, Oded Regev, David Steurer
2008Sequence Length Requirement of Distance-Based Phylogeny Reconstruction: Breaking the Polynomial Barrier.
Sébastien Roch
2008Set Covering with our Eyes Closed.
Fabrizio Grandoni, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi, Pauli Miettinen, Piotr Sankowski, Mohit Singh
2008Shallow-Low-Light Trees, and Tight Lower Bounds for Euclidean Spanners.
Yefim Dinitz, Michael Elkin, Shay Solomon
2008Short Proofs May Be Spacious: An Optimal Separation of Space and Length in Resolution.
Eli Ben-Sasson, Jakob Nordström
2008Size Bounds and Query Plans for Relational Joins.
Albert Atserias, Martin Grohe, Dániel Marx
2008Sketching and Streaming Entropy via Approximation Theory.
Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Jelani Nelson, Krzysztof Onak
2008Some Results on Greedy Embeddings in Metric Spaces.
Ankur Moitra, Tom Leighton
2008Spherical Cubes and Rounding in High Dimensions.
Guy Kindler, Ryan O'Donnell, Anup Rao, Avi Wigderson
2008Submodular Approximation: Sampling-based Algorithms and Lower Bounds.
Zoya Svitkina, Lisa Fleischer
2008Succincter.
Mihai Patrascu
2008The Bayesian Learner is Optimal for Noisy Binary Search (and Pretty Good for Quantum as Well).
Michael Ben-Or, Avinatan Hassidim
2008The Polynomial Method in Quantum and Classical Computing.
Scott Aaronson
2008The Power of Reordering for Online Minimum Makespan Scheduling.
Matthias Englert, Deniz Özmen, Matthias Westermann
2008The Sign-Rank of AC^O.
Alexander A. Razborov, Alexander A. Sherstov
2008The Unbounded-Error Communication Complexity of Symmetric Functions.
Alexander A. Sherstov
2008Theory of Sponsored Search Auctions.
Gagan Aggarwal, S. Muthukrishnan
2008Truthful Approximation Schemes for Single-Parameter Agents.
Peerapong Dhangwatnotai, Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi, Tim Roughgarden
2008Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error.
Dana Moshkovitz, Ran Raz
2008Unique Games with Entangled Provers are Easy.
Julia Kempe, Oded Regev, Ben Toner
2008What Can We Learn Privately?
Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Homin K. Lee, Kobbi Nissim, Sofya Raskhodnikova, Adam D. Smith
2008Worst Case to Average Case Reductions for Polynomials.
Tali Kaufman, Shachar Lovett
2008k-Wise Independent Random Graphs.
Noga Alon, Asaf Nussboim