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ALGORITHMICA
2002
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15 years 6 months ago
Sharp Quantum versus Classical Query Complexity Separations
We obtain the strongest separation between quantum and classical query complexity known to date--specifically, we define a black-box problem that requires exponentially many querie...
J. Niel de Beaudrap, Richard Cleve, John Watrous
ALDT
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
The Complexity of Probabilistic Lobbying
Abstract. We propose various models for lobbying in a probabilistic environment, in which an actor (called “The Lobby”) seeks to influence the voters’ preferences of voting ...
Gábor Erdélyi, Henning Fernau, Judy ...
EMNLP
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network
Confusion networks are a simple representation of multiple speech recognition or translation hypotheses in a machine translation system. A typical operation on a confusion network...
Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
On the complexity of optimal reconfiguration planning for modular reconfigurable robots
— This paper presents a thorough analysis of the computational complexity of optimal reconfiguration planning problem for chain-type modular robots, i.e. finding the least number...
Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen
APPROX
2008
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
The Complexity of Distinguishing Markov Random Fields
Abstract. Markov random fields are often used to model high dimensional distributions in a number of applied areas. A number of recent papers have studied the problem of reconstruc...
Andrej Bogdanov, Elchanan Mossel, Salil P. Vadhan