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COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
16 years 4 days ago
Low-dimensional embedding with extra information
A frequently arising problem in computational geometry is when a physical structure, such as an ad-hoc wireless sensor network or a protein backbone, can measure local information...
Mihai Badoiu, Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi Haji...
ICALP
2004
Springer
16 years 2 days ago
The Black-Box Complexity of Nearest Neighbor Search
We define a natural notion of efficiency for approximate nearest-neighbor (ANN) search in general n-point metric spaces, namely the existence of a randomized algorithm which answ...
Robert Krauthgamer, James R. Lee
CRYPTO
2006
Springer
119views Cryptology» more  CRYPTO 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Rankin's Constant and Blockwise Lattice Reduction
Abstract Lattice reduction is a hard problem of interest to both publickey cryptography and cryptanalysis. Despite its importance, extremely few algorithms are known. The best algo...
Nicolas Gama, Nick Howgrave-Graham, Henrik Koy, Ph...
WADS
2001
Springer
113views Algorithms» more  WADS 2001»
15 years 11 months ago
Movement Planning in the Presence of Flows
This paper investigates the problem of time-optimum movement planning in two and three dimensions for a point robot which has bounded control velocity through a set of n polygonal...
John H. Reif, Zheng Sun
STOC
2006
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Gowers uniformity, influence of variables, and PCPs
Gowers [Gow98, Gow01] introduced, for d 1, the notion of dimension-d uniformity Ud (f) of a function f : G C, where G is a finite abelian group. Roughly speaking, if a function ...
Alex Samorodnitsky, Luca Trevisan