Approximation Algorithms and the Hardness of Approximation

Videos from BIRS Workshop

, ETH Zurich
- 10:05
Bimodular Integer Linear Programming and Beyond
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, University of Waterloo
- 11:02
Improved Algorithms for MST and Metric-TSP Interdiction
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, University of Waterloo
- 11:29
Stabilizing Weighted Graphs
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, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
- 16:05
Algorithms for Stable and Perturbation-Resilient Problems
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, Aalto University
- 16:35
From Gap-ETH to FPT Inapproximability: Clique, Dominating Set, and More
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, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- 17:03
(Almost) Settling the Complexity of Approximating Parameterized Dominating Set.
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, University of Washington
- 09:50
A Simply Exponential upper bound on the Number of Stable Matchings
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, Stanford University
- 10:58
Simply Exponential Approximation of the Permanent of Positive Semidefinite Matrices
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, University of Washington
- 11:35
k-server via multi-scale entropic regulariziation
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, IDSIA, University of Lugano
- 12:04
Surviving in Directed Graphs: A Quasi-polynomial-time Polylogarithmic Approximation for Two-connected Directed Steiner Tree
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, Boston University
- 16:31
Faster algorithms for line search in the submodular base polytope
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, Comb. and Opt. -- University of Waterloo
- 17:01
Approximating Weighted Tree Augmentation via Chvatal-Gomory Cuts
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, Johns Hopkins University
- 09:56
Approximating spanners and distance oracles.
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, Cornell University
- 11:02
Learning mixtures of Gaussians under much less separation
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, Northwestern University
- 11:32
Learning Communities in the Presence of Errors
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, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 12:08
Online Stochastic Scheduling using Posted Prices
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, University of Alberta
- 09:58
Approximation Schemes for Clustering Problems: Now With Outliers
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, University of Michigan
- 11:01
Online Covering with Sum of Lq-norm Objectives
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, Cornell University
- 11:23
Semidefinite Programming Relaxations of the Traveling Salesman Problem
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, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
- 16:01
Almost Polynomial Hardness of Node-Disjoint Paths in Grids
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, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
- 16:30
From Weak to Strong LP Gaps for all CSPs
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, Stanford
- 17:02
Sum-of-squares $\equiv_{avg}$ Spectral Algorithms
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, University of Waterloo
- 10:04
The Paulsen problem, continuous operator scaling, and smoothed analysis
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