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Older adults are more likely to fear losing their cognitive abilities than their physical abilities. Fortunately, a growing body of research suggests that cognitive decline isn’t inevitable for…
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George W. Rebok Date
May 2nd, 2018
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Explaining the excellent practical performance of the simplex method for linear programming has been a major topic of research for over 50 years. One of the most successful frameworks for…
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Daniel Dadush Date
May 17th, 2018
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In the Duarte model each vertex of Z <Superscript> 2 can be either infected or healthy. In the bootstrap percolation model version, infected vertices stay infected while a healthy vertex…
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Fabio Martinelli Date
May 15th, 2018
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Cutoff is a remarkable property of many Markov chains in which they after number of steps abruptly transition in a smaller order window from an unmixed to a mixed distribution. Most random walks on…
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Megan Bernstein Date
May 17th, 2018
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We prove a lower bound on the expected size of a spherical code drawn from a "hard cap" model and the expected density of a packing drawn from the hard sphere model in high dimensions.…
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Will Perkins Date
May 17th, 2018
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Hard-core model (also known as independent set polynomial) is one of the simplest models in statistical physics. The complexity of approximating the value of the partition function of the model on…
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Daniel Stefankovic Date
May 17th, 2018
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We give an algorithm for learning the structure of an undirected graphical model that has essentially optimal sample complexity and running time. We make no assumptions on the structure of the…
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Raghu Meka Date
May 17th, 2018
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Among the most important graph parameters is the Diameter, the largest distance between any two vertices. There are no known very efficient algorithms for computing the Diameter exactly. Thus, much…
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Virginia Vassilevska Williams Date
May 16th, 2018
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In the 90's Banaszczyk developed a very powerful method for discrepancy problems, that goes beyond the partial coloring method. His result was based on deep results from convex geometry and was…
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Nikhil Bansal Date
May 16th, 2018
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We consider stochastic solutions to problems arising from programmable active matter based on emergent phenomena. We view active matter as a collection of simple computational elements (or…
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Dana Randall Date
May 16th, 2018
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Let G be an undirected graph in which each edge is assigned a failure probability. Suppose the edges fail independently with the given probabilities. We are interested in computing the probability…
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Mark Jerrum Date
May 16th, 2018
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We consider relative error low rank approximation of tensors with respect to the Frobenius norm: given an order-q tensor A, output a rank-k tensor B for which |A-B|_F <= (1+eps)OPT, where OPT…
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David Woodruff Date
May 15th, 2018
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We consider a particular version of the Maximum Cut problem (to be defined in the talk) on a sparse random K-uniform hypergraph, when K is even. The goal is to compute the maximum cut value w.h.p.,…
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David Gamarnik Date
May 15th, 2018
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I will survey several recent works involving mixing for random walks on groups and regular graphs. In joint work with Eyal Lubetzky, we determined precisely the mixing time of random walk on optimal…
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Yuval Peres Date
May 15th, 2018
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The Bidigare-Hanlon-Rockmore random walk on the chambers of a real hyperplane arrangement is a Markov chain that generalizes famous examples, such as theTsetlin library and riffle shuffles. We will…
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Evita Nestoridi Date
May 15th, 2018
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Random Walk Cuckoo Hashing Abstract: We consider the expected insertion time of Cuckoo Hashing when clashes are resolved randomly. We prove O(1) expected time insertion in two cases.(i) d choices of…
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Alan Frieze Date
May 15th, 2018
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