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A Few Simple Average-Case Reduction Techniques And Their Surprising EffectivenessRigorous Evidence for Information-Computation Trade-offs2021-09-13
Shows concrete polynomial-time maps from planted‑clique variants to many statistical tasks, claiming simple linear transforms explain apparent computational…
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Reducibility and Statistical-Computational Gaps from Secret LeakageComputational Phase Transitions (Simons Institute, 2020)2020-09-21
Introduces secret leakage planted clique, a generalization where clique locations follow a distribution rho and is conjectured hard whenever two independent…
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Learning a Tree-Structured Ising Model in Order to Make PredictionsApproximate Counting, Markov Chains and Phase Transitions2016-02-22
Claim: learning a tree Ising model only to get accurate pairwise posteriors needs far fewer samples than learning the exact graph. Method: compute empirical…
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Lucky Talk: Low-regret Recommendations and Item-item Collaborative FilteringInformation Theory, Learning and Big Data (Simons Institute, 2015)2015-03-16
Matrix of binary likes, random user per round, bandit feedback and regret defined as average 1 - like; initial recommendations behave like random guessing with…
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