Thursday, July 02, 2009

FOCS 2009 Accepted Papers (with pdf files)

FOCS 2009 accepted paper list is here. List with abstracts is here. Following is a list with links to pdf files. Leave a comment if I missed any pdf files. If you haven't uploaded your accepted paper on your homepages please do so.

  • Approximating minimum cost connectivity problems via uncrossable bifamilies and spider-cover decompositions [pdf]
    Zeev Nutov.
  • Randomized Self-Assembly for Exact Shapes [pdf]
    David Doty.
  • Symmetry and approximability of submodular maximization problems [pdf]
    Jan Vondrak.
  • Fully Dynamic $(2 + \eps)$ Approximate All-Pairs Shortest Paths with $O(\log \log n)$ Query and Close to Linear Update Time
    Aaron Bernstein.
  • Bounded Independence Fools Halfspaces [pdf]
    Ilias Diakonikolas, Parikshit Gopalan, Ragesh Jaiswal, Rocco Servedio and Emanuele Viola.
  • A Parallel Repetition Theorem for Any Interactive Argument [pdf]
    Iftach Haitner.
  • Two-message quantum interactive proofs are in PSPACE [arXiv]
    Rahul Jain, Sarvagya Upadhyay and John Watrous.
  • Extensions to the Method of Multiplicities, with applications to Kakeya sets and Mergers [pdf]
    Zeev Dvir, Swastik Kopparty, Shubhangi Saraf and Madhu Sudan.
  • Optimal Long Code Test with One Free Bit [ps]
    Nikhil Bansal and Subhash Khot.
  • A $(\log n)^{\Omega(1)}$ integrality gap for the Sparsest Cut SDP [arXiv]
    Jeff Cheeger, Bruce Kleiner and Assaf Naor.
  • Span programs and quantum query complexity: The general adversary bound is nearly tight for every boolean function
    Ben Reichardt. [arXiv]
  • Multiparty Communication Complexity and Threshold Circuit Complexity of AC^0
    Dang-Trinh Huynh-Ngoc and Paul Beame. [pdf]
  • Improved Approximation Algorithms for Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree and TSP [pdf]
    Aaron Archer, MohammadHossein Bateni, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi and Howard Karloff.
  • Delaunay Triangulations in O(sort(n)) and Other Transdichotomous and Hereditary Algorithms in Computational Geometry [pdf] [summary]
    Kevin Buchin and Wolfgang Mulzer.
  • Polynomial hierarchy, Betti numbers and a real analogue of Toda's Theorem
    Saugata Basu and Thierry Zell. [arXiv]
  • Learning Decision Trees From Random Examples: a Smoothed Analysis [pdf]
    Adam Kalai, Shang-Hua Teng and Alex Samorodnitsky.
  • A Complete Characterization of Statistical Query Learning with Applications to Evolvability [pdf]
    Vitaly Feldman.
  • Optimal quantum strong coin flipping [arXiv]
    André Chailloux and Iordanis Kerenidis.
  • Approximation Algorithms for Multicommodity-Type Problems with Guarantees Independent of the Graph Size [pdf]
    Ankur Moitra.
  • Submodular Function Minimization under Covering Constraints [ps.gz]
    Satoru Iwata and Kiyohito Nagano.
  • An O(k^3 log n)-Approximation Algorithm for Vertex-Connectivity Survivable Network Design [arXiv]
    Julia Chuzhoy and Sanjeev Khanna.
  • Blackbox Polynomial Identity Testing for Depth 3 Circuits [ECCC]
    Neeraj Kayal and Shubhangi Saraf.
  • The Complexity of Rationalizing Network Formation [pdf]
    Shankar Kalyanaraman and Christopher Umans.
  • Exact And Approximate Pattern Matching In The Streaming Model
    Ely Porat and Benny Porat.
  • A new probability using typical moments and concentration results [arXiv]
    Ravindran Kannan.
  • Orthogonal Range Reporting in Three and Higher Dimensions [pdf]
    Peyman Afshani, Lars Arge and Kasper Dalgaard Larsen.
  • Convergence of Local Dynamics to Balanced Outcomes in Exchange Networks [arXiv]
    Yossi Azar, Benjamin Birnbaum, L. Elisa Celis, Nikhil R. Devanur and Yuval Peres.
  • SDP Integrality Gaps with Local $\ell_1$-Embeddability [pdf]
    Subhash Khot and Rishi Saket.
  • On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design [pdf]
    Shahar Dobzinski and Shaddin Dughmi.
  • Constraint Satisfaction Problems of Bounded Width [pdf] [slides]
    Libor Barto and Marcin Kozik.
  • On Allocating Goods to Maximize Fairness [arXiv]
    Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Julia Chuzhoy and Sanjeev Khanna.
  • Regularity Lemmas and Combinatorial Algorithms [summary] [pdf]
    Nikhil Bansal and Ryan Williams.
  • One bit encryption is complete
    Steven Myers and abhi shelat.
  • Composition of low-error 2-query PCPs using decodable PCPs [ECCC]
    Irit Dinur and Prahladh Harsha.
  • Smoothed Analysis of Multiobjective Optimization [pdf]
    Heiko Roeglin and Shang-Hua Teng.
  • k-Means has Polynomial Smoothed Complexity [arXiv]
    David Arthur, Bodo Manthey and Heiko Roeglin.
  • Reducibility Among Fractional Stability Problems [pdf] [ECCC] [arXiv]
    Shiva Kintali, Laura Poplawski, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Ravi Sundaram and Shang-Hua Teng.
  • Online Stochastic Matching: Beating 1-1/e [pdf]
    Jon Feldman, Aranyak Mehta, Vahab Mirrokni and S. Muthukrishnan.
  • The Quantum and Classical Complexity of Translationally Invariant Tiling and Hamiltonian Problems [arXiv]
    Sandy Irani and Daniel Gottesman.
  • Settling the Complexity of Arrow-Debreu Equilibria in Markets with Additively Separable Utilities [arXiv]
    Xi Chen, Decheng Dai, Ye Du and Shang-Hua Teng.
  • Resolving the Simultaneous Resettability Conjecture and a New Non-Black-Box Simulation Strategy [pdf]
    Yi Deng, Vipul Goyal and Amit Sahai.
  • Space-Efficient Framework for Top-k String Retrieval Problems [pdf]
    Wing Kai Hon, Rahul Shah and Jeffrey Scott Vitter.
  • (Meta) Kernelization [pdf]
    Hans Bodlaender, Fedor Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Eelko Penninkx, Saket Saurabh and Dimitrios Thilikos.
  • Choice-memory tradeoff in allocations [arXiv]
    Noga Alon, Ori Gurel-Gurevich and Eyal Lubetzky.
  • The Communication Complexity of Set-Disjointness with Small Sets and 0-1 Intersection
    Eyal Kushilevitz and Enav Weinreb.
  • Convergence to Equilibrium in Local Interaction Games [pdf]
    Andrea Montanari and Amin Saberi.
  • Instance-Optimal Geometric Algorithms [ps]
    Peyman Afshani, Jeremy Barbay and Timothy M. Chan.
  • Planarity allowing few error vertices in linear time [pdf]
    Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi.
  • Constructing Small-Bias Sets from Algebraic-Geometric Codes [pdf]
    Avraham Ben-Aroya and Amnon Ta-Shma.
  • Oblivious Routing for the L_p-norm [pdf]
    Matthias Englert and Harald Räcke.
  • The Intersection of Two Halfspaces Has High Threshold Degree [ECCC] [arXiv]
    Alexander Sherstov.
  • Distance Oracles for Sparse Graphs [html] [pdf]
    Christian Sommer, Elad Verbin and Wei Yu.
  • Universal Blind Quantum Computation [arXiv]
    Anne Broadbent, Joseph Fitzsimons and Elham Kashefi.
  • Dynamic and Non-Uniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization [arXiv]
    Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zhiyi Huang and Sanjeev Khanna.
  • Decomposing Coverings and the Planar Sensor Cover Problem [pdf]
    Matt Gibson and Kasturi Varadarajan.
  • Extracting Correlations
    Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky and Amit Sahai.
  • The Data Stream Space Complexity of Cascaded Norms [pdf]
    T.S. Jayram and David Woodruff.
  • Faster generation of random spanning trees [pdf]
    Jonathan Kelner and Aleksander Madry.
  • Integrality gaps for Strong SDP Relaxations of Unique Games [pdf]
    Prasad Raghavendra and David Steurer.
  • How to Round Any CSP [pdf]
    Prasad Raghavendra and David Steurer.
  • KKL, Kruskal-Katona, and monotone nets [pdf]
    Ryan O'Donnell and Karl Wimmer.
  • Higher eigenvalues of graphs [pdf]
    Jonathan Kelner, James Lee, Gregory Price and Shanghua Teng.
  • Efficient sketches for Earth-Mover Distance, with applications [pdf]
    Alexandr Andoni, Khanh Do Ba, Piotr Indyk and David Woodruff.
  • Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces is Hard [pdf]
    Vitaly Feldman, Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Raghavendra and Yi Wu.
  • An Oblivious O(1)-Approximation for Single Source Buy-at-Bulk [arXiv]
    Ashish Goel and Ian Post.
  • Approximability of Combinatorial Problems with Multi-agent Submodular Cost Functions [pdf]
    Gagan Goel, Chinmay Karande, Pushkar Tripathi and Lei Wang.
  • Local Graph Partitions for Approximation and Testing [html]
    Avinatan Hassidim, Jonathan Kelner, Huy Nguyen and Krzysztof Onak.
  • Linear systems over composite moduli [pdf]
    Arkadev Chattopadhyay and Avi Wigderson.
  • Models for the compressible Web [pdf]
    Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar, Silvio Lattanzi, Alessandro Panconesi and Prabhakar Raghavan.
  • Breaking the Multicommodity Flow Barrier for O(sqrt(log n))-approximations to Sparsest Cut [arXiv]
    Jonah Sherman.
  • A Probabilistic Inequality with Applications to Threshold Direct Product Theorems [ECCC]
    Falk Unger.
  • 2-Source Extractors Under Computational Assumptions and Cryptography with Defective Randomness [summary] [pdf]
    Yael Tauman Kalai, Xin Li and Anup Rao.
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