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Tag Archives: Muli Safra
Kelman, Kindler, Lifshitz, Minzer, and Safra: Towards the Entropy-Influence Conjecture
Let me briefly report on a remarkable new paper by Esty Kelman, Guy Kindler, Noam Lifshitz, Dor Minzer, and Muli Safra, Revisiting Bourgain-Kalai and Fourier Entropies. The paper describes substantial progress towards the Entropy-Influence conjecture, posed by Ehud Friedgut and … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Open problems
Tagged Dor Minzer, Esty Kelman, Guy Kindler, Muli Safra, Noam Lifshitz
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Tomorrow: Boolean functions day at the TAU theory fest
As part of the 2019/2020 TAU theory fest, tomorrow, Friday, January 3, 2020, is a Boolean function day at Tel Aviv University. The five speakers are Esty Kelman, Noam Lifschitz, Renan Gross, Ohad Klein, and Naomi Kirshner. For more (and … Continue reading
Hardness of Approximating Vertex Cover, Polytope-Integrality-Gap, the Alswede-Kachatrian theorem, and More.
Lior Silberman asked about applications of the 2-to-2 game theorem to hardness of approximation, and James Lee answered mentioning applications to vertex cover. Let me elaborate a little on vertex cover, and other matters. (Here is the pervious post on … Continue reading
Subhash Khot, Dor Minzer and Muli Safra completed the proof of the 2-to-2 Games Conjecture
Update: A related blog post by Boaz Barak: Unique Games Conjecture – halfway there? The 2-to-2 Games Conjecture is a somewhat weaker form of Khot’s unique game conjecture. The paper is: Pseudorandom Sets in Grassmann Graph have Near-Perfect Expansion by Subhash Khot, Dor … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Updates
Tagged Dor Minzer, Muli Safra, Subhash Khot
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New Isoperimetric Results for Testing Monotonicity
Muli, Dor and Subhash, Jerusalem May 21 2015. Michel Talagrand Gregory Margulis Property testing In this post I will tell you about a new paper by Subhash Khot, Dor Minzer and Muli Safra entitled: On … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization
Tagged Dor Minser, Muli Safra, Subhash Khot
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