Title
Amplification and Derandomization without Slowdown
Abstract
We present techniques for decreasing the error probability of randomized algorithms and for converting randomized algorithms to deterministic (nonuniform) algorithms. Unlike most existing techniques that involve repetition of the randomized algorithm and hence a slowdown, our techniques produce algorithms with a similar run-time to the original randomized algorithms. The amplification technique is related to a certain stochastic multi-armed bandit problem. The derandomization technique - which is the main contribution of this work - points to an intriguing connection between derandomization and sketching/sparsification. We demonstrate the techniques by showing algorithms for approximating free games (constraint satisfaction problems on dense bipartite graphs).
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/FOCS.2016.87
2016 IEEE 57th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Amplification, derandomization, Free game,
Journal
0272-5428
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-3934-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ofer Grossman100.68
Dana Moshkovitz236819.14