Birs- 17w5133: Approximation Algorithms and the Hardness of Approximation

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    Bimodular Integer Linear Programming and Beyond

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    Improved Algorithms for MST and Metric-TSP Interdiction

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    Stabilizing Weighted Graphs

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    Algorithms for Stable and Perturbation-Resilient Problems

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    From Gap-ETH to FPT Inapproximability: Clique, Dominating Set, and More

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    (Almost) Settling the Complexity of Approximating Parameterized Dominating Set.

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    A Simply Exponential upper bound on the Number of Stable Matchings

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    Simply Exponential Approximation of the Permanent of Positive Semidefinite Matrices

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    k-server via multi-scale entropic regulariziation

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    Surviving in Directed Graphs: A Quasi-polynomial-time Polylogarithmic Approximation for Two-connected Directed Steiner Tree

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    Faster algorithms for line search in the submodular base polytope

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    Approximating Weighted Tree Augmentation via Chvatal-Gomory Cuts

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    Approximating spanners and distance oracles.

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    Learning mixtures of Gaussians under much less separation

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    Learning Communities in the Presence of Errors

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    Online Stochastic Scheduling using Posted Prices

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    Approximation Schemes for Clustering Problems: Now With Outliers

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    Online Covering with Sum of Lq-norm Objectives

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    Semidefinite Programming Relaxations of the Traveling Salesman Problem

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    Almost Polynomial Hardness of Node-Disjoint Paths in Grids

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