Birs- 23w5140: Approximation Algorithms and the Hardness of Approximation

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    Approximating Weighted Connectivity Augmentation below Factor 2

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    Thin Trees for Laminar Families

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    Approximation Algorithms for Network Design in Non-Uniform Fault Models

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    Edge-Augmentation Beyond Uncrossable Families

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    One Tree to Rule Them All: Poly-Logarithmic Universal Steiner Tree

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    Some progress in directed Steiner tree on planar graphs

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    On Approximability of Satisfiable CSPs

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    Almost Chor-Goldreich Sources and Adversarial Random Walks

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    A Characterization of Approximability for Biased CSPs

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    New Approximability Results for MAX CSPs

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    The Joint Replenishment Problem with Outliers, and with Fairness Constraints

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    The Subspace Flatness Conjecture and Faster Integer Programming

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    Rounding Bipartite Matchings

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    On Abelian Embeddings, Parallel Repetition and the GHZ game

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    Set Selection under Explorable Stochastic Uncertainty via Covering Techniques

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    Improved guarantees for the a priori TSP

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    A 4/3-Approximation Algorithm for Half-Integral Cycle Cut Instances of the Traveling Salesman Problem

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    Baby PIH: Parameterized Inapproximability of Min CSP

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    Algorithms for 2-connected network design and flexible Steiner trees with a constant number of terminals

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    Handling Correlated Rounding Error via Preclustering: A 1.73-approximation for Correlation Clustering

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