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Neal Young

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29	Reverse Chernoff bound
26	Toy Examples for Plotkin-Shmoys-Tardos and Arora-Kale solvers
20	Examples of algorithms and proofs that seem correct, but aren't
16	NP-hard problems with very fast exponential-time algorithms
16	Sorting using a black box

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+45	What is the polynomial representation of the Hamming weight function?
+35	Do there exist two equivalent objective functions one of which can be approximated but another one cannot?
+20	Are there problems in $DTIME(n^k) - DTIME(n^{k-1})$ that are not hard for $DTIME(n^{k-1})$ under nearly linear time reductions?
+10	Characterization of integral polyhedra

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11	a geometric variant of k-medians. NP-hard or in P?
8	Can you find a counter-example for this proposed Graph Isomorphism algorithm?
7	mixed vs behavior strategies for zero-sum game with infinite extensive form
5	reference request: greedy algorithm for fractional interval covering

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208 ds.algorithms × 30	61 reference-request × 10
92 approximation-algorithms × 14	56 graph-algorithms × 11
90 graph-theory × 14	49 np-hardness × 15
73 pr.probability × 12	49 randomized-algorithms × 9
70 cc.complexity-theory × 13	49 linear-programming × 8

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116	Examples of the price of abstraction?
101	What are the recent TCS books whose drafts are available online?
64	Problems that can be used to show polynomial-time hardness results
44	Problem unsolvable in $2^{o(n)}$ on inputs with $n$ bits, assuming ETH?
40	Data for testing graph algorithms

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