In computer science and operations research, randomized rounding is a widely used approach for designing and analyzing approximation algorithms. Many...

Rounding or rounding off is the process of adjusting a number to an approximate, more convenient value, often with a shorter or simpler representation...

subsequent focus on ad revenue in the prioritization of search results. "Randomized Rounding And Discrete Ham-Sandwich Theorems: Provably Good Algorithms for...

is the rounding ratio). If there is an instance with integrality gap IG, then every rounding strategy will return, on that instance, a rounded solution...

n} approximation algorithm for the minimum set cover problem. See randomized rounding#setcover for a detailed explanation. The set cover problem is equivalent...

method by Goemans and Williamson using semidefinite programming and randomized rounding that achieves an approximation ratio α ≈ 0.878 , {\displaystyle \alpha...

using a new rounding technique on a carefully designed bipartite graph. We now state the LP formulation and briefly describe the rounding technique. We...

algebra, and real analysis, as well as in computer science (e.g. randomized rounding), and information theory. If every object in a collection of objects...

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Raghavan's method of pessimistic estimators for derandomization of randomized rounding algorithms; Klivans and Servedio linked boosting algorithms in learning...

below 1. The method is particularly relevant in the context of randomized rounding (which uses the probabilistic method to design approximation algorithms)...

The general method of random decision forests was first proposed by Salzberg and Heath in 1993, with a method that used a randomized decision tree algorithm...

cryptography. Random number generators have applications in gambling, statistical sampling, computer simulation, cryptography, completely randomized design,...

Schulz and Skutella present a (3/2+ε)-approximation algorithm using randomized rounding. Their algorithm is a (2+ε)-approximation for the problem with job...

polynomial-time approximation scheme. Its main ideas are to apply randomized rounding to a linear programming relaxation of the problem, and to derandomize...

order of what the third round would become, and then subsequent odd-numbered rounds being done in a newly randomized rounding order and subsequent even-numbered...

2015-11-02. Shayan Oveis Gharan; Amin Saberi; Mohit Singh (2011). "A Randomized Rounding Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem" (PDF). Proc. IEEE 52nd...

personally executed many prisoners of war. In one episode, he compelled randomly rounded up Brahmins from Cawnpore, who had nothing to do with the massacre...

2016) (To ensure confidentiality, the values, including totals are randomly rounded either up or down to a multiple of '5' or '10.' As a result, when these...

position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized, following certain rules. The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization...

In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every unique query with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly...

qualifying round. The losers were transferred to the Conference League Main Path second qualifying round. The draw for the second qualifying round was held...

rounds resulting in a new random rounding order and subsequent even-numbered rounds resulting in the reversal of that previous round's ordering in question...

(2016-08-16), Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra, arXiv:1608.04481 Achlioptas, Dimitris (2001). "Database-friendly random projections". Proceedings...

The tenth team from pot 4 was moved to Pot 3, and subsequently drawn at random from Pot 3. Teams were then drawn into each group sequentially from pots...

equivalent to sampling a real number from the standard normal distribution and rounding this to the nearest representable floating point number. There is also...

Lowe: Fear and loathing in La Liga.. Barcelona vs Real Madrid". p. 67. Random House. 26 September 2013 Aguilar, Paco (10 December 1998). "Barca – Much...

A random ballot or random dictatorship is a randomized electoral system where the election is decided on the basis of a single randomly selected ballot...

The representation of the cumulative rounding error of an algorithm as a Taylor expansion of the local rounding errors (Masters) (in Finnish). University...

the Korean War Roundup (police action), targeting random members of a group for mass arrest Rounding up, when a boat heads into the wind, the rudder having...