In practice, the actual approximation factor is far better; we provide a specific example by generating a nearly-optimal inter-league tournament for the 30-team National Basketball Association, with ...

The application of the trajectory averaging estimator to other stochastic approximation MCMC algorithms, for example, a stochastic approximation MLE algorithm for missing data problems, is also ...

Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within some constant factor of the optimal solution. Develop a basic understanding of how linear and integer ...

Although efficient in a strictly theoretical sense (i.e., in the sense of taking polynomial versus exponential time), this algorithm for the permanent is not practical. Indeed, to date, no practical ...