Improved Approximation for Guarding Simple Galleries from the Perimeter

A threshold of ln <i>n</i> for approximating set cover

Uriel Feige · Journal of the ACM · 1998 · 3.1K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics +16

A Greedy Heuristic for the Set-Covering Problem

Vašek Chvátal · Mathematics of Operations Research · 1979 · 2.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics +17

On the Uniform Convergence of Relative Frequencies of Events to Their Probabilities

Vladimir Vapnik, Alexey Chervonenkis · Theory of Probability and Its Applications · 1971 · 2.4K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physics +14

Learnability and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension

Anselm Blumer, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, David Haussler et al. · Journal of the ACM · 1989 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +11

A sub-constant error-probability low-degree test, and a sub-constant error-probability PCP characterization of NP

Ran Raz · 1997 · 842 citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Fault Tolerance +5