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most citedBeating 1-1/e for Ordered Prophets

61 citations · 66 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CC2019★ 1 cited

Subcubic Equivalences Between Graph Centrality Measures and Complementary Problems

Mahdi Boroujeni, Sina Dehghani, Soheil Ehsani +2

Despite persistent efforts, there is no known technique for obtaining unconditional super-linear lower bounds for the computational complexity of the problems in P. Vassilevska Wil…

cs.DS2018★ 1 cited

Approximating Edit Distance in Truly Subquadratic Time: Quantum and MapReduce

Mahdi Boroujeni, Soheil Ehsani, Mohammad Ghodsi +2

The edit distance between two strings is defined as the smallest number of insertions, deletions, and substitutions that need to be made to transform one of the strings to another…

cs.DS2017

Prophet Secretary for Combinatorial Auctions and Matroids

Soheil Ehsani, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Thomas Kesselheim +1

The secretary and the prophet inequality problems are central to the field of Stopping Theory. Recently, there has been a lot of work in generalizing these models to multiple items…

cs.DS2017★ 3 cited

Stochastic k-Server: How Should Uber Work?

Sina Dehghani, Soheil Ehsani, MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi +2

In this paper, we study a stochastic variant of the celebrated k-server problem. In the k-server problem, we are required to minimize the total movement of k servers that are servi…

cs.DS2017★ 61 cited

Beating 1-1/e for Ordered Prophets

Melika Abolhasani, Soheil Ehsani, Hosein Esfandiari +3

Hill and Kertz studied the prophet inequality on iid distributions [The Annals of Probability 1982]. They proved a theoretical bound of on the approximation factor…

cs.DS2017

Online Weighted Degree-Bounded Steiner Networks via Novel Online Mixed Packing/Covering

Sina Dehghani, Soheil Ehsani, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi +3

We design the first online algorithm with poly-logarithmic competitive ratio for the edge-weighted degree-bounded Steiner forest(EW-DB-SF) problem and its generalized variant. We o…