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Eric Blais
Researcher at University of Waterloo
Publications - 79
Citations - 1689
Eric Blais is an academic researcher from University of Waterloo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Boolean function & Property testing. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 77 publications receiving 1515 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Blais include McGill University & Autodesk.
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Polynomial regression under arbitrary product distributions
TL;DR: A very simple proof that threshold functions over arbitrary product spaces have δ-noise sensitivity $O(\sqrt{\delta})$, resolving an open problem suggested by Peres (2004).
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On the inference of parsimonious indel evolutionary scenarios.
TL;DR: This work shows that the problem of reconstructing a most parsimonious scenario of insertions and deletions capable of explaining the gaps observed in the alignment of orthologous DNA sequences is NP-complete, and provides an algorithm based on the fractional relaxation of an integer linear programming formulation.
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Quantum Algorithm for Monotonicity Testing on the Hypercube
Aleksandrs Belovs,Eric Blais +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a bounded-error quantum algorithm that makes O(n 1=4 e 1=2 ) queries to a function f :f0; 1g n!f0, 1g, accepts when f is monotone, and rejects when it is e-far from being far from being one.
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Lower Bounds for Testing Properties of Functions on Hypergrid Domains.
TL;DR: The communication complexity method introduced in (Blais, Brody, Matulef 2012) can be used to prove lower bounds on the number of queries required to test properties of functions with non-hypercube domains, and robustness is illustrated by making it work for convexity.
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Longest Common Subsequences in Sets of Permutations
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that for any k>=3 and n>=k^2 there exists a set of permutations on [n] in which the longest common subsequence has length at most 32(kn)^{1/3}.