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Smoothed analysis: an attempt to explain the behavior of algorithms in practice

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Daniel A. Spielman,

Shang-Hua TengAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 10

Pages 76 - 84

https://doi.org/10.1145/1562764.1562785

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This Gödel Prize-winning work traces the steps toward modeling real data.

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