Tag
derandomization
- Jul 26, 2025 The Probabilistic Method in Derandomized Form: Conditional Expectations and Small-Bias Spaces How to remove randomness from an algorithm without losing its guarantee, using conditional expectations, pairwise-independent sample spaces, and epsilon-biased distributions. algorithms
- Mar 28, 2024 The Probabilistic Method: Proving That a Good Object Exists How a random construction with nonzero success probability establishes existence without producing an example, and how the Lovász local lemma weakens the independence the argument needs. algorithms