Towards a Constructive Version of Banaszczyk's Vector Balancing Theorem

by Daniel Dadush, Shashwat Garg, Shachar Lovett, and Aleksandar Nikolov

Theory of Computing, Volume 15(15), pp. 1-58, 2019

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