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87 papers

YearTitle / Authors
2016A Better-Than-3n Lower Bound for the Circuit Complexity of an Explicit Function.
Magnus Gausdal Find, Alexander Golovnev, Edward A. Hirsch, Alexander S. Kulikov
2016A Deterministic Polynomial Time Algorithm for Non-commutative Rational Identity Testing.
Ankit Garg, Leonid Gurvits, Rafael Mendes de Oliveira, Avi Wigderson
2016A Discrete and Bounded Envy-Free Cake Cutting Protocol for Any Number of Agents.
Haris Aziz, Simon Mackenzie
2016A Fast and Simple Unbiased Estimator for Network (Un)reliability.
David R. Karger
2016A Nearly Tight Sum-of-Squares Lower Bound for the Planted Clique Problem.
Boaz Barak, Samuel B. Hopkins, Jonathan A. Kelner, Pravesh Kothari, Ankur Moitra, Aaron Potechin
2016A New Approach for Testing Properties of Discrete Distributions.
Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane
2016A New Framework for Distributed Submodular Maximization.
Rafael da Ponte Barbosa, Alina Ene, Huy L. Nguyen, Justin Ward
2016A PTAS for the Steiner Forest Problem in Doubling Metrics.
T.-H. Hubert Chan, Shuguang Hu, Shaofeng H.-C. Jiang
2016Accelerated Newton Iteration for Roots of Black Box Polynomials.
Anand Louis, Santosh S. Vempala
2016Agnostic Estimation of Mean and Covariance.
Kevin A. Lai, Anup B. Rao, Santosh S. Vempala
2016Amortized Dynamic Cell-Probe Lower Bounds from Four-Party Communication.
Omri Weinstein, Huacheng Yu
2016Amplification and Derandomization without Slowdown.
Ofer Grossman, Dana Moshkovitz
2016An Algorithm for Komlós Conjecture Matching Banaszczyk's Bound.
Nikhil Bansal, Daniel Dadush, Shashwat Garg
2016An Average-Case Depth Hierarchy Theorem for Higher Depth.
Johan Håstad
2016An Exponential Separation between Randomized and Deterministic Complexity in the LOCAL Model.
Yi-Jun Chang, Tsvi Kopelowitz, Seth Pettie
2016Approximate Gaussian Elimination for Laplacians - Fast, Sparse, and Simple.
Rasmus Kyng, Sushant Sachdeva
2016Better Unrelated Machine Scheduling for Weighted Completion Time via Random Offsets from Non-uniform Distributions.
Sungjin Im, Shi Li
2016Bounded-Communication Leakage Resilience via Parity-Resilient Circuits.
Vipul Goyal, Yuval Ishai, Hemanta K. Maji, Amit Sahai, Alexander A. Sherstov
2016Breaking the Three Round Barrier for Non-malleable Commitments.
Vipul Goyal, Dakshita Khurana, Amit Sahai
2016Commutativity in the Algorithmic Lovász Local Lemma.
Vladimir Kolmogorov
2016Compressing Interactive Communication under Product Distributions.
Alexander A. Sherstov
2016Computational Efficiency Requires Simple Taxation.
Shahar Dobzinski
2016Computing Maximum Flow with Augmenting Electrical Flows.
Aleksander Madry
2016Constrained Submodular Maximization: Beyond 1/e.
Alina Ene, Huy L. Nguyen
2016Convergence of MCMC and Loopy BP in the Tree Uniqueness Region for the Hard-Core Model.
Charilaos Efthymiou, Thomas P. Hayes, Daniel Stefankovic, Eric Vigoda, Yitong Yin
2016Decidability of Non-interactive Simulation of Joint Distributions.
Badih Ghazi, Pritish Kamath, Madhu Sudan
2016Decremental Single-Source Reachability and Strongly Connected Components in Õ(m√n) Total Update Time.
Shiri Chechik, Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Jakub Lacki, Nikos Parotsidis
2016Depth-Reduction for Composites.
Shiteng Chen, Periklis A. Papakonstantinou
2016Edit Distance: Sketching, Streaming, and Document Exchange.
Djamal Belazzougui, Qin Zhang
2016Explicit Non-malleable Extractors, Multi-source Extractors, and Almost Optimal Privacy Amplification Protocols.
Eshan Chattopadhyay, Xin Li
2016Exponential Lower Bounds for Monotone Span Programs.
Robert Robere, Toniann Pitassi, Benjamin Rossman, Stephen A. Cook
2016Extension Complexity of Independent Set Polytopes.
Mika Göös, Rahul Jain, Thomas Watson
2016Extractors for Near Logarithmic Min-Entropy.
Gil Cohen, Leonard J. Schulman
2016Fast Learning Requires Good Memory: A Time-Space Lower Bound for Parity Learning.
Ran Raz
2016Faster Algorithms for Computing the Stationary Distribution, Simulating Random Walks, and More.
Michael B. Cohen, Jonathan A. Kelner, John Peebles, Richard Peng, Aaron Sidford, Adrian Vladu
2016Fourier-Sparse Interpolation without a Frequency Gap.
Xue Chen, Daniel M. Kane, Eric Price, Zhao Song
2016Fully Dynamic Maximal Matching in Constant Update Time.
Shay Solomon
2016Heavy Hitters via Cluster-Preserving Clustering.
Kasper Green Larsen, Jelani Nelson, Huy L. Nguyen, Mikkel Thorup
2016Hopsets with Constant Hopbound, and Applications to Approximate Shortest Paths.
Michael Elkin, Ofer Neiman
2016How Limited Interaction Hinders Real Communication (and What It Means for Proof and Circuit Complexity).
Susanna F. de Rezende, Jakob Nordström, Marc Vinyals
2016How to Determine if a Random Graph with a Fixed Degree Sequence Has a Giant Component.
Felix Joos, Guillem Perarnau, Dieter Rautenbach, Bruce A. Reed
2016IEEE 57th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, October 9-11, 2016
Irit Dinur
2016Improved Two-Source Extractors, and Affine Extractors for Polylogarithmic Entropy.
Xin Li
2016Indistinguishability Obfuscation from DDH-Like Assumptions on Constant-Degree Graded Encodings.
Huijia Lin, Vinod Vaikuntanathan
2016Informational Substitutes.
Yiling Chen, Bo Waggoner
2016Knuth Prize Lecture: Complexity of Communication in Markets.
Noam Nisan
2016Learning in Auctions: Regret is Hard, Envy is Easy.
Constantinos Daskalakis, Vasilis Syrgkanis
2016Linear Hashing Is Awesome.
Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen
2016Lipschitz Extensions for Node-Private Graph Statistics and the Generalized Exponential Mechanism.
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Adam D. Smith
2016Local Conflict Coloring.
Pierre Fraigniaud, Marc Heinrich, Adrian Kosowski
2016Local Search Yields Approximation Schemes for k-Means and k-Median in Euclidean and Minor-Free Metrics.
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Philip N. Klein, Claire Mathieu
2016Local Search Yields a PTAS for k-Means in Doubling Metrics.
Zachary Friggstad, Mohsen Rezapour, Mohammad R. Salavatipour
2016Making the Most of Advice: New Correlation Breakers and Their Applications.
Gil Cohen
2016Max-Information, Differential Privacy, and Post-selection Hypothesis Testing.
Ryan M. Rogers, Aaron Roth, Adam D. Smith, Om Thakkar
2016NP-Hardness of Reed-Solomon Decoding and the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott Problem.
Venkata Gandikota, Badih Ghazi, Elena Grigorescu
2016No Occurrence Obstructions in Geometric Complexity Theory.
Peter Bürgisser, Christian Ikenmeyer, Greta Panova
2016Noisy Population Recovery in Polynomial Time.
Anindya De, Michael E. Saks, Sijian Tang
2016On Approximating Maximum Independent Set of Rectangles.
Julia Chuzhoy, Alina Ene
2016On Fully Dynamic Graph Sparsifiers.
Ittai Abraham, David Durfee, Ioannis Koutis, Sebastian Krinninger, Richard Peng
2016On the Communication Complexity of Approximate Fixed Points.
Tim Roughgarden, Omri Weinstein
2016Online Algorithms for Covering and Packing Problems with Convex Objectives.
Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder, T.-H. Hubert Chan, Shahar Chen, Ilan Reuven Cohen, Anupam Gupta, Zhiyi Huang, Ning Kang, Viswanath Nagarajan, Joseph Naor, Debmalya Panigrahi
2016Optimal Quantile Approximation in Streams.
Zohar S. Karnin, Kevin J. Lang, Edo Liberty
2016Optimizing Star-Convex Functions.
Jasper C. H. Lee, Paul Valiant
2016Polynomial Representations of Threshold Functions and Algorithmic Applications.
Josh Alman, Timothy M. Chan, R. Ryan Williams
2016Polynomial-Time Tensor Decompositions with Sum-of-Squares.
Tengyu Ma, Jonathan Shi, David Steurer
2016Popular Conjectures as a Barrier for Dynamic Planar Graph Algorithms.
Amir Abboud, Søren Dahlgaard
2016Ramanujan Graphs in Polynomial Time.
Michael B. Cohen
2016Rectangular Kronecker Coefficients and Plethysms in Geometric Complexity Theory.
Christian Ikenmeyer, Greta Panova
2016Robust Estimators in High Dimensions without the Computational Intractability.
Ilias Diakonikolas, Gautam Kamath, Daniel M. Kane, Jerry Li, Ankur Moitra, Alistair Stewart
2016Robust Fourier and Polynomial Curve Fitting.
Venkatesan Guruswami, David Zuckerman
2016Separations in Communication Complexity Using Cheat Sheets and Information Complexity.
Anurag Anshu, Aleksandrs Belovs, Shalev Ben-David, Mika Göös, Rahul Jain, Robin Kothari, Troy Lee, Miklos Santha
2016Settling the Complexity of Computing Approximate Two-Player Nash Equilibria.
Aviad Rubinstein
2016Simulated Quaotum Annealing Can Be Exponentially Faster Than Classical Simulated Annealing.
Elizabeth Crosson, Aram W. Harrow
2016Strong Fooling Sets for Multi-player Communication with Applications to Deterministic Estimation of Stream Statistics.
Amit Chakrabarti, Sagar Kale
2016Structure of Protocols for XOR Functions.
Hamed Hatami, Kaave Hosseini, Shachar Lovett
2016Subexponential Parameterized Algorithms for Planar and Apex-Minor-Free Graphs via Low Treewidth Pattern Covering.
Fedor V. Fomin, Daniel Lokshtanov, Dániel Marx, Marcin Pilipczuk, Michal Pilipczuk, Saket Saurabh
2016Testing Assignments to Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
Hubie Chen, Matthew Valeriote, Yuichi Yoshida
2016The Constant Inapproximability of the Parameterized Dominating Set Problem.
Yijia Chen, Bingkai Lin
2016The Hilbert Function, Algebraic Extractors, and Recursive Fourier Sampling.
Zachary Remscrim
2016The Multiparty Communication Complexity of Interleaved Group Products.
W. T. Gowers, Emanuele Viola
2016The Number of Solutions for Random Regular NAE-SAT.
Allan Sly, Nike Sun, Yumeng Zhang
2016The Salesman's Improved Paths: A 3/2+1/34 Approximation.
András Sebö, Anke van Zuylen
2016Towards Strong Reverse Minkowski-Type Inequalities for Lattices.
Daniel Dadush, Oded Regev
2016Truly Sub-cubic Algorithms for Language Edit Distance and RNA-Folding via Fast Bounded-Difference Min-Plus Product.
Karl Bringmann, Fabrizio Grandoni, Barna Saha, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2016Universal Simulation of Directed Systems in the Abstract Tile Assembly Model Requires Undirectedness.
Jacob Hendricks, Matthew J. Patitz, Trent A. Rogers
2016Which Regular Expression Patterns Are Hard to Match?
Arturs Backurs, Piotr Indyk
2016Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems for QMA.
Anne Broadbent, Zhengfeng Ji, Fang Song, John Watrous