FOCS A*

91 papers

YearTitle / Authors
201758th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2017, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 15-17, 2017
Chris Umans
2017A Characterization of Testable Hypergraph Properties.
Felix Joos, Jaehoon Kim, Daniela Kühn, Deryk Osthus
2017A Dichotomy Theorem for Nonuniform CSPs.
Andrei A. Bulatov
2017A Dichotomy for Regular Expression Membership Testing.
Karl Bringmann, Allan Grønlund, Kasper Green Larsen
2017A Nearly Optimal Lower Bound on the Approximate Degree of AC
Mark Bun, Justin Thaler
2017A Proof of CSP Dichotomy Conjecture.
Dmitriy Zhuk
2017A Rounds vs. Communication Tradeoff for Multi-Party Set Disjointness.
Mark Braverman, Rotem Oshman
2017A Time Hierarchy Theorem for the LOCAL Model.
Yi-Jun Chang, Seth Pettie
2017A Time-Space Lower Bound for a Large Class of Learning Problems.
Ran Raz
2017Active Classification with Comparison Queries.
Daniel M. Kane, Shachar Lovett, Shay Moran, Jiapeng Zhang
2017An Input Sensitive Online Algorithm for the Metric Bipartite Matching Problem.
Krati Nayyar, Sharath Raghvendra
2017Approximating Geometric Knapsack via L-Packings.
Waldo Gálvez, Fabrizio Grandoni, Sandy Heydrich, Salvatore Ingala, Arindam Khan, Andreas Wiese
2017Approximating the Held-Karp Bound for Metric TSP in Nearly-Linear Time.
Chandra Chekuri, Kent Quanrud
2017Average-Case Reconstruction for the Deletion Channel: Subpolynomially Many Traces Suffice.
Yuval Peres, Alex Zhai
2017Better Guarantees for k-Means and Euclidean k-Median by Primal-Dual Algorithms.
Sara Ahmadian, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard, Ola Svensson, Justin Ward
2017Boolean Unateness Testing with Õ(n
Xi Chen, Erik Waingarten, Jinyu Xie
2017Capacity of Neural Networks for Lifelong Learning of Composable Tasks.
Leslie G. Valiant
2017Derandomization Beyond Connectivity: Undirected Laplacian Systems in Nearly Logarithmic Space.
Jack Murtagh, Omer Reingold, Aaron Sidford, Salil P. Vadhan
2017Determinant-Preserving Sparsification of SDDM Matrices with Applications to Counting and Sampling Spanning Trees.
David Durfee, John Peebles, Richard Peng, Anup B. Rao
2017Deterministic Distributed Edge-Coloring via Hypergraph Maximal Matching.
Manuela Fischer, Mohsen Ghaffari, Fabian Kuhn
2017Deterministic Search for CNF Satisfying Assignments in Almost Polynomial Time.
Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan
2017Distributed Exact Weighted All-Pairs Shortest Paths in Õ(n
Chien-Chung Huang, Danupon Nanongkai, Thatchaphol Saranurak
2017Distributed PCP Theorems for Hardness of Approximation in P.
Amir Abboud, Aviad Rubinstein, R. Ryan Williams
2017Dynamic Minimum Spanning Forest with Subpolynomial Worst-Case Update Time.
Danupon Nanongkai, Thatchaphol Saranurak, Christian Wulff-Nilsen
2017Efficient Bayesian Estimation from Few Samples: Community Detection and Related Problems.
Samuel B. Hopkins, David Steurer
2017Eldan's Stochastic Localization and the KLS Hyperplane Conjecture: An Improved Lower Bound for Expansion.
Yin Tat Lee, Santosh Srinivas Vempala
2017Exponentially-Hard Gap-CSP and Local PRG via Local Hardcore Functions.
Benny Applebaum
2017Fast & Space-Efficient Approximations of Language Edit Distance and RNA Folding: An Amnesic Dynamic Programming Approach.
Barna Saha
2017Fast Similarity Sketching.
Søren Dahlgaard, Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen, Mikkel Thorup
2017Fast and Compact Exact Distance Oracle for Planar Graphs.
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Søren Dahlgaard, Christian Wulff-Nilsen
2017Faster (and Still Pretty Simple) Unbiased Estimators for Network (Un)reliability.
David R. Karger
2017Fine-Grained Complexity of Analyzing Compressed Data: Quantifying Improvements over Decompress-and-Solve.
Amir Abboud, Arturs Backurs, Karl Bringmann, Marvin Künnemann
2017First Efficient Convergence for Streaming k-PCA: A Global, Gap-Free, and Near-Optimal Rate.
Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li
2017Fooling Intersections of Low-Weight Halfspaces.
Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan
2017From Gap-ETH to FPT-Inapproximability: Clique, Dominating Set, and More.
Parinya Chalermsook, Marek Cygan, Guy Kortsarz, Bundit Laekhanukit, Pasin Manurangsi, Danupon Nanongkai, Luca Trevisan
2017Garbled Protocols and Two-Round MPC from Bilinear Maps.
Sanjam Garg, Akshayaram Srinivasan
2017Generalized Uniformity Testing.
Tugkan Batu, Clément L. Canonne
2017Hardness Results for Structured Linear Systems.
Rasmus Kyng, Peng Zhang
2017Hashing-Based-Estimators for Kernel Density in High Dimensions.
Moses Charikar, Paris Siminelakis
2017High Dimensional Expanders Imply Agreement Expanders.
Irit Dinur, Tali Kaufman
2017How to Achieve Non-Malleability in One or Two Rounds.
Dakshita Khurana, Amit Sahai
2017Learning Graphical Models Using Multiplicative Weights.
Adam R. Klivans, Raghu Meka
2017Learning Multi-Item Auctions with (or without) Samples.
Yang Cai, Constantinos Daskalakis
2017Linear Algebraic Analogues of the Graph Isomorphism Problem and the Erdős-Rényi Model.
Yinan Li, Youming Qiao
2017Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States Are Hard to Approximate.
Lior Eldar, Aram W. Harrow
2017Local List Recovery of High-Rate Tensor Codes & Applications.
Brett Hemenway, Noga Ron-Zewi, Mary Wootters
2017Lockable Obfuscation.
Rishab Goyal, Venkata Koppula, Brent Waters
2017Matrix Scaling and Balancing via Box Constrained Newton's Method and Interior Point Methods.
Michael B. Cohen, Aleksander Madry, Dimitris Tsipras, Adrian Vladu
2017Minor-Free Graphs Have Light Spanners.
Glencora Borradaile, Hung Le, Christian Wulff-Nilsen
2017Much Faster Algorithms for Matrix Scaling.
Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Rafael Mendes de Oliveira, Avi Wigderson
2017Obfuscating Compute-and-Compare Programs under LWE.
Daniel Wichs, Giorgos Zirdelis
2017On Learning Mixtures of Well-Separated Gaussians.
Oded Regev, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
2017On Preparing Ground States of Gapped Hamiltonians: An Efficient Quantum Lovász Local Lemma.
András Pal Gilyén, Or Sattath
2017On Small-Depth Frege Proofs for Tseitin for Grids.
Johan Håstad
2017On the Local Structure of Stable Clustering Instances.
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Chris Schwiegelshohn
2017On the Power of Statistical Zero Knowledge.
Adam Bouland, Lijie Chen, Dhiraj Holden, Justin Thaler, Prashant Nalini Vasudevan
2017On the Quantitative Hardness of CVP.
Huck Bennett, Alexander Golovnev, Noah Stephens-Davidowitz
2017Optimal Compression of Approximate Inner Products and Dimension Reduction.
Noga Alon, Bo'az Klartag
2017Optimal Interactive Coding for Insertions, Deletions, and Substitutions.
Alexander A. Sherstov, Pei Wu
2017Optimal Las Vegas Locality Sensitive Data Structures.
Thomas Dybdahl Ahle
2017Optimal Lower Bounds for Universal Relation, and for Samplers and Finding Duplicates in Streams.
Michael Kapralov, Jelani Nelson, Jakub Pachocki, Zhengyu Wang, David P. Woodruff, Mobin Yahyazadeh
2017Optimal Repair of Reed-Solomon Codes: Achieving the Cut-Set Bound.
Itzhak Tamo, Min Ye, Alexander Barg
2017Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma.
Kasper Green Larsen, Jelani Nelson
2017Oracle-Efficient Online Learning and Auction Design.
Miroslav Dudík, Nika Haghtalab, Haipeng Luo, Robert E. Schapire, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
2017Polylogarithmic Approximation for Minimum Planarization (Almost).
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Anastasios Sidiropoulos
2017Prophet Inequalities Made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Non-Stochastic Inputs.
Paul Duetting, Michal Feldman, Thomas Kesselheim, Brendan Lucier
2017Quantum SDP-Solvers: Better Upper and Lower Bounds.
Joran van Apeldoorn, András Gilyén, Sander Gribling, Ronald de Wolf
2017Quantum Speed-Ups for Solving Semidefinite Programs.
Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Krysta M. Svore
2017Query-to-Communication Lifting for BPP.
Mika Göös, Toniann Pitassi, Thomas Watson
2017Random Formulas, Monotone Circuits, and Interpolation.
Pavel Hrubes, Pavel Pudlák
2017Random Θ(log n)-CNFs Are Hard for Cutting Planes.
Noah Fleming, Denis Pankratov, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere
2017Removing Depth-Order Cycles among Triangles: An Efficient Algorithm Generating Triangular Fragments.
Mark de Berg
2017Robust Polynomial Regression up to the Information Theoretic Limit.
Daniel Kane, Sushrut Karmalkar, Eric Price
2017Sample Efficient Estimation and Recovery in Sparse FFT via Isolation on Average.
Michael Kapralov
2017Scheduling to Minimize Total Weighted Completion Time via Time-Indexed Linear Programming Relaxations.
Shi Li
2017Short Presburger Arithmetic Is Hard.
Danny Nguyen, Igor Pak
2017Simply Exponential Approximation of the Permanent of Positive Semidefinite Matrices.
Nima Anari, Leonid Gurvits, Shayan Oveis Gharan, Amin Saberi
2017Statistical Query Lower Bounds for Robust Estimation of High-Dimensional Gaussians and Gaussian Mixtures.
Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Alistair Stewart
2017Subdeterminant Maximization via Nonconvex Relaxations and Anti-Concentration.
Javad B. Ebrahimi, Damian Straszak, Nisheeth K. Vishnoi
2017Sublinear Time Low-Rank Approximation of Positive Semidefinite Matrices.
Cameron Musco, David P. Woodruff
2017Testing Hereditary Properties of Ordered Graphs and Matrices.
Noga Alon, Omri Ben-Eliezer, Eldar Fischer
2017The Independence Number of the Birkhoff Polytope Graph, and Applications to Maximally Recoverable Codes.
Daniel Kane, Shachar Lovett, Sankeerth Rao
2017The Ising Partition Function: Zeros and Deterministic Approximation.
Jingcheng Liu, Alistair Sinclair, Piyush Srivastava
2017The Matching Problem in General Graphs Is in Quasi-NC.
Ola Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski
2017The Power of Sum-of-Squares for Detecting Hidden Structures.
Samuel B. Hopkins, Pravesh K. Kothari, Aaron Potechin, Prasad Raghavendra, Tselil Schramm, David Steurer
2017Tight Lower Bounds for Differentially Private Selection.
Thomas Steinke, Jonathan R. Ullman
2017Two-Round and Non-Interactive Concurrent Non-Malleable Commitments from Time-Lock Puzzles.
Huijia Lin, Rafael Pass, Pratik Soni
2017Variable-Version Lovász Local Lemma: Beyond Shearer's Bound.
Kun He, Liang Li, Xingwu Liu, Yuyi Wang, Mingji Xia
2017Weak Decoupling, Polynomial Folds and Approximate Optimization over the Sphere.
Vijay Bhattiprolu, Mrinalkanti Ghosh, Venkatesan Guruswami, Euiwoong Lee, Madhur Tulsiani
2017Weighted k-Server Bounds via Combinatorial Dichotomies.
Nikhil Bansal, Marek Eliás, Grigorios Koumoutsos
2017White-Box vs. Black-Box Complexity of Search Problems: Ramsey and Graph Property Testing.
Ilan Komargodski, Moni Naor, Eylon Yogev