FOCS A*

119 papers

YearTitle / Authors
202262nd IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2021, Denver, CO, USA, February 7-10, 2022
20212-norm Flow Diffusion in Near-Linear Time.
Li Chen, Richard Peng, Di Wang
2021A Better-Than-2 Approximation for Weighted Tree Augmentation.
Vera Traub, Rico Zenklusen
2021A Gap-ETH-Tight Approximation Scheme for Euclidean TSP.
Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak, Jesper Nederlof, Karol Wegrzycki
2021A Hitting Set Relaxation for $k$-Server and an Extension to Time-Windows.
Anupam Gupta, Amit Kumar, Debmalya Panigrahi
2021A Matrix Trickle-Down Theorem on Simplicial Complexes and Applications to Sampling Colorings.
Dorna Abdolazimi, Kuikui Liu, Shayan Oveis Gharan
2021A Nearly Optimal All-Pairs Min-Cuts Algorithm in Simple Graphs.
Jason Li, Debmalya Panigrahi, Thatchaphol Saranurak
2021A Polynomial Lower Bound on the Number of Rounds for Parallel Submodular Function Minimization.
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Yu Chen, Sanjeev Khanna
2021A Quantum Advantage for a Natural Streaming Problem.
John Kallaugher
2021A Single-Exponential Time 2-Approximation Algorithm for Treewidth.
Tuukka Korhonen
2021A Theory of PAC Learnability of Partial Concept Classes.
Noga Alon, Steve Hanneke, Ron Holzman, Shay Moran
2021A constant-factor approximation algorithm for Nash Social Welfare with submodular valuations.
Wenzheng Li, Jan Vondrák
2021A direct product theorem for quantum communication complexity with applications to device-independent QKD.
Rahul Jain, Srijita Kundu
2021A proof of the Erdös-Faber-Lovász conjecture: Algorithmic aspects.
Dong Yeap Kang, Tom Kelly, Daniela Kühn, Abhishek Methuku, Deryk Osthus
2021A time and space optimal stable population protocol solving exact majority.
David Doty, Mahsa Eftekhari, Leszek Gasieniec, Eric E. Severson, Przemyslaw Uznanski, Grzegorz Stachowiak
2021APMF < APSP? Gomory-Hu Tree for Unweighted Graphs in Almost-Quadratic Time.
Amir Abboud, Robert Krauthgamer, Ohad Trabelsi
2021Affine Extractors for Almost Logarithmic Entropy.
Eshan Chattopadhyay, Jesse Goodman, Jyun-Jie Liao
2021Almost Optimal Inapproximability of Multidimensional Packing Problems.
Sai Sandeep
2021Amortized Circuit Complexity, Formal Complexity Measures, and Catalytic Algorithms.
Robert Robere, Jeroen Zuiddam
2021An Invariance Principle for the Multi-slice, with Applications.
Mark Braverman, Subhash Khot, Noam Lifshitz, Dor Minzer
2021Applications of Random Algebraic Constructions to Hardness of Approximation.
Boris Bukh, Karthik C. S., Bhargav Narayanan
2021Approximability of all finite CSPs with linear sketches.
Chi-Ning Chou, Alexander Golovnev, Madhu Sudan, Santhoshini Velusamy
2021Approximating Maximum Independent Set for Rectangles in the Plane.
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
2021At most 3.55
Cory Palmer, Dömötör Pálvölgyi
2021Breaking the Cubic Barrier for (Unweighted) Tree Edit Distance.
Xiao Mao
2021Chow-Liu++: Optimal Prediction-Centric Learning of Tree Ising Models.
Enric Boix-Adserà, Guy Bresler, Frederic Koehler
2021Combinatorial Contracts.
Paul Dütting, Tomer Ezra, Michal Feldman, Thomas Kesselheim
2021Constructive Separations and Their Consequences.
Lijie Chen, Ce Jin, Rahul Santhanam, R. Ryan Williams
2021Continuity, Uniqueness and Long-Term Behavior of Nash Flows Over Time.
Neil Olver, Leon Sering, Laura Vargas Koch
2021Covering Polygons is Even Harder.
Mikkel Abrahamsen
2021Demystifying the border of depth-3 algebraic circuits.
Pranjal Dutta, Prateek Dwivedi, Nitin Saxena
2021Deterministic Decremental SSSP and Approximate Min-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time.
Aaron Bernstein, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg, Thatchaphol Saranurak
2021Deterministic Distributed Vertex Coloring: Simpler, Faster, and without Network Decomposition.
Mohsen Ghaffari, Fabian Kuhn
2021Embeddings of Planar Quasimetrics into Directed ℓ1 and Polylogarithmic Approximation for Directed Sparsest-Cut.
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Anastasios Sidiropoulos
2021Exact and Approximate Pattern Counting in Degenerate Graphs: New Algorithms, Hardness Results, and Complexity Dichotomies.
Marco Bressan, Marc Roth
2021Exponential Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable and Correctable Codes for Insertions and Deletions.
Jeremiah Blocki, Kuan Cheng, Elena Grigorescu, Xin Li, Yu Zheng, Minshen Zhu
2021Exponential Separations Between Learning With and Without Quantum Memory.
Sitan Chen, Jordan Cotler, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Jerry Li
2021FIXP-membership via Convex Optimization: Games, Cakes, and Markets.
Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen, Kasper Høgh, Alexandros Hollender
2021FOCS 2021 Preface.
Nisheeth K. Vishnoi
2021Faster Sparse Minimum Cost Flow by Electrical Flow Localization.
Kyriakos Axiotis, Aleksander Madry, Adrian Vladu
2021Feature Purification: How Adversarial Training Performs Robust Deep Learning.
Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li
2021Fine-Grained Cryptanalysis: Tight Conditional Bounds for Dense k-SUM and k-XOR.
Itai Dinur, Nathan Keller, Ohad Klein
2021Fitting Distances by Tree Metrics Minimizing the Total Error within a Constant Factor.
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Debarati Das, Evangelos Kipouridis, Nikos Parotsidis, Mikkel Thorup
2021Fooling Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits (Extended Abstract).
Pooya Hatami, William M. Hoza, Avishay Tal, Roei Tell
2021Fully Dynamic Electrical Flows: Sparse Maxflow Faster Than Goldberg-Rao.
Yu Gao, Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng
2021Fully Dynamic s-t Edge Connectivity in Subpolynomial Time (Extended Abstract).
Wenyu Jin, Xiaorui Sun
2021Group isomorphism is nearly-linear time for most orders.
Heiko Dietrich, James B. Wilson
2021Hardness of Approximate Diameter: Now for Undirected Graphs.
Mina Dalirrooyfard, Ray Li, Virginia Vassilevska Williams
2021Hardness vs Randomness, Revised: Uniform, Non-Black-Box, and Instance-Wise.
Lijie Chen, Roei Tell
2021Harmonic Persistent Homology (extended abstract).
Saugata Basu, Nathanael Cox
2021Hiding Among the Clones: A Simple and Nearly Optimal Analysis of Privacy Amplification by Shuffling.
Vitaly Feldman, Audra McMillan, Kunal Talwar
2021Hop-Constrained Metric Embeddings and their Applications.
Arnold Filtser
2021Improved Extractors for Small-Space Sources.
Eshan Chattopadhyay, Jesse Goodman
2021Improved List-Decodability and List-Recoverability of Reed-Solomon Codes via Tree Packings: [Extended Abstract].
Zeyu Guo, Ray Li, Chong Shangguan, Itzhak Tamo, Mary Wootters
2021Improved Online Correlated Selection.
Ruiquan Gao, Zhongtian He, Zhiyi Huang, Zipei Nie, Bijun Yuan, Yan Zhong
2021Integer programs with bounded subdeterminants and two nonzeros per row.
Samuel Fiorini, Gwenaël Joret, Stefan Weltge, Yelena Yuditsky
2021LEARN-Uniform Circuit Lower Bounds and Provability in Bounded Arithmetic.
Marco Carmosino, Valentine Kabanets, Antonina Kolokolova, Igor C. Oliveira
2021Learning Deep ReLU Networks Is Fixed-Parameter Tractable.
Sitan Chen, Adam R. Klivans, Raghu Meka
2021Linear Probing Revisited: Tombstones Mark the Demise of Primary Clustering.
Michael A. Bender, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, William Kuszmaul
2021List-decodability with large radius for Reed-Solomon codes.
Asaf Ferber, Matthew Kwan, Lisa Sauermann
2021MAJORITY-3SAT (and Related Problems) in Polynomial Time.
Shyan Akmal, Ryan Williams
2021Minimum Cuts in Directed Graphs via Partial Sparsification.
Ruoxu Cen, Jason Li, Danupon Nanongkai, Debmalya Panigrahi, Thatchaphol Saranurak, Kent Quanrud
2021Minor Sparsifiers and the Distributed Laplacian Paradigm.
Sebastian Forster, Gramoz Goranci, Yang P. Liu, Richard Peng, Xiaorui Sun, Mingquan Ye
2021Multiway Online Correlated Selection.
Guy Blanc, Moses Charikar
2021New data structure for univariate polynomial approximation and applications to root isolation, numerical multipoint evaluation, and other problems.
Guillaume Moroz
2021Noise and the Frontier of Quantum Supremacy.
Adam Bouland, Bill Fefferman, Zeph Landau, Yunchao Liu
2021Non-adaptive vs Adaptive Queries in the Dense Graph Testing Model.
Oded Goldreich, Avi Wigderson
2021On Classifying Continuous Constraint Satisfaction problems.
Tillmann Miltzow, Reinier F. Schmiermann
2021On Worst-Case Learning in Relativized Heuristica.
Shuichi Hirahara, Mikito Nanashima
2021On statistical inference when fixed points of belief propagation are unstable.
Siqi Liu, Sidhanth Mohanty, Prasad Raghavendra
2021On the Impossibility of Post-Quantum Black-Box Zero-Knowledge in Constant Round.
Nai-Hui Chia, Kai-Min Chung, Qipeng Liu, Takashi Yamakawa
2021On the Nisan-Ronen conjecture.
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Annamária Kovács
2021On the Power of Preconditioning in Sparse Linear Regression.
Jonathan A. Kelner, Frederic Koehler, Raghu Meka, Dhruv Rohatgi
2021One-step replica symmetry breaking of random regular NAE-SAT.
Danny Nam, Allan Sly, Youngtak Sohn
2021Online and Distribution-Free Robustness: Regression and Contextual Bandits with Huber Contamination.
Sitan Chen, Frederic Koehler, Ankur Moitra, Morris Yau
2021Optimal Approximate Distance Oracle for Planar Graphs.
Hung Le, Christian Wulff-Nilsen
2021Optimal Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in $\mathbb{R}$.
Jasper C. H. Lee, Paul Valiant
2021PPSZ is better than you think.
Dominik Scheder
2021Parameterized Problems Complete for Nondeterministic FPT time and Logarithmic Space.
Hans L. Bodlaender, Carla Groenland, Jesper Nederlof, Céline M. F. Swennenhuis
2021Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments: Breaking the Quantum Rewinding Barrier.
Alessandro Chiesa, Fermi Ma, Nicholas Spooner, Mark Zhandry
2021Proof of the Contiguity Conjecture and Lognormal Limit for the Symmetric Perceptron.
Emmanuel Abbe, Shuangping Li, Allan Sly
2021Properly learning decision trees in almost polynomial time.
Guy Blanc, Jane Lange, Mingda Qiao, Li-Yang Tan
2021Quantum learning algorithms imply circuit lower bounds.
Srinivasan Arunachalam, Alex B. Grilo, Tom Gur, Igor C. Oliveira, Aarthi Sundaram
2021Quantum soundness of testing tensor codes.
Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright, Henry Yuen
2021Quantum supremacy and hardness of estimating output probabilities of quantum circuits.
Yasuhiro Kondo, Ryuhei Mori, Ramis Movassagh
2021Quasi-polynomial Time Approximation of Output Probabilities of Geometrically-local, Shallow Quantum Circuits.
Nolan J. Coble, Matthew Coudron
2021Random Order Online Set Cover is as Easy as Offline.
Anupam Gupta, Gregory Kehne, Roie Levin
2021Random walks and forbidden minors III: $\text{poly}\left(d\varepsilon ^{-1}\right)$-time partition oracles for minor-free graph classes.
Akash Kumar, C. Seshadhri, Andrew Stolman
2021Rapid mixing of Glauber dynamics via spectral independence for all degrees.
Xiaoyu Chen, Weiming Feng, Yitong Yin, Xinyuan Zhang
2021Reachability in Vector Addition Systems is Ackermann-complete.
Wojciech Czerwinski, Lukasz Orlikowski
2021Robust recovery for stochastic block models.
Jingqiu Ding, Tommaso d'Orsi, Rajai Nasser, David Steurer
2021SNARGs for $\mathcal{P}$ from LWE.
Arka Rai Choudhuri, Abhishek Jain, Zhengzhong Jin
2021Settling the Horizon-Dependence of Sample Complexity in Reinforcement Learning.
Yuanzhi Li, Ruosong Wang, Lin F. Yang
2021Sharp Thresholds in Random Simple Temporal Graphs.
Arnaud Casteigts, Michael Raskin, Malte Renken, Viktor Zamaraev
2021Sharper bounds on the Fourier concentration of DNFs.
Victor Lecomte, Li-Yang Tan
2021Small-space and streaming pattern matching with $k$ edits.
Tomasz Kociumaka, Ely Porat, Tatiana Starikovskaya
2021Smoothed Analysis with Adaptive Adversaries.
Nika Haghtalab, Tim Roughgarden, Abhishek Shetty
2021Spectral Hypergraph Sparsifiers of Nearly Linear Size.
Michael Kapralov, Robert Krauthgamer, Jakab Tardos, Yuichi Yoshida
2021Spectral Independence via Stability and Applications to Holant-Type Problems.
Zongchen Chen, Kuikui Liu, Eric Vigoda
2021Statistically Near-Optimal Hypothesis Selection.
Olivier Bousquet, Mark Braverman, Gillat Kol, Klim Efremenko, Shay Moran
2021Stochastic and Worst-Case Generalized Sorting Revisited.
William Kuszmaul, Shyam Narayanan
2021Sum-of-Squares Lower Bounds for Sparse Independent Set.
Chris Jones, Aaron Potechin, Goutham Rajendran, Madhur Tulsiani, Jeff Xu
2021Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits.
Nutan Limaye, Srikanth Srinivasan, Sébastien Tavenas
2021Terminal Embeddings in Sublinear Time.
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Jelani Nelson
2021Testability of relations between permutations.
Oren Becker, Alexander Lubotzky, Jonathan Mosheiff
2021The Algorithmic Phase Transition of Random k-SAT for Low Degree Polynomials.
Guy Bresler, Brice Huang
2021The Hardest Explicit Construction.
Oliver Korten
2021The Minimum Formula Size Problem is (ETH) Hard.
Rahul Ilango
2021The Reachability Problem for Petri Nets is Not Primitive Recursive.
Jérôme Leroux
2021The supersingular isogeny path and endomorphism ring problems are equivalent.
Benjamin Wesolowski
2021The zero-rate threshold for adversarial bit-deletions is less than 1/2.
Venkatesan Guruswami, Xiaoyu He, Ray Li
2021Tight Bounds for Adversarially Robust Streams and Sliding Windows via Difference Estimators.
David P. Woodruff, Samson Zhou
2021Tight Bounds for General Computation in Noisy Broadcast Networks.
Klim Efremenko, Gillat Kol, Dmitry Paramonov, Raghuvansh R. Saxena
2021Tight Space Complexity of the Coin Problem.
Mark Braverman, Sumegha Garg, Or Zamir
2021Time-Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Matching and Vertex Cover.
Soheil Behnezhad
2021Towards the sampling Lovász Local Lemma.
Vishesh Jain, Huy Tuan Pham, Thuy-Duong Vuong
2021Tradeoffs for small-depth Frege proofs.
Toniann Pitassi, Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Li-Yang Tan
2021Unambiguous DNFs and Alon-Saks-Seymour.
Kaspars Balodis, Shalev Ben-David, Mika Göös, Siddhartha Jain, Robin Kothari
2021Winning the War by (Strategically) Losing Battles: Settling the Complexity of Grundy-Values in Undirected Geography.
Kyle W. Burke, Matthew T. Ferland, Shang-Hua Teng