@InProceedings{goldenberg_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.1, author = {Goldenberg, Elazar and Karthik C. S.}, title = {{Hardness Amplification of Optimization Problems}}, booktitle = {11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2020)}, pages = {1:1--1:13}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-134-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {151}, editor = {Vidick, Thomas}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.1}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-116863}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.1}, annote = {Keywords: hardness amplification, average case complexity, direct product, optimization problems, fine-grained complexity, TFNP} }