20 Search Results for "Chou, Chi-Ning"


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EcoCell: Energy Conservation Through Traffic Shaping in Cellular Radio Access Networks

Authors: Zikun Liu, Seoyul Oh, Bill Tao, Yaxiong Xie, Anuj Kalia, and Deepak Vasisht

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 139, 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)


Abstract
Cellular networks contribute significantly to global energy demands and carbon emissions due to the millions of base stations deployed worldwide. We characterize the energy consumption of production base stations by performing fine-grained power and network telemetry measurements using off-the-shelf base stations. Our measurements reveal unique insights about how variations in temporal-usage patterns affect base station energy consumption. Based on these insights, we design EcoCell, a software-only solution that introduces energy-efficient traffic patterns in network flows. EcoCell can be implemented either as a traffic scheduler in the radio access network or as an independent middlebox. We evaluate EcoCell with five popular networked applications on a production basestation. We demonstrate savings up to 32% in dynamic energy consumption of a base station, without drops in application-level quality of experience.

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Zikun Liu, Seoyul Oh, Bill Tao, Yaxiong Xie, Anuj Kalia, and Deepak Vasisht. EcoCell: Energy Conservation Through Traffic Shaping in Cellular Radio Access Networks. In 1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 139, pp. 6:1-6:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{liu_et_al:OASIcs.NINeS.2026.6,
  author =	{Liu, Zikun and Oh, Seoyul and Tao, Bill and Xie, Yaxiong and Kalia, Anuj and Vasisht, Deepak},
  title =	{{EcoCell: Energy Conservation Through Traffic Shaping in Cellular Radio Access Networks}},
  booktitle =	{1st New Ideas in Networked Systems (NINeS 2026)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:25},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-414-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{139},
  editor =	{Argyraki, Katerina and Panda, Aurojit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255911},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.NINeS.2026.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy efficiency, traffic shaping, cellular networks, radio access networks}
}
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Debordering Closure Results in Determinantal and Pfaffian Ideals

Authors: Anakin Dey and Zeyu Guo

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
One important question in algebraic complexity is understanding the complexity of polynomial ideals (Grochow, Bulletin of EATCS 131, 2020). Andrews and Forbes (STOC 2022) studied the determinantal ideals I^{det}_{n,m,r} generated by the r× r minors of n× m matrices. Over fields of characteristic zero or of sufficiently large characteristic, they showed that for any nonzero f ∈ I^{det}_{n,m,r}, the determinant of a t × t matrix of variables with t = Θ{r^{1/3}} is approximately computed by a constant-depth, polynomial-size f-oracle algebraic circuit, in the sense that the determinant lies in the border of such circuits. An analogous result was also obtained for Pfaffians in the same paper. In this work, we deborder the result of Andrews and Forbes by showing that when f has polynomial degree, the determinant is in fact exactly computed by a constant-depth, polynomial-size f-oracle algebraic circuit. We further establish an analogous result for Pfaffian ideals. Our results are established using the isolation lemma, combined with a careful analysis of straightening-law expansions of polynomials in determinantal and Pfaffian ideals.

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Anakin Dey and Zeyu Guo. Debordering Closure Results in Determinantal and Pfaffian Ideals. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 49:1-49:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{dey_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.49,
  author =	{Dey, Anakin and Guo, Zeyu},
  title =	{{Debordering Closure Results in Determinantal and Pfaffian Ideals}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.49},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253363},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algebraic circuit complexity, Isolation lemma, Debordering}
}
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Query Lower Bounds for Correlation Clustering Under Memory Constraints

Authors: Sumegha Garg, Songhua He, and Periklis A. Papakonstantinou

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
This work initiates the study of memory–query tradeoffs for graph problems, with a focus on correlation clustering. Correlation clustering asks for a partition of the vertices that minimizes disagreements: non‑edges inside clusters plus edges across clusters. Our first result is a tight query lower bound: to output a partition whose cost approximates the optimum up to an additive error of ε n², any algorithm requires Ω(n/ε²) adjacency-matrix queries. Under memory constraints, we show that even for the seemingly easier task of approximating the optimal clustering cost (without producing a partition), any algorithm in the random query model must make ≫ n/ε² adjacency-matrix queries. Finally, we prove the first general graph model query lower bound for correlation clustering, where algorithms are allowed adjacency-matrix, neighbor, and degree queries. The latter two bounds are not yet tight, leaving room for sharper results.

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Sumegha Garg, Songhua He, and Periklis A. Papakonstantinou. Query Lower Bounds for Correlation Clustering Under Memory Constraints. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 67:1-67:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{garg_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.67,
  author =	{Garg, Sumegha and He, Songhua and Papakonstantinou, Periklis A.},
  title =	{{Query Lower Bounds for Correlation Clustering Under Memory Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{67:1--67:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.67},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253542},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.67},
  annote =	{Keywords: correlation clustering, query-space complexity, information theory}
}
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On Closure Properties of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs

Authors: Robert Andrews, Jules Armand, Prateek Dwivedi, Magnus Rahbek Dalgaard Hansen, Nutan Limaye, Srikanth Srinivasan, and Sébastien Tavenas

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
We investigate the closure properties of read-once oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs (roABPs) under various natural algebraic operations and prove the following. - Non-closure under factoring: There is a sequence of explicit polynomials (f_n(x₁,…, x_n))_n that have poly(n)-sized roABPs such that some irreducible factor of f_n requires roABPs of superpolynomial size in any order. - Non-closure under powering: There is a sequence of polynomials (f_n(x₁,…, x_n))_n with poly(n)-sized roABPs such that any super-constant power of f_n does not have roABPs of polynomial size in any order (and f_nⁿ requires exponential size in any order). - Non-closure under symmetric operations: There are symmetric polynomials (f_n(e₁,…, e_n))_n that have roABPs of polynomial size such that f_n(x₁,…, x_n) do not have roABPs of subexponential size. (Here, e₁,…, e_n denote the elementary symmetric polynomials in n variables.) These results should be viewed in light of known results on models such as algebraic circuits, (general) algebraic branching programs, formulas and constant-depth circuits, all of which are known to be closed under these operations. To prove non-closure under factoring, we construct hard polynomials based on expander graphs using gadgets that lift their hardness from sparse polynomials to roABPs. For symmetric compositions, we show that the circulant polynomial requires roABPs of exponential size in every variable order.

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Robert Andrews, Jules Armand, Prateek Dwivedi, Magnus Rahbek Dalgaard Hansen, Nutan Limaye, Srikanth Srinivasan, and Sébastien Tavenas. On Closure Properties of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 9:1-9:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{andrews_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.9,
  author =	{Andrews, Robert and Armand, Jules and Dwivedi, Prateek and Hansen, Magnus Rahbek Dalgaard and Limaye, Nutan and Srinivasan, Srikanth and Tavenas, S\'{e}bastien},
  title =	{{On Closure Properties of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-252964},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Factoring, Closure Properties, Sparsity Bounds, Symmetric Polynomials, roABP, Expander Graphs}
}
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Research
Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web

Authors: Florian Ruosch, Cristina Sarasua, and Abraham Bernstein

Published in: TGDK, Volume 3, Issue 3 (2025). Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 3, Issue 3


Abstract
In Argument Mining, predicting argumentative relations between texts (or spans) remains one of the most challenging aspects, even more so in the cross-document setting. This paper makes three key contributions to advance research in this domain. We first extend an existing dataset, the Sci-Arg corpus, by annotating it with explicit inter-document argumentative relations, thereby allowing arguments to be distributed over several documents forming an Argument Web; these new annotations are published using Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL). Second, we explore and evaluate three automated approaches for predicting these inter-document argumentative relations, establishing critical baselines on the new dataset. We find that a simple classifier based on discourse indicators with access to context outperforms neural methods. Third, we conduct a comparative analysis of these approaches for both intra- and inter-document settings, identifying statistically significant differences in results that indicate the necessity of distinguishing between these two scenarios. Our findings highlight significant challenges in this complex domain and open crucial avenues for future research on the Argument Web of Science, particularly for those interested in leveraging Semantic Web technologies and knowledge graphs to understand scholarly discourse. With this, we provide the first stepping stones in the form of a benchmark dataset, three baseline methods, and an initial analysis for a systematic exploration of this field relevant to the Web of Data and Science.

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Florian Ruosch, Cristina Sarasua, and Abraham Bernstein. Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web. In Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 4:1-4:33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@Article{ruosch_et_al:TGDK.3.3.4,
  author =	{Ruosch, Florian and Sarasua, Cristina and Bernstein, Abraham},
  title =	{{Mining Inter-Document Argument Structures in Scientific Papers for an Argument Web}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{4:1--4:33},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{3},
  number =	{3},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.3.3.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-252159},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.3.3.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Argument Mining, Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, Link Prediction}
}
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DX Competition
Data-Driven Fault Detection and Isolation Enhanced with System Structural Relationships (DX Competition)

Authors: Austin Coursey, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Marcos Quinones-Grueiro, and Gautam Biswas

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 136, 36th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX 2025)


Abstract
Fault detection and isolation are becoming increasingly important as modern systems become more complex. To encourage the development of new fault detection solutions that can operate with limited noisy data and an incomplete mathematical model, the DX 2025 LiU-ICE competition for diagnosis of the air path of an internal combustion engine was introduced. In this paper, we present our winning solution to this competition. Our fault detection architecture starts with a semi-supervised Transformer Autoencoder trained to reconstruct nominal data. Detected faults are then passed through a rule-based fault persistence filter that aims to suppress false positives. Once a fault is detected, we use four neural networks trained to estimate features determined from structural analysis of a partial system model. The residuals of these networks are fed to a supervised fault classification network that estimates the fault probabilities. With this architecture, we achieved an 87% detection rate with a 0% false alarm rate on the provided competition data. Additionally, our isolation architecture assigned the correct fault 73.8% probabilty on average. On unseen competition data from a new driving cycle, we achieved a 100% detection rate and assigned the correct fault 66.2% probability on average. On the other hand, the Transformer Autoencoder failed to transfer to the new driving conditions, causing many false alarms. We discuss ways future work can reduce this.

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Austin Coursey, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Marcos Quinones-Grueiro, and Gautam Biswas. Data-Driven Fault Detection and Isolation Enhanced with System Structural Relationships (DX Competition). In 36th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 136, pp. 15:1-15:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{coursey_et_al:OASIcs.DX.2025.15,
  author =	{Coursey, Austin and Diaz-Gonzalez, Abel and Quinones-Grueiro, Marcos and Biswas, Gautam},
  title =	{{Data-Driven Fault Detection and Isolation Enhanced with System Structural Relationships}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Conference on Principles of Diagnosis and Resilient Systems (DX 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:17},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-394-2},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{136},
  editor =	{Quinones-Grueiro, Marcos and Biswas, Gautam and Pill, Ingo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.DX.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248043},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.DX.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: fault detection, fault isolation, autoencoder}
}
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Integrating Human-In-The-Loop AI to Tackle Space Communication Delay Challenges

Authors: Nikos Mavrakis, Effie Lai-Chong Law, and Hubert P. H. Shum

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 130, Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)


Abstract
Deep space missions face significant communication delays that disrupt both operational workflows and psychological support for crew members. Unlike low Earth orbit operations, delays ranging from several minutes to nearly an hour make real-time communication with mission control infeasible, forcing crews to act with greater independence under uncertain conditions. This position paper examines how human-in-the-loop AI, digital twins, and edge AI can be integrated to mitigate these delays while maintaining astronaut autonomy and engagement. We argue that human-in-the-loop AI enables decision-making processes that are responsive to local context while remaining adaptable to changing mission demands. Digital twins offer real-time simulation and predictive modelling capabilities, allowing astronauts to explore options and troubleshoot without waiting for ground input. Edge AI brings computation closer to data sources, enabling low-latency inference onboard spacecraft for time-critical decisions. These ideas are explored through two use cases: using deepfakes to support emotionally resonant communication with loved ones, and applying visual-language models for onboard fault diagnosis and adaptive task replanning. We conclude with reflections on system design challenges under constrained and high-stakes conditions.

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Nikos Mavrakis, Effie Lai-Chong Law, and Hubert P. H. Shum. Integrating Human-In-The-Loop AI to Tackle Space Communication Delay Challenges. In Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 130, pp. 15:1-15:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{mavrakis_et_al:OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.15,
  author =	{Mavrakis, Nikos and Law, Effie Lai-Chong and Shum, Hubert P. H.},
  title =	{{Integrating Human-In-The-Loop AI to Tackle Space Communication Delay Challenges}},
  booktitle =	{Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space Exploration (SpaceCHI 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:16},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-384-3},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{130},
  editor =	{Bensch, Leonie and Nilsson, Tommy and Nisser, Martin and Pataranutaporn, Pat and Schmidt, Albrecht and Sumini, Valentina},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240051},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SpaceCHI.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Human-in-the-loop AI, communication delays, human spaceflight}
}
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RANDOM
Algorithmic Contiguity from Low-Degree Conjecture and Applications in Correlated Random Graphs

Authors: Zhangsong Li

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)


Abstract
In this paper, assuming a natural strengthening of the low-degree conjecture, we provide evidence of computational hardness for two problems: (1) the (partial) matching recovery problem in the sparse correlated Erdős-Rényi graphs G(n,q;ρ) when the edge-density q = n^{-1+o(1)} and the correlation ρ < √{α} lies below the Otter’s threshold, this resolves a remaining problem in [Jian Ding et al., 2023]; (2) the detection problem between a pair of correlated sparse stochastic block model S(n,λ/n;k,ε;s) and a pair of independent stochastic block models S(n,λs/n;k,ε) when ε² λ s < 1 lies below the Kesten-Stigum (KS) threshold and s < √α lies below the Otter’s threshold, this resolves a remaining problem in [Guanyi Chen et al., 2024]. One of the main ingredient in our proof is to derive certain forms of algorithmic contiguity between two probability measures based on bounds on their low-degree advantage. To be more precise, consider the high-dimensional hypothesis testing problem between two probability measures ℙ and ℚ based on the sample Y. We show that if the low-degree advantage Adv_{≤D}(dℙ/dℚ) = O(1), then (assuming the low-degree conjecture) there is no efficient algorithm A such that ℚ(A(Y) = 0) = 1-o(1) and ℙ(A(Y) = 1) = Ω(1). This framework provides a useful tool for performing reductions between different inference tasks.

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Zhangsong Li. Algorithmic Contiguity from Low-Degree Conjecture and Applications in Correlated Random Graphs. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 30:1-30:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{li:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.30,
  author =	{Li, Zhangsong},
  title =	{{Algorithmic Contiguity from Low-Degree Conjecture and Applications in Correlated Random Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-243965},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algorithmic Contiguity, Low-degree Conjecture, Correlated Random Graphs}
}
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Counting Martingales for Measure and Dimension in Complexity Classes

Authors: John M. Hitchcock, Adewale Sekoni, and Hadi Shafei

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 339, 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)


Abstract
This paper makes two primary contributions. First, we introduce the concept of counting martingales and use it to define counting measures and counting dimensions. Second, we apply these new tools to strengthen previous circuit lower bounds. Resource-bounded measure and dimension have traditionally focused on deterministic time and space bounds. We use counting complexity classes to develop resource-bounded counting measures and dimensions. Counting martingales are constructed using functions from the #𝖯, SpanP, and GapP complexity classes. We show that counting martingales capture many martingale constructions in complexity theory. The resulting counting measures and dimensions are intermediate in power between the standard time-bounded and space-bounded notions, enabling finer-grained analysis where space-bounded measures are known, but time-bounded measures remain open. For example, we show that BPP has #𝖯-dimension 0 and BQP has GapP-dimension 0, whereas the 𝖯-dimensions of these classes remain open. As our main application, we improve circuit-size lower bounds. Lutz (1992) strengthened Shannon’s classic (1-ε) 2ⁿ/n lower bound (1949) to PSPACE-measure, showing that almost all problems require circuits of size (2ⁿ/n)(1+(α log n)/n), for any α < 1. We extend this result to SpanP-measure, with a proof that uses a connection through the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP) to construct a counting martingale. Our results imply that the stronger lower bound holds within the third level of the exponential-time hierarchy, whereas previously, it was only known in ESPACE. Under a derandomization hypothesis, this lower bound holds within the second level of the exponential-time hierarchy, specifically in the class 𝖤^NP. We also study the #𝖯-dimension of classical circuit complexity classes and the GapP-dimension of quantum circuit complexity classes.

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John M. Hitchcock, Adewale Sekoni, and Hadi Shafei. Counting Martingales for Measure and Dimension in Complexity Classes. In 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 339, pp. 20:1-20:35, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{hitchcock_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2025.20,
  author =	{Hitchcock, John M. and Sekoni, Adewale and Shafei, Hadi},
  title =	{{Counting Martingales for Measure and Dimension in Complexity Classes}},
  booktitle =	{40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:35},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-379-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{339},
  editor =	{Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237145},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: resource-bounded measure, resource-bounded dimension, counting martingales, counting complexity, circuit complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, quantum complexity, Minimum Circuit Size Problem}
}
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Algebraic Pseudorandomness in VNC⁰

Authors: Robert Andrews

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 339, 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)


Abstract
We study the arithmetic complexity of hitting set generators, which are pseudorandom objects used for derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem. We give new explicit constructions of hitting set generators whose outputs are computable in VNC⁰, i.e., can be computed by arithmetic formulas of constant size. Unconditionally, we construct a VNC⁰-computable generator that hits arithmetic circuits of constant depth and polynomial size. We also give conditional constructions, under strong but plausible hardness assumptions, of VNC⁰-computable generators that hit arithmetic formulas and arithmetic branching programs of polynomial size, respectively. As a corollary of our constructions, we derive lower bounds for subsystems of the Geometric Ideal Proof System of Grochow and Pitassi. Constructions of such generators are implicit in prior work of Kayal on lower bounds for the degree of annihilating polynomials. Our main contribution is a construction whose correctness relies on circuit complexity lower bounds rather than degree lower bounds.

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Robert Andrews. Algebraic Pseudorandomness in VNC⁰. In 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 339, pp. 15:1-15:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{andrews:LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15,
  author =	{Andrews, Robert},
  title =	{{Algebraic Pseudorandomness in VNC⁰}},
  booktitle =	{40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-379-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{339},
  editor =	{Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237092},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polynomial identity testing, Algebraic circuits, Ideal Proof System}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Streaming Maximal Matching with Bounded Deletions

Authors: Sanjeev Khanna, Christian Konrad, and Jacques Dark

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)


Abstract
We initiate the study of the Maximal Matching problem in bounded-deletion graph streams. In this setting, a graph G is revealed as an arbitrary sequence of edge insertions and deletions, where the number of insertions is unrestricted but the number of deletions is guaranteed to be at most K, for some given parameter K. The single-pass streaming space complexity of this problem is known to be Θ(n²) when K is unrestricted, where n is the number of vertices of the input graph. In this work, we present new randomized and deterministic algorithms and matching lower bound results that together give a tight understanding (up to poly-log factors) of how the space complexity of Maximal Matching evolves as a function of the parameter K: The randomized space complexity of this problem is Θ̃(n ⋅ √K), while the deterministic space complexity is Θ̃(n ⋅ K). We further show that if we relax the maximal matching requirement to an α-approximation to Maximum Matching, for any constant α > 2, then the space complexity for both, deterministic and randomized algorithms, strikingly changes to Θ̃(n + K). A key conceptual contribution of our work that underlies all our algorithmic results is the introduction of the hierarchical maximal matching data structure, which computes a hierarchy of L maximal matchings on the substream of edge insertions, for an integer L. This deterministic data structure allows recovering a Maximal Matching even in the presence of up to L-1 edge deletions, which immediately yields an optimal deterministic algorithm with space Õ(n ⋅ K). To reduce the space to Õ(n ⋅ √K), we compute only √K levels of our hierarchical matching data structure and utilize a randomized linear sketch, i.e., our matching repair data structure, to repair any damage due to edge deletions. Using our repair data structure, we show that the level that is least affected by deletions can be repaired back to be globally maximal. The repair data structure is computed independently of the hierarchical maximal matching data structure and stores information for vertices at different scales with a gradually smaller set of vertices storing more and more information about their incident edges. The repair process then makes progress either by rematching a vertex to a previously unmatched vertex, or by strategically matching it to another matched vertex whose current mate is in a better position to find a new mate in that we have stored more information about its incident edges. Our lower bound result for randomized algorithms is obtained by establishing a lower bound for a generalization of the well-known Augmented-Index problem in the one-way two-party communication setting that we refer to as Embedded-Augmented-Index, and then showing that an instance of Embedded-Augmented-Index reduces to computing a maximal matching in bounded-deletion streams. To obtain our lower bound for deterministic algorithms, we utilize a compression argument to show that a deterministic algorithm with space o(n ⋅ K) would yield a scheme to compress a suitable class of graphs below the information-theoretic threshold.

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Sanjeev Khanna, Christian Konrad, and Jacques Dark. Streaming Maximal Matching with Bounded Deletions. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 106:1-106:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{khanna_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.106,
  author =	{Khanna, Sanjeev and Konrad, Christian and Dark, Jacques},
  title =	{{Streaming Maximal Matching with Bounded Deletions}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{106:1--106:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.106},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234834},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.106},
  annote =	{Keywords: Streaming Algorithms, Maximal Matching, Maximum Matching, Bounded-Deletion Streams}
}
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Uniform Bounds on Product Sylvester-Gallai Configurations

Authors: Abhibhav Garg, Rafael Oliveira, and Akash Kumar Sengupta

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 332, 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)


Abstract
In this work, we explore a non-linear extension of the classical Sylvester-Gallai configuration. Let 𝕂 be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let ℱ = {F_1, …, F_m} ⊂ 𝕂[x_1, …, x_N] denote a collection of irreducible homogeneous polynomials of degree at most d, where each F_i is not a scalar multiple of any other F_j for i ≠ j. We define ℱ to be a product Sylvester-Gallai configuration if, for any two distinct polynomials F_i, F_j ∈ ℱ, the following condition is satisfied: ∏_{k≠i, j} F_k ∈ rad (F_i, F_j) . We prove that product Sylvester-Gallai configurations are inherently low dimensional. Specifically, we show that there exists a function λ : ℕ → ℕ, independent of 𝕂, N, and m, such that any product Sylvester-Gallai configuration must satisfy: dim(span_𝕂(ℱ)) ≤ λ(d). This result generalizes the main theorems from (Shpilka 2019, Peleg and Shpilka 2020, Oliveira and Sengupta 2023), and gets us one step closer to a full derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem for the class of depth 4 circuits with bounded top and bottom fan-in.

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Abhibhav Garg, Rafael Oliveira, and Akash Kumar Sengupta. Uniform Bounds on Product Sylvester-Gallai Configurations. In 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 332, pp. 52:1-52:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{garg_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52,
  author =	{Garg, Abhibhav and Oliveira, Rafael and Sengupta, Akash Kumar},
  title =	{{Uniform Bounds on Product Sylvester-Gallai Configurations}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-370-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{332},
  editor =	{Aichholzer, Oswin and Wang, Haitao},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-232043},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Sylvester-Gallai theorem, arrangements of hypersurfaces, algebraic complexity, polynomial identity testing, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra}
}
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APPROX
Sketching Approximability of (Weak) Monarchy Predicates

Authors: Chi-Ning Chou, Alexander Golovnev, Amirbehshad Shahrasbi, Madhu Sudan, and Santhoshini Velusamy

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 245, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)


Abstract
We analyze the sketching approximability of constraint satisfaction problems on Boolean domains, where the constraints are balanced linear threshold functions applied to literals. In particular, we explore the approximability of monarchy-like functions where the value of the function is determined by a weighted combination of the vote of the first variable (the president) and the sum of the votes of all remaining variables. The pure version of this function is when the president can only be overruled by when all remaining variables agree. For every k ≥ 5, we show that CSPs where the underlying predicate is a pure monarchy function on k variables have no non-trivial sketching approximation algorithm in o(√n) space. We also show infinitely many weaker monarchy functions for which CSPs using such constraints are non-trivially approximable by O(log(n)) space sketching algorithms. Moreover, we give the first example of sketching approximable asymmetric Boolean CSPs. Our results work within the framework of Chou, Golovnev, Sudan, and Velusamy (FOCS 2021) that characterizes the sketching approximability of all CSPs. Their framework can be applied naturally to get a computer-aided analysis of the approximability of any specific constraint satisfaction problem. The novelty of our work is in using their work to get an analysis that applies to infinitely many problems simultaneously.

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Chi-Ning Chou, Alexander Golovnev, Amirbehshad Shahrasbi, Madhu Sudan, and Santhoshini Velusamy. Sketching Approximability of (Weak) Monarchy Predicates. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 245, pp. 35:1-35:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{chou_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.35,
  author =	{Chou, Chi-Ning and Golovnev, Alexander and Shahrasbi, Amirbehshad and Sudan, Madhu and Velusamy, Santhoshini},
  title =	{{Sketching Approximability of (Weak) Monarchy Predicates}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-249-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{245},
  editor =	{Chakrabarti, Amit and Swamy, Chaitanya},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.35},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171573},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: sketching algorithms, approximability, linear threshold functions}
}
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Invited Talk
Streaming and Sketching Complexity of CSPs: A Survey (Invited Talk)

Authors: Madhu Sudan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)


Abstract
In this survey we describe progress over the last decade or so in understanding the complexity of solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) approximately in the streaming and sketching models of computation. After surveying some of the results we give some sketches of the proofs and in particular try to explain why there is a tight dichotomy result for sketching algorithms working in subpolynomial space regime.

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Madhu Sudan. Streaming and Sketching Complexity of CSPs: A Survey (Invited Talk). In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 5:1-5:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{sudan:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.5,
  author =	{Sudan, Madhu},
  title =	{{Streaming and Sketching Complexity of CSPs: A Survey}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-163460},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Streaming algorithms, Sketching algorithms, Dichotomy, Communication Complexity}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Limitations of Local Quantum Algorithms on Random MAX-k-XOR and Beyond

Authors: Chi-Ning Chou, Peter J. Love, Juspreet Singh Sandhu, and Jonathan Shi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)


Abstract
We introduce a notion of generic local algorithm, which strictly generalizes existing frameworks of local algorithms such as factors of i.i.d. by capturing local quantum algorithms such as the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). Motivated by a question of Farhi et al. [arXiv:1910.08187, 2019], we then show limitations of generic local algorithms including QAOA on random instances of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Specifically, we show that any generic local algorithm whose assignment to a vertex depends only on a local neighborhood with o(n) other vertices (such as the QAOA at depth less than εlog(n)) cannot arbitrarily-well approximate boolean CSPs if the problem satisfies a geometric property from statistical physics called the coupled overlap-gap property (OGP) [Chen et al., Annals of Probability, 47(3), 2019]. We show that the random MAX-k-XOR problem has this property when k ≥ 4 is even by extending the corresponding result for diluted k-spin glasses. Our concentration lemmas confirm a conjecture of Brandao et al. [arXiv:1812.04170, 2018] asserting that the landscape independence of QAOA extends to logarithmic depth - in other words, for every fixed choice of QAOA angle parameters, the algorithm at logarithmic depth performs almost equally well on almost all instances. One of these lemmas is a strengthening of McDiarmid’s inequality, applicable when the random variables have a highly biased distribution, and may be of independent interest.

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Chi-Ning Chou, Peter J. Love, Juspreet Singh Sandhu, and Jonathan Shi. Limitations of Local Quantum Algorithms on Random MAX-k-XOR and Beyond. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 41:1-41:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{chou_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.41,
  author =	{Chou, Chi-Ning and Love, Peter J. and Sandhu, Juspreet Singh and Shi, Jonathan},
  title =	{{Limitations of Local Quantum Algorithms on Random MAX-k-XOR and Beyond}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{41:1--41:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.41},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-163822},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum Algorithms, Spin Glasses, Hardness of Approximation, Local Algorithms, Concentration Inequalities, Overlap Gap Property}
}
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