36 Search Results for "Fischer, Eldar"


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Spectral Norm, Economical Sieve, and Linear Invariance Testing of Boolean Functions

Authors: Swarnalipa Datta, Arijit Ghosh, Chandrima Kayal, Manaswi Paraashar, and Manmatha Roy

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)


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Given Boolean functions f, g : 𝔽₂ⁿ → {-1,+1}, we say they are linearly isomorphic if there exists A ∈ GL_n(𝔽₂) such that f(x) = g(Ax) for all x. We study this problem in the tolerant property testing framework under the known-unknown model, where g is given explicitly and f is accessible only via oracle queries, meaning the algorithm may adaptively request the value of f(x) for inputs x ∈ 𝔽₂ⁿ of its choice. Given parameters ε ≥ 0 and ω > 0, the goal is to distinguish whether there exists A ∈ GL_n(𝔽₂) such that the normalized Hamming distance between f and g(Ax) is at most ε, or whether for every A ∈ GL_n(𝔽₂) the distance is at least ε+ω. Our main result is a tolerant tester making Õ ((m/ω) ⁴) queries to f, where m is an upper bound on the spectral norm of g, improving the previous Õ ((m/ω) ^{24}) bound of Wimmer and Yoshida. We complement this with a nearly matching lower bound of Ω(m²) for constant ω (for example, ω = 1/4), improving the prior Ω(log m) lower bound of Grigorescu, Wimmer and Xie. A key technical ingredient on the algorithmic side is a query-efficient local list corrector. For the lower bound, we give a reduction from communication complexity using a novel subclass of Maiorana-McFarland functions from symmetric-key cryptography.

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Swarnalipa Datta, Arijit Ghosh, Chandrima Kayal, Manaswi Paraashar, and Manmatha Roy. Spectral Norm, Economical Sieve, and Linear Invariance Testing of Boolean Functions. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 30:1-30:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{datta_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.30,
  author =	{Datta, Swarnalipa and Ghosh, Arijit and Kayal, Chandrima and Paraashar, Manaswi and Roy, Manmatha},
  title =	{{Spectral Norm, Economical Sieve, and Linear Invariance Testing of Boolean Functions}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{30:1--30:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.30},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255194},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.30},
  annote =	{Keywords: Boolean Function, Isomorphism of Boolean Function, Fourier Analysis, Sublinear Algorithm, Property Testing}
}
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Testing H-Freeness on Sparse Graphs, the Case of Bounded Expansion

Authors: Samuel Humeau, Mamadou Moustapha Kanté, Daniel Mock, Timothé Picavet, and Alexandre Vigny

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 364, 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)


Abstract
In property testing, a tester makes queries to (an oracle for) a graph and, on a graph having or being far from having a property P, it decides with high probability whether the graph satisfies P or not. Often, testers are restricted to a constant number of queries. While the graph properties for which there exists such a tester are somewhat well characterized in the dense graph model, it is not the case for sparse graphs. In this area, Czumaj and Sohler (FOCS’19) proved that H-freeness (i.e. the property of excluding the graph H as a subgraph) can be tested with constant queries on planar graphs as well as on graph classes excluding a minor. Using results from the sparsity toolkit, we propose a simpler alternative to the proof of Czumaj and Sohler, for a statement generalized to the broader notion of bounded expansion. That is, we prove that for any class 𝒞 with bounded expansion and any graph H, testing H-freeness can be done with constant query complexity on any graph G in 𝒞, where the constant depends on H and 𝒞, but is independent of G. While classes excluding a minor are prime examples of classes with bounded expansion, so are, for example, cubic graphs, graph classes with bounded maximum degree, or graphs of bounded book thickness. Additionally, random graphs with bounded average degree almost surely have bounded expansion.

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Samuel Humeau, Mamadou Moustapha Kanté, Daniel Mock, Timothé Picavet, and Alexandre Vigny. Testing H-Freeness on Sparse Graphs, the Case of Bounded Expansion. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 55:1-55:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{humeau_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.55,
  author =	{Humeau, Samuel and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha and Mock, Daniel and Picavet, Timoth\'{e} and Vigny, Alexandre},
  title =	{{Testing H-Freeness on Sparse Graphs, the Case of Bounded Expansion}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{55:1--55:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-412-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{364},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Manea, Florin and McIver, Annabelle and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.55},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255441},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.55},
  annote =	{Keywords: Property testing, Sparsity, Bounded expansion, Treedepth}
}
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Testing Classical Properties from Quantum Data

Authors: Matthias C. Caro, Preksha Naik, and Joseph Slote

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


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Many properties of Boolean functions can be tested far more efficiently than the function itself can be learned. However, this dramatic advantage often disappears when testers are limited to random samples of f instead of adaptively chosen queries to f. In this work we investigate the quantum version of this restriction: quantum algorithms that test properties of a Boolean function f solely from copies of either the function state |f⟩∝ ∑_x|x,f(x)⟩ or the phase state |(-1)^f⟩∝ ∑_x (-1)^{f(x)}|x⟩. Quantum advantage in testing from data. For monotonicity, symmetry, and triangle-freeness, we show passive quantum testers are unboundedly or super-polynomially better than their classical passive testing counterparts. They are competitive with classic query-based testers in each case. Inadequacy of Fourier sampling. Our new testers use techniques beyond quantum Fourier sampling, and it turns out this is necessary: we show a certain class of bent functions can be tested from 𝒪(1) function states but has a sample complexity lower bound of 2^{Ω(n)} for any tester relying exclusively on Fourier and classical samples. Classical queries vs. quantum data. Our passive quantum testers are competitive with classical query-based testers, but this isn't universal: we exhibit a testing problem that can be solved from 𝒪(1) classical queries but requires Ω(2^{n/2}) function state copies. The Forrelation problem provides a separation of the same magnitude in the opposite direction, so we conclude that quantum data and classical queries are "maximally incomparable" resources for testing. Towards lower bounds. We also begin the study of lower bounds for testing from quantum data. For quantum monotonicity testing, we prove that the ensembles of [Goldreich et al., 2000; Black, 2024], which give exponential lower bounds for classical sample-based testing, do not yield any nontrivial lower bounds for testing from quantum data. New insights specific to quantum data will be required for proving copy complexity lower bounds for testing in this model.

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Matthias C. Caro, Preksha Naik, and Joseph Slote. Testing Classical Properties from Quantum Data. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 34:1-34:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{caro_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.34,
  author =	{Caro, Matthias C. and Naik, Preksha and Slote, Joseph},
  title =	{{Testing Classical Properties from Quantum Data}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:26},
  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.2026.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253213},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum Property Testing, Quantum Data, Boolean Functions}
}
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Interactive Proofs for Distribution Testing with Conditional Oracles

Authors: Ari Biswas, Mark Bun, Clément L. Canonne, and Satchit Sivakumar

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


Abstract
We revisit the framework of interactive proofs for distribution testing, first introduced by Chiesa and Gur (ITCS 2018), which has recently experienced a surge in interest, accompanied by notable progress (e.g., Herman and Rothblum, STOC 2022, FOCS 2023; Herman, RANDOM 2024). In this model, a data-poor verifier determines whether a probability distribution has a property of interest by interacting with an all-powerful, data-rich but untrusted prover bent on convincing them that it has the property. While prior work gave sample-, time-, and communication-efficient protocols for testing and estimating a range of distribution properties, they all suffer from an inherent issue: for most interesting properties of distributions over a domain of size N, the verifier must draw at least Ω(√N) samples of its own. While sublinear in N, this is still prohibitive for large domains encountered in practice. In this work, we circumvent this limitation by augmenting the verifier with the ability to perform an exponentially smaller number of more powerful (but reasonable) pairwise conditional queries, effectively enabling them to perform "local comparison checks" of the prover’s claims. We systematically investigate the landscape of interactive proofs in this new setting, giving poly-logarithmic query and sample protocols for (tolerantly) testing all label-invariant properties, thus demonstrating exponential savings without compromising on communication, for this large and fundamental class of testing tasks.

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Ari Biswas, Mark Bun, Clément L. Canonne, and Satchit Sivakumar. Interactive Proofs for Distribution Testing with Conditional Oracles. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 18:1-18:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{biswas_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.18,
  author =	{Biswas, Ari and Bun, Mark and Canonne, Cl\'{e}ment L. and Sivakumar, Satchit},
  title =	{{Interactive Proofs for Distribution Testing with Conditional Oracles}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:13},
  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.2026.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253059},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distribution Testing, Interactive Proofs}
}
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The Complexity Landscape of Dynamic Distributed Subgraph Finding

Authors: Yi-Jun Chang, Lyuting Chen, Yanyu Chen, Gopinath Mishra, and Mingyang Yang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 356, 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)


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Bonne and Censor-Hillel (ICALP 2019) initiated the study of distributed subgraph finding in dynamic networks of limited bandwidth. For the case where the target subgraph is a clique, they determined the tight bandwidth complexity bounds in nearly all settings. However, several open questions remain, and very little is known about finding subgraphs beyond cliques. In this work, we consider these questions and explore subgraphs beyond cliques in the deterministic setting. For finding cliques, we establish an Ω(log log n) bandwidth lower bound for one-round membership-detection under edge insertions only and an Ω(log log log n) bandwidth lower bound for one-round detection under both edge insertions and node insertions. Moreover, we demonstrate new algorithms to show that our lower bounds are tight in bounded-degree networks when the target subgraph is a triangle. Prior to our work, no lower bounds were known for these problems. For finding subgraphs beyond cliques, we present a complete characterization of the bandwidth complexity of the membership-listing problem for every target subgraph, every number of rounds, and every type of topological change: node insertions, node deletions, edge insertions, and edge deletions. We also show partial characterizations for one-round membership-detection and listing.

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Yi-Jun Chang, Lyuting Chen, Yanyu Chen, Gopinath Mishra, and Mingyang Yang. The Complexity Landscape of Dynamic Distributed Subgraph Finding. In 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 356, pp. 22:1-22:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{chang_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2025.22,
  author =	{Chang, Yi-Jun and Chen, Lyuting and Chen, Yanyu and Mishra, Gopinath and Yang, Mingyang},
  title =	{{The Complexity Landscape of Dynamic Distributed Subgraph Finding}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-402-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{356},
  editor =	{Kowalski, Dariusz R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-248399},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed algorithms, dynamic algorithms, subgraph finding}
}
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Testing Depth First Search Numbering

Authors: Artur Czumaj, Christian Sohler, and Stefan Walzer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
Property Testing is a formal framework to study the computational power and complexity of sampling from combinatorial objects. A central goal in standard graph property testing is to understand which graph properties are testable with sublinear query complexity. Here, a graph property P is testable with a sublinear query complexity if there is an algorithm that makes a sublinear number of queries to the input graph and accepts with probability at least 2/3, if the graph has property P, and rejects with probability at least 2/3 if it is ε-far from every graph that has property P. In this paper, we introduce a new variant of the bounded degree graph model. In this variant, in addition to the standard representation of a bounded degree graph, we assume that every vertex v has a unique label num(v) from {1, … , |V|}, and in addition to the standard queries in the bounded degree graph model, we also allow a property testing algorithm to query for the label of a vertex (but not for a vertex with a given label). Our new model is motivated by certain graph processes such as a DFS traversal, which assign consecutive numbers (labels) to the vertices of the graph. We want to study which of these numberings can be tested in sublinear time. As a first step in understanding such a model, we develop a property testing algorithm for discovery times of a DFS traversal with query complexity O(n^{1/3}/ε) and for constant ε > 0 we give a matching lower bound.

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Artur Czumaj, Christian Sohler, and Stefan Walzer. Testing Depth First Search Numbering. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 78:1-78:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{czumaj_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.78,
  author =	{Czumaj, Artur and Sohler, Christian and Walzer, Stefan},
  title =	{{Testing Depth First Search Numbering}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{78:1--78:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.78},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245466},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.78},
  annote =	{Keywords: Randomized Algorithms, Graph Algorithms, Property Testing}
}
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Tolerant Testers for Subgraph-Freeness

Authors: Reut Levi and Jonathan Meiri

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


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In this paper we study the problem of tolerantly testing the property of being H-free (which also implies distance approximation from being H-free). In the general-graphs model, we show that for tolerant K_k-freeness testing can be achieved with query complexity that is polynomial in the arboricity of the input graph G, arb(G), and independent of the size of G (for graphs in which the average degree is Ω(1)). Specifically for triangles, our algorithm distinguished graphs which are ε-close to being triangle-free from graphs that 3ε(1+η)-far from being triangle-free with expected query complexity which is Õ(arb³(G)) (for constant η and ε). For general k-cliques our algorithm distinguishes graphs which are ε-close to being K_k-free from graphs which are binom(k,2)ε(1+η)-far from being K_k-free with expected query complexity which is polynomial in k, ε, γ and arb(G). We then generalize our result and provide a similar result for any motif H which is 2-connected of radius 1. This includes for example the wheel-graph. Finally, we show that our tester can be applied to the bounded-degree model for tolerantly testing H-freeness for any motif H. The query complexity of the algorithm is polynomial in the degree bound, d, improving the previous state-of-the-art by Marko and Ron (TALG 2009) that obtained quasi-polynomial query complexity in d.

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Reut Levi and Jonathan Meiri. Tolerant Testers for Subgraph-Freeness. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 77:1-77:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{levi_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.77,
  author =	{Levi, Reut and Meiri, Jonathan},
  title =	{{Tolerant Testers for Subgraph-Freeness}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{77:1--77:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.77},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245456},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.77},
  annote =	{Keywords: Tolerant Testing, Property Testing, Subgraph freeness, distance approximation, arboricity}
}
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Constructing Long Paths in Graph Streams

Authors: Christian Konrad and Chhaya Trehan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


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In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an n-vertex input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory that is sublinear in the input size. The streaming model poses significant challenges for algorithmically constructing long paths. Many known algorithms that are tasked with extending an existing path as a subroutine require an entire pass over the input to add a single additional edge. This raises a fundamental question: Are multiple passes inherently necessary to construct paths of non-trivial lengths, or can a single pass suffice? To address this question, we systematically study the Longest Path problem in the one-pass streaming model. In this problem, given a desired approximation factor α, the objective is to compute a path of length at least lp(G)/α, where lp(G) is the length of a longest path in the input graph G. We study the problem in the insertion-only and the insertion-deletion streaming models, and we give algorithms as well as space lower bounds for both undirected and directed graphs. Our results are: 1) We show that for undirected graphs, in both the insertion-only and the insertion-deletion models, there are semi-streaming algorithms, i.e., algorithms that use space O(n poly log n), that compute a path of length at least d/3 with high probability, where d is the average degree of the input graph. These algorithms can also yield an α-approximation to Longest Path using space Õ(n²/α). 2) Next, we show that such a result cannot be achieved for directed graphs, even in the insertion-only model. We show that computing a (n^{1-o(1)})-approximation to Longest Path in directed graphs in the insertion-only model requires space Ω(n²). This result is in line with recent results that demonstrate that processing directed graphs is often significantly harder than undirected graphs in the streaming model. 3) We further complement our results with two additional lower bounds. First, we show that semi-streaming space is insufficient for small constant factor approximations to Longest Path for undirected graphs in the insertion-only model. Last, in undirected graphs in the insertion-deletion model, we show that computing an α-approximation requires space Ω(n²/α³).

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Christian Konrad and Chhaya Trehan. Constructing Long Paths in Graph Streams. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 22:1-22:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{konrad_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.22,
  author =	{Konrad, Christian and Trehan, Chhaya},
  title =	{{Constructing Long Paths in Graph Streams}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244902},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Longest Path Problem, Streaming Algorithms, One-way Two-party Communication Complexity}
}
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On Estimating the Quantum 𝓁_α Distance

Authors: Yupan Liu and Qisheng Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


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We study the computational complexity of estimating the quantum 𝓁_α distance T_α(ρ₀,ρ₁), defined via the Schatten α-norm ‖A‖_α := tr(|A|^α)^{1/α}, given poly(n)-size state-preparation circuits of n-qubit quantum states ρ₀ and ρ₁. This quantity serves as a lower bound on the trace distance for α > 1. For any constant α > 1, we develop an efficient rank-independent quantum estimator for T_α(ρ₀,ρ₁) with time complexity poly(n), achieving an exponential speedup over the prior best results of exp(n) due to Wang, Guan, Liu, Zhang, and Ying (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 2024). Our improvement leverages efficiently computable uniform polynomial approximations of signed positive power functions within quantum singular value transformation, thereby eliminating the dependence on the rank of the states. Our quantum algorithm reveals a dichotomy in the computational complexity of the Quantum State Distinguishability Problem with Schatten α-norm (QSD_α), which involves deciding whether T_α(ρ₀,ρ₁) is at least 2/5 or at most 1/5. This dichotomy arises between the cases of constant α > 1 and α = 1: - For any 1+Ω(1) ≤ α ≤ O(1), QSD_α is BQP-complete. - For any 1 ≤ α ≤ 1+1/n, QSD_α is QSZK-complete, implying that no efficient quantum estimator for T_α(ρ₀,ρ₁) exists unless BQP = QSZK. The hardness results follow from reductions based on new rank-dependent inequalities for the quantum 𝓁_α distance with 1 ≤ α ≤ ∞, which are of independent interest.

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Yupan Liu and Qisheng Wang. On Estimating the Quantum 𝓁_α Distance. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 106:1-106:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{liu_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.106,
  author =	{Liu, Yupan and Wang, Qisheng},
  title =	{{On Estimating the Quantum 𝓁\underline\alpha Distance}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{106:1--106:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.106},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245758},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.106},
  annote =	{Keywords: quantum algorithms, quantum state testing, trace distance, Schatten norm}
}
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Property Testing of Curve Similarity

Authors: Peyman Afshani, Maike Buchin, Anne Driemel, Marena Richter, and Sampson Wong

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 351, 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)


Abstract
We propose sublinear algorithms for probabilistic testing of the discrete and continuous Fréchet distance - a standard similarity measure for curves. We assume the algorithm is given access to the input curves via a query oracle: a query returns the set of vertices of the curve that lie within a radius δ of a specified vertex of the other curve. The goal is to use a small number of queries to determine with constant probability whether the two curves are similar (i.e., their discrete Fréchet distance is at most δ) or they are "ε-far" (for 0 < ε < 2) from being similar, i.e., more than an ε-fraction of the two curves must be ignored for them to become similar. We present two algorithms which are sublinear assuming that the curves are t-approximate shortest paths in the ambient metric space, for some t ≪ n. The first algorithm uses O(t/ε log t/ε) queries and is given the value of t in advance. The second algorithm does not have explicit knowledge of the value of t and therefore needs to gain implicit knowledge of the straightness of the input curves through its queries. We show that the discrete Fréchet distance can still be tested using roughly O({t³+t² log n}/ε) queries ignoring logarithmic factors in t. Our algorithms work in a matrix representation of the input and may be of independent interest to matrix testing. Our algorithms use a mild uniform sampling condition that constrains the edge lengths of the curves, similar to a polynomially bounded aspect ratio. Applied to testing the continuous Fréchet distance of t-straight curves, our algorithms can be used for (1+ε')-approximate testing using essentially the same bounds as stated above with an additional factor of poly(1/(ε')).

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Peyman Afshani, Maike Buchin, Anne Driemel, Marena Richter, and Sampson Wong. Property Testing of Curve Similarity. In 33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 351, pp. 84:1-84:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{afshani_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2025.84,
  author =	{Afshani, Peyman and Buchin, Maike and Driemel, Anne and Richter, Marena and Wong, Sampson},
  title =	{{Property Testing of Curve Similarity}},
  booktitle =	{33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)},
  pages =	{84:1--84:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-395-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{351},
  editor =	{Benoit, Anne and Kaplan, Haim and Wild, Sebastian and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.84},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-245522},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2025.84},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fr\'{e}chet distance, Trajectory Analysis, Curve Similarity, Property Testing, Monotonicity Testing}
}
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Quantum Property Testing in Sparse Directed Graphs

Authors: Simon Apers, Frédéric Magniez, Sayantan Sen, and Dániel Szabó

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


Abstract
We initiate the study of quantum property testing in sparse directed graphs, and more particularly in the unidirectional model, where the algorithm is allowed to query only the outgoing edges of a vertex. In the classical unidirectional model, the problem of testing k-star-freeness, and more generally k-source-subgraph-freeness, is almost maximally hard for large k. We prove that this problem has almost quadratic advantage in the quantum setting. Moreover, we show that this advantage is nearly tight, by showing a quantum lower bound using the method of dual polynomials on an intermediate problem for a new, property testing version of the k-collision problem that was not studied before. To illustrate that not all problems in graph property testing admit such a quantum speedup, we consider the problem of 3-colorability in the related undirected bounded-degree model, when graphs are now undirected. This problem is maximally hard to test classically, and we show that also quantumly it requires a linear number of queries.

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Simon Apers, Frédéric Magniez, Sayantan Sen, and Dániel Szabó. Quantum Property Testing in Sparse Directed Graphs. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 32:1-32:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{apers_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.32,
  author =	{Apers, Simon and Magniez, Fr\'{e}d\'{e}ric and Sen, Sayantan and Szab\'{o}, D\'{a}niel},
  title =	{{Quantum Property Testing in Sparse Directed Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:24},
  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.2025.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-243987},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: property testing, quantum computing, bounded-degree directed graphs, dual polynomial method, collision finding}
}
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Testing Isomorphism of Boolean Functions over Finite Abelian Groups

Authors: Swarnalipa Datta, Arijit Ghosh, Chandrima Kayal, Manaswi Paraashar, and Manmatha Roy

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


Abstract
Let f and g be Boolean functions over a finite Abelian group 𝒢, where g is fully known and f is accessible via queries; that is, given any x ∈ 𝒢, we can obtain the value f(x). We study the problem of tolerant isomorphism testing: given parameters ε ≥ 0 and τ > 0, the goal is to determine, using as few queries as possible, whether there exists an automorphism σ of 𝒢 such that the fractional Hamming distance between f∘σ and g is at most ε, or whether for every automorphism σ, the distance is at least ε + τ. We design an efficient tolerant property testing algorithm for this problem over finite Abelian groups with constant exponent. The exponent of a finite group refers to the largest order of any element in the group. The query complexity of our algorithm is polynomial in s and 1/τ, where s bounds the spectral norm of the function g, and τ is the tolerance parameter. In addition, we present an improved algorithm in the case where g is Fourier sparse, meaning that its Fourier expansion contains only a small number of nonzero coefficients. Our approach draws on key ideas from Abelian group theory and Fourier analysis, including the annihilator of a subgroup, Pontryagin duality, and a pseudo inner product defined over finite Abelian groups. We believe that these techniques will be useful more broadly in the design of property testing algorithms.

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Swarnalipa Datta, Arijit Ghosh, Chandrima Kayal, Manaswi Paraashar, and Manmatha Roy. Testing Isomorphism of Boolean Functions over Finite Abelian Groups. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 66:1-66:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{datta_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.66,
  author =	{Datta, Swarnalipa and Ghosh, Arijit and Kayal, Chandrima and Paraashar, Manaswi and Roy, Manmatha},
  title =	{{Testing Isomorphism of Boolean Functions over Finite Abelian Groups}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{66:1--66:22},
  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.2025.66},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244328},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.66},
  annote =	{Keywords: Analysis of Boolean functions, Abelian groups, Automorphism group, Function isomorphism, Spectral norm}
}
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Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness from Hamiltonian Phase States

Authors: John Bostanci, Jonas Haferkamp, Dominik Hangleiter, and Alexander Poremba

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 350, 20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025)


Abstract
Quantum pseudorandomness has found applications in many areas of quantum information, ranging from entanglement theory, to models of scrambling phenomena in chaotic quantum systems, and, more recently, in the foundations of quantum cryptography. Kretschmer (TQC '21) showed that both pseudorandom states and pseudorandom unitaries exist even in a world without classical one-way functions. To this day, however, all known constructions require classical cryptographic building blocks which are themselves synonymous with the existence of one-way functions, and which are also challenging to implement on realistic quantum hardware. In this work, we seek to make progress on both of these fronts simultaneously - by decoupling quantum pseudorandomness from classical cryptography altogether. We introduce a quantum hardness assumption called the Hamiltonian Phase State (HPS) problem, which is the task of decoding output states of a random instantaneous quantum polynomial-time (IQP) circuit. Hamiltonian phase states can be generated very efficiently using only Hadamard gates, single-qubit Z rotations and CNOT circuits. We show that the hardness of our problem reduces to a worst-case version of the problem, and we provide evidence that our assumption is plausibly fully quantum; meaning, it cannot be used to construct one-way functions. We also show information-theoretic hardness when only few copies of HPS are available by proving an approximate t-design property of our ensemble. Finally, we show that our HPS assumption and its variants allow us to efficiently construct many pseudorandom quantum primitives, ranging from pseudorandom states, to quantum pseudoentanglement, to pseudorandom unitaries, and even primitives such as public-key encryption with quantum keys.

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John Bostanci, Jonas Haferkamp, Dominik Hangleiter, and Alexander Poremba. Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness from Hamiltonian Phase States. In 20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 350, pp. 9:1-9:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{bostanci_et_al:LIPIcs.TQC.2025.9,
  author =	{Bostanci, John and Haferkamp, Jonas and Hangleiter, Dominik and Poremba, Alexander},
  title =	{{Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness from Hamiltonian Phase States}},
  booktitle =	{20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-392-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{350},
  editor =	{Fefferman, Bill},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2025.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240586},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2025.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum pseudorandomness, quantum phase states, quantum cryptography}
}
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Uniformity Testing When You Have the Source Code

Authors: Clément L. Canonne, Robin Kothari, and Ryan O'Donnell

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 350, 20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025)


Abstract
We study quantum algorithms for verifying properties of the output probability distribution of a classical or quantum circuit, given access to the source code that generates the distribution. We consider the basic task of uniformity testing, which is to decide if the output distribution is uniform on [d] or ε-far from uniform in total variation distance. More generally, we consider identity testing, which is the task of deciding if the output distribution equals a known hypothesis distribution, or is ε-far from it. For both problems, the previous best known upper bound was O(min{d^{1/3}/ε²,d^{1/2}/ε}). Here we improve the upper bound to O(min{d^{1/3}/ε^{4/3}, d^{1/2}/ε}), which we conjecture is optimal.

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Clément L. Canonne, Robin Kothari, and Ryan O'Donnell. Uniformity Testing When You Have the Source Code. In 20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 350, pp. 7:1-7:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{canonne_et_al:LIPIcs.TQC.2025.7,
  author =	{Canonne, Cl\'{e}ment L. and Kothari, Robin and O'Donnell, Ryan},
  title =	{{Uniformity Testing When You Have the Source Code}},
  booktitle =	{20th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-392-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{350},
  editor =	{Fefferman, Bill},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2025.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-240561},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2025.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: distribution testing, uniformity testing, quantum algorithms}
}
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List Decoding Quotient Reed-Muller Codes

Authors: Omri Gotlib, Tali Kaufman, and Shachar Lovett

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


Abstract
Reed-Muller codes consist of evaluations of n-variate polynomials over a finite field 𝔽 with degree at most d. Much like every linear code, Reed-Muller codes can be characterized by constraints, where a codeword is valid if and only if it satisfies all degree-d constraints. For a subset X̃ ⊆ 𝔽ⁿ, we introduce the notion of X̃-quotient Reed-Muller code. A function F:X̃ → 𝔽 is a valid codeword in the quotient code if it satisfies all the constraints of degree-d polynomials lying in X̃. This gives rise to a novel phenomenon: a quotient codeword may have many extensions to original codewords. This weakens the connection between original codewords and quotient codewords which introduces a richer range of behaviors along with substantial new challenges. Our goal is to answer the following question: what properties of X̃ will imply that the quotient code inherits its distance and list-decoding radius from the original code? We address this question using techniques developed by Bhowmick and Lovett [Abhishek Bhowmick and Shachar Lovett, 2014], identifying key properties of 𝔽ⁿ used in their proof and extending them to general subsets X̃ ⊆ 𝔽ⁿ. By introducing a new tool, we overcome the novel challenge in analyzing the quotient code that arises from the weak connection between original and quotient codewords. This enables us to apply known results from additive combinatorics and algebraic geometry [David Kazhdan and Tamar Ziegler, 2018; David Kazhdan and Tamar Ziegler, 2019; Amichai Lampert and Tamar Ziegler, 2021] to show that when X̃ is a high rank variety, X̃-quotient Reed-Muller codes inherit the distance and list-decoding parameters from the original Reed-Muller codes.

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Omri Gotlib, Tali Kaufman, and Shachar Lovett. List Decoding Quotient Reed-Muller Codes. In 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 339, pp. 1:1-1:44, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{gotlib_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2025.1,
  author =	{Gotlib, Omri and Kaufman, Tali and Lovett, Shachar},
  title =	{{List Decoding Quotient Reed-Muller Codes}},
  booktitle =	{40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:44},
  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.2025.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236957},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reed-Muller Codes, Quotient Code, Quotient Reed-Muller Code, List Decoding, High Rank Variety, High-Order Fourier Analysis, Error-Correcting Codes}
}
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