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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.55
Suffix Random Access via Function Inversion: A Key for Asymmetric Streaming String Algorithms

Authors: Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Taha El Ghazi, Jonas Ellert, Paweł Gawrychowski, and Tatiana Starikovskaya

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 374, 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)

Abstract
Many string processing problems can be phrased in the streaming setting, where the input arrives symbol by symbol and we have sublinear working space. The area of streaming algorithms for string processing has flourished since the seminal work of Porat and Porat [FOCS 2009]. Unfortunately, problems with efficient solutions in the classical setting often do not admit efficient solutions in the streaming setting. As a bridge between these two settings, Saks and Seshadhri [SODA 2013] introduced the asymmetric streaming model (see also [Andoni, Krauthgamer, and Onak; FOCS 2010]). Here, one is given read-only access to a (typically short) reference string R of length m, while a (typically long) text T arrives as a stream. We provide a generic technique to reduce fundamental string problems in the asymmetric streaming model to the online read-only model, lifting several existing algorithms and generally improving upon the state of the art. Most notably, we obtain asymmetric streaming algorithms for exact and approximate pattern matching (under both the Hamming and edit distances), and for relative Lempel-Ziv compression, a popular scheme for measuring and exploiting redundancy in repetitive text collections. At the heart of our approach lies a novel tool that facilitates efficient computation in the asymmetric streaming model: the suffix random access data structure. In its simplest variant, it maintains constant-time random access to the longest suffix of (the seen prefix of) T that occurs in R. Let τ be a parameter that denotes the size of the data structure. A straightforward approach maintains the data structure in {O}(m/τ) time per arriving symbol of T. We drastically improve this tradeoff and reveal fundamental barriers via a bidirectional reduction between suffix random access and function inversion, a central problem in cryptography: - By leveraging Fiat and Naor’s function inversion data structure [SIAM J. Comput. 2000], we achieve Õ(1+m³/τ⁶) update time. In particular, for τ = √m, we obtain Õ(1) update time, improving over the Ω(√m) bound of the straightforward solution. - We establish an unconditional Ω̃(m/τ³) lower bound on the update time. Additionally, we show that achieving update time o(m³/τ⁷) would imply a breakthrough in function inversion. On the way to our upper bound, we propose a variant of the string synchronizing sets ([Kempa and Kociumaka; STOC 2019]) with a local sparsity condition that, as we show, admits an efficient streaming construction algorithm. We believe that our framework and techniques will find broad applications in the development of small-space string algorithms.
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Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Taha El Ghazi, Jonas Ellert, Paweł Gawrychowski, and Tatiana Starikovskaya. Suffix Random Access via Function Inversion: A Key for Asymmetric Streaming String Algorithms. In 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 374, pp. 55:1-55:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{charalampopoulos_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.55,
  author =	{Charalampopoulos, Panagiotis and El Ghazi, Taha and Ellert, Jonas and Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Starikovskaya, Tatiana},
  title =	{{Suffix Random Access via Function Inversion: A Key for Asymmetric Streaming String Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)},
  pages =	{55:1--55:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-428-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{374},
  editor =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Nanongkai, Danupon and Benedikt, Michael 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.2026.55},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-264440},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.55},
  annote =	{Keywords: streaming algorithms, function inversion, string algorithms}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.173
Stone Duality Proofs for Colorless Distributed Computability Theorems

Authors: Cameron Calk and Emmanuel Godard

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 374, 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)

Abstract
Twenty years ago, Herlihy/Shavit and Saks/Zaharoglou won the Gödel prize for the introduction of a simplicial semantics for distributed computing. This line of work culminated in a characterization of the distributed tasks which can be solved by asynchronous wait-free systems, resulting in the Asynchronous Computability Theorem (ACT). In this paper, we extend this semantics by identifying spectral topology as the natural generalization of the finite combinatorial topology they employed. In particular, we extend the topological approach of ACT to any round-based, content-neutral, full-information protocol. This family of protocols contains the Iterated Immediate Snapshot model (IIS), to which many distributed computation models can be reduced. In this sense, our work provides first steps towards a unified topological framework for distributed computing. The main insight of this work is in considering global states obtained after finite executions of a distributed protocol not as abstract simplicial complexes as was previously done, but as finite spectral spaces, considering the Alexandrov topology on the associated face posets. Using this point-set topological approach, coupled with the interpretation of a distributed protocol as an endofunctor Π on the category of simplicial complexes, we show that any initial configuration ℐ can be associated to a projective limit system of finite complexes. The limit thereof is a spectral space Π^∞(ℐ) which precisely encodes the behavior of the protocol presented by Π. This leads us to derive a new general distributed computability theorem using Stone duality: a protocol Π solves a colorless task (ℐ,𝒪,Δ) if and only if there exists a spectral map f:Π^∞(ℐ) → 𝒪 compatible with Δ. From this general characterization, we derive known colorless computability theorems, and provide new insights into the previously established connection between task-solvability and continuous maps between geometric realizations. This is achieved through Stone duality, a well established tool for such tight correspondences in computer science.
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Cameron Calk and Emmanuel Godard. Stone Duality Proofs for Colorless Distributed Computability Theorems. In 53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 374, pp. 173:1-173:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{calk_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.173,
  author =	{Calk, Cameron and Godard, Emmanuel},
  title =	{{Stone Duality Proofs for Colorless Distributed Computability Theorems}},
  booktitle =	{53rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2026)},
  pages =	{173:1--173:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-428-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{374},
  editor =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Nanongkai, Danupon and Benedikt, Michael 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.2026.173},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-265615},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2026.173},
  annote =	{Keywords: simplicial complex, partial order, spectral spaces, Stone duality, categorical semantics}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.2
Near-Real-Time Solutions for Online String Problems

Authors: Dominik Köppl and Gregory Kucherov

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)

Abstract
Based on the Breslauer-Italiano online suffix tree construction algorithm (2013) with double logarithmic worst-case guarantees on the update time per letter, we develop near-real-time algorithms for several classical problems on strings, including the computation of the longest repeating suffix array, the (reversed) Lempel-Ziv 77 factorization, and the maintenance of minimal unique substrings, all in an online manner. Our solutions improve over the best known running times for these problems in terms of the worst-case time per letter, for which we achieve a poly-log-logarithmic time complexity, within a linear space. Best known results for these problems require a poly-logarithmic time complexity per letter or only provide amortized complexity bounds. As a result of independent interest, we give conversions between the longest previous factor array and the longest repeating suffix array in space and time bounds based on their irreducible representations, which can have sizes sublinear in the length of the input string.
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Dominik Köppl and Gregory Kucherov. Near-Real-Time Solutions for Online String Problems. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 2:1-2:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{koppl_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.2,
  author =	{K\"{o}ppl, Dominik and Kucherov, Gregory},
  title =	{{Near-Real-Time Solutions for Online String Problems}},
  booktitle =	{37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-420-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{369},
  editor =	{Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259287},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: online algorithms, string algorithms, suffix tree, real-time computation, Lempel-Ziv factorization, minimal unique substrings}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.19
Asymmetric Streaming Approximate Pattern Matching

Authors: Wojciech Janczewski and Tatiana Starikovskaya

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)

Abstract
We study the space complexity of pattern matching in the asymmetric streaming model, focusing on approximate pattern matching under the Hamming and edit distances. In this problem, we are given an m-length pattern and an n-length text and must compute, for every position of the text, the smallest distance between the pattern and a substring of the text which ends at this position. In the asymmetric streaming model, we assume to have constant-time random access to the pattern, while the text arrives as a stream, one letter at a time. It is known that computing all distances exactly in the asymmetric streaming model requires Ω(m) space (for the edit distance see Li and Zheng [FSTTCS 2021]). Hence, to achieve sublinear space, a relaxation of the problem is necessary. One possible variant is to consider the small distance regime, where the algorithm must compute only those distances that are bounded by a small integer parameter k. In this case, existing algorithms in a more restrictive fully streaming model (Kociumaka, Clifford, Porat [SODA'19], Bhattacharya, Koucký [ICALP'23]) straightforwardly imply the existence of poly(k, log n)-space asymmetric streaming algorithms. Another possible relaxation is computing all distances approximately. For this variant, we don't have small-space algorithms in the fully streaming model: the best known algorithm solves pattern matching under the Hamming distance (1+ε)-approximately using 𝒪̃(ε^{-2}√m) space (Starikovskaya, Svagerka, Uznański [APPROX'20]). For the edit distance, no efficient approximation algorithms are known. In this work, we show approximation algorithms for pattern matching under the Hamming and edit distances in the asymmetric streaming model for any constant ε > 0: 1) We show that there is a simple randomised asymmetric streaming algorithm that solves approximate pattern matching under the Hamming distance (1+ε)-approximately using 𝒪(ε^{-3}log³n) bits. 2) As our second and main contribution, we extend the result of Cheng et al. [ICALP 2021] and show that for any integer k there is a deterministic asymmetric streaming algorithm that solves pattern matching under the edit distance (2^k-1+ε)-approximately using 𝒪̃(m^{1/k}) space.
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Wojciech Janczewski and Tatiana Starikovskaya. Asymmetric Streaming Approximate Pattern Matching. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 19:1-19:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{janczewski_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.19,
  author =	{Janczewski, Wojciech and Starikovskaya, Tatiana},
  title =	{{Asymmetric Streaming Approximate Pattern Matching}},
  booktitle =	{37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-420-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{369},
  editor =	{Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259458},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Asymmetric streaming, Pattern matching, Approximation, Edit distance, Hamming distance}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.26
The Communication Complexity of Pattern Matching with Edits Revisited

Authors: Tomasz Kociumaka, Jakob Nogler, and Philip Wellnitz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 369, 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)

Abstract
The decades-old Pattern Matching with Edits problem, given a length-n string T (the text), a length-m string P (the pattern), and a positive integer k (the threshold), asks to list the k-error occurrences of P in T, that is, all fragments of T whose edit distance to P is at most k. The one-way communication complexity of this problem is the minimum number of bits that Alice, given an instance (P,T,k) of the problem, must send to Bob so that Bob can reconstruct the answer solely from that message. In recent work [STOC'24], we showed that, in the natural parameter regime 0 < k < m < n/2, Ω(n/m ⋅ k log(m/k)) bits are necessary and 𝒪(n/m ⋅ k log² m) bits are sufficient for this problem. More generally, for strings over an alphabet Σ, we gave an 𝒪(n/m ⋅ k log m log(m|Σ|))-bit encoding that allows one to recover a shortest sequence of edits for every k-error occurrence of P in T. In this paper, we revisit the original proof and improve the encoding size to 𝒪(n/m ⋅ k log (m|Σ|/k)), which matches the lower bound for constant-sized alphabets. We further establish a new tight lower bound of Ω(n/m ⋅ k log(m|Σ|/k)) for the edit sequence reporting variant we solve. Our encoding size also matches the communication complexity established for the simpler Pattern Matching with Mismatches problem in the context of streaming algorithms [Clifford, Kociumaka, Porat; SODA'19].
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Tomasz Kociumaka, Jakob Nogler, and Philip Wellnitz. The Communication Complexity of Pattern Matching with Edits Revisited. In 37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 369, pp. 26:1-26:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{kociumaka_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2026.26,
  author =	{Kociumaka, Tomasz and Nogler, Jakob and Wellnitz, Philip},
  title =	{{The Communication Complexity of Pattern Matching with Edits Revisited}},
  booktitle =	{37th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2026)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-420-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{369},
  editor =	{Bille, Philip and Prezza, Nicola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259525},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2026.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Edit distance, Pattern matching, Communication complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.28
Conditional Complexity Hardness: Monotone Circuit Size, Matrix Rigidity, and Tensor Rank

Authors: Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin, and Arina Smirnova

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

Abstract
Proving complexity lower bounds remains a challenging task: currently, we only know how to prove conditional uniform (algorithm) lower bounds and nonuniform (circuit) lower bounds in restricted circuit models. About a decade ago, Williams (STOC 2010) showed how to derive nonuniform lower bounds from uniform upper bounds: roughly, by designing a fast algorithm for checking satisfiability of circuits, one gets a lower bound for this circuit class. Since then, a number of results of this kind have been proved. For example, Jahanjou et al. (ICALP 2015) and Carmosino et al. (ITCS 2016) proved that if NSETH fails, then E^{NP} has series-parallel circuit size ω(n). One can also derive nonuniform lower bounds from nondeterministic uniform lower bounds. Perhaps the most well-known example is the Karp-Lipton theorem (STOC 1980): if Σ₂ ≠ Π₂, then NP ⊄ P/poly. Some recent examples include the following. Nederlof (STOC 2020) proved a lower bound on the matrix multiplication tensor rank under an assumption that TSP cannot be solved faster than in 2ⁿ time. Belova et al. (SODA 2024) proved that there exists an explicit polynomial family of arithmetic circuit size Ω(n^{δ}), for any δ > 0, assuming that MAX-3-SAT cannot be solved faster than in 2ⁿ nondeterministic time. Williams (FOCS 2024) proved an exponential lower bound for ETHR ∘ ETHR circuits under the Orthogonal Vectors conjecture. Whereas all the lower bounds above are proved under strong assumptions that might eventually be refuted, the revealed connections are of great interest and may still give further insights: one may be able to weaken the used assumptions or to construct generators from other fine-grained reductions. In this paper, we continue developing this line of research and show how uniform nondeterministic lower bounds can be used to construct generators of various types of combinatorial objects that are notoriously hard to analyze: Boolean functions of high circuit size, matrices of high rigidity, and tensors of high rank. Specifically, we prove the following. - If, for some ε and k, k-SAT cannot be solved in input-oblivious co-nondeterministic time O(2^{(1/2+ε)n}), then there exists a monotone Boolean function family in coNP of monotone circuit size 2^{Ω(n / log n)}. Combining this with the result above, we get win-win circuit lower bounds: either E^{NP{}} requires series-parallel circuits of size ω(n) or coNP requires monotone circuits of size 2^{Ω(n / log n)}. - If, for all ε > 0, MAX-3-SAT cannot be solved in co-nondeterministic time O(2^{(1 - ε)n}), then there exist small families of matrices with rigidity exceeding the best known constructions as well as small families of three-dimensional tensors of rank n^{1+Δ}, for some Δ > 0.
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Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin, and Arina Smirnova. Conditional Complexity Hardness: Monotone Circuit Size, Matrix Rigidity, and Tensor Rank. In 43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 364, pp. 28:1-28:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{chukhin_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2026.28,
  author =	{Chukhin, Nikolai and Kulikov, Alexander S. and Mihajlin, Ivan and Smirnova, Arina},
  title =	{{Conditional Complexity Hardness: Monotone Circuit Size, Matrix Rigidity, and Tensor Rank}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:21},
  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.2026.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-255177},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2026.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: computational complexity, circuit complexity, lower bounds, conditional lower bounds, monotone circuits, matrix rigidity, tensor rank, arithmetic circuits, fine-grained complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.87
Range Longest Increasing Subsequence and Its Relatives

Authors: Karthik C. S. and Saladi Rahul

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

Abstract
Longest increasing subsequence (LIS) is a classical textbook problem which is still actively studied in various computational models. In this work, we present a few results for the range longest increasing subsequence problem (Range-LIS) and its variants. The input to Range-LIS is a sequence 𝒮 of n real numbers and a collection 𝒬 of m query ranges and for each query in 𝒬, the goal is to report the LIS of the sequence 𝒮 restricted to that query. Our two main results are for the following generalizations of the Range-LIS problem: 2D Range Queries: In this variant of the Range-LIS problem, each query is a pair of ranges, one of indices and the other of values, and we provide a randomized algorithm with running time Õ(mn^{1/2}+ n^{3/2})+O(k), where k is the cumulative length of the m output subsequences. This improves on the elementary Õ(mn) runtime algorithm when m = Ω(√n). Previously, the only known result breaking the quadratic barrier was of Tiskin [SODA'10] which could only handle 1D range queries (i.e., each query was a range of indices) and also just outputted the length of the LIS (instead of reporting the subsequence achieving that length). Subsequent to our paper, Gawrychowski, Gorbachev, and Kociumaka in a preprint have extended Tiskin’s approach to handle reporting 1D range queries in O(n(log n)³+m+k) time. Colored Sequences: In this variant of the Range-LIS problem, each element in 𝒮 is colored and for each query in 𝒬, the goal is to report a monochromatic LIS contained in the sequence 𝒮 restricted to that query. For 2D queries, we provide a randomized algorithm for this colored version with running time Õ(mn^{2/3}+ n^{5/3})+O(k). Moreover, for 1D queries, we provide an improved algorithm with running time Õ(mn^{1/2}+ n^{3/2})+O(k). Thus, we again improve on the elementary Õ(mn) runtime algorithm. Additionally, we prove that assuming the well-known Combinatorial Boolean Matrix Multiplication Hypothesis, that the runtime for 1D queries is essentially tight for combinatorial algorithms. Our algorithms combine several tools such as dynamic programming (to precompute increasing subsequences with some desirable properties), geometric data structures (to efficiently compute the dynamic programming entries), random sampling (to capture elements which are part of the LIS), classification of query ranges into large LIS and small LIS, and classification of colors into light and heavy. We believe that our techniques will be of interest to tackle other variants of LIS problem and other range-searching problems.
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Karthik C. S. and Saladi Rahul. Range Longest Increasing Subsequence and Its Relatives. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 87:1-87:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{karthikc.s._et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.87,
  author =	{Karthik C. S. and Rahul, Saladi},
  title =	{{Range Longest Increasing Subsequence and Its Relatives}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{87:1--87:20},
  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.2026.87},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253740},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.87},
  annote =	{Keywords: Longest Increasing Subsequence, Range Query, Fine-Grained Complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.112
Lower Bounds Beyond DNF of Parities

Authors: Artur Riazanov, Anastasia Sofronova, and Dmitry Sokolov

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

Abstract
We consider a subclass of AC⁰[2] circuits that simultaneously captures DNF∘Xor and depth-3 AC⁰ circuits. For this class we show a technique for proving lower bounds inspired by the top-down approach. We give lower bounds for the middle slice function, inner product function, and affine dispersers.
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Artur Riazanov, Anastasia Sofronova, and Dmitry Sokolov. Lower Bounds Beyond DNF of Parities. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 112:1-112:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{riazanov_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.112,
  author =	{Riazanov, Artur and Sofronova, Anastasia and Sokolov, Dmitry},
  title =	{{Lower Bounds Beyond DNF of Parities}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{112:1--112:15},
  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.2026.112},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253996},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.112},
  annote =	{Keywords: boolean circuits, top-down, unpredictability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.45
Fairness in the k-Server Problem

Authors: Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Shahin Kamali, Helia Karisani, and Cameron Musco

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

Abstract
We initiate a formal study of fairness for the k-server problem, where the objective is not only to minimize the total movement cost, but also to distribute the cost equitably among servers. We first define a general notion of (α,β)-fairness, where, for parameters α ≥ 1 and β ≥ 0, no server incurs more than an α/k-fraction of the total cost plus an additive term β. We then show that fairness can be achieved without a loss in competitiveness in both the offline and online settings. In the offline setting, we give a deterministic algorithm that, for any ε > 0, transforms any optimal solution into an (α,β)-fair solution for α = 1 + ε and β = O(diam ⋅ log k / ε), while increasing the cost of the solution by just an additive O(diam ⋅ k log k / ε) term. Here diam is the diameter of the underlying metric space. We give a similar result in the online setting, showing that any competitive algorithm can be transformed into a randomized online algorithm that is fair with high probability against an oblivious adversary and still competitive up to a small loss. The above results leave open a significant question: can fairness be achieved in the online setting, either with a deterministic algorithm or a randomized algorithm, against a fully adaptive adversary? We make progress towards answering this question, showing that the classic deterministic Double Coverage Algorithm (DCA) is fair on line metrics and on tree metrics when k = 2. However, we also show a negative result: DCA fails to be fair for any non-vacuous parameters on general tree metrics. We further show that on uniform metrics (i.e., the paging problem), the deterministic First-In First-Out (FIFO) algorithm is fair. We show that any "marking algorithm", including the Least Recently Used (LRU) algorithm, also satisfies a weaker, but still meaningful notion of fairness.
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Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Shahin Kamali, Helia Karisani, and Cameron Musco. Fairness in the k-Server Problem. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 45:1-45:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{daneshvaramoli_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.45,
  author =	{Daneshvaramoli, Mohammadreza and Hajiesmaili, Mohammad and Kamali, Shahin and Karisani, Helia and Musco, Cameron},
  title =	{{Fairness in the k-Server Problem}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{45:1--45:21},
  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.2026.45},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253328},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.45},
  annote =	{Keywords: k-server problem, online algorithms, fairness, competitive analysis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.63
Perfect Simulation of Las Vegas Algorithms via Local Computation

Authors: Xinyu Fu, Yonggang Jiang, and Yitong Yin

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

Abstract
The notion of Las Vegas algorithms was introduced by Babai (1979) and can be defined in two ways: - In Babai’s original definition, a randomized algorithm is called Las Vegas if it has a finitely bounded running time and certifiable random failure. - Another definition widely accepted today is that Las Vegas algorithms refer to zero-error randomized algorithms with random running times. The equivalence between the two definitions is straightforward. Specifically, for randomized algorithms with certifiable failures, repeatedly running the algorithm until no failure is encountered allows for faithful simulation of the correct output when it executes successfully. We show that a similar perfect simulation can also be achieved in distributed local computation. Specifically, in the LOCAL model, with a polylogarithmic overhead in time complexity, any Las Vegas algorithm with finitely bounded running time and locally certifiable failures can be converted to a zero error Las Vegas algorithm. This transformed algorithm faithfully reproduces the correct output of the original algorithm in successful executions. This is achieved by a reduction to a distributed sampling problem under the Lovász Local Lemma (LLL), where the objective is to sample from the joint distribution of random variables avoiding all bad events. We then design the first efficient algorithm to solve this sampling problem in the LOCAL model.
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Xinyu Fu, Yonggang Jiang, and Yitong Yin. Perfect Simulation of Las Vegas Algorithms via Local Computation. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 63:1-63:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{fu_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.63,
  author =	{Fu, Xinyu and Jiang, Yonggang and Yin, Yitong},
  title =	{{Perfect Simulation of Las Vegas Algorithms via Local Computation}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{63:1--63:22},
  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.2026.63},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253503},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.63},
  annote =	{Keywords: Las Vegas algorithms, perfect simulation, Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma, sampling}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.70
Unconditional Pseudorandomness Against Shallow Quantum Circuits

Authors: Soumik Ghosh, Sathyawageeswar Subramanian, and Wei Zhan

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

Abstract
Quantum computational pseudorandomness has emerged as a fundamental notion that spans connections to complexity theory, cryptography and fundamental physics. However, all known constructions of efficient quantum-secure pseudorandom objects rely on complexity theoretic assumptions. In this work, we establish the first unconditionally secure efficient pseudorandom constructions against shallow-depth quantum circuit classes. We prove that: - Any quantum state 2-design yields unconditional pseudorandomness against both QNC⁰ circuits with arbitrarily many ancillae and AC⁰∘QNC⁰ circuits with nearly linear ancillae. - Random phased subspace states, where the phases are picked using a 4-wise independent function, are unconditionally pseudoentangled against the above circuit classes. - Any unitary 2-design yields unconditionally secure parallel-query pseudorandom unitaries against geometrically local QNC⁰ adversaries, even with limited AC⁰ postprocessing. Our results stand in stark contrast to the standard guarantee of the 2-design property, which only ensures that they cannot be distinguished from Haar random ensembles using two copies or queries. Our work demonstrates that quantum computational pseudorandomness can be achieved unconditionally for natural classes of restricted adversaries, opening new directions in quantum complexity theory.
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Soumik Ghosh, Sathyawageeswar Subramanian, and Wei Zhan. Unconditional Pseudorandomness Against Shallow Quantum Circuits. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 70:1-70:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{ghosh_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.70,
  author =	{Ghosh, Soumik and Subramanian, Sathyawageeswar and Zhan, Wei},
  title =	{{Unconditional Pseudorandomness Against Shallow Quantum Circuits}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{70:1--70:25},
  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.2026.70},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253578},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.70},
  annote =	{Keywords: quantum pseudorandomness, shallow quantum circuits, pseudorandomness, t-designs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.71
Lower Bounds on FSS from Dynamic Data Structures

Authors: Niv Gilboa and Daniel Weber

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

Abstract
In Function Secret Sharing (FSS), a dealer with a given function f: {0,1}ⁿ → 𝔾 from n bits to a commutative group 𝔾 such that f is in a function class ℱ shares succinct keys with two properties. Evaluating each key separately on a common input x results in additive shares of f(x) and any subset of the keys does not provide information on f. Two-party FSS schemes which are reducible to One-way Functions (OWF) have applications in cryptography, complexity, and in practical data security systems. We establish a two-way transformation between a two-party FSS scheme for a function class ℱ, which is black-box reducible to an OWF, or even black-box reducible to a family of Pseudo-Random Functions (PRF) and a dynamic data structure that supports range queries on ℱ. A data structure of this type enables dynamically adding functions to a multiset of functions F ⊆ ℱ, and answering range queries on the output of F, i.e., returning ∑_{f ∈ F} f(x) for a query x. The data structures are defined in one of several models which abstract RAM. The correspondence together with known lower bounds on the update time and the query time in data structures leads to the first non-trivial lower bounds on FSS schemes which are black-box reducible to PRF. These lower bounds apply to FSS schemes with polynomial key size and include: - For ℱ^d_{box}, the class of all functions which assign a constant group element β ∈ 𝔾 to any input in a specified d-dimensional box and 0 to all other inputs: if the key sharing function, Gen, runs in time polynomial in n and the evaluation function is Eval then: - If d ≥ 2 and 𝔾 = ℤ₂ then Eval’s running time is Ω ((n^{3/2})/(log³ n)). - If d ≥ 2 and 𝔾 is cyclic such that log |𝔾| = (1 + ε) n then Eval’s running time is Ω ((n/(log n)) ²). - If d > 2 is a constant and further, Gen and Eval correspond to operations on data structures in the Oblivious Group Model (this includes all known FSS from OWF techniques), then the product of Eval’s time and the key size is Ω(n^{d-1}). - For ℱ_{mono}, the class of all monomials ax^b ∈ 𝔽_{2ⁿ}[X] such that b ≤ B, assuming n^{ω(1)} ≤ B ≤ 2^{n/4}: if Gen runs in polynomial time, then Eval’s running time is Ω ((n √{log B})/(log² n)).
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Niv Gilboa and Daniel Weber. Lower Bounds on FSS from Dynamic Data Structures. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 71:1-71:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{gilboa_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.71,
  author =	{Gilboa, Niv and Weber, Daniel},
  title =	{{Lower Bounds on FSS from Dynamic Data Structures}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{71:1--71:22},
  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.2026.71},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253585},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.71},
  annote =	{Keywords: FSS, Data Structures, Lower Bounds, Black-Box Reductions}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.64
Optimal White-Box Adversarial Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximating LIS Length

Authors: Anna Gal, Gillat Kol, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, and Huacheng Yu

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

Abstract
The space complexity of deterministic streaming algorithms for approximating the length of the longest increasing subsequence (LIS) in a string of length n has been known to be Θ̃(√n) for almost two decades. In contrast, the space complexity of this problem for randomized streaming algorithms remains one of the few longstanding open problems in one-pass streaming. In fact, no better than Ω(log n) lower bounds are known, and the best upper bounds are no better than their deterministic counterparts. In this paper, we push the limits of our understanding of the streaming space complexity of the approximate LIS length problem by studying it in the white-box adversarial streaming model. This model is an intermediate model between deterministic and randomized streaming algorithms that has recently attracted attention. In the white-box model, the streaming algorithm can draw fresh randomness when processing each incoming element, but an adversary generating the stream observes all previously used randomness and adaptively chooses the subsequent elements of the stream. We prove a tight (up to logarithmic factors) Ω(√n) space lower bound for any white-box streaming algorithm that approximates the length of the LIS of a stream of length n to within a factor better than 1.1. Thus, for this problem, white-box algorithms offer no improvement over deterministic ones.
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Anna Gal, Gillat Kol, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, and Huacheng Yu. Optimal White-Box Adversarial Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximating LIS Length. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 64:1-64:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{gal_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.64,
  author =	{Gal, Anna and Kol, Gillat and Saxena, Raghuvansh R. and Yu, Huacheng},
  title =	{{Optimal White-Box Adversarial Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximating LIS Length}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{64:1--64:17},
  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.2026.64},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253519},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.64},
  annote =	{Keywords: White-bos streaming, Longest increasing subsequence}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.13
A General Input-Dependent Colorless Computability Theorem and Applications to Core-Dependent Adversaries

Authors: Yannis Coutouly and Emmanuel Godard

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 361, 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)

Abstract
Distributed computing tasks can be presented with a triple (ℐ,𝒪,Δ). The solvability of a colorless task on the Iterated Immediate Snapshot model (IIS) has been characterized by the Colorless Computability Theorem [Maurice Herlihy et al., 2013]. A recent paper [Yannis Coutouly and Emmanuel Godard, 2024] generalizes this theorem for any message adversaries ℳ ⊆ IIS by geometric methods. In 2001, Mostéfaoui, Rajsbaum, Raynal, and Roy [Achour Mostéfaoui et al., 2002] introduced condition-based adversaries. This setting considers a particular adversary that will be applied only to a subset of input configurations. In this setting, they studied the k-set agreement task with condition-based t-resilient adversaries and obtained a sufficient condition on the conditions that make k-Set Agreement solvable. In this paper we have three contributions: 1) We generalize the characterization of [Yannis Coutouly and Emmanuel Godard, 2024] to input-dependent adversaries, which means that the adversaries can change depending on the input configuration. 2) We show that core-resilient adversaries of IIS_n have the same computability power as the core-resilient adversaries of IIS_n where crashes only happen at the start. 3) Using the two previous contributions, we provide a necessary and sufficient characterization of the condition-based, core-dependent adversaries that can solve k-Set Agreement. We also distinguish four settings that may appear when presenting a distributed task as (ℐ,𝒪,Δ). Finally, in a later section, we present structural properties on the carrier map Δ. Such properties allow simpler proof, without changing the computability power of the task. Most of the proofs in this article leverage the topological framework used in distributed computing by using simple geometric constructions.
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Yannis Coutouly and Emmanuel Godard. A General Input-Dependent Colorless Computability Theorem and Applications to Core-Dependent Adversaries. In 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 361, pp. 13:1-13:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{coutouly_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.13,
  author =	{Coutouly, Yannis and Godard, Emmanuel},
  title =	{{A General Input-Dependent Colorless Computability Theorem and Applications to Core-Dependent Adversaries}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-409-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{361},
  editor =	{Arusoaie, Andrei and Onica, Emanuel and Spear, Michael and Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-251862},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: colorless task, topological methods, geometric simplicial complex, k-set-agreement, t-resilient model, condition-based computability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.29
How Exhaustive Does an Extension-Based Proof Need to Be?

Authors: Faith Ellen, Shihao Liu, Leqi Zhu, Eli Gafni, and Rati Gelashvili

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 361, 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)

Abstract
The class of extension-based proofs encompasses traditional valency arguments. It has been shown that they are insufficient to establish the impossibility of (n-1)-set agreement among n ≥ 3 processes in an asynchronous system with crash failures. We generalize this definition to k-exhaustive extension-based proofs, in which a prover can learn the maximum length of all executions involving a set of at most k processes from a specified configuration (which may be infinite). An upper bound on the length of these executions enables the prover to determine the outputs of all these executions. When k = n, this enables the prover to perform an exhaustive search of all reachable configurations, so it knows everything about the protocol. On the other hand, extension based proofs are as powerful as 1-exhaustive extension-based proofs. For any task with no deterministic, wait-free solution among n ≥ 2 processes, we show that there is an (n-1)-exhaustive extension-based proof of its impossibility. This is done using a new characterization of such tasks. In contrast, we prove that for 1 ≤ k ≤ n-2, there is no k-exhaustive extension-based proof of the impossibility of (n-1)-set agreement.
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Faith Ellen, Shihao Liu, Leqi Zhu, Eli Gafni, and Rati Gelashvili. How Exhaustive Does an Extension-Based Proof Need to Be?. In 29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 361, pp. 29:1-29:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{ellen_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.29,
  author =	{Ellen, Faith and Liu, Shihao and Zhu, Leqi and Gafni, Eli and Gelashvili, Rati},
  title =	{{How Exhaustive Does an Extension-Based Proof Need to Be?}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2025)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-409-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{361},
  editor =	{Arusoaie, Andrei and Onica, Emanuel and Spear, Michael and Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-252020},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2025.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: Extension-based proof, set agreement, valency argument, zero-one exclusion}
}
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