3 Search Results for "Li, Jiawei"


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Total NP Search Problems with Abundant Solutions

Authors: Jiawei Li

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 287, 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)


Abstract
We define a new complexity class TFAP to capture TFNP problems that possess abundant solutions for each input. We identify several problems across diverse fields that belong to TFAP, including WeakPigeon (finding a collision in a mapping from [2n] pigeons to [n] holes), Yamakawa-Zhandry’s problem [Takashi Yamakawa and Mark Zhandry, 2022], and all problems in TFZPP. Conversely, we introduce the notion of "semi-gluability" to characterize TFNP problems that could have a unique or a very limited number of solutions for certain inputs. We prove that there is no black-box reduction from any "semi-gluable" problems to any TFAP problems. Furthermore, it can be extended to rule out randomized black-box reduction in most cases. We identify that the majority of common TFNP subclasses, including PPA, PPAD, PPADS, PPP, PLS, CLS, SOPL, and UEOPL, are "semi-gluable". This leads to a broad array of oracle separation results within TFNP regime. As a corollary, UEOPL^O ⊈ PWPP^O relative to an oracle O.

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Jiawei Li. Total NP Search Problems with Abundant Solutions. In 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 287, pp. 75:1-75:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{li:LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.75,
  author =	{Li, Jiawei},
  title =	{{Total NP Search Problems with Abundant Solutions}},
  booktitle =	{15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)},
  pages =	{75:1--75:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-309-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{287},
  editor =	{Guruswami, Venkatesan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.75},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196031},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.75},
  annote =	{Keywords: TFNP, Pigeonhole Principle}
}
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Tight Correlation Bounds for Circuits Between AC0 and TC0

Authors: Vinayak M. Kumar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 264, 38th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2023)


Abstract
We initiate the study of generalized AC⁰ circuits comprised of arbitrary unbounded fan-in gates which only need to be constant over inputs of Hamming weight ≥ k (up to negations of the input bits), which we denote GC⁰(k). The gate set of this class includes biased LTFs like the k-OR (outputs 1 iff ≥ k bits are 1) and k-AND (outputs 0 iff ≥ k bits are 0), and thus can be seen as an interpolation between AC⁰ and TC⁰. We establish a tight multi-switching lemma for GC⁰(k) circuits, which bounds the probability that several depth-2 GC⁰(k) circuits do not simultaneously simplify under a random restriction. We also establish a new depth reduction lemma such that coupled with our multi-switching lemma, we can show many results obtained from the multi-switching lemma for depth-d size-s AC⁰ circuits lifts to depth-d size-s^{.99} GC⁰(.01 log s) circuits with no loss in parameters (other than hidden constants). Our result has the following applications: - Size-2^Ω(n^{1/d}) depth-d GC⁰(Ω(n^{1/d})) circuits do not correlate with parity (extending a result of Håstad (SICOMP, 2014)). - Size-n^Ω(log n) GC⁰(Ω(log² n)) circuits with n^{.249} arbitrary threshold gates or n^{.499} arbitrary symmetric gates exhibit exponentially small correlation against an explicit function (extending a result of Tan and Servedio (RANDOM, 2019)). - There is a seed length O((log m)^{d-1}log(m/ε)log log(m)) pseudorandom generator against size-m depth-d GC⁰(log m) circuits, matching the AC⁰ lower bound of Håstad up to a log log m factor (extending a result of Lyu (CCC, 2022)). - Size-m GC⁰(log m) circuits have exponentially small Fourier tails (extending a result of Tal (CCC, 2017)).

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Vinayak M. Kumar. Tight Correlation Bounds for Circuits Between AC0 and TC0. In 38th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 264, pp. 18:1-18:40, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{kumar:LIPIcs.CCC.2023.18,
  author =	{Kumar, Vinayak M.},
  title =	{{Tight Correlation Bounds for Circuits Between AC0 and TC0}},
  booktitle =	{38th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2023)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:40},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-282-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{264},
  editor =	{Ta-Shma, Amnon},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2023.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182885},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2023.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: AC⁰, TC⁰, Switching Lemma, Lower Bounds, Correlation Bounds, Circuit Complexity}
}
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Consensus Division in an Arbitrary Ratio

Authors: Paul Goldberg and Jiawei Li

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 251, 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)


Abstract
We consider the problem of partitioning a line segment into two subsets, so that n finite measures all have the same ratio of values for the subsets. Letting α ∈ [0,1] denote the desired ratio, this generalises the PPA-complete consensus-halving problem, in which α = 1/2. Stromquist and Woodall [Stromquist and Woodall, 1985] showed that for any α, there exists a solution using 2n cuts of the segment. They also showed that if α is irrational, that upper bound is almost optimal. In this work, we elaborate the bounds for rational values α. For α = 𝓁/k, we show a lower bound of (k-1)/k ⋅ 2n - O(1) cuts; we also obtain almost matching upper bounds for a large subset of rational α. On the computational side, we explore its dependence on the number of cuts available. More specifically, 1) when using the minimal number of cuts for each instance is required, the problem is NP-hard for any α; 2) for a large subset of rational α = 𝓁/k, when (k-1)/k ⋅ 2n cuts are available, the problem is in PPA-k under Turing reduction; 3) when 2n cuts are allowed, the problem belongs to PPA for any α; more generally, the problem belong to PPA-p for any prime p if 2(p-1)⋅⌈p/2⌉/⌊p/2⌋ ⋅ n cuts are available.

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Paul Goldberg and Jiawei Li. Consensus Division in an Arbitrary Ratio. In 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 251, pp. 57:1-57:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{goldberg_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.57,
  author =	{Goldberg, Paul and Li, Jiawei},
  title =	{{Consensus Division in an Arbitrary Ratio}},
  booktitle =	{14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)},
  pages =	{57:1--57:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-263-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{251},
  editor =	{Tauman Kalai, Yael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.57},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-175606},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.57},
  annote =	{Keywords: Consensus Halving, TFNP, PPA-k, Necklace Splitting}
}
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