5 Search Results for "Maystre, Gilbert"


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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
Smoothed Analysis of Deterministic Discounted and Mean-Payoff Games

Authors: Bruno Loff and Mateusz Skomra

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
We devise a policy-iteration algorithm for deterministic two-player discounted and mean-payoff games, that runs in polynomial time with high probability, on any input where each payoff is chosen independently from a sufficiently random distribution and the underlying graph of the game is ergodic. This includes the case where an arbitrary set of payoffs has been perturbed by a Gaussian, showing for the first time that deterministic two-player games can be solved efficiently, in the sense of smoothed analysis. More generally, we devise a condition number for deterministic discounted and mean-payoff games played on ergodic graphs, and show that our algorithm runs in time polynomial in this condition number. Our result confirms a previous conjecture of Boros et al., which was claimed as a theorem [Boros et al., 2011] and later retracted [Boros et al., 2018]. It stands in contrast with a recent counter-example by Christ and Yannakakis [Christ and Yannakakis, 2023], showing that Howard’s policy-iteration algorithm does not run in smoothed polynomial time on stochastic single-player mean-payoff games. Our approach is inspired by the analysis of random optimal assignment instances by Frieze and Sorkin [Frieze and Sorkin, 2007], and the analysis of bias-induced policies for mean-payoff games by Akian, Gaubert and Hochart [Akian et al., 2018].

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Bruno Loff and Mateusz Skomra. Smoothed Analysis of Deterministic Discounted and Mean-Payoff Games. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 147:1-147:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{loff_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.147,
  author =	{Loff, Bruno and Skomra, Mateusz},
  title =	{{Smoothed Analysis of Deterministic Discounted and Mean-Payoff Games}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{147:1--147:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.147},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-202908},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.147},
  annote =	{Keywords: Mean-payoff games, discounted games, policy iteration, smoothed analysis}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Two Choices Are Enough for P-LCPs, USOs, and Colorful Tangents

Authors: Michaela Borzechowski, John Fearnley, Spencer Gordon, Rahul Savani, Patrick Schnider, and Simon Weber

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 297, 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)


Abstract
We provide polynomial-time reductions between three search problems from three distinct areas: the P-matrix linear complementarity problem (P-LCP), finding the sink of a unique sink orientation (USO), and a variant of the α-Ham Sandwich problem. For all three settings, we show that "two choices are enough", meaning that the general non-binary version of the problem can be reduced in polynomial time to the binary version. This specifically means that generalized P-LCPs are equivalent to P-LCPs, and grid USOs are equivalent to cube USOs. These results are obtained by showing that both the P-LCP and our α-Ham Sandwich variant are equivalent to a new problem we introduce, P-Lin-Bellman. This problem can be seen as a new tool for formulating problems as P-LCPs.

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Michaela Borzechowski, John Fearnley, Spencer Gordon, Rahul Savani, Patrick Schnider, and Simon Weber. Two Choices Are Enough for P-LCPs, USOs, and Colorful Tangents. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 32:1-32:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{borzechowski_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.32,
  author =	{Borzechowski, Michaela and Fearnley, John and Gordon, Spencer and Savani, Rahul and Schnider, Patrick and Weber, Simon},
  title =	{{Two Choices Are Enough for P-LCPs, USOs, and Colorful Tangents}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-322-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{297},
  editor =	{Bringmann, Karl and Grohe, Martin and Puppis, Gabriele and Svensson, Ola},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201751},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: P-LCP, Unique Sink Orientation, \alpha-Ham Sandwich, search complexity, TFNP, UEOPL}
}
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One-Way Functions vs. TFNP: Simpler and Improved

Authors: Lukáš Folwarczný, Mika Göös, Pavel Hubáček, Gilbert Maystre, and Weiqiang Yuan

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


Abstract
Simon (1998) proved that it is impossible to construct collision-resistant hash functions from one-way functions using a black-box reduction. It is conjectured more generally that one-way functions do not imply, via a black-box reduction, the hardness of any total NP search problem (collision-resistant hash functions being just one such example). We make progress towards this conjecture by ruling out a large class of "single-query" reductions. In particular, we improve over the prior work of Hubáček et al. (2020) in two ways: our result is established via a novel simpler combinatorial technique and applies to a broader class of semi black-box reductions.

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Lukáš Folwarczný, Mika Göös, Pavel Hubáček, Gilbert Maystre, and Weiqiang Yuan. One-Way Functions vs. TFNP: Simpler and Improved. In 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 287, pp. 50:1-50:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{folwarczny_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.50,
  author =	{Folwarczn\'{y}, Luk\'{a}\v{s} and G\"{o}\"{o}s, Mika and Hub\'{a}\v{c}ek, Pavel and Maystre, Gilbert and Yuan, Weiqiang},
  title =	{{One-Way Functions vs. TFNP: Simpler and Improved}},
  booktitle =	{15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:14},
  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.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-195788},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: TFNP, One-Way Functions, Oracle, Separation, Black-Box}
}
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Further Collapses in TFNP

Authors: Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, and Ran Tao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 234, 37th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2022)


Abstract
We show EOPL = PLS ∩ PPAD. Here the class EOPL consists of all total search problems that reduce to the End-of-Potential-Line problem, which was introduced in the works by Hubáček and Yogev (SICOMP 2020) and Fearnley et al. (JCSS 2020). In particular, our result yields a new simpler proof of the breakthrough collapse CLS = PLS ∩ PPAD by Fearnley et al. (STOC 2021). We also prove a companion result SOPL = PLS ∩ PPADS, where SOPL is the class associated with the Sink-of-Potential-Line problem.

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Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, and Ran Tao. Further Collapses in TFNP. In 37th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 234, pp. 33:1-33:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{goos_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2022.33,
  author =	{G\"{o}\"{o}s, Mika and Hollender, Alexandros and Jain, Siddhartha and Maystre, Gilbert and Pires, William and Robere, Robert and Tao, Ran},
  title =	{{Further Collapses in TFNP}},
  booktitle =	{37th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2022)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-241-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{234},
  editor =	{Lovett, Shachar},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2022.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-165954},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2022.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: TFNP, PPAD, PLS, EOPL}
}
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A Majority Lemma for Randomised Query Complexity

Authors: Mika Göös and Gilbert Maystre

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 200, 36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021)


Abstract
We show that computing the majority of n copies of a boolean function g has randomised query complexity R(Maj∘gⁿ) = Θ(n⋅R ̅_{1/n}(g)). In fact, we show that to obtain a similar result for any composed function f∘gⁿ, it suffices to prove a sufficiently strong form of the result only in the special case g = GapOr.

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Mika Göös and Gilbert Maystre. A Majority Lemma for Randomised Query Complexity. In 36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 200, pp. 18:1-18:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{goos_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2021.18,
  author =	{G\"{o}\"{o}s, Mika and Maystre, Gilbert},
  title =	{{A Majority Lemma for Randomised Query Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-193-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{200},
  editor =	{Kabanets, Valentine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2021.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142922},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2021.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Query Complexity, Composition, Majority}
}
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