13 Search Results for "Pavan, A."


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APPROX
Improved Streaming Algorithm for the Klee’s Measure Problem and Generalizations

Authors: Mridul Nandi, N. V. Vinodchandran, Arijit Ghosh, Kuldeep S. Meel, Soumit Pal, and Sourav Chakraborty

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 317, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)


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Estimating the size of the union of a stream of sets S₁, S₂, …, S_M where each set is a subset of a known universe Ω is a fundamental problem in data streaming. This problem naturally generalizes the well-studied 𝖥₀ estimation problem in the streaming literature, where each set contains a single element from the universe. We consider the general case when the sets S_i can be succinctly represented and allow efficient membership, cardinality, and sampling queries (called a Delphic family of sets). A notable example in this framework is the Klee’s Measure Problem (KMP), where every set S_i is an axis-parallel rectangle in d-dimensional spaces (Ω = [Δ]^d where [Δ] := {1, … ,Δ} and Δ ∈ ℕ). Recently, Meel, Chakraborty, and Vinodchandran (PODS-21, PODS-22) designed a streaming algorithm for (ε,δ)-estimation of the size of the union of set streams over Delphic family with space and update time complexity O((log³|Ω|)/ε² ⋅ log 1/δ) and Õ((log⁴|Ω|)/ε² ⋅ log 1/(δ)), respectively. This work presents a new, sampling-based algorithm for estimating the size of the union of Delphic sets that has space and update time complexity Õ((log²|Ω|)/ε² ⋅ log 1/(δ)). This improves the space complexity bound by a log|Ω| factor and update time complexity bound by a log² |Ω| factor. A critical question is whether quadratic dependence of log|Ω| on space and update time complexities is necessary. Specifically, can we design a streaming algorithm for estimating the size of the union of sets over Delphic family with space and complexity linear in log|Ω| and update time poly(log|Ω|)? While this appears technically challenging, we show that establishing a lower bound of ω(log|Ω|) with poly(log|Ω|) update time is beyond the reach of current techniques. Specifically, we show that under certain hard-to-prove computational complexity hypothesis, there is a streaming algorithm for the problem with optimal space complexity O(log|Ω|) and update time poly(log(|Ω|)). Thus, establishing a space lower bound of ω(log|Ω|) will lead to break-through complexity class separation results.

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Mridul Nandi, N. V. Vinodchandran, Arijit Ghosh, Kuldeep S. Meel, Soumit Pal, and Sourav Chakraborty. Improved Streaming Algorithm for the Klee’s Measure Problem and Generalizations. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 317, pp. 26:1-26:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{nandi_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.26,
  author =	{Nandi, Mridul and Vinodchandran, N. V. and Ghosh, Arijit and Meel, Kuldeep S. and Pal, Soumit and Chakraborty, Sourav},
  title =	{{Improved Streaming Algorithm for the Klee’s Measure Problem and Generalizations}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-348-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{317},
  editor =	{Kumar, Amit and Ron-Zewi, Noga},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210191},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: Sampling, Streaming, Klee’s Measure Problem}
}
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RANDOM
Consequences of Randomized Reductions from SAT to Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity

Authors: Halley Goldberg and Valentine Kabanets

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 317, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)


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A central open question within meta-complexity is that of NP-hardness of problems such as MCSP and MK^{t}P. Despite a large body of work giving consequences of and barriers for NP-hardness of these problems under (restricted) deterministic reductions, very little is known in the setting of randomized reductions. In this work, we give consequences of randomized NP-hardness reductions for both approximating and exactly computing time-bounded and time-unbounded Kolmogorov complexity. In the setting of approximate K^{poly} complexity, our results are as follows. 1) Under a derandomization assumption, for any constant δ > 0, if approximating K^t complexity within n^{δ} additive error is hard for SAT under an honest randomized non-adaptive Turing reduction running in time polynomially less than t, then NP = coNP. 2) Under the same assumptions, the worst-case hardness of NP is equivalent to the existence of one-way functions. Item 1 above may be compared with a recent work of Saks and Santhanam [Michael E. Saks and Rahul Santhanam, 2022], which makes the same assumptions except with ω(log n) additive error, obtaining the conclusion NE = coNE. In the setting of exact K^{poly} complexity, where the barriers of Item 1 and [Michael E. Saks and Rahul Santhanam, 2022] do not apply, we show: 3) If computing K^t complexity is hard for SAT under reductions as in Item 1, then the average-case hardness of NP is equivalent to the existence of one-way functions. That is, "Pessiland" is excluded. Finally, we give consequences of NP-hardness of exact time-unbounded Kolmogorov complexity under randomized reductions. 4) If computing Kolmogorov complexity is hard for SAT under a randomized many-one reduction running in time t_R and with failure probability at most 1/(t_R)^16, then coNP is contained in non-interactive statistical zero-knowledge; thus NP ⊆ coAM. Also, the worst-case hardness of NP is equivalent to the existence of one-way functions. We further exploit the connection to NISZK along with a previous work of Allender et al. [Eric Allender et al., 2023] to show that hardness of K complexity under randomized many-one reductions is highly robust with respect to failure probability, approximation error, output length, and threshold parameter.

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Halley Goldberg and Valentine Kabanets. Consequences of Randomized Reductions from SAT to Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 317, pp. 51:1-51:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{goldberg_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.51,
  author =	{Goldberg, Halley and Kabanets, Valentine},
  title =	{{Consequences of Randomized Reductions from SAT to Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024)},
  pages =	{51:1--51:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-348-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{317},
  editor =	{Kumar, Amit and Ron-Zewi, Noga},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.51},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210444},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.51},
  annote =	{Keywords: Meta-complexity, Randomized reductions, NP-hardness, Worst-case complexity, Time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Fast Approximate Counting of Cycles

Authors: Keren Censor-Hillel, Tomer Even, and Virginia Vassilevska Williams

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


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We consider the problem of approximate counting of triangles and longer fixed length cycles in directed graphs. For triangles, Tětek [ICALP'22] gave an algorithm that returns a (1±ε)-approximation in Õ(n^ω/t^{ω-2}) time, where t is the unknown number of triangles in the given n node graph and ω < 2.372 is the matrix multiplication exponent. We obtain an improved algorithm whose running time is, within polylogarithmic factors the same as that for multiplying an n× n/t matrix by an n/t × n matrix. We then extend our framework to obtain the first nontrivial (1± ε)-approximation algorithms for the number of h-cycles in a graph, for any constant h ≥ 3. Our running time is Õ(MM(n,n/t^{1/(h-2)},n)), the time to multiply n × n/(t^{1/(h-2)}) by n/(t^{1/(h-2)) × n matrices. Finally, we show that under popular fine-grained hypotheses, this running time is optimal.

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Keren Censor-Hillel, Tomer Even, and Virginia Vassilevska Williams. Fast Approximate Counting of Cycles. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 37:1-37:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{censorhillel_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.37,
  author =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Even, Tomer and Vassilevska Williams, Virginia},
  title =	{{Fast Approximate Counting of Cycles}},
  booktitle =	{51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024)},
  pages =	{37:1--37:20},
  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.2024.37},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-201809},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.37},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximate triangle counting, Approximate cycle counting Fast matrix multiplication, Fast rectangular matrix multiplication}
}
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Position
Grounding Stream Reasoning Research

Authors: Pieter Bonte, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Daniel de Leng, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Thomas Eiter, Federico Giannini, Fredrik Heintz, Konstantin Schekotihin, Danh Le-Phuoc, Alessandra Mileo, Patrik Schneider, Riccardo Tommasini, Jacopo Urbani, and Giacomo Ziffer

Published in: TGDK, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2024): Special Issue on Trends in Graph Data and Knowledge - Part 2. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, Volume 2, Issue 1


Abstract
In the last decade, there has been a growing interest in applying AI technologies to implement complex data analytics over data streams. To this end, researchers in various fields have been organising a yearly event called the "Stream Reasoning Workshop" to share perspectives, challenges, and experiences around this topic. In this paper, the previous organisers of the workshops and other community members provide a summary of the main research results that have been discussed during the first six editions of the event. These results can be categorised into four main research areas: The first is concerned with the technological challenges related to handling large data streams. The second area aims at adapting and extending existing semantic technologies to data streams. The third and fourth areas focus on how to implement reasoning techniques, either considering deductive or inductive techniques, to extract new and valuable knowledge from the data in the stream. This summary is written not only to provide a crystallisation of the field, but also to point out distinctive traits of the stream reasoning community. Moreover, it also provides a foundation for future research by enumerating a list of use cases and open challenges, to stimulate others to join this exciting research area.

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Pieter Bonte, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Daniel de Leng, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Thomas Eiter, Federico Giannini, Fredrik Heintz, Konstantin Schekotihin, Danh Le-Phuoc, Alessandra Mileo, Patrik Schneider, Riccardo Tommasini, Jacopo Urbani, and Giacomo Ziffer. Grounding Stream Reasoning Research. In Special Issue on Trends in Graph Data and Knowledge - Part 2. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 2:1-2:47, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@Article{bonte_et_al:TGDK.2.1.2,
  author =	{Bonte, Pieter and Calbimonte, Jean-Paul and de Leng, Daniel and Dell'Aglio, Daniele and Della Valle, Emanuele and Eiter, Thomas and Giannini, Federico and Heintz, Fredrik and Schekotihin, Konstantin and Le-Phuoc, Danh and Mileo, Alessandra and Schneider, Patrik and Tommasini, Riccardo and Urbani, Jacopo and Ziffer, Giacomo},
  title =	{{Grounding Stream Reasoning Research}},
  journal =	{Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge},
  pages =	{2:1--2:47},
  ISSN =	{2942-7517},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{2},
  number =	{1},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/TGDK.2.1.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-198597},
  doi =		{10.4230/TGDK.2.1.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Stream Reasoning, Stream Processing, RDF streams, Streaming Linked Data, Continuous query processing, Temporal Logics, High-performance computing, Databases}
}
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Brief Announcement
Brief Announcement: Relations Between Space-Bounded and Adaptive Massively Parallel Computations

Authors: Michael Chen, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 281, 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)


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In this work, we study the class of problems solvable by (deterministic) Adaptive Massively Parallel Computations in constant rounds from a computational complexity theory perspective. A language L is in the class AMPC⁰ if, for every ε > 0, there is a deterministic AMPC algorithm running in constant rounds with a polynomial number of processors, where the local memory of each machine s = O(N^ε). We prove that the space-bounded complexity class ReachUL is a proper subclass of AMPC⁰. The complexity class ReachUL lies between the well-known space-bounded complexity classes Deterministic Logspace (DLOG) and Nondeterministic Logspace (NLOG). In contrast, we establish that it is unlikely that PSPACE admits AMPC algorithms, even with polynomially many rounds. We also establish that showing PSPACE is a subclass of nonuniform-AMPC with polynomially many rounds leads to a significant separation result in complexity theory, namely PSPACE is a proper subclass of EXP^{Σ₂^{𝖯}}.

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Michael Chen, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran. Brief Announcement: Relations Between Space-Bounded and Adaptive Massively Parallel Computations. In 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 281, pp. 37:1-37:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2023.37,
  author =	{Chen, Michael and Pavan, A. and Vinodchandran, N. V.},
  title =	{{Brief Announcement: Relations Between Space-Bounded and Adaptive Massively Parallel Computations}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)},
  pages =	{37:1--37:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-301-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{281},
  editor =	{Oshman, Rotem},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.37},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-191634},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2023.37},
  annote =	{Keywords: Massively Parallel Computation, AMPC, Complexity Classes, LogSpace, NL, PSPACE}
}
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Complete Problems for Multi-Pseudodeterministic Computations

Authors: Peter Dixon, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 185, 12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021)


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We exhibit several computational problems that are complete for multi-pseudodeterministic computations in the following sense: (1) these problems admit 2-pseudodeterministic algorithms (2) if there exists a pseudodeterministic algorithm for any of these problems, then any multi-valued function that admits a k-pseudodeterministic algorithm for a constant k, also admits a pseudodeterministic algorithm. We also show that these computational problems are complete for Search-BPP: a pseudodeterministic algorithm for any of these problems implies a pseudodeterministic algorithm for all problems in Search-BPP.

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Peter Dixon, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran. Complete Problems for Multi-Pseudodeterministic Computations. In 12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 185, pp. 66:1-66:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{dixon_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.66,
  author =	{Dixon, Peter and Pavan, A. and Vinodchandran, N. V.},
  title =	{{Complete Problems for Multi-Pseudodeterministic Computations}},
  booktitle =	{12th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2021)},
  pages =	{66:1--66:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-177-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{185},
  editor =	{Lee, James R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.66},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136050},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2021.66},
  annote =	{Keywords: Pseudodeterminism, Completeness, Collision Probability, Circuit Acceptance, Entropy Approximation}
}
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On Pseudodeterministic Approximation Algorithms

Authors: Peter Dixon, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 117, 43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2018)


Abstract
We investigate the notion of pseudodeterminstic approximation algorithms. A randomized approximation algorithm A for a function f is pseudodeterministic if for every input x there is a unique value v so that A(x) outputs v with high probability, and v is a good approximation of f(x). We show that designing a pseudodeterministic version of Stockmeyer's well known approximation algorithm for the NP-membership counting problem will yield a new circuit lower bound: if such an approximation algorithm exists, then for every k, there is a language in the complexity class ZPP^{NP}_{tt} that does not have n^k-size circuits. While we do not know how to design such an algorithm for the NP-membership counting problem, we show a general result that any randomized approximation algorithm for a counting problem can be transformed to an approximation algorithm that has a constant number of influential random bits. That is, for most settings of these influential bits, the approximation algorithm will be pseudodeterministic.

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Peter Dixon, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran. On Pseudodeterministic Approximation Algorithms. In 43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 117, pp. 61:1-61:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{dixon_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.61,
  author =	{Dixon, Peter and Pavan, A. and Vinodchandran, N. V.},
  title =	{{On Pseudodeterministic Approximation Algorithms}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2018)},
  pages =	{61:1--61:11},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-086-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{117},
  editor =	{Potapov, Igor and Spirakis, Paul and Worrell, James},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.61},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-96431},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.61},
  annote =	{Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Circuit lower bounds, Pseudodeterminism}
}
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A Note on the Advice Complexity of Multipass Randomized Logspace

Authors: Peter Dixon, Debasis Mandal, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 58, 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)


Abstract
Investigating the complexity of randomized space-bounded machines that are allowed to make multiple passes over the random tape has been of recent interest. In particular, it has been shown that derandomizing such probabilistic machines yields a weak but new derandomization of probabilistic time-bounded classes. In this paper we further explore the complexity of such machines. In particular, as our main result we show that for any epsilon<1, every language that is accepted by an O(n^epsilon)-pass, randomized logspace machine can be simulated in deterministic logspace with linear amount of advice. This result extends an earlier result of Fortnow and Klivans who showed that RL is in deterministic logspace with linear advice.

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Peter Dixon, Debasis Mandal, A. Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran. A Note on the Advice Complexity of Multipass Randomized Logspace. In 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 58, pp. 31:1-31:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{dixon_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.31,
  author =	{Dixon, Peter and Mandal, Debasis and Pavan, A. and Vinodchandran, N. V.},
  title =	{{A Note on the Advice Complexity of Multipass Randomized Logspace}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-016-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{58},
  editor =	{Faliszewski, Piotr and Muscholl, Anca and Niedermeier, Rolf},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-65003},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: space-bounded computations, randomized machines, advice}
}
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On the NP-Completeness of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem

Authors: John M. Hitchcock and A. Pavan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 45, 35th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2015)


Abstract
We study the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP): given the truth-table of a Boolean function f and a number k, does there exist a Boolean circuit of size at most k computing f? This is a fundamental NP problem that is not known to be NP-complete. Previous work has studied consequences of the NP-completeness of MCSP. We extend this work and consider whether MCSP may be complete for NP under more powerful reductions. We also show that NP-completeness of MCSP allows for amplification of circuit complexity. We show the following results. - If MCSP is NP-complete via many-one reductions, the following circuit complexity amplification result holds: If NP cap co-NP requires 2^n^{Omega(1)-size circuits, then E^NP requires 2^Omega(n)-size circuits. - If MCSP is NP-complete under truth-table reductions, then EXP neq NP cap SIZE(2^n^epsilon) for some epsilon> 0 and EXP neq ZPP. This result extends to polylog Turing reductions.

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John M. Hitchcock and A. Pavan. On the NP-Completeness of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem. In 35th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 45, pp. 236-245, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)


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@InProceedings{hitchcock_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.236,
  author =	{Hitchcock, John M. and Pavan, A.},
  title =	{{On the NP-Completeness of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem}},
  booktitle =	{35th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2015)},
  pages =	{236--245},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-97-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{45},
  editor =	{Harsha, Prahladh and Ramalingam, G.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.236},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-56613},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.236},
  annote =	{Keywords: Minimum Circuit Size, NP-completeness, truth-table reductions, circuit complexity}
}
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Separating Cook Completeness from Karp-Levin Completeness Under a Worst-Case Hardness Hypothesis

Authors: Debasis Mandal, A. Pavan, and Rajeswari Venugopalan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 29, 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)


Abstract
We show that there is a language that is Turing complete for NP but not many-one complete for NP, under a worst-case hardness hypothesis. Our hypothesis asserts the existence of a non-deterministic, double-exponential time machine that runs in time O(2^2^n^c) (for some c > 1) accepting Sigma^* whose accepting computations cannot be computed by bounded-error, probabilistic machines running in time O(2^2^{beta * 2^n^c) (for some beta > 0). This is the first result that separates completeness notions for NP under a worst-case hardness hypothesis.

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Debasis Mandal, A. Pavan, and Rajeswari Venugopalan. Separating Cook Completeness from Karp-Levin Completeness Under a Worst-Case Hardness Hypothesis. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 29, pp. 445-456, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@InProceedings{mandal_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.445,
  author =	{Mandal, Debasis and Pavan, A. and Venugopalan, Rajeswari},
  title =	{{Separating Cook Completeness from Karp-Levin Completeness Under a Worst-Case Hardness Hypothesis}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)},
  pages =	{445--456},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-77-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{29},
  editor =	{Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.445},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48621},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.445},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cook reduction, Karp reduction, NP-completeness, Turing completeness, many-one completeness}
}
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New Time-Space Upperbounds for Directed Reachability in High-genus and H-minor-free Graphs

Authors: Diptarka Chakraborty, A. Pavan, Raghunath Tewari, N. V. Vinodchandran, and Lin Forrest Yang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 29, 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)


Abstract
We obtain the following new simultaneous time-space upper bounds for the directed reachability problem. (1) A polynomial-time, O(n^{2/3} * g^{1/3})-space algorithm for directed graphs embedded on orientable surfaces of genus g. (2) A polynomial-time, O(n^{2/3})-space algorithm for all H-minor-free graphs given the tree decomposition, and (3) for K_{3,3}-free and K_5-free graphs, a polynomial-time, O(n^{1/2 + epsilon})-space algorithm, for every epsilon > 0. For the general directed reachability problem, the best known simultaneous time-space upper bound is the BBRS bound, due to Barnes, Buss, Ruzzo, and Schieber, which achieves a space bound of O(n/2^{k * sqrt(log(n))}) with polynomial running time, for any constant k. It is a significant open question to improve this bound for reachability over general directed graphs. Our algorithms beat the BBRS bound for graphs embedded on surfaces of genus n/2^{omega(sqrt(log(n))}, and for all H-minor-free graphs. This significantly broadens the class of directed graphs for which the BBRS bound can be improved.

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Diptarka Chakraborty, A. Pavan, Raghunath Tewari, N. V. Vinodchandran, and Lin Forrest Yang. New Time-Space Upperbounds for Directed Reachability in High-genus and H-minor-free Graphs. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 29, pp. 585-595, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@InProceedings{chakraborty_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.585,
  author =	{Chakraborty, Diptarka and Pavan, A. and Tewari, Raghunath and Vinodchandran, N. V. and Yang, Lin Forrest},
  title =	{{New Time-Space Upperbounds for Directed Reachability in High-genus and H-minor-free Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)},
  pages =	{585--595},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-77-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{29},
  editor =	{Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.585},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48730},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.585},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reachability, Space complexity, Time-Space Efficient Algorithms, Graphs on Surfaces, Minor Free Graphs, Savitch's Algorithm, BBRS Bound}
}
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Collapsing and Separating Completeness Notions under Average-Case and Worst-Case Hypotheses

Authors: Xiaoyang Gu, John M. Hitchcock, and Aduri Pavan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 5, 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (2010)


Abstract
This paper presents the following results on sets that are complete for $\NP$. \begin{enumerate} \item If there is a problem in $\NP$ that requires $\twonO$ time at almost all lengths, then every many-one NP-complete set is complete under length-increasing reductions that are computed by polynomial-size circuits. \item If there is a problem in $\CoNP$ that cannot be solved by polynomial-size nondeterministic circuits, then every many-one complete set is complete under length-increasing reductions that are computed by polynomial-size circuits. \item If there exist a one-way permutation that is secure against subexponential-size circuits and there is a hard tally language in $\NP \cap \CoNP$, then there is a Turing complete language for $\NP$ that is not many-one complete. \end{enumerate} Our first two results use worst-case hardness hypotheses whereas earlier work that showed similar results relied on average-case or almost-everywhere hardness assumptions. The use of average-case and worst-case hypotheses in the last result is unique as previous results obtaining the same consequence relied on almost-everywhere hardness results.

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Xiaoyang Gu, John M. Hitchcock, and Aduri Pavan. Collapsing and Separating Completeness Notions under Average-Case and Worst-Case Hypotheses. In 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 5, pp. 429-440, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{gu_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2462,
  author =	{Gu, Xiaoyang and Hitchcock, John M. and Pavan, Aduri},
  title =	{{Collapsing and Separating Completeness Notions under Average-Case and Worst-Case Hypotheses}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
  pages =	{429--440},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-16-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{5},
  editor =	{Marion, Jean-Yves and Schwentick, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2462},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24627},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2462},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational complexity, NP-completeness}
}
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Kolmogorov Complexity in Randomness Extraction

Authors: John M. Hitchcock, Aduri Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 4, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (2009)


Abstract
We clarify the role of Kolmogorov complexity in the area of randomness extraction. We show that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it is a Kolmogorov complexity extractor, thus establishing a fundamental equivalence between two forms of extraction studied in the literature: Kolmogorov extraction and randomness extraction. We present a distribution ${\cal M}_k$ based on Kolmogorov complexity that is complete for randomness extraction in the sense that a computable function is an almost randomness extractor if and only if it extracts randomness from ${\cal M}_k$.

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John M. Hitchcock, Aduri Pavan, and N. V. Vinodchandran. Kolmogorov Complexity in Randomness Extraction. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 4, pp. 215-226, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2009)


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@InProceedings{hitchcock_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2320,
  author =	{Hitchcock, John M. and Pavan, Aduri and Vinodchandran, N. V.},
  title =	{{Kolmogorov Complexity in Randomness Extraction}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science},
  pages =	{215--226},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-13-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2009},
  volume =	{4},
  editor =	{Kannan, Ravi and Narayan Kumar, K.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2320},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23201},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2320},
  annote =	{Keywords: Extractors, Kolmogorov extractors, randomness}
}
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