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DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance

Authors: Rundong Gan, Liyi Zhou, Le Wang, Kaihua Qin, and Xiaodong Lin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 316, 6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2024)


Abstract
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has witnessed a monumental surge, reaching 53.039 billion USD in total value locked. As this sector continues to expand, ensuring the reliability of DeFi smart contracts becomes increasingly crucial. While some users are adept at reading code or the compiled bytecode to understand smart contracts, many rely on documentation. Therefore, discrepancies between the documentation and the deployed code can pose significant risks, whether these discrepancies are due to errors or intentional fraud. To tackle these challenges, we developed DeFiAligner, an end-to-end system to identify inconsistencies between documentation and smart contracts. DeFiAligner incorporates a symbolic execution tool, SEVM, which explores execution paths of on-chain binary code, recording memory and stack states. It automatically generates symbolic expressions for token balance changes and branch conditions, which, along with related project documents, are processed by LLMs. Using structured prompts, the LLMs evaluate the alignment between the symbolic expressions and the documentation. Our tests across three distinct scenarios demonstrate DeFiAligner’s capability to automate inconsistency detection in DeFi, achieving recall rates of 92% and 90% on two public datasets respectively.

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Rundong Gan, Liyi Zhou, Le Wang, Kaihua Qin, and Xiaodong Lin. DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance. In 6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 316, pp. 7:1-7:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{gan_et_al:LIPIcs.AFT.2024.7,
  author =	{Gan, Rundong and Zhou, Liyi and Wang, Le and Qin, Kaihua and Lin, Xiaodong},
  title =	{{DeFiAligner: Leveraging Symbolic Analysis and Large Language Models for Inconsistency Detection in Decentralized Finance}},
  booktitle =	{6th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2024)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-345-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{316},
  editor =	{B\"{o}hme, Rainer and Kiffer, Lucianna},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-209431},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AFT.2024.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Decentralized Finance Security, Large Language Models, Project Review, Symbolic Analysis, Smart Contracts}
}
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HOBBIT: Hashed OBject Based InTegrity

Authors: Matthias Bernad and Stefan Brunthaler

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)


Abstract
C vulnerabilities usually hold verbatim for C++ programs. The counterfeit-object-oriented programming attack demonstrated that this relation is asymmetric, i.e., it only applies to C++. The problem pinpointed by this COOP attack is that C++ does not validate the integrity of its objects. By injecting malicious objects with manipulated virtual function table pointers, attackers can hijack control-flow of programs. The software security community addressed the COOP-problem in the years following its discovery, but together with the emergence of transient-execution attacks, such as Spectre, researchers also shifted their attention. We present Hobbit, a software-only solution to prevent COOP attacks by validating object integrity for virtual function pointer tables. Hobbit does not require any hardware specific features, scales to multi-million lines of C++ source code, and our LLVM-based implementation offers a configurable performance impact between 121.63% and 2.80% on compute-intensive SPEC CPU C++ benchmarks. Hobbit’s security analysis indicates strong resistance to brute forcing attacks and demonstrates additional benefits of using execute-only memory.

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Matthias Bernad and Stefan Brunthaler. HOBBIT: Hashed OBject Based InTegrity. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 7:1-7:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{bernad_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.7,
  author =	{Bernad, Matthias and Brunthaler, Stefan},
  title =	{{HOBBIT: Hashed OBject Based InTegrity}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208566},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: software security, code-reuse attacks, language-based security, counterfeit-object-oriented programming, object integrity, compiler security}
}
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Constraint Modelling with LLMs Using In-Context Learning

Authors: Kostis Michailidis, Dimos Tsouros, and Tias Guns

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 307, 30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2024)


Abstract
Constraint Programming (CP) allows for the modelling and solving of a wide range of combinatorial problems. However, modelling such problems using constraints over decision variables still requires significant expertise, both in conceptual thinking and syntactic use of modelling languages. In this work, we explore the potential of using pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) as coding assistants, to transform textual problem descriptions into concrete and executable CP specifications. We present different transformation pipelines with explicit intermediate representations, and we investigate the potential benefit of various retrieval-augmented example selection strategies for in-context learning. We evaluate our approach on 2 datasets from the literature, namely NL4Opt (optimisation) and Logic Grid Puzzles (satisfaction), and a heterogeneous set of exercises from a CP course. The results show that pre-trained LLMs have promising potential for initialising the modelling process, with retrieval-augmented in-context learning significantly enhancing their modelling capabilities.

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Kostis Michailidis, Dimos Tsouros, and Tias Guns. Constraint Modelling with LLMs Using In-Context Learning. In 30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 307, pp. 20:1-20:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{michailidis_et_al:LIPIcs.CP.2024.20,
  author =	{Michailidis, Kostis and Tsouros, Dimos and Guns, Tias},
  title =	{{Constraint Modelling with LLMs Using In-Context Learning}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2024)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-336-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{307},
  editor =	{Shaw, Paul},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2024.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207053},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CP.2024.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Constraint Modelling, Constraint Acquisition, Constraint Programming, Large Language Models, In-Context Learning, Natural Language Processing, Named Entity Recognition, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Optimisation}
}
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Antichain with SAT and Tries

Authors: Lukáš Holík and Pavol Vargovčík

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 305, 27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024)


Abstract
We introduce a SAT-enabled version of an antichain algorithm for checking language emptiness of alternating finite automata (AFA) with complex transition relations encoded as compact logical formulae. The SAT solver is used to compute predecessors of AFA configurations, and at the same time, to evaluate the subsumption of newly found configurations in the antichain of the previously found ones. The algorithm could be naively implemented by an incremental SAT solver where the growing antichain is represented by adding new clauses. To make it efficient, we 1) force the SAT solver to prioritize largest/subsumption-strongest predecessors (so that weaker configurations are not even generated), and 2) store the antichain clauses in a special variant of a trie that allows fast subsumption testing. The experimental results suggest that the resulting emptiness checker is very efficient compared to the state of the art and that our techniques improve the performance of the SAT solver.

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Lukáš Holík and Pavol Vargovčík. Antichain with SAT and Tries. In 27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 305, pp. 15:1-15:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{holik_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2024.15,
  author =	{Hol{\'\i}k, Luk\'{a}\v{s} and Vargov\v{c}{\'\i}k, Pavol},
  title =	{{Antichain with SAT and Tries}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2024)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-334-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{305},
  editor =	{Chakraborty, Supratik and Jiang, Jie-Hong Roland},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-205372},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2024.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: SAT, Trie, Antichain, Alternating automata, Subset query}
}
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GeoQAMap - Geographic Question Answering with Maps Leveraging LLM and Open Knowledge Base (Short Paper)

Authors: Yu Feng, Linfang Ding, and Guohui Xiao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)


Abstract
GeoQA (Geographic Question Answering) is an emerging research field in GIScience, aimed at answering geographic questions in natural language. However, developing systems that seamlessly integrate structured geospatial data with unstructured natural language queries remains challenging. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have facilitated the application of natural language processing in various tasks. To achieve this goal, this study introduces GeoQAMap, a system that first translates natural language questions into SPARQL queries, then retrieves geospatial information from Wikidata, and finally generates interactive maps as visual answers. The system exhibits great potential for integration with other geospatial data sources such as OpenStreetMap and CityGML, enabling complicated geographic question answering involving further spatial operations.

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Yu Feng, Linfang Ding, and Guohui Xiao. GeoQAMap - Geographic Question Answering with Maps Leveraging LLM and Open Knowledge Base (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 28:1-28:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{feng_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.28,
  author =	{Feng, Yu and Ding, Linfang and Xiao, Guohui},
  title =	{{GeoQAMap - Geographic Question Answering with Maps Leveraging LLM and Open Knowledge Base}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:7},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189233},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Geographic Question Answering, Large Language Models, SPARQL, Knowledge Base, Wikidata}
}
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Short Paper
Characterizing Urban Expansion Processes Using Dynamic Spatial Models – a European Application (Short Paper)

Authors: Alex Hagen-Zanker, Jingyan Yu, Naratip Santitissadeekorn, and Susan Hughes

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 277, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)


Abstract
Characterisation of the urban expansion processes using time series of binary urban/non-urban land cover data is complex due to the need to account for the initial configuration and the rate of urban expansion over the analysed period. Failure to account for these factors makes the interpretation of landscape metrics for compactness, fragmentation, or clumpiness problematic and the comparison between geographical areas and time periods contentious. This paper presents an approach for characterisation using spatio-dynamic modelling which is data-centred using a process based model, Bayesian optimization, cluster identification, and maximum likelihood classification. An application of the approach across 652 functional urban areas in Europe (1975-2014) demonstrates the consistency of the approach and its ability to identify spatial and temporal trends in urban expansion processes.

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Alex Hagen-Zanker, Jingyan Yu, Naratip Santitissadeekorn, and Susan Hughes. Characterizing Urban Expansion Processes Using Dynamic Spatial Models – a European Application (Short Paper). In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 277, pp. 36:1-36:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{hagenzanker_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.36,
  author =	{Hagen-Zanker, Alex and Yu, Jingyan and Santitissadeekorn, Naratip and Hughes, Susan},
  title =	{{Characterizing Urban Expansion Processes Using Dynamic Spatial Models – a European Application}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{36:1--36:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.36},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189312},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.36},
  annote =	{Keywords: Urban expansion, morphology, spatio-temporal dynamics, simulation, compactness}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Near-Optimal Two-Pass Streaming Algorithm for Sampling Random Walks over Directed Graphs

Authors: Lijie Chen, Gillat Kol, Dmitry Paramonov, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, Zhao Song, and Huacheng Yu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 198, 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)


Abstract
For a directed graph G with n vertices and a start vertex u_start, we wish to (approximately) sample an L-step random walk over G starting from u_start with minimum space using an algorithm that only makes few passes over the edges of the graph. This problem found many applications, for instance, in approximating the PageRank of a webpage. If only a single pass is allowed, the space complexity of this problem was shown to be Θ̃(n ⋅ L). Prior to our work, a better space complexity was only known with Õ(√L) passes. We essentially settle the space complexity of this random walk simulation problem for two-pass streaming algorithms, showing that it is Θ̃(n ⋅ √L), by giving almost matching upper and lower bounds. Our lower bound argument extends to every constant number of passes p, and shows that any p-pass algorithm for this problem uses Ω̃(n ⋅ L^{1/p}) space. In addition, we show a similar Θ̃(n ⋅ √L) bound on the space complexity of any algorithm (with any number of passes) for the related problem of sampling an L-step random walk from every vertex in the graph.

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Lijie Chen, Gillat Kol, Dmitry Paramonov, Raghuvansh R. Saxena, Zhao Song, and Huacheng Yu. Near-Optimal Two-Pass Streaming Algorithm for Sampling Random Walks over Directed Graphs. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 52:1-52:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.52,
  author =	{Chen, Lijie and Kol, Gillat and Paramonov, Dmitry and Saxena, Raghuvansh R. and Song, Zhao and Yu, Huacheng},
  title =	{{Near-Optimal Two-Pass Streaming Algorithm for Sampling Random Walks over Directed Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-195-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{198},
  editor =	{Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela 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.ICALP.2021.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141218},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: streaming algorithms, random walk sampling}
}
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On Closeness to k-Wise Uniformity

Authors: Ryan O'Donnell and Yu Zhao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 116, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018)


Abstract
A probability distribution over {-1, 1}^n is (epsilon, k)-wise uniform if, roughly, it is epsilon-close to the uniform distribution when restricted to any k coordinates. We consider the problem of how far an (epsilon, k)-wise uniform distribution can be from any globally k-wise uniform distribution. We show that every (epsilon, k)-wise uniform distribution is O(n^{k/2}epsilon)-close to a k-wise uniform distribution in total variation distance. In addition, we show that this bound is optimal for all even k: we find an (epsilon, k)-wise uniform distribution that is Omega(n^{k/2}epsilon)-far from any k-wise uniform distribution in total variation distance. For k=1, we get a better upper bound of O(epsilon), which is also optimal. One application of our closeness result is to the sample complexity of testing whether a distribution is k-wise uniform or delta-far from k-wise uniform. We give an upper bound of O(n^{k}/delta^2) (or O(log n/delta^2) when k = 1) on the required samples. We show an improved upper bound of O~(n^{k/2}/delta^2) for the special case of testing fully uniform vs. delta-far from k-wise uniform. Finally, we complement this with a matching lower bound of Omega(n/delta^2) when k = 2. Our results improve upon the best known bounds from [Alon et al., 2007], and have simpler proofs.

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Ryan O'Donnell and Yu Zhao. On Closeness to k-Wise Uniformity. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 116, pp. 54:1-54:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{odonnell_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2018.54,
  author =	{O'Donnell, Ryan and Zhao, Yu},
  title =	{{On Closeness to k-Wise Uniformity}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018)},
  pages =	{54:1--54:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-085-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{116},
  editor =	{Blais, Eric and Jansen, Klaus and D. P. Rolim, Jos\'{e} and Steurer, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2018.54},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-94581},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2018.54},
  annote =	{Keywords: k-wise independence, property testing, Fourier analysis, Boolean function}
}
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Some Lower Bounds in Dynamic Networks with Oblivious Adversaries

Authors: Irvan Jahja, Haifeng Yu, and Yuda Zhao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 91, 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)


Abstract
This paper considers several closely-related problems in synchronous dynamic networks with oblivious adversaries, and proves novel Omega(d + poly(m)) lower bounds on their time complexity (in rounds). Here d is the dynamic diameter of the dynamic network and m is the total number of nodes. Before this work, the only known lower bounds on these problems under oblivious adversaries were the trivial Omega(d) lower bounds. Our novel lower bounds are hence the first non-trivial lower bounds and also the first lower bounds with a poly(m) term. Our proof relies on a novel reduction from a certain two-party communication complexity problem. Our central proof technique is unique in the sense that we consider the communication complexity with a special leaker. The leaker helps Alice and Bob in the two-party problem, by disclosing to Alice and Bob certain "non-critical" information about the problem instance that they are solving.

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Irvan Jahja, Haifeng Yu, and Yuda Zhao. Some Lower Bounds in Dynamic Networks with Oblivious Adversaries. In 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 91, pp. 29:1-29:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{jahja_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2017.29,
  author =	{Jahja, Irvan and Yu, Haifeng and Zhao, Yuda},
  title =	{{Some Lower Bounds in Dynamic Networks with Oblivious Adversaries}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-053-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{91},
  editor =	{Richa, Andr\'{e}a},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-79690},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic networks, oblivious adversary, adaptive adversary, lower bounds, communication complexity}
}
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Polynomial Bounds for Decoupling, with Applications

Authors: Ryan O'Donnell and Yu Zhao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 50, 31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016)


Abstract
Let f(x) = f(x_1, ..., x_n) = sum_{|S|<=k} a_S prod_{i in S} x_i be an n-variate real multilinear polynomial of degree at most k, where S subseteq [n] = {1, 2, ..., n}. For its one-block decoupled version, vf(y,z) = sum_{abs(S)<=k} a_S sum_{i in S}} y_i prod_{j in S\{i}} z_j, we show tail-bound comparisons of the form Pr(abs(vf)(y,z)) > C_k t} <= D_k Pr(abs(f(x)) > t). Our constants C_k, D_k are significantly better than those known for "full decoupling". For example, when x, y, z are independent Gaussians we obtain C_k = D_k = O(k); when x, by, z are +/-1 random variables we obtain C_k = O(k^2), D_k = k^{O(k)}. By contrast, for full decoupling only C_k = D_k = k^{O(k)} is known in these settings. We describe consequences of these results for query complexity (related to conjectures of Aaronson and Ambainis) and for analysis of Boolean functions (including an optimal sharpening of the DFKO Inequality).

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Ryan O'Donnell and Yu Zhao. Polynomial Bounds for Decoupling, with Applications. In 31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 50, pp. 24:1-24:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{odonnell_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2016.24,
  author =	{O'Donnell, Ryan and Zhao, Yu},
  title =	{{Polynomial Bounds for Decoupling, with Applications}},
  booktitle =	{31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-008-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{50},
  editor =	{Raz, Ran},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-58520},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Decoupling, Query Complexity, Fourier Analysis, Boolean Functions}
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