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Goldreich suggested candidates of one-way functions and pseudorandom generators included in $\mathsf{NC}^0$. It is known that randomly generated Goldreich's generator using $(r-1)$-wise independent predicates with $n$ input variables and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Ryuhei Mori , Takeshi Koshiba , Osamu Watanabe , Masaki Yamamoto

Pseudorandom quantum states (PRSs) and pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs) possess the dual nature of being efficiently constructible while appearing completely random to any efficient quantum algorithm. In this study, we establish fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Tobias Haug , Kishor Bharti , Dax Enshan Koh

The generation of pseudo-random discrete probability distributions is of paramount importance for a wide range of stochastic simulations spanning from Monte Carlo methods to the random sampling of quantum states for investigations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Jonas Maziero

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has proven to be remarkably effective in optimizing deep neural networks that employ ever-larger numbers of parameters. Yet, improving the efficiency of large-scale optimization remains a vital and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Frithjof Gressmann , Zach Eaton-Rosen , Carlo Luschi

We study the arithmetic complexity of hitting set generators, which are pseudorandom objects used for derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem. We give new explicit constructions of hitting set generators whose outputs are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Robert Andrews

Since the work of Ferrenberg et al.[PRL 69, (1992)] some pseudo random number generators are known to yield wrong results in cluster Monte Carlo simulations. In this contribution the fundamental mechanism behind this failure is discussed.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens , Heiko Bauke

Constructing a spanning tree of a graph is one of the most basic tasks in graph theory. We consider this problem in the setting of local algorithms: one wants to quickly determine whether a given edge $e$ is in a specific spanning tree,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Langevin Dynamics, Monte Carlo, and all-atom Molecular Dynamics simulations in implicit solvent, widely used to access the microscopic transitions in biomolecules, require a reliable source of random numbers. Here we present the two main…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-03-05 A. Zhmurov , K. Rybnikov , Y. Kholodov , V. Barsegov

Consider a system of $m$ polynomial equations $\{p_i(x) = b_i\}_{i \leq m}$ of degree $D\geq 2$ in $n$-dimensional variable $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ such that each coefficient of every $p_i$ and $b_i$s are chosen at random and independently…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari

We describe a new statistical test for pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs). Our test can find bias induced by dependencies among the Hamming weights of the outputs of a PRNG, even for PRNGs that pass state-of-the-art tests of the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-29 David Blackman , Sebastiano Vigna

Pseudorandom states (PRSs) are state ensembles that cannot be efficiently distinguished from Haar random states. However, the definition of PRSs has been limited to pure states and lacks robustness against noise. Here, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Nikhil Bansal , Wai-Keong Mok , Kishor Bharti , Dax Enshan Koh , Tobias Haug

Low-degree polynomials have emerged as a powerful paradigm for providing evidence of statistical-computational gaps across a variety of high-dimensional statistical models [Wein25]. For detection problems -- where the goal is to test a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Alexandra Carpentier , Simone Maria Giancola , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

The Linux pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) is a PRNG with entropy inputs and is widely used in many security-related applications and protocols. This PRNG is written as an open-source code which is subject to regular changes. It has…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ayush Bansal , Pramod Subramanyan , Satyadev Nandakumar

$\mathbf F_2$-linear pseudorandom number generators are very popular due to their high speed, to the ease with which generators with a sizable state space can be created, and to their provable theoretical properties. However, they suffer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-29 David Blackman , Sebastiano Vigna

We develop a method for generating pseudorandom binary sequences using the Bernoulli map on cubic algebraic integers. The distinguishing characteristic of our generator is that it generates chaotic true orbits of the Bernoulli map by exact…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Asaki Saito , Akihiro Yamaguchi

Machine learning (ML) frameworks rely heavily on pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) for tasks such as data shuffling, weight initialization, dropout, and optimization. Yet, the statistical quality and reproducibility of these…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Benjamin A. Antunes

We prove that random quantum circuits on any geometry, including a 1D line, can form approximate unitary designs over $n$ qubits in $\log n$ depth. In a similar manner, we construct pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs) in 1D circuits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Thomas Schuster , Jonas Haferkamp , Hsin-Yuan Huang

Parallel stochastic simulations tend to exploit more and more computing power and they are now also developed for General Purpose Graphics Process Units (GP-GPUs). Conse-quently, they need reliable random sources to feed their applications.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Claude Mazel , Antoine Mahul , David Hill

In this work, we continue the line of research on the complexity of distributions (Viola, Journal of Computing 2012), and study samplers defined by low degree polynomials. An $n$-tuple $P = (P_1,\dots, P_n)$ of functions $P_i \colon…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohammad Mahdi Khodabandeh , Igor Shinkar

In this paper it is considered rule reduct generation problem, based on Rough Set Theory. Rule Reduct Generation (RG) and Modified Rule Generation (MRG) algorithms are well-known. Alternative to these algorithms Pruning Algorithm of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Şahin Emrah Amrahov , Fatih Aybar , Serhat Doğan