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In this paper, we study the Learning With Errors problem and its binary variant, where secrets and errors are binary or taken in a small interval. We introduce a new variant of the Blum, Kalai and Wasserman algorithm, relying on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Paul Kirchner , Pierre-Alain Fouque

We show a simple reduction which demonstrates the cryptographic hardness of learning a single periodic neuron over isotropic Gaussian distributions in the presence of noise. More precisely, our reduction shows that any polynomial-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Min Jae Song , Ilias Zadik , Joan Bruna

The advent of quantum computing threatens classical public-key cryptography, motivating NIST's adoption of post-quantum schemes such as those based on the Module Learning With Errors (Module-LWE) problem. We present NoMod ML-Attack, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Cristian Bassotto , Ermes Franch , Marina Krček , Stjepan Picek

LWE-based cryptosystems are an attractive alternative to traditional ones in the post-quantum era. To minimize the storage cost of part of its public key - a $256 \times 640$ integer matrix, $\textbf{T}$ - a binary version of $\textbf{T}$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tikaram Sanyashi , M. Bhargav Sri Venkatesh , Kapil Agarwal , Manish Verma , Bernard Menezes

Why study Lattice-based Cryptography? There are a few ways to answer this question. 1. It is useful to have cryptosystems that are based on a variety of hard computational problems so the different cryptosystems are not all vulnerable in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yang Li , Kee Siong Ng , Michael Purcell

The learning parity with noise (LPN) problem is a well-established computational challenge whose difficulty is critical to the security of several post-quantum cryptographic primitives such as HQC and Classic McEliece. Classically, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daniel Shiu

Sparse binary LWE secrets are under consideration for standardization for Homomorphic Encryption and its applications to private computation. Known attacks on sparse binary LWE secrets include the sparse dual attack and the hybrid sparse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Niklas Nolte , Mohamed Malhou , Emily Wenger , Samuel Stevens , Cathy Li , François Charton , Kristin Lauter

We show hardness of improperly learning halfspaces in the agnostic model, both in the distribution-independent as well as the distribution-specific setting, based on the assumption that worst-case lattice problems, such as GapSVP or SIVP,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Stefan Tiegel

We present a quantum augmented variant of the dual lattice attack on the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem, using classical memory with quantum random access (QRACM). Applying our results to lattice parameters from the literature, we find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Martin R. Albrecht , Yixin Shen

We study the equivalence between the Ring Learning With Errors and Polynomial Learning With Errors problems for cyclotomic number fields,namely: we prove that both problems are equivalent via a polynomial noise increase as long as the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Iván Blanco Chacón

A supervised learning algorithm has access to a distribution of labeled examples, and needs to return a function (hypothesis) that correctly labels the examples. The hypothesis of the learner is taken from some fixed class of functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Eran Malach , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem underpinning many proposed post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) systems. The only PQC Key Exchange Mechanism (KEM) standardized by NIST is based on module~LWE, and current publicly available PQ…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Cathy Li , Jana Sotáková , Emily Wenger , Mohamed Malhou , Evrard Garcelon , Francois Charton , Kristin Lauter

Modern information communications use cryptography to keep the contents of communications confidential. RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptography and elliptic curve cryptography, which are public-key cryptosystems, are widely used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yuri Lucas Direbieski , Hiroki Tanioka , Kenji Matsuura , Hironori Takeuchi , Masahiko Sano , Tetsushi Ueta

In this paper we study the quantum learnability of constant-depth classical circuits under the uniform distribution and in the distribution-independent framework of PAC learning. In order to attain our results, we establish connections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Alex B. Grilo , Aarthi Sundaram

The Ring Learning-With-Errors (RLWE) problem shows great promise for post-quantum cryptography and homomorphic encryption. We describe a new attack on the non-dual search RLWE problem with small error widths, using ring homomorphisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Hao Chen , Kristin Lauter , Katherine E. Stange

Complex classifiers may exhibit "embarassing" failures in cases where humans can easily provide a justified classification. Avoiding such failures is obviously of key importance. In this work, we focus on one such setting, where a label is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Deborah Cohen , Amit Daniely , Amir Globerson , Gal Elidan

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows an untrusted party to evaluate arithmetic cir- cuits, i.e., perform additions and multiplications on encrypted data, without having the decryp- tion key. One of the most efficient class of FHE…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Hao Chen

The basic problem in the PAC model of computational learning theory is to determine which hypothesis classes are efficiently learnable. There is presently a dearth of results showing hardness of learning problems. Moreover, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

This is a survey on some topics in Lattice based cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption. In particular, we define some lattice problems, LWE and RLWE, and state the reductions given by Regev and Peikert. We also give a full treatment of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Vir Pathak

In this paper, we demonstrate a way to generalize learning with errors (LWE) to the family of so-called modular-maximal cyclic groups which are non-commuting. Since the group M2t has two cycles of maximal multiplicative order, we use this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Aleksejus Mihalkovič , Lina Dindiene , Eligijus Sakalauskas