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We revisit the approximate Voronoi cells approach for solving the closest vector problem with preprocessing (CVPP) on high-dimensional lattices, and settle the open problem of Doulgerakis-Laarhoven-De Weger [PQCrypto, 2019] of determining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Thijs Laarhoven

We revisit a classical graph-theoretic problem, the \textit{single-source shortest-path} (SSSP) problem, in weighted unit-disk graphs. We first propose an exact (and deterministic) algorithm which solves the problem in $O(n \log^2 n)$ time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Haitao Wang , Jie Xue

The assumed hardness of the Shortest Vector Problem in high-dimensional lattices is one of the cornerstones of post-quantum cryptography. The fastest known heuristic attacks on SVP are via so-called sieving methods. While these still take…

$ \newcommand{\SVP}{\textsf{SVP}} \newcommand{\CVP}{\textsf{CVP}} \newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} $We show a number of reductions between the Shortest Vector Problem and the Closest Vector Problem over lattices in different $\ell_p$ norms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Divesh Aggarwal , Yanlin Chen , Rajendra Kumar , Zeyong Li , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

Lattice-based cryptography has recently emerged as a prime candidate for efficient and secure post-quantum cryptography. The two main hard problems underlying its security are the shortest vector problem (SVP) and the closest vector problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Thijs Laarhoven

We introduce a new class of algorithms for finding a short vector in lattices defined by codes of co-dimension $k$ over $\mathbb{Z}_P^d$, where $P$ is prime. The co-dimension $1$ case is solved by exploiting the packing properties of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Robert Lin , Peter W. Shor

Lattice-based cryptography is one of the leading proposals for post-quantum cryptography. The Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) is arguably the most important problem for the cryptanalysis of lattice-based cryptography, and many lattice-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 André Chailloux , Johanna Loyer

We present a randomized algorithm for the single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem on directed graphs with arbitrary real-valued edge weights that runs in $n^{2+o(1)}$ time with high probability. This result yields the first almost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sanjeev Khanna , Junkai Song

The closest vector problem (CVP) and shortest (nonzero) vector problem (SVP) are the core algorithmic problems on Euclidean lattices. They are central to the applications of lattices in many problems of communications and cryptography.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Laura Luzzi , Damien Stehle , Cong Ling

We study the algorithmic problem of estimating the mean of heavy-tailed random vector in $\mathbb{R}^d$, given $n$ i.i.d. samples. The goal is to design an efficient estimator that attains the optimal sub-gaussian error bound, only assuming…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Zhixian Lei , Kyle Luh , Prayaag Venkat , Fred Zhang

Lattice-based cryptography has emerged as one of the most prominent candidates for post-quantum cryptography, projected to be secure against the imminent threat of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. The Shortest Vector Problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Júlia Barberà-Rodríguez , Nicolas Gama , Anand Kumar Narayanan , David Joseph

Improving on the Voronoi cell based techniques of Micciancio and Voulgaris (SIAM J. Comp. 13), and Sommer, Feder and Shalvi (SIAM J. Disc. Math. 09), we give a Las Vegas $\tilde{O}(2^n)$ expected time and space algorithm for CVPP (the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Nicolas Bonifas , Daniel Dadush

In this work, we give provable sieving algorithms for the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) and the Closest Vector Problem (CVP) on lattices in $\ell_p$ norm ($1\leq p\leq\infty$). The running time we obtain is better than existing provable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

Blomer and Naewe[BN09] modified the randomized sieving algorithm of Ajtai, Kumar and Sivakumar[AKS01] to solve the shortest vector problem (SVP). The algorithm starts with $N = 2^{O(n)}$ randomly chosen vectors in the lattice and employs a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Divesh Aggarwal , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

In the Orthogonal Vectors problem (OV), we are given two families $A, B$ of subsets of $\{1,\ldots,d\}$, each of size $n$, and the task is to decide whether there exists a pair $a \in A$ and $b \in B$ such that $a \cap b = \emptyset$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Anita Dürr , Evangelos Kipouridis , Karol Węgrzycki

We consider the problem of finding the optimal coefficient vector that maximizes the computation rate at a relay in the compute-and-forward scheme. Based on the idea of sphere decoding, we propose a highly efficient algorithm that finds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jinming Wen , Baojian Zhou , Wai Ho Mow , Xiao-Wen Chang

We present a substantially more efficient variant, both in terms of running time and size of preprocessing advice, of the algorithm by Liu, Lyubashevsky, and Micciancio for solving CVPP (the preprocessing version of the Closest Vector…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Daniel Dadush , Oded Regev , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

We present an implementation and experimental analysis of the deterministic algorithm proposed by Duan et al. (2025) for the Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem, which achieves the best-known asymptotic upper bound of $O(m \log^{2/3}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Lucas Castro , Thailsson Clementino , Rosiane de Freitas

Motivated by a sampling problem basic to computational statistical inference, we develop a nearly optimal algorithm for a fundamental problem in spectral graph theory and numerical analysis. Given an $n\times n$ SDDM matrix ${\bf…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Dehua Cheng , Yu Cheng , Yan Liu , Richard Peng , Shang-Hua Teng

We present algorithms for the $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate version of the closest vector problem for certain norms. The currently fastest algorithm (Dadush and Kun 2016) for general norms has running time of $2^{O(n)} (1/\epsilon)^n$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Márton Naszódi , Moritz Venzin