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We present an efficient algorithm to solve semirandom planted instances of any Boolean constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). The semirandom model is a hybrid between worst-case and average-case input models, where the input is generated by…

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Pseudo-random number generators (PRNG) are a fundamental element of many security algorithms. We introduce a novel approach to their implementation, by proposing the use of generative adversarial networks (GAN) to train a neural network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Marcello De Bernardi , MHR Khouzani , Pasquale Malacaria

We study pseudorandomness and pseudorandom generators from the perspective of logical definability. Building on results from ordinary derandomization and finite model theory, we show that it is possible to deterministically construct, in…

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We give a pseudorandom generator that fools degree-$d$ polynomial threshold functions over $n$-dimensional Gaussian space with seed length $\mathrm{poly}(d)\cdot \log n$. All previous generators had a seed length with at least a $2^d$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Ryan O'Donnell , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan , Daniel Kane

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a keystone principle in probability theory, guaranteeing the existence of configurations which avoid a collection $\mathcal B$ of "bad" events which are mostly independent and have low probability. In its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-20 David G. Harris

We prove hardness-of-learning results under a well-studied assumption on the existence of local pseudorandom generators. As we show, this assumption allows us to surpass the current state of the art, and prove hardness of various basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Amit Daniely , Gal Vardi

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are essential in a wide range of applications, from cryptography to statistical simulations and optimization algorithms. While uniform randomness is crucial for security-critical areas like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Wu , Ahmet Yusuf Salim , Eslam Elmitwalli , Selçuk Köse , Zeljko Ignjatovic

Pseudo-Random Numbers Generators (PRNGs) are algorithms produced to generate long sequences of statistically uncorrelated numbers, i.e. Pseudo-Random Numbers (PRNs). These numbers are widely employed in mid-level cryptography and in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Luca Pasqualini , Maurizio Parton

Developing explicit pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for prominent categories of Boolean functions is a key focus in computational complexity theory. In this paper, we investigate the PRGs against the functions of degree-$d$ polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Penghui Yao , Mingnan Zhao

The ever-increasing need for random numbers is clear in many areas of computer science, from neural networks to optimization. As such, most common programming language provide easy access to Pseudorandom Number Generators. However, these…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Nils van den Honert , Diederick Vermetten , Anna V. Kononova

The ability to reliably distinguish human-written text from that generated by large language models is of profound societal importance. The dominant approach to this problem exploits the likelihood hypothesis: that machine-generated text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tom Kempton , Viktor Drobnyi , Maeve Madigan , Stuart Burrell

Random linear codes are a workhorse in coding theory, and are used to show the existence of codes with the best known or even near-optimal trade-offs in many noise models. However, they have little structure besides linearity, and are not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Venkatesan Guruswami , Jonathan Mosheiff

We give a pseudorandom generator that fools $m$-facet polytopes over $\{0,1\}^n$ with seed length $\mathrm{polylog}(m) \cdot \log n$. The previous best seed length had superlinear dependence on $m$. An immediate consequence is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Ryan O'Donnell , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

Deep generative models provide a systematic way to learn nonlinear data distributions, through a set of latent variables and a nonlinear "generator" function that maps latent points into the input space. The nonlinearity of the generator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-14 Georgios Arvanitidis , Lars Kai Hansen , Søren Hauberg

We give a quantum logspace algorithm for powering contraction matrices, that is, matrices with spectral norm at most~1. The algorithm gets as an input an arbitrary $n\times n$ contraction matrix $A$, and a parameter $T \leq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Uma Girish , Ran Raz , Wei Zhan

Gaussian random number generators attract a widespread interest due to their applications in several fields. Important requirements include easy implementation, tail accuracy, and, finally, a flat spectrum. In this work, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Francisco-Javier Soto , Ana I. Gómez , Domingo Gómez-Pérez

The pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs), sampling algorithms, and algorithms for generating random integers in some common statistical packages and programming languages are unnecessarily inaccurate, by an amount that may matter for…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-29 Philip B. Stark , Kellie Ottoboni

Pre-ranking is a critical stage in industrial recommendation systems, tasked with efficiently scoring thousands of recalled items for downstream ranking. A key challenge is the train-serving discrepancy: pre-ranking models are trained only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Junyu Bi , Xinting Niu , Daixuan Cheng , Kun Yuan , Tao Wang , Binbin Cao , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

High quality random numbers are necessary in the modern world. Ranging from encryption keys in cyber security to models and simulations for scientific use: it's important that these random numbers are of high quality and quickly attainable.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Dmitriy Beznosko , Keith Driscoll , Fernando Guadarrama , Steven Mai , Nikolas Thornton

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed text generation through inherently probabilistic context-aware mechanisms, mimicking human natural language. In this paper, we systematically investigate the performance of various LLMs when…

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