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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

We show conditional hardness of Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANN) under the $\ell_\infty$ norm with two simple reductions. Our first reduction shows that hardness of a special case of the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP), which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Young Kun Ko , Min Jae Song

A particular instance of the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) appears in the context of Compute-and-Forward. Despite the NP-hardness of the SVP, we will show that this certain instance can be solved in complexity order $O(n\psi\log(n\psi))$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Saeid Sahraei , Michael Gastpar

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

We prove that the Minimum Distance Problem (MDP) on linear codes over any fixed finite field and parameterized by the input distance bound is W[1]-hard to approximate within any constant factor. We also prove analogous results for the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Huck Bennett , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Venkatesan Guruswami , João Ribeiro

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

Finding sparse vectors is a fundamental problem that arises in several contexts including codes, subspaces, and lattices. In this work, we prove strong inapproximability results for all these variants using a novel approach that even…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Xuandi Ren

In this work, we exhibit a hierarchy of polynomial time algorithms solving approximate variants of the Closest Vector Problem (CVP). Our first contribution is a heuristic algorithm achieving the same distance tradeoff as HSVP algorithms,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Thomas Espitau , Paul Kirchner

We prove that for an arbitrarily small constant $\eps>0,$ assuming NP$\not \subseteq$DTIME$(2^{{\log^{O(1/\eps)} n}})$, the preprocessing versions of the closest vector problem and the nearest codeword problem are hard to approximate within…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-13 Subhash Khot , Preyas Popat , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Given a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb R^d$, the (monochromatic) Closest Pair problem asks to find a pair of distinct points in the set that are closest in the $\ell_p$-metric. Closest Pair is a fundamental problem in Computational Geometry…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Karthik C. S. , Pasin Manurangsi

$\newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} $We prove that for any $\eps > 0$ it is $\textsf{NP}$-hard to approximate the non-commutative Grothendieck problem to within a factor $1/2 + \eps$, which matches the approximation ratio of the algorithm of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jop Briët , Oded Regev , Rishi Saket

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm for the closest vector problem for all l_p-norms, 1 < p < \infty, and all polyhedral norms, especially for the l_1-norm and the l_{\infty}-norm. We achieve our results by introducing a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Johannes Blömer , Stefanie Naewe

The closest vector problem (CVP) is a fundamental optimization problem in lattice-based cryptography and its conjectured hardness underpins the security of lattice-based cryptosystems. Furthermore, Schnorr's lattice-based factoring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Max O. Al-Hasso , Marko von der Leyen

We give a novel algorithm for enumerating lattice points in any convex body, and give applications to several classic lattice problems, including the Shortest and Closest Vector Problems (SVP and CVP, respectively) and Integer Programming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Daniel Dadush , Chris Peikert , Santosh Vempala

$ \newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}} \newcommand{\eps}{\varepsilon} \newcommand{\cc}[1]{\mathsf{#1}} \newcommand{\NP}{\cc{NP}} \newcommand{\problem}[1]{\mathrm{#1}} \newcommand{\BDD}{\problem{BDD}} $Bounded Distance Decoding $\BDD_{p,\alpha}$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Huck Bennett , Chris Peikert

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

The most important computational problem on lattices is the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP). In this paper, we present new algorithms that improve the state-of-the-art for provable classical/quantum algorithms for SVP. We present the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Divesh Aggarwal , Yanlin Chen , Rajendra Kumar , Yixin Shen

We give a randomized $2^{n+o(n)}$-time and space algorithm for solving the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) on n-dimensional Euclidean lattices. This improves on the previous fastest algorithm: the deterministic $\widetilde{O}(4^n)$-time and…

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

The Super-SAT or SSAT problem was introduced by Dinur et al.(2002,2003) to prove the NP-hardness of approximation of two popular lattice problems - Shortest Vector Problem(SVP) and Closest Vector Problem(CVP). They conjectured that SSAT is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

We present a new distributed model of probabilistically checkable proofs (PCP). A satisfying assignment $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ to a CNF formula $\varphi$ is shared between two parties, where Alice knows $x_1, \dots, x_{n/2}$, Bob knows…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Amir Abboud , Aviad Rubinstein , Ryan Williams