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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

We develop a pseudorandom generator that fools degree-$d$ polynomial threshold functions in $n$ variables with respect to the Gaussian distribution and has seed length $O_{c,d}(\log(n) \epsilon^{-c})$.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Daniel M. Kane

Error probability distribution associated with a given Clifford measurement circuit is described exactly in terms of the circuit error-equivalence group, or the circuit subsystem code previously introduced by Bacon, Flammia, Harrow, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Leonid P. Pryadko

We construct pseudorandom error-correcting codes (or simply pseudorandom codes), which are error-correcting codes with the property that any polynomial number of codewords are pseudorandom to any computationally-bounded adversary. Efficient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Miranda Christ , Sam Gunn

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

Deep learning has achieved tremendous success by training increasingly large models, which are then compressed for practical deployment. We propose a drastically different approach to compact and optimal deep learning: We decouple the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiayun Wang , Yubei Chen , Stella X. Yu , Brian Cheung , Yann LeCun

There are various notions of quantum pseudorandomness, such as pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs), pseudorandom state generators (PRSGs) and pseudorandom function-like state generators (PRFSGs). Unlike classical pseudorandomness, where different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samuel Bouaziz--Ermann , Minki Hhan , Garazi Muguruza , Quoc-Huy Vu

We study the problem of learning a low-degree spherical polynomial of degree $k_0 = \Theta(1) \ge 1$ defined on the unit sphere in $\RR^d$ by training an over-parameterized two-layer neural network with augmented feature in this paper. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Yingzhen Yang , Ping Li

A Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) is any algorithm generating a sequence of numbers approximating properties of random numbers. These numbers are widely employed in mid-level cryptography and in software applications. Test suites are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Luca Pasqualini , Maurizio Parton

The isolation lemma of Mulmuley et al \cite{MVV87} is an important tool in the design of randomized algorithms and has played an important role in several nontrivial complexity upper bounds. On the other hand, polynomial identity testing is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-04-24 V. Arvind , Partha Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, a new pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) based on the logistic map has been proposed. To prevent the system to fall into short period orbits as well as increasing the randomness of the generated sequences, the proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-29 Miguel Garcia-Bosque , Adrián Pérez-Resa , Carlos Sánchez-Azqueta , Concepción Aldea , Santiago Celma

In order to understand the performance of a code under maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding, it is crucial to know the minimal codewords. In the context of linear programming (LP) decoding, it turns out to be necessary to know the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pascal O. Vontobel , Roxana Smarandache , Negar Kiyavash , Jason Teutsch , Dejan Vukobratovic

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

We provide an exact analysis of a class of randomized algorithms for solving overdetermined least-squares problems. We consider first-order methods, where the gradients are pre-conditioned by an approximation of the Hessian, based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

Scaling dense PCFGs to thousands of nonterminals via a low-rank parameterization of the rule probability tensor has been shown to be beneficial for unsupervised parsing. However, PCFGs scaled this way still perform poorly as a language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Wei Liu , Songlin Yang , Yoon Kim , Kewei Tu

In this paper, we focus on analyzing the period distribution of the inversive pseudorandom number generators (IPRNGs) over finite field $({\rm Z}_{N},+,\times)$, where $N>3$ is a prime. The sequences generated by the IPRNGs are transformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Bo Zhou , Qiankun Song

The authors prove that the probability of choosing a nonlinear filter of m-sequences with optimal properties, that is, maximum period and maximum linear complexity, tends assymptotically to 1 as the linear feedback shift register length…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Amparo Fúster-Sabater , L. J. García-Villalba

We introduce a novel family of expander-based error correcting codes. These codes can be sampled with randomness linear in the block-length, and achieve list-decoding capacity (among other local properties). Our expander-based codes can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Aaron L Putterman , Edward Pyne

Deep generative models (DGMs) for graphs achieve impressively high expressive power thanks to very efficient and scalable neural networks. However, these networks contain non-linearities that prevent analytical computation of many standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Martin Rektoris , Milan Papež , Václav Šmídl , Tomáš Pevný

The well-known DeMillo-Lipton-Schwartz-Zippel lemma says that $n$-variate polynomials of total degree at most $d$ over grids, i.e. sets of the form $A_1 \times A_2 \times \cdots \times A_n$, form error-correcting codes (of distance at least…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Mitali Bafna , Srikanth Srinivasan , Madhu Sudan