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We give several improvements on the known hardness of the unique shortest vector problem. - We give a deterministic reduction from the shortest vector problem to the unique shortest vector problem. As a byproduct, we get deterministic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Divesh Aggarwal , Chandan Dubey

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

We obtain hardness of approximation results for the $\ell_p$-Shortest Path problem, a variant of the classic Shortest Path problem with vector costs. For every integer $p \in [2,\infty)$, we show a hardness of $\Omega(p(\log n / \log^2\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Charlie Carlson , Yury Makarychev , Ron Mosenzon

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 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

$ \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

We examine the possibility of approximating Maximum Vertex-Disjoint Shortest Paths. In this problem, the input is an edge-weighted (directed or undirected) $n$-vertex graph $G$ along with $k$ terminal pairs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Matthias Bentert , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach

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

van Emde Boas (1981) conjectured that computing a shortest non-zero vector of a lattice in an Euclidean space is NP-hard. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture is true and hence de-randomize the classical randomness result of Ajtai…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Daqing Wan

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

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 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

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

Efficiently solving the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) in two-dimensional lattices holds practical significance in cryptography and computational geometry. While simpler than its high-dimensional counterpart, two-dimensional SVP motivates…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Lihao Zhao , Chengliang Tian , Jingguo Bi , Guangwu Xu , Jia Yu

We study the problem of computing the minimum vertex cover on k-uniform k-partite hypergraphs when the k-partition is given. On bipartite graphs (k = 2), the minimum vertex cover can be computed in polynomial time. For general k, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Sushant Sachdeva , Rishi Saket

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

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…

In the Densest $k$-Subgraph problem, given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, the goal is to find a subgraph of $G$ on $k$ vertices that contains maximum number of edges. Even though the state-of-the-art algorithm for the problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Pasin Manurangsi

The vertex cover problem is one of the most important and intensively studied combinatorial optimization problems. Khot and Regev (2003) proved that the problem is NP-hard to approximate within a factor $2 - \epsilon$, assuming the Unique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Abbas Bazzi , Samuel Fiorini , Sebastian Pokutta , Ola Svensson

The Shortest Lattice Vector (SLV) problem is in general hard to solve, except for special cases (such as root lattices and lattices for which an obtuse superbase is known). In this paper, we present a new class of SLV problems that can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-03 Saeid Sahraei , Michael C. Gastpar