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We give a $2^{n+o(n)}$-time and space randomized algorithm for solving the exact Closest Vector Problem (CVP) on $n$-dimensional Euclidean lattices. This improves on the previous fastest algorithm, the deterministic…

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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 prove that SVP$_p$ is NP-hard to approximate within a factor of $2^{\log^{1 - \varepsilon} n}$, for all constants $\varepsilon > 0$ and $p > 2$, under standard deterministic Karp reductions. This result is also the first proof that…

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Let $\gamma$-$\mathsf{GapSVP}_p$ be the decision version of the shortest vector problem in the $\ell_p$-norm with approximation factor $\gamma$, let $n$ be the lattice rank and $0<\varepsilon\leq 1$. We prove that there is no algorithm that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Markus Hittmeir

$\newcommand{\NP}{\mathsf{NP}}\newcommand{\GapSVP}{\textrm{GapSVP}}$We give a simple proof that the (approximate, decisional) Shortest Vector Problem is $\NP$-hard under a randomized reduction. Specifically, we show that for any $p \geq 1$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Huck Bennett , Chris Peikert

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

We show improved fine-grained hardness of two key lattice problems in the $\ell_p$ norm: Bounded Distance Decoding to within an $\alpha$ factor of the minimum distance ($\mathrm{BDD}_{p, \alpha}$) and the (decisional) $\gamma$-approximate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Huck Bennett , Chris Peikert , Yi Tang

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

We provide the currently fastest randomized (1+epsilon)-approximation algorithm for the closest vector problem in the infinity norm. The running time of our method depends on the dimension n and the approximation guarantee epsilon by 2^O(n)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Friedrich Eisenbrand , Nicolai Hähnle , Martin Niemeier

We show how to generalize Gama and Nguyen's slide reduction algorithm [STOC '08] for solving the approximate Shortest Vector Problem over lattices (SVP). As a result, we show the fastest provably correct algorithm for $\delta$-approximate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Divesh Aggarwal , Jianwei Li , Phong Q. Nguyen , Noah Stephens-Davidowitz

This paper explores computational methods for solving the Longest Vector Problem (LVP) and Closest Vector Problem (CVP) in $p$-adic fields. Leveraging the non-Archimedean property of $p$-adic norms, we propose a polynomial time algorithm to…

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While the problem of approximate nearest neighbor search has been well-studied for Euclidean space and $\ell_1$, few non-trivial algorithms are known for $\ell_p$ when ($2 < p < \infty$). In this paper, we revisit this fundamental problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yair Bartal , Lee-Ad Gottlieb

By applying Grover's quantum search algorithm to the lattice algorithms of Micciancio and Voulgaris, Nguyen and Vidick, Wang et al., and Pujol and Stehl\'{e}, we obtain improved asymptotic quantum results for solving the shortest vector…

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Given a point set P in 2D, the problem of finding the smallest set of unit disks that cover all of P is NP-hard. We present a simple algorithm for this problem with an approximation factor of 25/6 in the Euclidean norm and 2 in the max…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Paul Liu , Daniel Lu

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Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ishay Haviv , Oded Regev

We consider the problem of approximating a given matrix by a low-rank matrix so as to minimize the entrywise $\ell_p$-approximation error, for any $p \geq 1$; the case $p = 2$ is the classical SVD problem. We obtain the first provably good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Flavio Chierichetti , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Ravi Kumar , Silvio Lattanzi , Rina Panigrahy , David P. Woodruff

A lattice is the integer span of some linearly independent vectors. Lattice problems have many significant applications in coding theory and cryptographic systems for their conjectured hardness. The Shortest Vector Problem (SVP), which is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yanlin Chen , Kai-Min Chung , Ching-Yi Lai

The $\ell_2^2$ min-sum $k$-clustering problem is to partition an input set into clusters $C_1,\ldots,C_k$ to minimize $\sum_{i=1}^k\sum_{p,q\in C_i}\|p-q\|_2^2$. Although $\ell_2^2$ min-sum $k$-clustering is NP-hard, it is not known whether…

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We prove new hardness results for fundamental lattice problems under the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH). Building on a recent breakthrough by Bitansky et al.\ \cite{BHIRW24}, who gave a polynomial-time reduction from $\mathsf{3SAT}$ to…

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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…

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