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We study weighted pseudorandom generators (WPRGs) and derandomizations for read-once branching programs (ROBPs). Denote $n$ and $w$ as the length and the width of a ROBP. We have the following results. For standard ROBPs, we give an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kuan Cheng , Ruiyang Wu

We present a new approach to constructing unconditional pseudorandom generators against classes of functions that involve computing a linear function of the inputs. We give an explicit construction of a pseudorandom generator that fools the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Parikshit Gopalan , Daniel Kane , Raghu Meka

We construct pseudorandom generators of seed length $\tilde{O}(\log(n)\cdot \log(1/\epsilon))$ that $\epsilon$-fool ordered read-once branching programs (ROBPs) of width $3$ and length $n$. For unordered ROBPs, we construct pseudorandom…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Raghu Meka , Omer Reingold , Avishay Tal

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

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

Introduced in [CG24], pseudorandom error-correcting codes (PRCs) are a new cryptographic primitive with applications in watermarking generative AI models. These are codes where a collection of polynomially many codewords is computationally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Surendra Ghentiyala , Venkatesan Guruswami

We revisit Nisan's classical pseudorandom generator (PRG) for space-bounded computation (STOC 1990) and its applications in streaming algorithms. We describe a new generator, HashPRG, that can be thought of as a symmetric version of Nisan's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Praneeth Kacham , Rasmus Pagh , Mikkel Thorup , David P. Woodruff

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 present an explicit pseudorandom generator for oblivious, read-once, permutation branching programs of constant width that can read their input bits in any order. The seed length is $O(\log^2 n)$, where $n$ is the length of the branching…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Omer Reingold , Thomas Steinke , Salil Vadhan

We construct a pseudorandom generator which fools read-$k$ oblivious branching programs and, more generally, any linear length oblivious branching program, assuming that the sequence according to which the bits are read is known in advance.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Rohit Gurjar , Ben Lee Volk

Pseudorandom number generation (PRNG) is a key element in hardware security platforms like field-programmable gate array FPGA circuits. In this article, 18 PRNGs belonging in 4 families (xorshift, LFSR, TGFSR, and LCG) are physically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Mohammed Bakiri , Jean-François Couchot , Christophe Guyeux

One of the prominent current challenges in complexity theory is the attempt to prove lower bounds for $TC^0$, the class of constant-depth, polynomial-size circuits with majority gates. Relying on the results of Williams (2013), an appealing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Roei Tell

We give improved pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for Lipschitz functions of low-degree polynomials over the hypercube. These are functions of the form psi(P(x)), where P is a low-degree polynomial and psi is a function with small Lipschitz…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Daniel Kane , Raghu Meka

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 present an explicit pseudorandom generator for oblivious, read-once, width-$3$ branching programs, which can read their input bits in any order. The generator has seed length $\tilde{O}( \log^3 n ).$ The previously best known seed length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Thomas Steinke , Salil Vadhan , Andrew Wan

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

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

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 the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method, the Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) plays a crucial role in determining the computation time. However, the hidden structure of the PRNG may lead to serious issues such as the breakdown of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-12 Dong-Xu Liu , Wei Xu , Xue-Feng Zhang

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are high-nonlinear processes, and they are key blocks in optimization of Large language models. Transformers excel at processing complex nonlinear relationships. Thus it is reasonable to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ran Li , Lingshu Zeng