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Random classical codes have good error correcting properties, and yet they are notoriously hard to decode in practice. Despite many decades of extensive study, the fastest known algorithms still run in exponential time. The Learning Parity…
We first consider the problem of learning $k$-parities in the on-line mistake-bound model: given a hidden vector $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ with $|x|=k$ and a sequence of "questions" $a_1, a_2, ...\in \{0,1\}^n$, where the algorithm must reply to…
Learning a hidden parity function from noisy data, known as learning parity with noise (LPN), is an example of intelligent behavior that aims to generalize a concept based on noisy examples. The solution to LPN immediately leads to decoding…
We describe a slightly sub-exponential time algorithm for learning parity functions in the presence of random classification noise. This results in a polynomial-time algorithm for the case of parity functions that depend on only the first…
In this work, we show, for the well-studied problem of learning parity under noise, where a learner tries to learn $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_n) \in \{0,1\}^n$ from a stream of random linear equations over $\mathrm{F}_2$ that are correct with…
In this paper we present a linear programming solution for sign pattern recovery of a sparse signal from noisy random projections of the signal. We consider two types of noise models, input noise, where noise enters before the random…
We present a polynomial-time reduction from solving noisy linear equations over $\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$ in dimension $\Theta(k\log n/\mathsf{poly}(\log k,\log q,\log\log n))$ with a uniformly random coefficient matrix to noisy linear…
We conduct a systematic study of solving the learning parity with noise problem (LPN) using neural networks. Our main contribution is designing families of two-layer neural networks that practically outperform classical algorithms in…
The learning parity with noise (LPN) problem is a well-established computational challenge whose difficulty is critical to the security of several post-quantum cryptographic primitives such as HQC and Classic McEliece. Classically, the…
We prove new hardness amplification results for Learning Parity with Noise ($\mathsf{LPN}$) and its sparse variants. In $\mathsf{LPN}_{\eta,n,m}$, the goal is to recover a secret $\vec s\in\mathbb{F}_2^n$ from $m$ noisy linear samples…
The aim of sparse approximation is to estimate a sparse signal according to the measurement matrix and an observation vector. It is widely used in data analytics, image processing, and communication, etc. Up to now, a lot of research has…
We study the problem of sparse tensor principal component analysis: given a tensor $\pmb Y = \pmb W + \lambda x^{\otimes p}$ with $\pmb W \in \otimes^p\mathbb{R}^n$ having i.i.d. Gaussian entries, the goal is to recover the $k$-sparse unit…
The LPN (Learning Parity with Noise) problem has recently proved to be of great importance in cryptology. A special and very useful case is the RING-LPN problem, which typically provides improved efficiency in the constructed cryptographic…
We present a simple and effective algorithm for the problem of \emph{sparse robust linear regression}. In this problem, one would like to estimate a sparse vector $w^* \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from linear measurements corrupted by sparse noise…
In this expository note we show that the learning parities with noise (LPN) assumption is robust to weak dependencies in the noise distribution of small batches of samples. This provides a partial converse to the linearization technique of…
Sparse coding algorithms are about finding a linear basis in which signals can be represented by a small number of active (non-zero) coefficients. Such coding has many applications in science and engineering and is believed to play an…
Noise is often regarded as anathema to quantum computation, but in some settings it can be an unlikely ally. We consider the problem of learning the class of $n$-bit parity functions by making queries to a quantum example oracle. In the…
The Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem underlines several classic cryptographic primitives. Researchers have attempted to demonstrate the algorithmic hardness of this problem by finding reductions from the decoding problem of linear…
This paper extends the Kikuchi method to give algorithms for decisional $k$-sparse Learning With Errors (LWE) and $k$-sparse Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problems for higher moduli $q$. We create a Kikuchi graph for a sparse LWE/LPN…
The sparse nonlinear programming (SNP) problem has wide applications in signal and image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, finance and management, etc. However, the computational challenge posed by SNP has not yet been well…