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In classical complexity theory, the two definitions of probabilistically checkable proofs -- the constraint satisfaction and the nonlocal games version -- are computationally equal in power. In the quantum setting, the situation is far less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Anand Natarajan , Chinmay Nirkhe

Protecting secrets is a key challenge in our contemporary information-based era. In common situations, however, revealing secrets appears unavoidable, for instance, when identifying oneself in a bank to retrieve money. In turn, this may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Pouriya Alikhani , Nicolas Brunner , Claude Crépeau , Sébastien Designolle , Raphaël Houlmann , Weixu Shi , Nan Yang , Hugo Zbinden

The round complexity of interactive proof systems is a key question of practical and theoretical relevance in complexity theory and cryptography. Moreover, results such as QIP = QIP(3) (STOC'00) show that quantum resources significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Alex B. Grilo , Philippe Lamontagne

Zero-knowledge proofs allow verification of computations without revealing private information. However, existing systems require memory proportional to the computation size, which has historically limited use in large-scale applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Logan Nye

A major difficulty in quantum rewinding is the fact that measurement is destructive: extracting information from a quantum state irreversibly changes it. This is especially problematic in the context of zero-knowledge simulation, where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Alex Lombardi , Fermi Ma , Nicholas Spooner

We consider one-round games between a classical verifier and two provers who share entanglement. We show that when the constraints enforced by the verifier are `unique' constraints (i.e., permutations), the value of the game can be well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-03 Julia Kempe , Oded Regev , Ben Toner

We present a proof system for establishing the correctness of results produced by optimization algorithms, with a focus on mixed-integer programming (MIP). Our system generalizes the seminal work of Bogaerts, Gocht, McCreesh, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Jasper van Doornmalen , Leon Eifler , Ambros Gleixner , Christopher Hojny

$\text{MIP}^\ast$ is the class of languages decidable by an efficient classical verifier interacting with multiple quantum provers that share entangled qubits but cannot communicate. Notably, $\text{MIP}^\ast$ was proved to equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Itay Shalit

In a recent seminal work, Bitansky and Shmueli (STOC '20) gave the first construction of a constant round zero-knowledge argument for NP secure against quantum attacks. However, their construction has several drawbacks compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Nai-Hui Chia , Kai-Min Chung , Takashi Yamakawa

We address the problem of preserving non-interference across compiler transformations under speculative semantics. We develop a proof method that ensures the preservation uniformly across all source programs. The basis of our proof method…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Sören van der Wall , Roland Meyer

The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. This technique has generated a large body of research and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Andrea Coladangelo , Ruta Jawale , Dakshita Khurana , Giulio Malavolta , Hendrik Waldner

Hirschfeldt and Jockusch (2016) introduced a two-player game in which winning strategies for one or the other player precisely correspond to implications and non-implications between $\Pi^1_2$ principles over $\omega$-models of…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Damir D. Dzhafarov , Denis R. Hirschfeldt , Sarah C. Reitzes

This paper develops a method to obtain the optimal value for the regularization coefficient in a general mixed-integer problem (MIP). This approach eliminates the cross-validation performed in the existing penalty techniques to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Behrad Soleimani , Behzad Khamidehi , Maryam Sabbaghian

The deployment of safe and trustworthy machine learning systems, and particularly complex black box neural networks, in real-world applications requires reliable and certified guarantees on their performance. The conformal prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Paul Melki , Lionel Bombrun , Boubacar Diallo , Jérôme Dias , Jean-Pierre da Costa

Quantum multiprover interactive proof systems with entanglement MIP* are much more powerful than its classical counterpart MIP (Babai et al. '91, Ji et al. '20): while MIP = NEXP, the quantum class MIP* is equal to RE, a class including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yangjing Dong , Honghao Fu , Anand Natarajan , Minglong Qin , Haochen Xu , Penghui Yao

We present novel perfect secrecy systems that provide immunity to spoofing attacks under equiprobable source probability distributions. On the theoretical side, relying on an existence result for $t$-designs by Teirlinck, our construction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Michael Huber

We revisit the problem of solving two-player zero-sum games in the decentralized setting. We propose a simple algorithmic framework that simultaneously achieves the best rates for honest regret as well as adversarial regret, and in addition…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Ehsan Asadi Kangarshahi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Mehmet Fatih Sahin , Volkan Cevher

In this work, we consider the long-standing open question of constructing constant-round concurrent zero-knowledge protocols in the plain model. Resolving this question is known to require non-black-box techniques. We consider non-black-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Divya Gupta , Amit Sahai

We study the problem of approximating the commuting-operator value of a two-player non-local game. It is well-known that it is $\mathrm{NP}$-complete to decide whether the classical value of a non-local game is 1 or $1- \epsilon$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Matthew Coudron , William Slofstra

Online game playing algorithms produce high-quality strategies with a fraction of memory and computation required by their offline alternatives. Continual Resolving (CR) is a recent theoretically sound approach to online game playing that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Michal Sustr , Vojtech Kovarik , Viliam Lisy