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We study the round complexity of secure multi-party computation (MPC) in the post-quantum regime. Our focus is on the fully black-box setting, where both the construction and security reduction are black-box. Chia, Chung, Liu, and Yamakawa…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Rohit Chatterjee , Xiao Liang , Omkant Pandey , Takashi Yamakawa

The multistep solving strategy consists in a divide-and-conquer approach: when a multivariate polynomial system is computationally infeasible to solve directly, one variable is assigned over the elements of the base finite field, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Roberto La Scala , Sharwan Kumar Tiwari

Quantum computing is seeking to realize hardware-optimized algorithms for application-related computational tasks. NP (nondeterministic-polynomial-time) is a complexity class containing many important but intractable problems like the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Aonan Zhang , Hao Zhan , Junjie Liao , Kaimin Zheng , Tao Jiang , Minghao Mi , Penghui Yao , Lijian Zhang

The Maximum Common Subgraph is a computationally challenging problem with countless practical applications. Even if it has been long proven NP-hard, its importance still motivates searching for exact solutions. This work starts by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Andrea Marcelli , Stefano Quer , Giovanni Squillero

We study several variants of decomposing a symmetric matrix into a sum of a low-rank positive semidefinite matrix and a diagonal matrix. Such decompositions have applications in factor analysis and they have been studied for many decades.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Levent Tunçel , Stephen A. Vavasis , Jingye Xu

We initiate the study of multi-party computation for classical functionalities (in the plain model) with security against malicious polynomial-time quantum adversaries. We observe that existing techniques readily give a polynomial-round…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Amit Agarwal , James Bartusek , Vipul Goyal , Dakshita Khurana , Giulio Malavolta

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) attempts to find cryptographic protocols resistant to attacks using Shor polynomial time algorithm for numerical field problems or Grover search algorithm. A mostly overlooked but valuable line of solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-23 P. Hecht

The security of public-key cryptosystems is mostly based on number theoretic problems like factorization and the discrete logarithm. There exists an algorithm which solves these problems in polynomial time using a quantum computer. Hence,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Sven Puchinger , Sven Müelich , Karim Ishak , Martin Bossert

A tight continuous relaxation is a crucial factor in solving mixed integer formulations of many NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. The (weighted) max $k$-cut problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Ramin Fakhimi , Hamidreza Validi , Illya V. Hicks , Tamás Terlaky , Luis F. Zuluaga

This paper introduces a non-variational quantum algorithm designed to solve a wide range of combinatorial optimisation problems, including constrained and non-binary problems. The algorithm leverages an engineered interference process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Tavis Bennett , Lyle Noakes , Jingbo Wang

With the ever-growing concern for internet security, the field of quantum cryptography emerges as a promising solution for enhancing the security of networking systems. In this paper, 20 notable papers from leading conferences and journals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mst Shapna Akter

We prove that quantum computation is polynomially equivalent to classical probabilistic computation with an oracle for estimating the value of simple sums, quadratically signed weight enumerators. The problem of estimating these sums can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Knill , R. Laflamme

The Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) can be regarded as a variant of the Discrete Fourier Transform. NTT has been quite a powerful mathematical tool in developing Post-Quantum Cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption. The Fourier Transform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Banhirup Sengupta , Peenal Gupta , Souvik Sengupta

In this paper we give a new and simple algorithm to put any multivariate polynomial into a normal determinant form in which each entry has the form , and in each column the same variable appears. We also apply the algorithm to obtain a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Massimo Salvi

A finitely generated quadratic module or preordering in the real polynomial ring is called stable, if it admits a certain degree bound on the sums of squares in the representation of polynomials. Stability, first defined explicitly by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-29 Tim Netzer

We introduce a simple, efficient and precise polynomial heuristic for a key NP complete problem, minimum vertex cover. Our method is iterative and operates in probability space. Once a stable probability solution is found we find the true…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Duxbury , C. W. Fay

In many applications, it makes sense to solve the least square problems with nonnegative constraints. In this article, we present a new multiplicative iteration that monotonically decreases the value of the nonnegative quadratic programming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Xiao Xiao , Donghui Chen

We present three simple and efficient protocol constructions to solve Yao's Millionaire Problem when the parties involved are non-colluding and semi-honest. The first construction uses a partially homomorphic Encryption Scheme and is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Ashish Kumar , Anupam Gupta

Interval-valued computing is a relatively new computing paradigm. It uses finitely many interval segments over the unit interval in a computation as data structure. The satisfiability of Quantified Boolean formulae and other hard problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Benedek Nagy , Sándor Vályi

I construct a secure multi-party scheme to compute a classical function by a succinct use of a specially designed fault-tolerant random polynomial quantum error correction code. This scheme is secure provided that (asymptotically) strictly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. F. Chau