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Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem underpinning many proposed post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) systems. The only PQC Key Exchange Mechanism (KEM) standardized by NIST is based on module~LWE, and current publicly available PQ…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Cathy Li , Jana Sotáková , Emily Wenger , Mohamed Malhou , Evrard Garcelon , Francois Charton , Kristin Lauter

We propose a weak Galerkin(WG) finite element method for solving the one-dimensional Burgers' equation. Based on a new weak variational form, both semi-discrete and fully-discrete WG finite element schemes are established and analyzed. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Yanli Chen , Tie Zhang

Weak Galerkin (WG) refers to general finite element methods for partial differential equations in which differential operators are approximated by weak forms through the usual integration by parts. In particular, WG methods allow the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

A group of high order Gautschi-type exponential wave integrators (EWIs) Fourier pseudospectral method are proposed and analyzed for solving the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation (KGE) in the nonrelativistic limit regime, where a parameter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Yan Wang , Xiaofei Zhao

The Goldreich-Levin algorithm was originally proposed for a cryptographic purpose and then applied to learning. The algorithm is to find some larger Walsh coefficients of an $n$ variable Boolean function. Roughly speaking, it takes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Hongwei Li

The Learning With Errors ($\mathsf{LWE}$) problem asks to find $\mathbf{s}$ from an input of the form $(\mathbf{A}, \mathbf{b} = \mathbf{A}\mathbf{s}+\mathbf{e}) \in (\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z})^{m \times n} \times…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Thomas Debris-Alazard , Pouria Fallahpour , Damien Stehlé

The Longest Common Weakly Increasing Subsequence problem (LCWIS) is a variant of the classic Longest Common Subsequence problem (LCS). Both problems can be solved with simple quadratic time algorithms. A recent line of research led to a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Adam Polak

Given an undirected, weighted graph, with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and two special vertices $s$ and $t$, the problem is to find the shortest path between them. We give two bounded-error quantum algorithms with improved runtime in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Adam Wesołowski , Stephen Piddock

We describe a general technique that yields the first {\em Statistical Query lower bounds} for a range of fundamental high-dimensional learning problems involving Gaussian distributions. Our main results are for the problems of (1) learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

Convex sparsity-promoting regularizations are ubiquitous in modern statistical learning. By construction, they yield solutions with few non-zero coefficients, which correspond to saturated constraints in the dual optimization formulation.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-02 Mathurin Massias , Alexandre Gramfort , Joseph Salmon

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shashwat Agrawal , Amitabha Bagchi , Rajendra Kumar

Learning with Errors (LWE) problems are the foundations for numerous applications in lattice-based cryptography and are provably as hard as approximate lattice problems in the worst case. Here we present a reduction from LWE problem to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Fada Li , Wansu Bao , Xiangqun Fu , Yuchao Zhang , Tan Li

We consider the quantum decoding problem. It consists in recovering a codeword given a superposition of noisy versions of this codeword. By measuring the superposition, we get back to the classical decoding problem. It appears for the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Agathe Blanvillain , André Chailloux , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We introduce a continuous analogue of the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem, which we name CLWE. We give a polynomial-time quantum reduction from worst-case lattice problems to CLWE, showing that CLWE enjoys similar hardness guarantees to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Joan Bruna , Oded Regev , Min Jae Song , Yi Tang

At ASIACRYPT 2018, a digital attack based on linear least squares was introduced for a variant of the learning with errors (LWE) problem which omits modular reduction known as the integer learning with errors problem (ILWE). In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Kyle Yates , Antsa Pierrottet , Abdullah Al Mamun , Ryann Cartor , Mashrur Chowdhury , Shuhong Gao

This paper introduces and rigorously analyzes a least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) finite element method for the severely ill-posed Cauchy problem associated with the Helmholtz equation. By utilizing a weak Laplacian operator defined on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chunmei Wang , Shangyou Zhang

Consider the problem of minimizing an expected logarithmic loss over either the probability simplex or the set of quantum density matrices. This problem includes tasks such as solving the Poisson inverse problem, computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Chung-En Tsai , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yen-Huan Li

As quantum computing advances rapidly, guaranteeing the security of cryptographic protocols resistant to quantum attacks is paramount. Some leading candidate cryptosystems use the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem, attractive for its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Liljana Babinkostova , Ariana Chin , Aaron Kirtland , Vladyslav Nazarchuk , Esther Plotnick

Quantum computers are expected to break today's public key cryptography within a few decades. New cryptosystems are being designed and standardised for the post-quantum era, and a significant proportion of these rely on the hardness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 David Joseph , Adam Callison , Cong Ling , Florian Mintert

We consider the problem of designing an allocation rule or an "online learning algorithm" for a class of bandit problems in which the set of control actions available at each time $s$ is a convex, compact subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$. Upon…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Rahul Singh , Taposh Banerjee