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Harnessing quantum processes is an efficient method to generate truly indeterministic random numbers, which are of fundamental importance for cryptographic protocols, security applications or Monte-Carlo simulations. Recently, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Johannes Thewes , Carolin Lüders , Marc Aßmann

Symmetry in integer programming causes redundant search and is often handled with symmetry breaking constraints that remove as many equivalent solutions as possible. We propose an algebraic method which allows to generate a random family of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Madalina Erascu , Johannes Middeke

The transversal hypergraph problem is the task of enumerating the minimal hitting sets of a hypergraph. It is a long-standing open question whether this can be done in output-polynomial time. For hypergraphs whose solutions have bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thomas Bläsius , Tobias Friedrich , Julius Lischeid , Kitty Meeks , Martin Schirneck

For a fixed graph $H$, the $H$-SUBGRAPH HITTING problem consists in deleting the minimum number of vertices from an input graph to obtain a graph without any occurrence of $H$ as a subgraph. This problem can be seen as a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Marin Bougeret , Bart M. P. Jansen , Ignasi Sau

A sliding-window algorithm of window size $t$ is an algorithm whose current operation depends solely on the last $t$ symbols read. We construct pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for low-space randomized sliding-window algorithms that have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Augusto Modanese

This paper has a practical aim. For a long time, implementations of pseudorandom number generators in standard libraries of programming languages had poor quality. The situation started to improve only recently. Up to now, a large number of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Migran N. Gevorkyan , Dmitry S. Kulyabov , Anastasia V. Demidova , Anna V. Korolkova

In the {\sc Hitting Set} problem, we are given a collection $\cal F$ of subsets of a ground set $V$ and an integer $p$, and asked whether $V$ has a $p$-element subset that intersects each set in $\cal F$. We consider two parameterizations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Gregory Gutin , Mark Jones , Anders Yeo

We present an encoding of a polynomial system into vanishing and non-vanishing constraints on almost-principal minors of a symmetric, principally regular matrix, such that the solvability of the system over some field is equivalent to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Tobias Boege

We establish new correlation bounds and pseudorandom generators for a collection of computation models. These models are all natural generalizations of structured low-degree $F_2$-polynomials that we did not have correlation bounds for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Vinayak M. Kumar

Arithmetic circuit complexity studies the complexity of computing polynomials using only arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division. Polynomials over rings of integers model counting problems.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Balagopal Komarath , Harshil Mittal , Jayalal Sarma

Denote by $P_k$ the graded polynomial algebra $\mathbb F_2[x_1,x_2,\ldots ,x_k]$ over the prime field of two elements, $\mathbb F_2$, with the degree of each $x_i$ being 1. We study the Peterson hit problem of determining a minimal set of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Dang Vo Phuc , Nguyen Sum

Halfspaces or linear threshold functions are widely studied in complexity theory, learning theory and algorithm design. In this work we study the natural problem of constructing pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for halfspaces over the sphere,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Pravesh Kothari , Raghu Meka

The aim of this paper is to present a new design for a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that is cryptographically secure, passes all of the usual statistical tests referenced in the literature and hence generates high quality random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Juan Di Mauro , Eduardo Salazar , Hugo D. Scolnik

We study the question of explicitly constructing variety-evasive subspace families, a pseudorandom primitive introduced by Guo (Computational Complexity 2024) that generalizes both hitting sets and lossless rank condensers. Roughly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Robert Andrews , Abhibhav Garg

An arbitrarily reliable quantum computer can be efficiently constructed from noisy components using a recursive simulation procedure, provided that those components fail with probability less than the fault-tolerance threshold. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 K. M. Svore , A. W. Cross , I. L. Chuang , A. V. Aho

We give improved hitting sets for two special cases of Read-once Oblivious Arithmetic Branching Programs (ROABP). First is the case of an ROABP with known order of the variables. The best previously known hitting set for this case had size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Rohit Gurjar , Arpita Korwar , Nitin Saxena

Random number generators (RNG) based on quantum mechanics are captivating due to their security and unpredictability compared to conventional generators, such as pseudo-random number generators and hardware-random number generators. This…

The advantages of quantum random number generators (QRNGs) over pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are normally attributed to the nature of quantum measurements. This is often seen as implying the superiority of the sequences of bits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Nan Huang

The motivation for this paper is to study the complexity of constant-width arithmetic circuits. Our main results are the following. 1. For every k > 1, we provide an explicit polynomial that can be computed by a linear-sized monotone…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-08-14 V. Arvind , Pushkar S. Joglekar , Srikanth Srinivasan

We study the ability of Transformer models to learn sequences generated by Permuted Congruential Generators (PCGs), a widely used family of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). PCGs introduce substantial additional difficulty over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Tao Tao , Maissam Barkeshli