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We obtain tight bounds for the minimal number of generators of an ideal with bounded-degree generators in a polynomial ring $K[X_1,\dots,X_n],$ as well as a sharp quantification of the maximum possible size of a minimal generating set of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Andrei Mandelshtam

We give a pseudorandom generator that fools degree-$d$ polynomial threshold functions over $n$-dimensional Gaussian space with seed length $\mathrm{poly}(d)\cdot \log n$. All previous generators had a seed length with at least a $2^d$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Ryan O'Donnell , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan , Daniel Kane

We construct pseudorandom generators of seed length $\tilde{O}(\log(n)\cdot \log(1/\epsilon))$ that $\epsilon$-fool ordered read-once branching programs (ROBPs) of width $3$ and length $n$. For unordered ROBPs, we construct pseudorandom…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Raghu Meka , Omer Reingold , Avishay Tal

The problem of constructing pseudorandom generators that fool halfspaces has been studied intensively in recent times. For fooling halfspaces over the hypercube with polynomially small error, the best construction known requires seed-length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Parikshit Gopalan , Daniel Kane , Raghu Meka

We construct a pseudorandom generator which fools read-$k$ oblivious branching programs and, more generally, any linear length oblivious branching program, assuming that the sequence according to which the bits are read is known in advance.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Rohit Gurjar , Ben Lee Volk

A degree-$d$ polynomial $p$ in $n$ variables over a field $\F$ is {\em equidistributed} if it takes on each of its $|\F|$ values close to equally often, and {\em biased} otherwise. We say that $p$ has a {\em low rank} if it can be expressed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-02 Tali Kaufman , Shachar Lovett

We present a new approach to constructing unconditional pseudorandom generators against classes of functions that involve computing a linear function of the inputs. We give an explicit construction of a pseudorandom generator that fools the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Parikshit Gopalan , Daniel Kane , Raghu Meka

We show that in a polynomial ring $R$ in $N$ variables over an algebraically closed field $K$ of arbitrary characteristic, any $K$-subalgebra of $R$ generated over $K$ by at most $n$ forms of degree at most $d$ is contained in a…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Tigran Ananyan , Melvin Hochster

We study correlation bounds and pseudorandom generators for depth-two circuits that consist of a $\mathsf{SYM}$-gate (computing an arbitrary symmetric function) or $\mathsf{THR}$-gate (computing an arbitrary linear threshold function) that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

The problem of testing low-degree polynomials has received significant attention over the years due to its importance in theoretical computer science, and in particular in complexity theory. The problem is specified by three parameters:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tali Kaufman , Dor Minzer

Introduced in [CG24], pseudorandom error-correcting codes (PRCs) are a new cryptographic primitive with applications in watermarking generative AI models. These are codes where a collection of polynomially many codewords is computationally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Surendra Ghentiyala , Venkatesan Guruswami

We study weighted pseudorandom generators (WPRGs) and derandomizations for read-once branching programs (ROBPs). Denote $n$ and $w$ as the length and the width of a ROBP. We have the following results. For standard ROBPs, we give an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kuan Cheng , Ruiyang Wu

In this paper, we focus on analyzing the period distribution of the inversive pseudorandom number generators (IPRNGs) over finite field $({\rm Z}_{N},+,\times)$, where $N>3$ is a prime. The sequences generated by the IPRNGs are transformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Bo Zhou , Qiankun Song

Low-degree polynomials have emerged as a powerful paradigm for providing evidence of statistical-computational gaps across a variety of high-dimensional statistical models [Wein25]. For detection problems -- where the goal is to test a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Alexandra Carpentier , Simone Maria Giancola , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

High quality random numbers are necessary in the modern world. Ranging from encryption keys in cyber security to models and simulations for scientific use: it's important that these random numbers are of high quality and quickly attainable.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Dmitriy Beznosko , Keith Driscoll , Fernando Guadarrama , Steven Mai , Nikolas Thornton

A technique for controlling errors in the functioning of nodes for the formation of $q$-valued pseudo-random sequences (PRS) operating under both random errors and errors generated through intentional attack by an attacker is provided, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Oleg Finko , Sergey Dichenko , Dmitry Samoylenko

A method for generating irreducible polynomials of degree n over the finite field GF(2) is proposed. The irreducible polynomials are found by solving a system of equations that brings the information on the internal properties of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

We study the problem of learning a low-degree spherical polynomial of degree $k_0 = \Theta(1) \ge 1$ defined on the unit sphere in $\RR^d$ by training an over-parameterized two-layer neural network with augmented feature in this paper. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Yingzhen Yang , Ping Li

Suppose $I$ is an ideal of a polynomial ring over a field, $I\subseteq k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$, and whenever $fg\in I$ with degree $\leq b$, then either $f\in I$ or $g\in I$. When $b$ is sufficiently large, it follows that $I$ is prime.…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-07-15 William Simmons , Henry Towsner

We consider the construction of maximal families of polynomials over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, all having the same degree $n$ and a nonzero constant term, where the degree of the GCD of any two polynomials is $d$ with $1 \le d\le n$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Maximilien Gadouleau , Luca Mariot , Federico Mazzone