Tight Running Time Lower Bounds for Strong Inapproximability of Maximum k-Coverage, Unique Set Cover and Related Problems (via t-Wise Agreement Testing …

P Manurangsi - Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2020 - SIAM
We show, assuming the (randomized) Gap Exponential Time Hypothesis (Gap-ETH), that
the following tasks cannot be done in T (k)· N o (k)-time for any function T where N denote …

The strongish planted clique hypothesis and its consequences

P Manurangsi, A Rubinstein, T Schramm - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.05555, 2020 - arxiv.org
We formulate a new hardness assumption, the Strongish Planted Clique Hypothesis
(SPCH), which postulates that any algorithm for planted clique must run in time $ n^{\Omega …

Parameterized complexity and approximability of directed odd cycle transversal

D Lokshtanov, MS Ramanujan, S Saurab… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - SIAM
A directed odd cycle transversal of a directed graph (digraph) D is a vertex set S that
intersects every odd directed cycle of D. In the Directed Odd Cycle Transversal (DOCT) …

On closest pair in euclidean metric: Monochromatic is as hard as bichromatic

CS Karthik, P Manurangsi - Combinatorica, 2020 - Springer
Given a set of n points in ℝ d, the (monochromatic) Closest Pair problem asks to find a pair
of distinct points in the set that are closest in the ℓ p-metric. Closest Pair is a fundamental …

Fine-grained hardness of CVP (P)—Everything that we can prove (and nothing else)

D Aggarwal, H Bennett, A Golovnev… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - SIAM
We show a number of fine-grained hardness results for the Closest Vector Problem in the ℓp
norm (CVP p), and its approximate and non-uniform variants. First, we show that CVP p …

The complexity of adversarially robust proper learning of halfspaces with agnostic noise

I Diakonikolas, DM Kane… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the computational complexity of adversarially robust proper learning of halfspaces
in the distribution-independent agnostic PAC model, with a focus on $ L_p $ perturbations …

Almost polynomial factor inapproximability for parameterized k-clique

CS Karthik, S Khot - 37th Computational Complexity Conference …, 2022 - drops.dagstuhl.de
The k-Clique problem is a canonical hard problem in parameterized complexity. In this
paper, we study the parameterized complexity of approximating the k-Clique problem where …

Parameterized Inapproximability of the Minimum Distance Problem over All Fields and the Shortest Vector Problem in All ℓp Norms

H Bennett, M Cheraghchi, V Guruswami… - Proceedings of the 55th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We prove that the Minimum Distance Problem (MDP) on linear codes over any fixed finite
field and parameterized by the input distance bound is W [1]-hard to approximate within any …

Eth-hardness of approximating 2-csps and directed steiner network

I Dinur, P Manurangsi - arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.03867, 2018 - arxiv.org
We study the 2-ary constraint satisfaction problems (2-CSPs), which can be stated as
follows: given a constraint graph $ G=(V, E) $, an alphabet set $\Sigma $ and, for each $\{u …

Counting and finding homomorphisms is universal for parameterized complexity theory

M Roth, P Wellnitz - Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2020 - SIAM
Counting homomorphisms from a graph H into another graph G is a fundamental problem of
(parameterized) counting complexity theory. In this work, we study the case where both …