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AbboudKLPGSYY25
Deterministic Almost-Linear-Time Gomory-Hu Trees
Amir Abboud; Rasmus Kyng; Jason Li 0006; Debmalya Panigrahi; Maximilian Probst Gutenberg; Thatchaphol Saranurak; Weixuan Yuan; Wuwei Yuan
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00035
conf/focs/AbboudKLPGSYY25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AbboudKLPGSYY25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AbboudKLPGSYY25/paper.pdf
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54
196
AgarwalaM25
Bipartite Matching is in Catalytic Logspace
Aryan Agarwala; Ian Mertz
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00022
conf/focs/AgarwalaM25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AgarwalaM25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AgarwalaM25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Bipartite Matching is in Catalytic Logspace", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: bipartite matching in CLP and LOSSY[NC]", "summary": "The paper proves that bipartite maximum matching can be computed in catalytic logspace with polynomial time, and ...
44
140
AliakbarpourBCL25
Adversarially Robust Quantum State Learning and Testing
Maryam Aliakbarpour; Vladimir Braverman; Nai-Hui Chia; Yuhan Liu
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00013
conf/focs/AliakbarpourBCL25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AliakbarpourBCL25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AliakbarpourBCL25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Adversarially robust quantum state learning and testing", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main results on adversarially robust quantum state learning", "summary": "The paper studies quantum state tomography and testing when an adversary can arbitrarily alter...
54
172
AlmanL25
Kronecker Powers, Orthogonal Vectors, and the Asymptotic Spectrum
Josh Alman; Baitian Li
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00074
conf/focs/AlmanL25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AlmanL25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AlmanL25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Kronecker Powers, Orthogonal Vectors, and the Asymptotic Spectrum", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Asymptotic spectrum framework for depth-2 circuits of Kronecker powers", "summary": "The paper studies depth-2 linear circuits for matrices of the form A^{\\o...
36
91
AlmanNPS25
Faster Exact Learning of k-Term DNFs with Membership and Equivalence Queries
Josh Alman; Shivam Nadimpalli; Shyamal Patel; Rocco A. Servedio
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00051
conf/focs/AlmanNPS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AlmanNPS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AlmanNPS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Faster exact learning of k-term DNFs with membership and equivalence queries", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "First sub-2^k exact learning algorithm for k-term DNF with MQ and EQ", "summary": "The paper gives the first improvement in over three decades for ...
58
214
AnKLL25
Handling LP-Rounding for Hierarchical Clustering and Fitting Distances by Ultrametrics
Hyung-Chan An; Mong-Jen Kao; Changyeol Lee; Mu-Ting Lee
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00060
conf/focs/AnKLL25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AnKLL25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AnKLL25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Handling LP-Rounding for Hierarchical Clustering and Fitting Distances by Ultrametrics", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Overview of the paper and main results", "summary": "The paper studies hierarchical correlation clustering and its connection to fitting ...
46
150
AzarmehrBGS25
Lower Bounds for Non-adaptive Local Computation Algorithms
Amir Azarmehr; Soheil Behnezhad; Alma Ghafari; Madhu Sudan 0001
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00078
conf/focs/AzarmehrBGS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/AzarmehrBGS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/AzarmehrBGS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Lower Bounds for Non-adaptive Local Computation Algorithms", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main separation for non-adaptive LCAs", "summary": "The paper proves that non-adaptive local computation algorithms for constant-factor approximation of maximum matc...
64
184
BallaHT25
Factorization norms and an inverse theorem for MaxCut
Igor Balla; Lianna Hambardzumyan; István Tomon
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00049
conf/focs/BallaHT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BallaHT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BallaHT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "FACTORIZATION NORMS AND AN INVERSE THEOREM FOR MAXCUT", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper proves that Boolean matrices with bounded gamma_2 norm, or even bounded normalized trace norm, must contain ...
52
152
BansalJ25
An Improved Bound for the Beck-Fiala Conjecture
Nikhil Bansal 0001; Haotian Jiang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00015
conf/focs/BansalJ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BansalJ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BansalJ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "An Improved Bound for the Beck-Fiala Conjecture", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_02", "type": "motivation", "title": "The Beck-Fiala conjecture and prior bounds", "summary": "The motivating problem is the Beck-Fiala conjecture, which predicts discrepancy O(sqrt{k}) for k-column-sparse set sy...
43
136
BaoBMWWZ25
Average Distortion Sketching
Yiqiao Bao; Anubhav Baweja; Nicolas Menand; Erik Waingarten; Nathan White; Tian Zhang 0009
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00019
conf/focs/BaoBMWWZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BaoBMWWZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BaoBMWWZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Average-Distortion Sketching", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper introduces average-distortion sketching, a distribution-aware relaxation of metric sketching that preserves distances on average whil...
57
160
BasuHKL25
Improved Lower Bounds for all Odd-Query Locally Decodable Codes
Arpon Basu; Jun-Ting Hsieh; Pravesh K. Kothari; Andrew D. Lin
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00066
conf/focs/BasuHKL25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BasuHKL25
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{"paper_title": "Improved Lower Bounds for all Odd-Query Locally Decodable Codes", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: optimal polynomial lower bounds for odd-query LDCs", "summary": "The paper proves that for every odd q at least 3, any binary q-query LDC must sati...
49
147
BedertNOZ25
Strong Sparsification for 1-in-3-SAT via Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa
Benjamin Bedert; Tamio-Vesa Nakajima; Karolina Okrasa; Stanislav Zivný
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00129
conf/focs/BedertNOZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BedertNOZ25
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{"paper_title": "Strong Sparsification for 1-in-3-SAT via Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: strong sparsification for 1-in-3-SAT", "summary": "The paper introduces strong sparsification, where variables may be merged instead of con...
49
116
BenDavidB25
Direct Product Theorems for Randomized Query Complexity
Shalev Ben-David; Eric Blais
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00038
conf/focs/BenDavidB25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BenDavidB25
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{"paper_title": "Direct Product Theorems for Randomized Query Complexity", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper proves two new direct product theorems for randomized query complexity. The first gives an optimal charact...
51
151
BergerGHK25
Efficiently Batching Unambiguous Interactive Proofs
Bonnie Berger; Rohan Goyal; Matthew M. Hong; Yael Tauman Kalai
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00044
conf/focs/BergerGHK25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BergerGHK25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BergerGHK25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Efficiently Batching Unambiguous Interactive Proofs", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: polylog-overhead batching for UIPs", "summary": "The paper gives a new way to batch public-coin unambiguous interactive proofs so that proving k instance...
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153
BernsteinBLST25
Combinatorial Maximum Flow via Weighted Push-Relabel on Shortcut Graphs
Aaron Bernstein; Joakim Blikstad; Jason Li 0006; Thatchaphol Saranurak; Ta-Wei Tu
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00026
conf/focs/BernsteinBLST25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BernsteinBLST25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BernsteinBLST25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Combinatorial Maximum Flow via Weighted Push-Relabel on Shortcut Graphs", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Near-quadratic combinatorial exact max-flow via shortcut graphs", "summary": "The paper gives a combinatorial algorithm for exact maximum flow in direct...
51
183
BlancKST25
Computational-Statistical Tradeoffs from NP-hardness
Guy Blanc; Caleb Koch 0001; Carmen Strassle; Li-Yang Tan
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00028
conf/focs/BlancKST25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BlancKST25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BlancKST25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Computational-Statistical Tradeoffs from NP-hardness", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "NP-hardness-based computational-statistical tradeoffs in learning", "summary": "The paper proves that sharp sample-vs-runtime tradeoffs in PAC learning can be based on sta...
56
154
BlikstadSVW25
Online Edge Coloring: Sharp Thresholds
Joakim Blikstad; Ola Svensson; Radu Vintan; David Wajc
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00094
conf/focs/BlikstadSVW25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BlikstadSVW25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BlikstadSVW25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Online Edge Coloring: Sharp Thresholds", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Sharp thresholds for online edge coloring", "summary": "The paper proves near-optimal online edge coloring guarantees at the exact degree thresholds suggested by old lower bounds. It gi...
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202
BourneufCT25
A Dense Neighborhood Lemma: Applications of Partial Concept Classes to Domination and Chromatic Number
Romain Bourneuf; Pierre Charbit; Stéphan Thomassé
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00007
conf/focs/BourneufCT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BourneufCT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BourneufCT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Domination versus fractional chromatic number; applications to local tournament coloring and majority digraphs", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main themes and results", "summary": "This portion of the paper studies how domination in tournaments and related...
62
165
BravermanH25
Undirected Multicast Network Coding Gaps via Locally Decodable Codes
Mark Braverman; Zhongtian He
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00142
conf/focs/BravermanH25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BravermanH25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BravermanH25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Undirected Multicast Network Coding Gaps via Locally Decodable Codes", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Overview of undirected multi-source multicast coding gaps via LDCs", "summary": "The paper studies how much network coding can improve throughput over Stei...
48
155
BuT25
Truthful and Almost Envy-Free Mechanism of Allocating Indivisible Goods: the Power of Randomness
Xiaolin Bu; Biaoshuai Tao
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00141
conf/focs/BuT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BuT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BuT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Truthful and Almost Envy-Free Mechanism of Allocating Indivisible Goods: the Power of Randomness", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Randomness enables truthful almost-envious-free allocation", "summary": "The paper studies randomized truthful mechanisms for a...
54
171
BuhaiHJK25
The Quasi-Polynomial Low-Degree Conjecture is False
Rares-Darius Buhai; Jun-Ting Hsieh; Aayush Jain; Pravesh K. Kothari
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00134
conf/focs/BuhaiHJK25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BuhaiHJK25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BuhaiHJK25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "The Quasi-Polynomial Low-Degree Conjecture is False", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main counterexamples", "summary": "The paper disproves the low-degree conjecture of Hopkins by constructing permutation-invariant planted distributions w...
39
123
BuhaiHSV25
Finding Colorings in One-Sided Expanders
Rares-Darius Buhai; Yiding Hua; David Steurer; Andor Vári-Kakas
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00054
conf/focs/BuhaiHSV25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/BuhaiHSV25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/BuhaiHSV25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Coloring and Independent Sets on One-Sided Expanders via Threshold Rank", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Overview of spectral recovery and hardness for almost-colorable one-sided expanders", "summary": "The paper develops spectral algorithms and matching ha...
70
221
CenFLLP25
Fast Algorithms for Graph Arboricity and Related Problems
Ruoxu Cen; Henry L. Fleischmann; George Z. Li; Jason Li 0006; Debmalya Panigrahi
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00050
conf/focs/CenFLLP25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/CenFLLP25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/CenFLLP25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Fast Algorithms for Graph Arboricity and Related Problems", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Overview of fast algorithms for arboricity and cut hierarchy", "summary": "The paper gives faster exact algorithms for two related graph problems: computing arboricit...
53
172
ChenAN25
Learning quantum Gibbs states locally and efficiently
Chi-Fang Chen; Anurag Anshu; Quynh T. Nguyen
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00076
conf/focs/ChenAN25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/ChenAN25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/ChenAN25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Learning quantum Gibbs states locally and efficiently", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Local and efficient learning of quantum Gibbs Hamiltonians", "summary": "The paper studies how to recover a local quantum Hamiltonian from copies of its Gibbs state using...
51
174
ChenCCYZ25
Rapid Mixing on Random Regular Graphs beyond Uniqueness
Xiaoyu Chen; Zejia Chen; Zongchen Chen; Yitong Yin; Xinyuan Zhang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00115
conf/focs/ChenCCYZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/ChenCCYZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/ChenCCYZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Rapid Mixing on Random Regular Graphs beyond Uniqueness", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contribution", "summary": "The paper proves that Glauber dynamics for the hardcore model mixes rapidly on random regular graphs well beyond the ...
49
166
ChenFGZZ25
Deterministic Counting from Coupling Independence
Xiaoyu Chen; Weiming Feng 0001; Heng Guo 0001; Xinyuan Zhang; Zongrui Zou
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00036
conf/focs/ChenFGZZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/ChenFGZZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/ChenFGZZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "DETERMINISTIC COUNTING FROM COUPLING INDEPENDENCE", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Deterministic counting from coupling independence", "summary": "The paper gives a general deterministic approximate counting framework for bounded-degree spin systems based o...
50
163
ChenFJMYZ25
Faster Mixing of the Jerrum-Sinclair Chain
Xiaoyu Chen; Weiming Feng 0001; Zhe Ju; Tianshun Miao; Yitong Yin; Xinyuan Zhang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00053
conf/focs/ChenFJMYZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/ChenFJMYZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/ChenFJMYZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Improved Mixing of Glauber-Type Dynamics for the Hardcore Model via Localization and Transport", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main mixing-time improvements", "summary": "The paper studies Markov chains for sampling from the hardcore mod...
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36
ChenHHLMT25
Incompressibility and Spectral Gaps of Random Circuits
Chi-Fang Chen; Jeongwan Haah; Jonas Haferkamp; Yunchao Liu; Tony Metger; Xinyu Tan
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00069
conf/focs/ChenHHLMT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/ChenHHLMT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/ChenHHLMT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Incompressibility and spectral gaps of random circuits", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: t-independent spectral gaps and incompressibility of random circuits", "summary": "The paper proves that random reversible circuits and random quantum circu...
50
140
DaiGP25
Constant Approximation of Arboricity in Near-Optimal Sublinear Time
Jiangqi Dai; Mohsen Ghaffari 0001; Julian Portmann
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00030
conf/focs/DaiGP25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/DaiGP25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/DaiGP25/paper.pdf
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42
144
DalzellGHMSNKB25
A Distillation-Teleportation Protocol for Fault-Tolerant QRAM
Alexander M. Dalzell; András Gilyén; Connor T. Hann; Sam McArdle; Grant Salton; Quynh T. Nguyen; Aleksander Kubica; Fernando G. S. L. Brandão
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00008
conf/focs/DalzellGHMSNKB25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/DalzellGHMSNKB25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/DalzellGHMSNKB25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "A distillation–teleportation protocol for fault-tolerant QRAM", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: fault-tolerant QRAM from a noisy specialized device", "summary": "The paper gives a protocol for implementing logical QRAM fault tolerantly usi...
36
109
DiakonikolasK25
Implicit High-Order Moment Tensor Estimation and Learning Latent Variable Models
Ilias Diakonikolas; Daniel M. Kane
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00064
conf/focs/DiakonikolasK25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/DiakonikolasK25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/DiakonikolasK25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Implicit High-Order Moment Tensor Estimation and Learning Latent Variable Models", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "General implicit high-order moment tensor estimation and learning applications", "summary": "The paper develops a general polynomial-time frame...
42
145
DiakonikolasKLP25
PTF Testing Lower Bounds for Non-Gaussian Component Analysis
Ilias Diakonikolas; Daniel M. Kane; Sihan Liu; Thanasis Pittas
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00107
conf/focs/DiakonikolasKLP25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/DiakonikolasKLP25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/DiakonikolasKLP25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "PTF Testing Lower Bounds for Non-Gaussian Component Analysis", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "First non-trivial PTF testing lower bounds via NGCA", "summary": "The paper studies lower bounds against low-degree Polynomial Threshold Function tests, a stronger...
22
37
GallNT25
Group Order is in QCMA
François Le Gall; Harumichi Nishimura; Dhara Thakkar
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00059
conf/focs/GallNT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/GallNT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/GallNT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Group Order is in QCMA", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: Group Order Verification is in QCMA", "summary": "The paper proves that the order of a finite black-box group can be verified with a classical witness and a polynomial-time quantum verifie...
58
182
GhaffariG25
Towards True Work-Efficiency in Parallel Derandomization: MIS, Maximal Matching, and Hitting Set
Mohsen Ghaffari 0001; Christoph Grunau
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00139
conf/focs/GhaffariG25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/GhaffariG25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/GhaffariG25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Towards True Work-Efficiency in Parallel Derandomization: MIS, Maximal Matching, and Hitting Set", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contribution", "summary": "The paper develops a new deterministic parallel derandomization framework ba...
40
107
GolowichG25
Near-Asymptotically-Good Quantum Codes with Transversal CCZ Gates and Sublinear-Weight Parity-Checks
Louis Golowich; Venkatesan Guruswami
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00082
conf/focs/GolowichG25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/GolowichG25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/GolowichG25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Near-Asymptotically-Good Quantum Codes with Transversal CCZ Gates and Sublinear-Weight Parity-Checks", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: near-good quantum codes with transversal CCZ and sublinear checks", "summary": "The paper constructs the...
46
121
GoosHIS25
Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant
Mika Göös; Nathaniel Harms; Valentin Imbach; Dmitry Sokolov 0001
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00123
conf/focs/GoosHIS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/GoosHIS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/GoosHIS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: k-Hamming Distance has constant sign-rank", "summary": "The paper proves that the sign-rank of the exact k-Hamming Distance matrix is bounded by 2^{O(k)}, independent ...
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178
GregorioDFS25
Nearly Tight Regret Bounds for Profit Maximization in Bilateral Trade
Simone Di Gregorio 0001; Paul Dütting; Federico Fusco 0001; Chris Schwiegelshohn
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00083
conf/focs/GregorioDFS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/GregorioDFS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/GregorioDFS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Nearly Tight Regret Bounds for Profit Maximization in Bilateral Trade", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: learning profit-optimal bilateral trade mechanisms", "summary": "The paper studies repeated bilateral trade from the broker's perspecti...
28
50
Gupta25
Improved 2-Approximate Shortest Paths for close vertex pairs
Manoj Gupta 0002
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00065
conf/focs/Gupta25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/Gupta25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/Gupta25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Improved 2-Approximate Shortest Paths for close vertex pairs", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: near-quadratic 2-approximation for much closer pairs", "summary": "The paper gives the first improvement in over 25 years on computing 2-approximate s...
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172
GuptaKLSY25
A Little Clairvoyance Is All You Need
Anupam Gupta 0001; Haim Kaplan; Alexander Lindermayr; Jens Schlöter; Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00010
conf/focs/GuptaKLSY25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/GuptaKLSY25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/GuptaKLSY25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "A Little Clairvoyance Is All You Need", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: constant competitiveness from any positive clairvoyance", "summary": "The paper studies online single-machine flow-time minimization in the ε-clairvoyant model, where ...
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187
HarveyH25
Integer multiplication is at least as hard as matrix transposition
David Harvey; Joris van der Hoeven
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00072
conf/focs/HarveyH25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/HarveyH25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/HarveyH25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "INTEGER MULTIPLICATION IS AT LEAST AS HARD AS MATRIX TRANSPOSITION", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main thesis: transposition reduces to multiplication", "summary": "The paper proves that, on multitape Turing machines, matrix transposition can be reduced t...
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161
HsiehLMRZ25
Explicit Lossless Vertex Expanders
Jun-Ting Hsieh; Alexander Lubotzky; Sidhanth Mohanty; Assaf Reiner; Rachel Yun Zhang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00046
conf/focs/HsiehLMRZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/HsiehLMRZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/HsiehLMRZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Explicit Lossless Vertex Expanders", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "First explicit constant-degree lossless vertex expanders", "summary": "The paper gives the first explicit deterministic construction of constant-degree lossless vertex expanders, resolving ...
55
156
HuKLYZZ25
Static Retrieval Revisited: To Optimality and Beyond
Yang Hu; William Kuszmaul; Jingxun Liang; Huacheng Yu; Junkai Zhang; Renfei Zhou
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00126
conf/focs/HuKLYZZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/HuKLYZZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/HuKLYZZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Static Retrieval Revisited: To Optimality and Beyond", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Tight trade-offs for static retrieval and a way around them via augmented retrieval", "summary": "The paper proves a tight lower bound for the static retrieval problem, sh...
48
123
HuangK25
Parallel Repetition for Post-Quantum Arguments
Andrew Huang 0002; Yael Tauman Kalai
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00100
conf/focs/HuangK25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/HuangK25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/HuangK25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Parallel Repetition for Post-Quantum Arguments", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: post-quantum parallel repetition for public-coin and 3-message arguments", "summary": "The paper proves that parallel repetition amplifies soundness against q...
57
191
HuangSWZ25
Edge-weighted Matching in the Dark
Zhiyi Huang 0002; Enze Sun 0001; Xiaowei Wu 0001; Jiahao Zhao
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00043
conf/focs/HuangSWZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/HuangSWZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/HuangSWZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Edge-weighted Matching in the Dark", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contribution", "summary": "The paper studies oblivious bipartite matching with edge weights, where the algorithm knows vertex sets and weights but not which edges ex...
56
145
HuangT25
Obfuscation of Unitary Quantum Programs
Mi-Ying Miryam Huang; Er-Cheng Tang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00088
conf/focs/HuangT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/HuangT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/HuangT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Obfuscation of Unitary Quantum Programs", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "First ideal obfuscation for approximately unitary quantum programs with quantum I/O", "summary": "The paper constructs the first quantum state obfuscation scheme in the classical oracl...
57
175
KalachevP25
Maximally Extendable Product Codes are Good Coboundary Expanders
Gleb Kalachev; Pavel Panteleev
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00079
conf/focs/KalachevP25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KalachevP25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KalachevP25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Maximally Extendable Product Codes are Good Coboundary Expanders", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: random code collections are product-expanding", "summary": "The paper proves that for any fixed number of component codes and any fixed target rat...
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128
KelleyL25
More efficient sifting for grid norms, and applications to multiparty communication complexity
Zander Kelley; Xin Lyu
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00080
conf/focs/KelleyL25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KelleyL25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KelleyL25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "More efficient sifting for grid norms, and applications to multiparty communication complexity", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper improves the sifting method for grid norms of somewhat dense bipart...
42
119
KesselheimMPS25
Integral Online Algorithms for Set Cover and Load Balancing with Convex Objectives
Thomas Kesselheim; Marco Molinaro 0001; Kalen Patton; Sahil Singla 0001
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00073
conf/focs/KesselheimMPS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KesselheimMPS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KesselheimMPS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Integral Online Algorithms for Set Cover and Load Balancing with Convex Objectives", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Integral online algorithms via packing reductions and random activation", "summary": "The paper develops direct integral online algorithms fo...
56
167
KhouryS25
Round Elimination via Self-Reduction: Closing Gaps for Distributed Maximal Matching
Seri Khoury; Aaron Schild
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00120
conf/focs/KhouryS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KhouryS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KhouryS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Round Elimination via Self-Reduction: Closing Gaps for Distributed Maximal Matching", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result and self-reduction framework", "summary": "The paper proves a new randomized LOCAL lower bound for maximal matching: Ω(min{log Δ...
43
156
KleinbergW25
Density Measures for Language Generation
Jon M. Kleinberg; Fan Wei
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00034
conf/focs/KleinbergW25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KleinbergW25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KleinbergW25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Density Measures for Language Generation", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper studies breadth in language generation in the limit by measuring how dense an algorithm's outputs are inside the true lan...
40
111
KookV25
Faster Logconcave Sampling from a Cold Start in High Dimension
Yunbum Kook; Santosh S. Vempala
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00052
conf/focs/KookV25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KookV25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KookV25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Faster Logconcave Sampling from a Cold Start in High Dimension", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Sub-cubic cold-start sampling via relaxed warmness and improved LSI", "summary": "The paper gives the first sub-cubic algorithms for sampling convex bodies and g...
48
149
KothariMW25
Overcomplete Tensor Decomposition via Koszul-Young Flattenings
Pravesh K. Kothari; Ankur Moitra; Alexander S. Wein
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00098
conf/focs/KothariMW25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KothariMW25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KothariMW25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Overcomplete Tensor Decomposition via Koszul–Young Flattenings", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: decomposition up to nearly n2+n3 via Koszul–Young flattenings", "summary": "The paper gives a polynomial-time algorithm for rank detection, de...
41
129
KumarS25
Almost Tight Additive Guarantees for k-Edge-Connectivity
Nikhil Kumar 0001; Chaitanya Swamy
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00014
conf/focs/KumarS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KumarS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KumarS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Almost Tight Additive Guarantees for k-Edge-Connectivity", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Overview of nearly tight additive guarantees for k-edge connectivity", "summary": "The paper gives LP-rounding algorithms for k-ECSS that trade a small additive loss i...
42
136
KuszmaulLZ25
Fingerprint Filters Are Optimal
William Kuszmaul; Jingxun Liang; Renfei Zhou
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00055
conf/focs/KuszmaulLZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/KuszmaulLZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/KuszmaulLZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Fingerprint Filters Are Optimal", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: fingerprint-filter space is optimal for dynamic filters", "summary": "The paper proves a sharp information-theoretic lower bound for dynamic approximate membership filters. It sho...
46
118
Larrauri25
Ineffectiveness for Search and Undecidability of PCSP Meta-Problems
Alberto Larrauri
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00070
conf/focs/Larrauri25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/Larrauri25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/Larrauri25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Ineffectiveness for Search and Undecidability of PCSP Meta-Problems", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contribution: hardness of rounding and undecidable meta-problems for PCSP algorithms", "summary": "The paper studies whether standard tractability algo...
44
148
LeviMS25
Random Reed-Solomon Codes and Random Linear Codes are Locally Equivalent
Matan Levi; Jonathan Mosheiff; Nikhil Shagrithaya
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00112
conf/focs/LeviMS25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/LeviMS25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/LeviMS25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Random Reed-Solomon Codes and Random Linear Codes are Locally Equivalent", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main equivalence between random RS codes and random linear codes", "summary": "The paper shows that for a broad class of local linear-combinatorial pro...
46
144
LiLZ25
Adaptivity Gaps for Stochastic Probing with Subadditive Functions
Jian Li; Yinchen Liu; Yiran Zhang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00012
conf/focs/LiLZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/LiLZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/LiLZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Adaptivity Gaps for Stochastic Probing with Subadditive Functions", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main contributions on adaptivity gaps for norms and subadditive objectives", "summary": "The paper studies stochastic probing with prefix-closed constraints a...
72
236
LiTZ25
Paths and Intersections: Exact Emulators for Planar Graphs
George Z. Li; Zihan Tan; Tianyi Zhang
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00101
conf/focs/LiTZ25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/LiTZ25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/LiTZ25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Paths and Intersections: Exact Emulators for Planar Graphs", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Exact planar emulators of size O(f^2 k^2)", "summary": "The paper studies exact distance-preserving planar emulators for planar graphs with terminals lying on at mos...
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41
MancinskaSSV25
Gap-preserving reductions and RE-completeness of independent set games
Laura Mancinska; Pieter Spaas; Taro Spirig; Matthijs Vernooij
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00056
conf/focs/MancinskaSSV25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/MancinskaSSV25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/MancinskaSSV25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Gap-preserving reductions and RE-completeness of independent set games", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: gap-preserving reduction to independent set games", "summary": "The paper develops a framework for gap-preserving reductions between gapped ...
51
144
MenuhinN25
Shuffling Cards When You Are of Very Little Brain: Low Memory Generation of Permutations
Boaz Menuhin; Moni Naor
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00122
conf/focs/MenuhinN25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/MenuhinN25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/MenuhinN25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Shuffling Cards When You Are of Very Little Brain: Low Memory Generation of Permutations", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Tight memory-vs-predictability tradeoff for permutation generation", "summary": "The paper studies how well a memory-limited Dealer can...
59
155
NagdaR25
On optimal distinguishers for Planted Clique
Ansh Nagda; Prasad Raghavendra
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00090
conf/focs/NagdaR25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/NagdaR25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/NagdaR25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "On optimal distinguishers for Planted Clique", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper studies the best distinguishing advantage achievable by efficient algorithms for Planted Clique. Assuming the Planted...
59
185
OkoroaforKK25
Near-Optimal Algorithms for Omniprediction
Princewill Okoroafor; Robert Kleinberg; Michael P. Kim
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00084
conf/focs/OkoroaforKK25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/OkoroaforKK25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/OkoroaforKK25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Near-Optimal Algorithms for Omniprediction", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Paper overview and main contributions", "summary": "The paper develops near-optimal algorithms for omniprediction in both online and offline settings. Its central message is that on...
38
98
Sellke25
Tight Low Degree Hardness for Optimizing Pure Spherical Spin Glasses
Mark Sellke
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00137
conf/focs/Sellke25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/Sellke25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/Sellke25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "TIGHT LOW DEGREE HARDNESS FOR OPTIMIZING PURE SPHERICAL SPIN GLASSES", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Main result: stable and low-degree algorithms cannot beat ALG(p)", "summary": "The paper proves that constant-degree polynomial algorithms, and more genera...
51
166
SrivastavaT25
List Decoding Expander-Based Codes up to Capacity in Near-Linear Time
Shashank Srivastava; Madhur Tulsiani
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00077
conf/focs/SrivastavaT25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/SrivastavaT25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/SrivastavaT25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "List Decoding Expander-Based Codes up to Capacity in Near-Linear Time", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Regularity-based framework for fast list decoding and recovery of expander codes", "summary": "The paper develops a general framework using weak graph reg...
57
155
Wang25
Shortest Paths on Convex Polyhedral Surfaces
Haitao Wang 0001
2,025
FOCS 2025
10.1109/FOCS63196.2025.00121
conf/focs/Wang25
https://dblp.org/rec/conf/focs/Wang25
data/papers/FOCS_2025/Wang25/paper.pdf
{"paper_title": "Shortest Paths on Convex Polyhedral Surfaces", "paper_url": null, "nodes": [{"id": "node_01", "type": "overview", "title": "Overview of improved shortest-path data structures and edge-sequence algorithm", "summary": "The paper studies exact shortest paths on convex polyhedral surfaces. Its main contrib...
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