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most citedUnprovability of circuit upper bounds in Cook's theory PV

30 citations · 61 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CC2023★ 1 cited

Unprovability of Strong Complexity Lower Bounds in Bounded Arithmetic

Jiatu Li, Igor Carboni Oliveira

While there has been progress in establishing the unprovability of complexity statements in lower fragments of bounded arithmetic, understanding the limits of Jeřábek's theory $APC…

cs.CC2023

Constant-depth circuits vs. monotone circuits

Bruno P. Cavalar, Igor C. Oliveira

We establish new separations between the power of monotone and general (non-monotone) Boolean circuits: - For every , there is a monotone function in that re…

cs.CC2023★ 1 cited

Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of Primes

Lijie Chen, Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira +2

A randomized algorithm for a search problem is *pseudodeterministic* if it produces a fixed canonical solution to the search problem with high probability. In their seminal work on…

cs.CC2022★ 2 cited

Theory and Applications of Probabilistic Kolmogorov Complexity

Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira

Diverse applications of Kolmogorov complexity to learning [CIKK16], circuit complexity [OPS19], cryptography [LP20], average-case complexity [Hir21], and proof search [Kra22] have…

cs.CC2022

Optimal Coding Theorems in Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity

Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira, Marius Zimand

The classical coding theorem in Kolmogorov complexity states that if an -bit string is sampled with probability by an algorithm with prefix-free domain then K$(x) \leq \…

cs.CC2021

Pseudodeterministic Algorithms and the Structure of Probabilistic Time

Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira, Rahul Santhanam

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of : proving hierarchy theorems and showing the e…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Quantum learning algorithms imply circuit lower bounds

Srinivasan Arunachalam, Alex B. Grilo, Tom Gur +2

We establish the first general connection between the design of quantum algorithms and circuit lower bounds. Specifically, let be a class of polynomial-size concepts…

cs.CC2020

Algorithms and Lower Bounds for de Morgan Formulas of Low-Communication Leaf Gates

Valentine Kabanets, Sajin Koroth, Zhenjian Lu +2

The class consists of Boolean functions computable by size- de Morgan formulas whose leaves are any Boolean functions from a class .…

cs.CC2019★ 4 cited

Beyond Natural Proofs: Hardness Magnification and Locality

Lijie Chen, Shuichi Hirahara, Igor C. Oliveira +3

Hardness magnification reduces major complexity separations (such as ) to proving lower bounds for some natural problem against…

cs.CC2019★ 2 cited

Consistency of circuit lower bounds with bounded theories

Jan Bydzovsky, Jan Krajicek, Igor C. Oliveira

Proving that there are problems in that require boolean circuits of super-linear size is a major frontier in complexity theory. While such lower bounds are…

cs.CC2017★ 5 cited

On monotone circuits with local oracles and clique lower bounds

Jan Krajicek, Igor C. Oliveira

We investigate monotone circuits with local oracles [K., 2016], i.e., circuits containing additional inputs that can perform unstructured computations on the i…

cs.CC2016

Pseudodeterministic Constructions in Subexponential Time

Igor C. Oliveira, Rahul Santhanam

We study pseudodeterministic constructions, i.e., randomized algorithms which output the same solution on most computation paths. We establish unconditionally that there is an infi…

cs.CC2016

Conspiracies between Learning Algorithms, Circuit Lower Bounds and Pseudorandomness

Igor C. Oliveira, Rahul Santhanam

We prove several results giving new and stronger connections between learning, circuit lower bounds and pseudorandomness. Among other results, we show a generic learning speedup le…

math.LO2016★ 30 cited

Unprovability of circuit upper bounds in Cook's theory PV

Jan Krajicek, Igor C. Oliveira

We establish unconditionally that for every integer there is a language $L \in \mbox{P}$ such that it is consistent with Cook's theory PV that . Our…

cs.CC2015

Near-optimal small-depth lower bounds for small distance connectivity

Xi Chen, Igor C. Oliveira, Rocco A. Servedio +1

We show that any depth- circuit for determining whether an -node graph has an -to- path of length at most must have size . The previous best circu…

cs.CC2015

Addition is exponentially harder than counting for shallow monotone circuits

Xi Chen, Igor C. Oliveira, Rocco A. Servedio

Let denote the Boolean function which takes as input strings of bits each, representing numbers in , and output…

cs.CC2014

Learning circuits with few negations

Eric Blais, Clément L. Canonne, Igor C. Oliveira +2

Monotone Boolean functions, and the monotone Boolean circuits that compute them, have been intensively studied in complexity theory. In this paper we study the structure of Boolean…

math.CO2014

Erdős-Ko-Rado for random hypergraphs: asymptotics and stability

Marcelo M. Gauy, Hiêp Hàn, Igor C. Oliveira

We investigate the asymptotic version of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem for the random -uniform hypergraph . For , let and $D…

cs.CC2013★ 15 cited

Algorithms versus Circuit Lower Bounds

Igor C. Oliveira

Different techniques have been used to prove several transference theorems of the form "nontrivial algorithms for a circuit class C yield circuit lower bounds against C". In this s…

math.CO2013

An algebraic formulation of the graph reconstruction conjecture

Igor C. Oliveira, Bhalchandra D. Thatte

The graph reconstruction conjecture asserts that every finite simple graph on at least three vertices can be reconstructed up to isomorphism from its deck - the collection of its v…