activity
20202026
most citedOn Inapproximability of Reconfiguration Problems: PSPACE-Hardness and some Tight NP-Hardness Results

2 citations · 3 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing cs.CCShow all

13 papers · 1 filter

cs.CC2026

Almost Optimal FPT Inapproximability for k-SetCover

Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren

We show that -approximate parameterized -SetCover is W[1]-hard, and has no -time algorithms under ETH. This improves upon…

cs.CC2026

On the Approximability of Parameterized Minimum Monotone Satisfying Assignment

Venkatesan Guruswami, Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren +1

The parameterized Minimum Monotone Satisfying Assignment (-MMSA) problem asks whether a monotone Boolean circuit admits a satisfying assignment of Hamming weight at most . Th…

cs.CC2026

Strong Inapproximability for a Promise Rank Problem

Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren, Shaoxuan Tang

Given a linear subspace of matrices over that is promised to contain a matrix of rank , we prove that it is hard to find a matrix of rank $n^{o(1/…

cs.CC2025

PCPP-Based Reconfiguration Inapproximability: Query Complexity vs. Soundness Gap Trade-offs

Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren, Kewen Wu

The Reconfiguration Inapproximability Hypothesis (RIH), recently established by Hirahara-Ohsaka (STOC'24) and Karthik-Manurangsi (ECCC'24), studies the hardness of reconfiguring on…

cs.CC2025

PCP-free APX-Hardness of Nearest Codeword and Minimum Distance

Vijay Bhattiprolu, Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren

We give simple deterministic reductions demonstrating the NP-hardness of approximating the nearest codeword problem and minimum distance problem within arbitrary constant factors (…

cs.CC2024

Inapproximability of Finding Sparse Vectors in Codes, Subspaces, and Lattices

Vijay Bhattiprolu, Venkatesan Guruswami, Euiwoong Lee +1

Finding sparse vectors is a fundamental problem that arises in several contexts including codes, subspaces, and lattices. In this work, we prove strong inapproximability results fo…

cs.CC2024

Almost Optimal Time Lower Bound for Approximating Parameterized Clique, CSP, and More, under ETH

Venkatesan Guruswami, Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren +2

The Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis (PIH), which is an analog of the PCP theorem in parameterized complexity, asserts that, there is a constant such tha…

cs.CC2023★ 2 cited

On Inapproximability of Reconfiguration Problems: PSPACE-Hardness and some Tight NP-Hardness Results

Venkatesan Guruswami, Karthik C. S., Pasin Manurangsi +2

Recently, Ohsaka [STACS'23] put forth the Reconfiguration Inapproximability Hypothesis (RIH), which roughly asserts that there is some such that given as input a -CSP inst…

cs.CC2023

Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under ETH

Venkatesan Guruswami, Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren +2

The Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis (PIH) asserts that no fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm can distinguish a satisfiable CSP instance, parameterized by the numb…

cs.CC2023

Baby PIH: Parameterized Inapproximability of Min CSP

Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren, Sai Sandeep

The Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis (PIH) is the analog of the PCP theorem in the world of parameterized complexity. It asserts that no FPT algorithm can distinguish a s…

cs.CC2023

Improved Hardness of Approximating k-Clique under ETH

Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun +1

In this paper, we prove that assuming the exponential time hypothesis (ETH), there is no -time algorithm that can decide whether an -vertex gr…

cs.CC2021★ 1 cited

A Survey on Parameterized Inapproximability: -Clique, -SetCover, and More

Xuandi Ren

In the past a few years, many interesting inapproximability results have been obtained from the parameterized perspective. This article surveys some of such results, with a focus o…

cs.CC2021

On Lower Bounds of Approximating Parameterized -Clique

Bingkai Lin, Xuandi Ren, Yican Sun +1

Given a simple graph and an integer , the goal of -Clique problem is to decide if contains a complete subgraph of size . We say an algorithm approximates -Cliqu…