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cs.DS2026

Inapproximability of Unique-Machine Precedence Scheduling for Unit-Length Jobs

Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren, Shaoxuan Tang

The paper shows that scheduling unit-length jobs with unique-machine precedence constraints cannot be approximated within any constant factor, and under standard complexity assumpt…

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.CL2026

Scaling Reasoning Tokens via RL and Parallel Thinking: Evidence From Competitive Programming

Qianfan Zhang, Tianyu Guo, Xuandi Ren +4

We study how to scale reasoning token budgets for competitive programming through two complementary approaches: training-time reinforcement learning (RL) and test-time parallel thi…

cs.DS2025

Scheduling Problems with Constrained Rejections

Sami Davies, Venkatesan Guruswami, Xuandi Ren

We study bicriteria versions of Makespan Minimization on Unrelated Machines and Santa Claus by allowing a constrained number of rejections. Given an instance of Makespan Minimizati…

cs.CC2025

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 ins…