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20142026
most citedThe impossibility of obfuscation with auxiliary input or a universal simulator

7 citations · 19 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

quant-ph2026

Tight Post-Quantum Parallel Repetition for Private-Coin Arguments

Zvika Brakerski, Andrew Huang, Yael Tauman Kalai +1

We show that assuming the existence of homomorphic encryption, parallel repetition of all interactive arguments (after being run under homomorphic encryption) reduces the soundness…

cs.CR2026

Semi-Quantum Cryptography with Certified Deletion

Yael Tauman Kalai, Justin Raizes

Certified deletion allows a client to upload encrypted data to a server as a quantum state, then later request that the server delete their data and detect whether the server compl…

cs.AI2026

How to Avoid Debate: Scalable AI Safety via Doubly-Efficient Interactive Proofs

Liyan Chen, Yael Tauman Kalai, Zoe Xi

As AI models continue to develop powerful capabilities, it becomes critical that we are able to verify that their output is aligned with our intentions. A recent line of work focus…

cs.CC2026

Towards a Doubly Efficient IP=PSPACE

Liyan Chen, Matthew M. Hong, Yael Tauman Kalai +1

We show that every language in PSPACE decidable by a Turing machine in time admits a doubly efficient interactive proof system: the prover runs in time polynom…

quant-ph2026

How to Classically Verify a Quantum Cat without Killing It

Yael Tauman Kalai, Dakshita Khurana, Justin Raizes

A quantum verifier decides membership in QMA using a (single) quantum witness state. This witness may be arbitrary, and no requirement is placed on it beyond its acceptance probabi…

cs.AI2025

Consensus Sampling for Safer Generative AI

Adam Tauman Kalai, Yael Tauman Kalai, Or Zamir

Motivated by undetectable risks in generative AI, we study a general robust aggregation problem: how to aggregate several probability distributions to boost safety. We present cons…

cs.CC2025

Efficiently Batching Unambiguous Interactive Proofs

Bonnie Berger, Rohan Goyal, Matthew M. Hong +1

We show that if a language admits a public-coin unambiguous interactive proof (UIP) with round complexity , where bits are communicated per round, then the batch lang…

quant-ph2025

Compiling Any into a (Succinct) Classical Interactive Argument

Andrew Huang, Yael Tauman Kalai

We present a generic compiler that converts any protocol into a succinct interactive argument where the communication and the verifier are classical, and where p…

quant-ph2025

Parallel Repetition for Post-Quantum Arguments

Andrew Huang, Yael Tauman Kalai

In this work, we show that parallel repetition of public-coin interactive arguments reduces the soundness error at an exponential rate even in the post-quantum setting. Moreover, w…

cs.CC2023

On the works of Avi Wigderson

Boaz Barak, Yael Kalai, Ran Raz +2

This is an overview of some of the works of Avi Wigderson, 2021 Abel prize laureate. Wigderson's contributions span many fields of computer science and mathematics. In this survey…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Succinct Classical Verification of Quantum Computation

James Bartusek, Yael Tauman Kalai, Alex Lombardi +5

We construct a classically verifiable succinct interactive argument for quantum computation (BQP) with communication complexity and verifier runtime that are poly-logarithmic in th…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Quantum Advantage from Any Non-Local Game

Yael Kalai, Alex Lombardi, Vinod Vaikuntanathan +1

We show a general method of compiling any -prover non-local game into a single-prover interactive game maintaining the same (quantum) completeness and (classical) soundness guar…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Constructive Post-Quantum Reductions

Nir Bitansky, Zvika Brakerski, Yael Tauman Kalai

Is it possible to convert classical cryptographic reductions into post-quantum ones? It is customary to argue that while this is problematic in the interactive setting, non-interac…

cs.DS2021

Interactive Error Correcting Codes Over Binary Erasure Channels Resilient to Adversarial Corruption

Meghal Gupta, Yael Tauman Kalai, Rachel Zhang

An error correcting code () allows a sender to send a message to a receiver such that even if a constant fraction of the communicated bits are corrupted, the receiver…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Beyond Perturbations: Learning Guarantees with Arbitrary Adversarial Test Examples

Shafi Goldwasser, Adam Tauman Kalai, Yael Tauman Kalai +1

We present a transductive learning algorithm that takes as input training examples from a distribution and arbitrary (unlabeled) test examples, possibly chosen by an adversary.…

cs.CC2019

Non-Signaling Proofs with Provers are in PSPACE

Dhiraj Holden, Yael Kalai

Non-signaling proofs, motivated by quantum computation, have found applications in cryptography and hardness of approximation. An important open problem is characterizing the power…

cs.DS2019★ 3 cited

Efficient Multiparty Interactive Coding for Insertions, Deletions and Substitutions

Ran Gelles, Yael T. Kalai, Govind Ramnarayan

In the field of interactive coding, two or more parties wish to carry out a distributed computation over a communication network that may be noisy. The ultimate goal is to develop…

cs.DC2015

Compressing Communication in Distributed Protocols

Yael Tauman Kalai, Ilan Komargodski

We show how to compress communication in selection protocols, where the goal is to agree on a sequence of random bits using only a broadcast channel. More specifically, we present…

cs.CR2015

Adaptively Secure Coin-Flipping, Revisited

Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Tauman Kalai, Sunoo Park

The full-information model was introduced by Ben-Or and Linial in 1985 to study collective coin-flipping: the problem of generating a common bounded-bias bit in a network of pl…

cs.CR2014★ 7 cited

The impossibility of obfuscation with auxiliary input or a universal simulator

Nir Bitansky, Ran Canetti, Henry Cohn +4

In this paper we show that the existence of general indistinguishability obfuscators conjectured in a few recent works implies, somewhat counterintuitively, strong impossibility re…