STOC 2024 Program
Monday June 24
Grand Ballroom
Workshop A
9:00-11:00
Algorithmic Opportunities in the Modern LLM Revolution

Grand Ballroom
Session 1A: Best Papers (single session)
Chair: Ryan O'Donnell
11:15
Single-Source Shortest Paths with Negative Real Weights in Õ(mn8/9) Time

Jeremy T. Fineman (Georgetown University)
11:33
Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs

Dor Minzer, Kai Zhe Zheng (MIT)
11:51
Parameterized Inapproximability Hypothesis under Exponential Time Hypothesis

Venkatesan Guruswami (University of California, Berkeley); Bingkai Lin (Nanjing University); Xuandi Ren (University of California, Berkeley); Yican Sun (Peking University); Kewen Wu (University of California, Berkeley)

12:15
Junior Ballroom Foyer
Lunch (boxed lunch provided)

12:30-14:00
Grand Ballroom
TCS4All Workshop

Grand Ballroom
Session 2A
Chair: Fabrizio Grandoni
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 2B
Chair: Benjamin Rossman
Junior Ballroom C
Session 2C
Chair: Frederic Koehler
Junior Ballroom D
Session 2D
Chair: Jan Vondrak
14:15
Online Edge Coloring is (Nearly) as Easy as Offline

Joakim Blikstad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Max Planck Institute for Informatics); Ola Svensson, Radu Vintan (EPFL); David Wajc (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology)
Strong Algebras and Radical Sylvester-Gallai Configurations

Rafael Oliveira, Akash Kumar Sengupta (University of Waterloo)
Super Non-singular Decompositions of Polynomials and their Application to Robustly Learning Low-degree PTFs

Ilias Diakonikolas (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Daniel M. Kane (University of California, San Diego); Vasilis Kontonis (University of Texas, Austin); Sihan Liu (University of California, San Diego); Nikos Zarifis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Power of Two-sided Recruitment in Two-sided Markets

Yang Cai (Yale University); Christopher Liaw, Aranyak Mehta (Google); Mingfei Zhao (Google Research)
14:33
Approximate Earth Mover's Distance in Truly-Subquadratic Time

Lorenzo Beretta (BARC, University of Copenhagen); Aviad Rubinstein (Stanford University)
Black-Box Identity Testing of Noncommutative Rational Formulas in Deterministic Quasipolynomial Time

V. Arvind (Institute of Mathematical Sciences (HBNI), Chennai Mathematical Institute, India); Abhranil Chatterjee (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India); Partha Mukhopadhyay (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India)
Calibrated Language Models Must Hallucinate

Adam Tauman Kalai (Microsoft Research); Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech)
Strategic Budget Selection in a Competitive Autobidding World

Yiding Feng (University of Chicago); Brendan Lucier, Aleksandrs Slivkins (Microsoft Research)
14:51
Near-Optimal Dynamic Rounding of Fractional Matchings in Bipartite Graphs

Sayan Bhattacharya, Peter Kiss (University of Warwick); Aaron Sidford (Stanford University); David Wajc (Technion)
The Minimal Faithful Permutation Degree of Groups without Abelian Normal Subgroups

Bireswar Das, Dhara Thakkar (IIT Gandhinagar)
Private graphon estimation via sum-of-squares

Hongjie Chen, Jingqiu Ding (ETH Zürich); Tommaso D'Orsi (Bocconi University); Yiding Hua (ETH Zürich); Chih-Hung Liu (National Taiwan University); David Steurer (ETH Zürich)
The Role of Transparency in Repeated First-Price Auctions with Unknown Valuations

Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan); Tommaso Cesari (University of Ottawa); Roberto Colomboni (Italian Institute of Technology & University of Milan); Federico Fusco (Sapienza); Stefano Leonardi (University of Rome La Sapienza)
15:09
Low-Step Multi-Commodity Flow Emulators

Bernhard Haeupler (ETH Zurich); D Ellis Hershkowitz (Brown University); Jason Li (UC Berkeley); Antti Röyskö (ETH Zurich); Thatchaphol Saranurak (University of Michigan)
Learning the coefficients: A presentable version of border complexity and applications to circuit factoring

C. S. Bhargav, Prateek Dwivedi, Nitin Saxena (Department of Computer Science & Engg., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Exploring and Learning in Sparse Linear MDPs without Computationally Intractable Oracles

Noah Golowich, Ankur Moitra, Dhruv Rohatgi (MIT)
Bilateral Trade with Correlated Values

Shahar Dobzinski (Weizmann); Ariel Shaulker (Weizmann Institute)
15:27
Maximum Bipartite Matching in n2+o(1) Time via a Combinatorial Algorithm

Julia Chuzhoy (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago); Sanjeev Khanna (University of Pennsylvania)
On the Power of Homogeneous Algebraic Formulas

Hervé Fournier (IMJ-PRG, Université Paris Cité); Nutan Limaye (IT University of Copenhagen); Srikanth Srinivasan (University of Copenhagen); Sébastien Tavenas (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LAMA)
Near-Optimal Mean Estimation with Unknown, Heteroskedastic Variances

Spencer Compton, Gregory Valiant (Stanford University)
No-Regret Learning in Bilateral Trade via Global Budget Balance

Martino Bernasconi (Bocconi University); Matteo Castiglioni (Politecnico di Milano); Andrea Celli (Bocconi University); Federico Fusco (Sapienza University of Rome)

15:45
Junior Ballroom Foyer
Coffee Break

16:15-17:45
Grand Ballroom
TCS4All Workshop (continued)

18:00-19:00
Pavilion Ballroom ABC
Reception


Tuesday June 25
Grand Ballroom
Workshop A
Junior Ballroom D
Workshop B
9:00-11:00
Algorithmic Opportunities in the Modern LLM Revolution
Length-Constrained Expanders

Grand Ballroom
Plenary talk
11:15
Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University and a16z crypto): The Computer in the Sky

12:15
Lunch (on your own)

Grand Ballroom
Session 3A
Chair: Tomasz Kociumaka
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 3B
Chair: Frederic Koehler
Junior Ballroom C
Session 3C
Chair: Fermi Ma
Junior Ballroom D
Session 3D
Chair: Sahil Singla
14:15
Knapsack with Small Items in Near-Quadratic Time

Karl Bringmann (Saarland University and Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics)

Joint talk with

0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time

Ce Jin (MIT)
Testing Closeness of Multivariate Distributions via Ramsey Theory

Ilias Diakonikolas (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Daniel M. Kane, Sihan Liu (University of California, San Diego)
Adaptively-Sound Succinct Arguments for NP from Indistinguishability Obfuscation

Brent Waters (University of Texas at Austin and NTT Research); David J. Wu (University of Texas at Austin)
Approximating Maximum Matching Requires Almost Quadratic Time

Soheil Behnezhad (Northeastern University); Mohammad Roghani, Aviad Rubinstein (Stanford University)
14:33
A Nearly Quadratic-Time FPTAS for Knapsack

Lin Chen, Jiayi Lian, Yuchen Mao, Guochuan Zhang (Zhejiang University)

Joint talk with

(1 − ε)-Approximation of Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time

Xiao Mao (Stanford University)
Semidefinite programs simulate approximate message passing robustly

Misha Ivkov, Tselil Schramm (Stanford)
A New Approach for Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge from Learning with Errors

Brent Waters (University of Texas at Austin and NTT Research)
Structural Complexities of Matching Mechanisms

Yannai A. Gonczarowski (Harvard University); Clayton Thomas (Microsoft Research)
14:51
Approximating Partition in Near-Linear Time

Lin Chen, Jiayi Lian, Yuchen Mao, Guochuan Zhang (Zhejiang University)
Planted Clique Conjectures Are Equivalent

Shuichi Hirahara (National Institute of Informatics); Nobutaka Shimizu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Optimal Load-Balanced Scalable Distributed Agreement

Yuval Gelles (Hebrew University); Ilan Komargodski (Hebrew University and NTT Research)
A constant-factor approximation for Nash social welfare with subadditive valuations

Shahar Dobzinski (Weizmann Institute); Wenzheng Li, Aviad Rubinstein, Jan Vondrak (Stanford University)
15:09
Approximating Small Sparse Cuts

Aditya Anand, Euiwoong Lee (University of Michigan); Jason Li (UC Berkeley); Thatchaphol Saranurak (University of Michigan)
Robust recovery for stochastic block models, simplified and generalized

Sidhanth Mohanty (MIT); Prasad Raghavendra, David Wu (U.C. Berkeley)
Quantum Oblivious LWE Sampling and Insecurity of Standard Model Lattice-Based SNARKs

Thomas Debris-Alazard (Inria); Pouria Fallahpour (ENS de Lyon, France); Damien Stehlé (CryptoLab Inc, Lyon, France)
Limitations of Stochastic Selection Problems with Pairwise Independent Priors

Shaddin Dughmi, Yusuf Kalayci, Neel Patel (University of Southern California)
15:27
Better coloring of 3-colorable graphs

Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi (National Institute of Informatics, The university of Tokyo); Mikkel Thorup (University of Copenhagen); Hirotaka Yoneda (The university of Tokyo)
New Tools for Smoothed Analysis: Least Singular Value Bounds for Random Matrices with Dependent Entries

Aditya Bhaskara (University of Utah); Eric Evert, Vaidehi Srinivas, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan (Northwestern University)
Batch Proofs are Statistically Hiding

Nir Bitansky (Tel Aviv University); Chethan Kamath (IIT Bombay); Omer Paneth (Tel Aviv University); Ron D. Rothblum (Technion); Prashant Nalini Vasudevan (NUS)
Prophet Inequalities Require Only a Constant Number of Samples

Andres Cristi (Universidad de Chile); Bruno Ziliotto (CNRS)

15:45
Junior Ballroom Foyer
Coffee Break

Grand Ballroom
Session 4A
Chair: Stanislav Živný
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 4B
Chair: Daochen Wang
Junior Ballroom C
Session 4C
Chair: Siyao Guo
Junior Ballroom D
Session 4D
Chair: Bundit Laekhanukit
16:15
A Unified Approach to Learning Ising Models: Beyond Independence and Bounded Width

Jason Gaitonde (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Elchanan Mossel (MIT)
Classical simulation of peaked shallow quantum circuits

Sergey Bravyi (IBM Quantum, T. J. Watson Research Center); David Gosset, Yinchen Liu (University of Waterloo)
Hardness of Range Avoidance and Remote Point for Restricted Circuits via Cryptography

Yilei Chen (Tsinghua University and Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute); Jiatu Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Optimization with pattern-avoiding input

Benjamin Aram Berendsohn, László Kozma (Freie Universität Berlin); Michal Opler (Czech Technical University in Prague)
16:33
Nonlinear dynamics for the Ising model

Pietro Caputo (Univ Rome III); Alistair Sinclair (U.C. Berkeley)
Quantum Time-Space Tradeoffs for Matrix Problems

Paul Beame (University of Washington); Niels Kornerup (University of Texas at Austin); Michael Whitmeyer (University of Washington)
Communication Lower Bounds for Collision Problems via Density Increment Arguments

Guangxu Yang, Jiapeng Zhang (University of Southern California)
Maximum Weight Independent Set in Graphs with no Long Claws in Quasi-Polynomial Time

Peter Gartland (University of California at Santa Barbara); Daniel Lokshtanov (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Tomáš Masarík, Marcin Pilipczuk, Michal Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw); Pawel Rzazewski (Warsaw University of Technology)
16:51
Influences in Mixing Measures

Frederic Koehler (Stanford University); Noam Lifshitz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Dor Minzer, Elchanan Mossel (MIT)
Circuit-to-Hamiltonian from tensor networks and fault tolerance

Anurag Anshu (Harvard University); Nikolas Breuckmann (University of Bristol); Quynh T Nguyen (Harvard University)
Lower bounds for regular resolution over parities

Klim Efremenko (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev); Michal Garlik (Imperial College London); Dmitry Itsykson (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Packing even directed circuits quarter-integrally

Maximilian Gorsky (Technische Universität Berlin); Sebastian Wiederrecht (Institute for Basic Science, South Korea); Stephan Kreutzer (Technische Universität Berlin); Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
17:09
Parallel Sampling via Counting

Nima Anari, Ruiquan Gao, Aviad Rubinstein (Stanford University)
Quantum and classical query complexities of functions of matrices

Ashley Montanaro (University of Bristol); Changpeng Shao (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
XOR Lemmas for Communication via Marginal Information

Siddharth Iyer (University of Washington); Anup Rao (School of Computer Science, University of Washington)
Edge-Disjoint Paths in Eulerian Digraphs

Dario Giuliano Cavallaro (TU Berlin); Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo); Stephan Kreutzer (TU Berlin)
17:27
On The Fourier Coefficients of High-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs

Kiril Bangachev, Guy Bresler (MIT)
Quadratic Lower bounds on the Approximate Stabilizer Rank: A Probabilistic Approach

Saeed Mehraban (Tufts University); Mehrdad Tahmasbi (UIUC)
Beating Brute Force for Compression Problems

Shuichi Hirahara (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan); Rahul Ilango, Ryan Williams (MIT)
A Flat Wall Theorem for Matching Minors in Bipartite Graphs

Archontia C. Giannopoulou (Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece); Sebastian Wiederrecht (Discrete Mathematics Group, IBS, Daejeon, South Korea)

18:00
Pavilion Ballroom ABC
Estimathon


Wednesday June 26
Grand Ballroom
Workshop A
Junior Ballroom D
Workshop B
Junior Ballroom C
Workshop C
9:00-11:00
Algorithmic Opportunities in the Modern LLM Revolution
Length-Constrained Expanders
Online Resource Allocation

Grand Ballroom
Plenary talk
11:15
Jakub Pachocki (OpenAI): Scaling Up Deep Learning

12:15
Lunch (on your own)

Grand Ballroom
Session 5A
Chair: Amey Bhangale
Junior Ballroom D
Session 5B
Chair: Soheil Behnezhad
Junior Ballroom C
Session 5C
Chair: Stanislav Živný
14:15
Generalized GM-MDS: Polynomial Codes are Higher Order MDS

Joshua Brakensiek (Stanford University); Manik Dhar (MIT); Sivakanth Gopi (Microsoft Research)

Joint talk with

AG codes achieve list decoding capacity over constant-sized fields

Joshua Brakensiek (Stanford University); Manik Dhar (MIT); Sivakanth Gopi (Microsoft Research); Zihan Zhang (The Ohio State University)
Data-Dependent LSH for the Earth Mover’s Distance

Rajesh Jayaram (Google Research); Erik Waingarten, Tian Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
The Asymptotic Rank Conjecture and the Set Cover Conjecture are not Both True

Andreas Björklund (IT University of Copenhagen); Petteri Kaski (Aalto University)
14:33
Constant Query Local Decoding Against Deletions is Impossible

Meghal Gupta (UC Berkeley)
Polylog-Competitive Deterministic Local Routing and Scheduling

Bernhard Haeupler (ETH Zurich & CMU); Shyamal Patel (Columbia University); Antti Roeyskoe (ETH Zurich); Cliff Stein (Columbia University); Goran Zuzic (Google Research)
Equality cases of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality are not in the polynomial hierarchy

Swee Hong Chan (Rutgers University); Igor Pak (UCLA)
14:51
Local Correction of Linear Functions over the Boolean Cube

Prashanth Amireddy (Harvard University); Amik Raj Behera (Aarhus University); Manaswi Paraashar, Srikanth Srinivasan (University of Copenhagen); Madhu Sudan (Harvard University)
Connectivity Labeling and Routing with Multiple Vertex Failures

Merav Parter, Asaf Petruschka (Weizmann Institute of Science); Seth Pettie (University of Michigan)
Semigroup algorithmic problems in metabelian groups

Ruiwen Dong (University of Oxford)
15:09
An Exponential Lower Bound for Linear 3-Query Locally Correctable Codes

Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar (Carnegie Mellon University)
Optimal Multi-Pass Lower Bounds for MST in Dynamic Streams

Sepehr Assadi (University of Waterloo and Rutgers University); Gillat Kol, Zhijun Zhang (Princeton University)
The Complexity of Computing KKT Solutions of Quadratic Programs

John Fearnley (University of Liverpool); Paul W. Goldberg, Alexandros Hollender (University of Oxford); Rahul Savani (University of Liverpool)
15:27
Explicit two-sided unique-neighbor expanders

Jun-Ting Hsieh (Carnegie Mellon University); Theo McKenzie (Stanford University); Sidhanth Mohanty (MIT); Pedro Paredes (Princeton University)
O(log log n) Passes is Optimal for Semi-Streaming Maximal Independent Set

Sepehr Assadi (Rutgers University and University of Waterloo); Christian Konrad, Kheeran K. Naidu (University of Bristol); Janani Sundaresan (University of Waterloo)
Minimum Star Partitions of Simple Polygons in Polynomial Time

Mikkel Abrahamsen (University of Copenhagen); Joakim Blikstad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Max Planck Institute for Informatics); André Nusser, Hanwen Zhang (University of Copenhagen)

15:45
Junior Ballroom Foyer
Coffee Break

Grand Ballroom
Session 6A
Chair: Ohad Trabelsi
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 6B
Chair: Fang Song
Junior Ballroom C
Session 6C
Chair: Avishay Tal
Junior Ballroom D
Session 6D
Chair: Ainesh Bakshi
16:15
Revisiting Local Computation of PageRank: Simple and Optimal

Hanzhi Wang, Zhewei Wei, Ji-Rong Wen, Mingji Yang (Renmin University of China)
Commitments from Quantum One-Wayness

Dakshita Khurana (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Kabir Tomer (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Detecting Low-Degree Truncation

Anindya De, Huan Li (University of Pennsylvania); Shivam Nadimpalli, Rocco A. Servedio (Columbia University)
Local geometry of NAE-SAT solutions in the condensation regime

Allan Sly (Princeton University); Youngtak Sohn (MIT)
16:33
Towards Optimal Output-Sensitive Clique Listing

Mina Dalirrooyfard, Surya Mathialagan, Yinzhan Xu, Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT)
A one-query lower bound for unitary synthesis and breaking quantum cryptography

Alex Lombardi (Princeton); Fermi Ma (Simons Institute and UC Berkeley); John Wright (UC Berkeley)
Optimal Non-Adaptive Tolerant Junta Testing via Local Estimators

Shivam Nadimpalli, Shyamal Patel (Columbia University)
Trickle-Down in Localization Schemes and Applications

Nima Anari, Frederic Koehler, Thuy-Duong Vuong (Stanford University)
16:51
New Graph Decompositions and Combinatorial Boolean Matrix Multiplication Algorithms

Amir Abboud, Nick Fischer (Weizmann Institute of Science); Zander Kelley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Shachar Lovett (UCSD); Raghu Meka (UCLA)
Two prover perfect zero knowledge for MIP*

Kieran Mastel, William Slofstra (University of Waterloo)
Distribution-Free Testing of Decision Lists with a Sublinear Number of Queries

Xi Chen (Columbia University); Yumou Fei (Peking University); Shyamal Patel (Columbia University)
Optimal Embedding Dimension for Sparse Subspace Embeddings

Shabarish Chenakkod, Michal Derezinski, Xiaoyu Dong, Mark Rudelson (University of Michigan)
17:09
Nearly Optimal Fault Tolerant Distance Oracle

Dipan Dey, Manoj Gupta (IIT Gandhinagar)
How to Use Quantum Indistinguishability Obfuscation

Andrea Coladangelo (University of Washington); Sam Gunn (UC Berkeley)

Joint talk with

Quantum State Obfuscation from Classical Oracles

James Bartusek (UC Berkeley); Zvika Brakerski (Weizmann); Vinod Vaikuntanathan (MIT CSAIL)
On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning

Tom Gur (University of Cambridge); Mohammad Mahdi Jahanara, Mohammad Mahdi Khodabandeh (Simon Fraser University); Ninad Rajgopal (University of Cambridge); Bahar Salamatian, Igor Shinkar (Simon Fraser University)
Solving Dense Linear Systems Faster than via Preconditioning

Michal Derezinski, Jiaming Yang (University of Michigan)
17:27
Almost Linear Size Edit Distance Sketch

Michal Koucký (Charles University/Rutgers University); Michael Saks (Rutgers University)
Nonlocality under Computational Assumptions

Grzegorz Gluch, Khashayar Barooti (EPFL); Alexandru Gheorghiu (Chalmers University of Technology); Marc-Olivier Renou (Inria, Universitée Paris-Saclay, CPHT, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau)
Complexity-Theoretic Implications of Multicalibration

Sílvia Casacuberta (University of Oxford); Cynthia Dwork, Salil Vadhan (Harvard University)
Improving the Bit Complexity of Communication for Distributed Convex Optimization

Mehrdad Ghadiri (MIT); Yin Tat Lee (University Washington and Microsoft Research); Swati Padmanabhan (MIT); William Swartworth, David P. Woodruff (Carnegie Mellon University); Guanghao Ye (MIT)

18:00
Grand Ballroom
Business Meeting


Thursday June 27
Grand Ballroom
Workshop D
Junior Ballroom D
Workshop B
Junior Ballroom C
Workshop C
8:30-11:00
Applications of Turán-type problems in Theoretical Computer Science
9:00-11:00
Length-Constrained Expanders
Online Resource Allocation

Grand Ballroom D
Plenary talk
11:15
Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University): Algorithmic Contract Design

12:15
Lunch (on your own)

Grand Ballroom
Session 7A
Chair: Fabrizio Grandoni
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 7B
Chair: Sahil Singla
Junior Ballroom C
Session 7C
Chair: Amey Bhangale
Junior Ballroom D
Session 7D
Chair: Ainesh Bakshi
14:15
Fully Dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths: Likely Optimal Worst-Case Update Time

Xiao Mao (Stanford University)
Settling the Communication Complexity of VCG-based Mechanisms for All Approximation Guarantees

Frederick Qiu, S. Matthew Weinberg (Princeton University)
Explicit orthogonal arrays and universal hashing with arbitrary parameters

Nicholas Harvey, Arvin Sahami (UBC)
An area law for the maximally-mixed ground state in arbitrarily degenerate systems with good AGSP

Itai Arad (Centre for Quantum Technologies); Raz Firanko (Technion); Rahul Jain (National University of Singapore)
14:33
Space Lower Bounds for Dynamic Filters and Value-Dynamic Retrieval

William Kuszmaul (Harvard University); Stefan Walzer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
PPAD-membership for Problems with Exact Rational Solutions: A General Approach via Convex Optimization

Aris Filos-Ratsikas (University of Edinburgh); Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen, Kasper Høgh (Aarhus University); Alexandros Hollender (University of Oxford)
Tree Evaluation is in Space O(log n · log log n)

James Cook; Ian Mertz (University of Warwick)
Local minima in quantum systems

Chi-Fang Chen, Hsin-Yuan Huang, John Preskill, Leo Zhou (California Institute of Technology)
14:51
Almost-Linear Time Algorithms for Incremental Graphs: Cycle Detection, SCCs, s-t Shortest Path, and Minimum-Cost Flow

Li Chen (Carnegie Mellon University); Rasmus Kyng (ETH Zurich); Yang P. Liu (Institute for Advanced Study); Simon Meierhans, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg (ETH Zurich)
From External to Swap Regret 2.0: An Efficient Reduction for Large Action Spaces

Yuval Dagan (UC Berkeley); Constantinos Daskalakis (EECS, MIT); Maxwell Fishelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Noah Golowich (MIT)

Joint talk with

Fast swap regret minimization and applications to approximate correlated equilibria

Binghui Peng (Columbia University); Aviad Rubinstein (Stanford University)
Locality Bounds for Sampling Hamming Slices

Daniel M. Kane, Anthony Ostuni (UC San Diego); Kewen Wu (UC Berkeley)
An optimal tradeoff between entanglement and copy complexity for state tomography

Sitan Chen (Harvard University); Jerry Li (Microsoft Research); Allen Liu (MIT)
15:09
A Dynamic Shortest Paths Toolbox: Low-Congestion Vertex Sparsifiers and their Applications

Rasmus Kyng, Simon Meierhans, Maximilian Probst Gutenberg (ETH Zurich)
Fair Division via Quantile Shares

Yakov Babichenko (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology); Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University); Ron Holzman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology); Vishnu V. Narayan (Tel Aviv University)
No Complete Problem for Constant-Cost Randomized Communication

Yuting Fang (The Ohio State University); Lianna Hambardzumyan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Nathaniel Harms (EPFL); Pooya Hatami (The Ohio State University)
Learning shallow quantum circuits

Hsin-Yuan Huang (Caltech); Yunchao Liu (UC Berkeley); Michael Broughton (Google Quantum AI); Isaac Kim (UC Davis); Anurag Anshu (Harvard University); Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley); Jarrod R. McClean (Google Quantum AI)
15:27
Dynamic O(arboricity) coloring in polylogarithmic worst-case time

Mohsen Ghaffari (MIT); Christoph Grunau (ETH Zurich)
Prophet Inequalities with Recourse

Farbod Ekbatani, Rad Niazadeh (University of Chicago Booth School of Business); Pranav Nuti, Jan Vondrak (Stanford)
Explicit separations between randomized and deterministic Number-on-Forehead communication

Zander Kelley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Shachar Lovett (UCSD); Raghu Meka (UCLA)
Improved Stabilizer Estimation via Bell Difference Sampling

Sabee Grewal, Vishnu Iyer (University of Texas at Austin); William Kretschmer (Simons Institute); Daniel Liang (Rice University)

15:45
Junior Ballroom Foyer
Coffee Break

Grand Ballroom
Session 8A
Chair: Rafael Mendes de Oliveira
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 8B
Chair: Pravesh Kothari
Junior Ballroom C
Session 8C
Chair: Saeed Mehraban
Junior Ballroom D
Session 8D
Chair: Tomasz Kociumaka
16:15
Computing a Fixed Point of Contraction Maps in Polynomial Queries

Xi Chen, Yuhao Li, Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University)
Product Mixing in Compact Lie Groups

David Ellis (University of Bristol); Guy Kindler, Noam Lifshitz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Dor Minzer (MIT)
Learning quantum Hamiltonians at any temperature in polynomial time

Ainesh Bakshi, Allen Liu (MIT); Ankur Moitra (Math & CSAIL, MIT); Ewin Tang (UC Berkeley)
Counting Small Induced Subgraphs with Edge-monotone Properties

Simon Döring (Max Planck Institute for Informatics; Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science; Saarland Informatics Campus); Dániel Marx (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security); Philip Wellnitz (Max Planck Institute for Informatics; Saarland Informatics Campus)
16:33
Self-Improvement for Circuit-Analysis Problems

Ryan Williams (MIT)
On Approximability of Satisfiable k-CSPs: IV

Amey Bhangale (UC Riverside); Subhash Khot (NYU); Dor Minzer (MIT)
An efficient quantum parallel repetition theorem and applications

John Bostanci (Columbia University); Luowen Qian (Boston University); Nick Spooner (University of Warwick & NYU); Henry Yuen (Columbia University)
Near-Optimal Streaming Ellipsoidal Rounding for General Convex Polytopes

Yury Makarychev, Naren Sarayu Manoj, Max Ovsiankin (TTIC)
16:51
Formula Size-Depth Tradeoffs for Iterated Sub-Permutation Matrix Multiplication

Benjamin Rossman (Duke University)
Probabilistically Checkable Reconfiguration Proofs and Inapproximability of Reconfiguration Problems

Shuichi Hirahara (National Institute of Informatics); Naoto Ohsaka (CyberAgent, Inc.)
The Power of Adaptivity in Quantum Query Algorithms

Uma Girish (Princeton University); Makrand Sinha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Avishay Tal, Kewen Wu (University of California at Berkeley)
Almost-linear time parameterized algorithm for rankwidth via dynamic rankwidth

Tuukka Korhonen (University of Bergen); Marek Sokolowski (University of Warsaw)
17:09
Functional Lower Bounds in Algebraic Proofs: Symmetry, Lifting, and Barriers

Tuomas Hakoniemi (University of Helsinki); Nutan Limaye (IT University of Copenhagen); Iddo Tzameret (Imperial College London)
Cosystolic Expansion of Sheaves on Posets with Applications to Good 2-Query Locally Testable Codes and Lifted Codes

Uriya A. First (University of Haifa); Tali Kaufman (Bar Ilan University)
On the Pauli Spectrum of QAC0

Shivam Nadimpalli, Natalie Parham (Columbia University); Francisca Vasconcelos (University of California, Berkeley); Henry Yuen (Columbia University)
Combinatorial Characterizations of Monadically NIP Graph Classes

Jan Dreier (TU Wien); Nikolas Mählmann (University of Bremen); Szymon Torunczyk (University of Warsaw)
17:27
Black-Box PPP is Not Turing-Closed

Noah Fleming (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Stefan Grosser (McGill); Toniann Pitassi (Columbia); Robert Robere (McGill)
Randomly punctured Reed–Solomon codes achieve list-decoding capacity over linear-sized fields

Omar Alrabiah, Venkatesan Guruswami (UC Berkeley); Ray Li (Santa Clara University)
Approaching the Quantum Singleton Bound with Approximate Error Correction

Thiago Bergamaschi, Louis Golowich, Sam Gunn (UC Berkeley)
A strongly polynomial algorithm for linear programs with at most two non-zero entries per row or column

Daniel Dadush, Zhuan Khye Koh (CWI Amsterdam); Bento Natura (Georgia Institute of Technology); Neil Olver, László A. Végh (London School of Economics)

18:00
Grand Ballroom
Turing Award Lecture: Avi Wigderson


19:30
Glowbal Restaurant
Banquet


Friday June 28
Grand Ballroom
Workshop D
Junior Ballroom C
Workshop C
8:30-11:00
Applications of Turán-type problems in Theoretical Computer Science
9:00-11:00
Online Resource Allocation

Grand Ballroom
Session 9A: Best Student Papers
Chair: Ryan O'Donnell
11:15
Shaving Logs via Large Sieve Inequality: Faster Algorithms for Sparse Convolution and More

Ce Jin, Yinzhan Xu (MIT)
11:33
Relaxed Local Correctability from Local Testing

Vinayak M. Kumar, Geoffrey Mon (University of Texas at Austin)

12:15
Lunch (on your own)

Grand Ballroom
Session 10A
Chair: Ohad Trabelsi
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 10B
Chair: Lap Chi Lau
Junior Ballroom C
Session 10C
Chair: Siyao Guo
Junior Ballroom D
Session 10D
Chair: Artur Czumaj
14:15
On Optimal Coreset Construction for Euclidean (k,z)-clustering

Lingxiao Huang (Nanjing University); Jian Li, Xuan Wu (Tsinghua University)
Reconfiguration of Basis Pairs in Regular Matroids

Kristóf Bérczi, Bence Mátravölgyi, Tamás Schwarcz (Eötvös Loránd University)
Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead

Elette Boyle (Reichman University and NTT Research); Ilan Komargodski (Hebrew University and NTT Research); Neekon Vafa (MIT)
On the Communication Complexity of Approximate Pattern Matching

Tomasz Kociumaka (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, SIC); Jakob Nogler (ETH Zurich); Philip Wellnitz (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, SIC)
14:33
Understanding the Cluster Linear Program for Correlation Clustering

Nairen Cao (Boston College); Vincent Cohen-Addad (Google Research, France); Euiwoong Lee (University of Michigan); Shi Li (Nanjing University); Alantha Newman (CNRS-Université Grenoble Alpes); Lukas Vogl (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Sparsifying generalized linear models

Arun Jambulapati (Simons Institute); James R Lee (University of Washington); Yang P. Liu (Institute for Advanced Study); Aaron Sidford (Stanford University)
Perfect Zero-Knowledge PCPs for #P

Tom Gur, Jack O'Connor (University of Cambridge); Nicholas Spooner (University of Warwick/NYU)
Local Borsuk-Ulam, Stability, and Replicability

Zachary Chase, Bogdan Chornomaz, Shay Moran (Technion); Amir Yehudayoff (Technion-IIT)
14:51
Combinatorial Correlation Clustering

Vincent Cohen-Addad (Google Research, France); Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw); David Rasmussen Lolck, Mikkel Thorup, Shuyi Yan, Hanwen Zhang (University of Copenhagen)
Sampling Balanced Forests of Grids in Polynomial Time

Sarah Cannon (Claremont McKenna College); Wesley Pegden (Carnegie Mellon University); Jamie Tucker-Foltz (Harvard University)
One-Way Functions and Zero Knowledge

Shuichi Hirahara (National Institute of Informatics); Mikito Nanashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
A New Information Complexity Measure for Multi-Pass Streaming with Applications

Mark Braverman (Princeton University); Sumegha Garg (Rutgers University); Qian Li (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data); Shuo Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); David P. Woodruff (CMU); Jiapeng Zhang (University of Southern California)
15:09
Random-order Contention Resolution via Continuous Induction: Tightness for Bipartite Matching under Vertex Arrivals

Calum MacRury, Will Ma (Columbia University)
Sampling Proper Colorings on Line Graphs Using (1+o(1))Δ Colors

Yulin Wang, Chihao Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Zihan Zhang (Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI)
Tight Time-Space Tradeoffs for the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem

Akshima, Tyler Besselman, Siyao Guo, Zhiye Xie (NYU Shanghai); Yuping Ye (East China Normal University and NYU Shanghai)
New Graph and Hypergraph Container Lemmas with Applications in Property Testing

Eric Blais, Cameron Seth (University of Waterloo)
15:27
Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree: A 1.79 Approximation

Ali Ahmadi, Iman Gholami, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Peyman Jabbarzade, Mohammad Mahdavi (University of Maryland)
Hypergraph Unreliability in Quasi-Polynomial Time

Ruoxu Cen (Duke University); Jason Li (UC Berkeley); Debmalya Panigrahi (Duke University)
SNARGs Under LWE via Propositional Proofs

Zhengzhong Jin (MIT CSAIL); Yael Kalai (Microsoft Research and MIT); Alex Lombardi (Princeton); Vinod Vaikuntanathan (MIT CSAIL)
Exponential Quantum Space Advantage for Approximating Maximum Directed Cut in the Streaming Model

John Kallaugher, Ojas Parekh (Sandia National Laboratories); Nadezhda Voronova (Boston University)

15:45
Junior Ballroom Foyer
Coffee Break

Grand Ballroom
Session 11A
Chair: Bundit Laekhanukit
Junior Ballroom AB
Session 11B
Chair: Mahsa Derakhshan
Junior Ballroom C
Session 11C
Chair: Lap Chi Lau
Junior Ballroom D
Session 11D
Chair: Avishay Tal
16:15
Proof of the density threshold conjecture for pinwheel scheduling

Akitoshi Kawamura (Kyoto University)
Breaking the VLB Barrier for Oblivious Reconfigurable Networks

Tegan Wilson, Daniel Amir, Nitika Saran, Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University); Vishal Shrivastav (Purdue University); Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Sum-of-Squares Lower Bounds for Independent Set on Ultra-Sparse Random Graphs

Pravesh Kothari (CMU); Aaron Potechin (University of Chicago); Jeff Xu (CMU)
Symmetric Exponential Time Requires Near-Maximum Circuit Size

Lijie Chen (University of California at Berkeley); Shuichi Hirahara (National Institute of Informatics); Hanlin Ren (University of Oxford)

Joint talk with

Symmetric Exponential Time Requires Near-Maximum Circuit Size: Simplified, Truly Uniform

Zeyong Li (National University of Singapore)
16:33
Constrained Submodular Maximization via New Bounds for DR-Submodular Functions

Niv Buchbinder (Tel Aviv University); Moran Feldman (University of Haifa)
Lenzen's Distributed Routing Generalized: A Full Characterization of Constant-Time Routability

Mohsen Ghaffari, Brandon Wang (MIT)
Semidefinite programming and linear equations vs. homomorphism problems

Lorenzo Ciardo, Stanislav Živný (University of Oxford)
Random (log n)-CNF are Hard for Cutting Planes (Again)

Dmitry Sokolov (EPFL)
16:51
Optimal Online Discrepancy Minimization

Janardhan Kulkarni (Microsoft Research); Victor Reis (Institute for Advanced Study); Thomas Rothvoss (University of Washington)
Work-Efficient Parallel Derandomization II: Optimal Concentrations via Bootstrapping

Mohsen Ghaffari (MIT); Christoph Grunau (ETH Zurich)
How Random CSPs Fool Hierarchies

Siu On Chan, Hiu Tsun Ng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Sijin Peng (Tsinghua University)
Hardness Condensation by Restriction

Mika Göös (EPFL); Ilan Newman (University of Haifa); Artur Riazanov, Dmitry Sokolov (EPFL)
17:09
Supermodular Approximation of Norms and Applications

Thomas Kesselheim (University of Bonn); Marco Molinaro (PUC-Rio); Sahil Singla (Georgia Tech)
No distributed quantum advantage for approximate graph coloring

Xavier Coiteux-Roy (School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology); Francesco d'Amore (Aalto University and Bocconi University and BIDSA); Rishikesh Gajjala (Indian Institute of Science and Aalto University); Fabian Kuhn (University of Freiburg); François Le Gall (Nagoya University); Henrik Lievonen, Augusto Modanese (Aalto University); Marc-Olivier Renou (Inria, Universitée Paris-Saclay, CPHT, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau); Gustav Schmid (University of Freiburg); Jukka Suomela (Aalto University)
Swap cosystolic expansion

Yotam Dikstein (Institute for Advanced Study); Irit Dinur (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Joint talk with

Agreement theorems for high dimensional expanders in the low acceptance regime: the role of covers

Yotam Dikstein (Institute for Advanced Study); Irit Dinur (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Explicit Codes for Poly-Size Circuits and Functions that are Hard to Sample on Low Entropy Distributions

Ronen Shaltiel (University of Haifa); Jad Silbak (Northeastern University)
17:27
Ghost Value Augmentation for k-ECSS and k-ECSM

D Ellis Hershkowitz (Brown University); Nathan Klein (Institute for Advanced Study); Rico Zenklusen (ETH Zurich)
Optimal Communication Bounds for Classic Functions in the Coordinator Model and Beyond

Hossein Esfandiari (Google); Praneeth Kacham (Carnegie Mellon University); Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research); David P. Woodruff (Carnegie Mellon University); Peilin Zhong (Google Research)
Characterizing Direct Product Testing via Coboundary Expansion

Mitali Bafna, Dor Minzer (MIT)
Opening Up the Distinguisher: A Hardness to Randomness Approach for BPL=L that Uses Properties of BPL

Dean Doron (Ben Gurion University); Edward Pyne (MIT); Roei Tell (University of Toronto)

The times listed in this table are in Pacific Daylight Time.