• DocumentCode
    2786192
  • Title

    No better ways to generate hard NP instances than picking uniformly at random

  • Author

    Impagliazzo, Russell ; Levin, Leonid A

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science, Toronto University , Toronto, Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    22-24 Oct. 1990
  • Firstpage
    812
  • Abstract
    Distributed NP (DNP) problems are ones supplied with probability distributions of instances. It is shown that every DNP problem complete for P-time computable distributions is also complete for all distributions that can be sampled. This result makes the concept of average-case NP completeness robust and the question of the average-case complexity of complete DNP problems a natural alternative to P=?NP. Similar techniques yield a connection between cryptography and learning theory.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; DNP problem; NP completeness; P-time computable distributions; average-case complexity; distributed NP problems; hard NP; probability distributions; Computer science; Cryptography; Distributed computing; Extrapolation; Matrix decomposition; NP-complete problem; Polynomials; Probability distribution; Sun;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations of Computer Science, 1990. Proceedings., 31st Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    St. Louis, MO
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2082-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FSCS.1990.89604
  • Filename
    89604