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
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