Small progress measures for solving parity games

M Jurdziński - Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of …, 2000 - Springer
In this paper we develop a new algorithm for deciding the winner in parity games, and hence
also for the modal μ-calculus model checking. The design and analysis of the algorithm is …

Dimension in complexity classes

JH Lutz - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2003 - SIAM
A theory of resource-bounded dimension is developed using gales, which are natural
generalizations of martingales. When the resource bound Δ (a parameter of the theory) is …

Effective fractal dimensions

JH Lutz - Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Classical fractal dimensions (Hausdorff dimension and packing dimension) have recently
been effectivized by (i) characterizing them in terms of real‐valued functions called gales …

Confronting hardness using a hybrid approach

V Vassilevska, R Williams… - Symposium on Discrete …, 2006 - books.google.com
A hybrid algorithm is a collection of heuristics, paired with a polynomial time selector S that
runs on the input to decide which heuristic should be executed to solve the problem. Hybrid …

[PDF][PDF] MAX3SAT is exponentially hard to approximate if NP has positive dimension

JM Hitchcock - Theoretical Computer Science, 2002 - core.ac.uk
Under the hypothesis that NP has positive p-dimension, we prove that any approximation
algorithm A for MAX3SAT must satisfy at least one of the following: 1. For some¿ 0, A uses at …

[PDF][PDF] Comparing reductions to NP-complete sets

JM Hitchcock, A Pavan - Information and Computation, 2007 - core.ac.uk
Comparing reductions to NP-complete sets Page 1 Information and Computation 205 (2007)
694–706 www.elsevier.com/locate/ic Comparing reductions to NP-complete sets John M …

Hardness hypotheses, derandomization, and circuit complexity

JM Hitchcock, A Pavan - … on Foundations of Software Technology and …, 2004 - Springer
We consider three complexity-theoretic hypotheses that have been studied in different
contexts and shown to have many plausible consequences.–The Measure Hypothesis: NP …

Online learning and resource-bounded dimension: Winnow yields new lower bounds for hard sets

JM Hitchcock - SIAM Journal on Computing, 2007 - SIAM
We establish a relationship between the online mistake-bound model of learning and
resource-bounded dimension. This connection is combined with the Winnow algorithm to …

The size of SPP

JM Hitchcock - Theoretical Computer Science, 2004 - Elsevier
Derandomization techniques are used to show that at least one of the following holds
regarding the size of the counting complexity class SPP: In other words, SPP is small by …

Inseparability and strong hypotheses for disjoint NP pairs

L Fortnow, JH Lutz, E Mayordomo - Theory of Computing Systems, 2012 - Springer
This paper investigates the existence of inseparable disjoint pairs of NP languages and
related strong hypotheses in computational complexity. Our main theorem says that, if NP …