2024 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Bojan Mohar,
- Igor Shinkar,
- Program Chair:
- Ryan O'Donnell
The papers in this volume were presented at the 56th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2024), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). The conference was held in Vancouver, Canada, June 24--28, 2024, with the papers being presented as live talks.
Symmetric Exponential Time Requires Near-Maximum Circuit Size
We show that there is a language in S2E/1 (symmetric exponential time with one bit of advice) with circuit complexity at least 2n/n. In particular, the above also implies the same near-maximum circuit lower bounds for the classes Σ2E, (Σ2E∩Π2E)/1, and ...
Symmetric Exponential Time Requires Near-Maximum Circuit Size: Simplified, Truly Uniform
In a recent breakthrough, Chen, Hirahara and Ren prove that S2E/1 ⊄SIZE[2n/n] by giving a single-valued FS2P algorithm for the Range Avoidance Problem (Avoid) that works for infinitely many input size n. Building on their work, we present a simple single-...
Random (log 𝑛)-CNF Are Hard for Cutting Planes (Again)
The random Δ-CNF model is one of the most important distribution over Δ-SAT instances. It is closely connected to various areas of computer science, statistical physics, and is a benchmark for satisfiability algorithms. Fleming, Pankratov, Pitassi, and ...
Hardness Condensation by Restriction
Can every n-bit boolean function with deterministic query complexity k≪ n be restricted to O(k) variables such that the query complexity remains Ω(k)? That is, can query complexity be condensed via restriction? We study such hardness condensation ...
Explicit Codes for Poly-Size Circuits and Functions That Are Hard to Sample on Low Entropy Distributions
Codes for poly-size circuits: Guruswami and Smith (J. ACM 2016) considered codes for channels that are poly-size circuits which modify at most a p-fraction of the bits of the codeword. This class of channels is significantly stronger than Shannon’s ...
Opening Up the Distinguisher: A Hardness to Randomness Approach for BPL=L That Uses Properties of BPL
We provide compelling evidence for the potential of hardness-vs.-randomness approaches to make progress on the long-standing problem of derandomizing space-bounded computation. Our first contribution is a derandomization of bounded-space machines from ...
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOC '15 | 347 | 93 | 27% |
| STOC '14 | 319 | 91 | 29% |
| STOC '13 | 360 | 100 | 28% |
| STOC '11 | 304 | 84 | 28% |
| STOC '08 | 325 | 80 | 25% |
| STOC '03 | 270 | 80 | 30% |
| STOC '02 | 287 | 91 | 32% |
| STOC '01 | 230 | 83 | 36% |
| STOC '00 | 182 | 85 | 47% |
| STOC '98 | 169 | 75 | 44% |
| STOC '97 | 211 | 75 | 36% |
| STOC '96 | 201 | 74 | 37% |
| STOC '89 | 196 | 56 | 29% |
| STOC '88 | 192 | 53 | 28% |
| STOC '87 | 165 | 50 | 30% |
| STOC '80 | 125 | 47 | 38% |
| STOC '79 | 111 | 37 | 33% |
| STOC '78 | 120 | 38 | 32% |
| STOC '77 | 87 | 31 | 36% |
| STOC '76 | 83 | 30 | 36% |
| STOC '75 | 87 | 31 | 36% |
| STOC '74 | 95 | 35 | 37% |
| STOC '71 | 50 | 23 | 46% |
| STOC '70 | 70 | 27 | 39% |
| Overall | 4,586 | 1,469 | 32% |