October 27-30, 2024

Chicago, IL, USA

Program Schedule

All the times are in CDT (UTC-05:00). The program given below shows the schedule of talks. The schedule of workshops and other activities will be updated later.   

Day 1: Sunday, October 27, 2024

The planned events on Day 1 include Workshops, Graduating Bits and an industry engagement activity. The schedule is TBD.

Day 2: Monday, October 28, 2024

9:00 – 10:30am

Session 1A

Session 1B

Session 1C

 Cycles of Well-Linked Sets and an Elementary Bound for the Directed Grid Theorem
Authors: M. Garlet Milani, S. Kreutzer, I. Muzi, M. Hatzel
O(1) Insertion for Random Walk d-ary Cuckoo Hashing up to the Load Threshold
Authors: T. Bell, A. Frieze
On Approximate Fully-Dynamic Matching and Online Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Authors: Y. Liu
 First-Order Model Checking on Monadically Stable Graph Classes
Authors: J. Dreier, I. Eleftheriadis, N. Mählmann, R. McCarty, M. Pilipczuk, S. Toruńczyk
Fast Mixing in Sparse Random Ising Models
Authors: K. Liu, S. Mohanty, A. Rajaraman, D. Wu
Fully Dynamic k-Clustering with Fast Update Time and Small Recourse
Authors: S. Bhattacharya, M. Costa, N. Garg, S. Lattanzi, N. Parotsidis
 Obstructions to Erdős-Pósa Dualities for Minors
Authors: C. Paul, E. Protopapas, D. Thilikos, S. Wiederrecht
A Sampling Lovász Local Lemma for Large Domain Sizes
Authors: C. Wang, Y. Yin
Predict to Minimize Swap Regret for All Payoff-Bounded Tasks
Authors: L. Hu, Y. Wu
 Minor Containment and Disjoint Paths in almost-linear time
Authors: T. Korhonen, M. Pilipczuk, G. Stamoulis
Sampling, counting, and large deviations for triangle-free graphs near the critical density Authors: M. Jenssen, W. Perkins, A. Potukuchi, M. SimkinA Lossless Deamortization for Dynamic Greedy Set Cover
Authors: S. Solomon, A. Uzrad, T. Zhang
 Computing the 3-edge-connected components of directed graphs in linear time
Authors: E. Kosinas, L. Georgiadis, G. Italiano
Computational Dynamical Systems
Authors: J. Cotler, S. Rezchikov
The Online Submodular Assignment Problem
Authors: S. Sarkar, D. Hathcock, M. Zlatin, B. Jin, K. Patton
 Three-edge-coloring projective planar cubic graphs: A generalization of the Four Color Theorem
Authors: Y. Inoue, K. Kawarabayashi, A. Miyashita, B. Mohar, T. Sonobe
Locally Stationary Distributions
Authors: K. Liu, S. Mohanty, P. Raghavendra, A. Rajaraman, D. Wu
Fully Dynamic Matching and Ordered Ruzsa-Szemer’edi Graphs
Authors: S. Behnezhad, A. Ghafari
10:30 – 10:50am

Break

10:50 – 12:00

Plenary 1

Roger Myerson, University of Chicago

12:00 – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm

Session 2A

Session 2B

Session 2C

 Fast list decoding of univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes
Authors: R. Goyal, P. Harsha, M. Kumar, A. Shankar
Communication Separations for Truthful Auctions: Breaking the Two-Player Barrier
Authors: S. Ron, C. Thomas, S. Weinberg, Q. Zhang
Efficient approximate unitary designs from random Pauli rotations
Authors: J. Haah, Y. Liu, X. Tan
 Decoding Quasi-Cyclic Quantum LDPC Codes
Authors: L. Golowich, V. Guruswami
On Pigeonhole Principles and Ramsey in TFNP
Authors: S. Jain, J. Li, R. Robere, Z. Xun
Efficient Unitary Designs from Random Sums and Permutations
Authors: C. Chen, J. Docter, M. Xu, A. Bouland, F. Brandao, P. Hayden
 Optimal Coding Theorems for Randomized Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications
Authors: S. Hirahara, Z. Lu, M. Nanashima
An XOR Lemma for Deterministic Communication Complexity
Authors: S. Iyer, A. Rao
Simple constructions of linear-depth t-designs and pseudorandom unitaries
Authors: T. Metger, A. Poremba, M. Sinha, H. Yuen
 Expansion of high-dimensional cubical complexes with application to quantum locally testable codes
Authors: I. Dinur, T. Lin, T. Vidick
The Communication Complexity of Approximating Matrix Rank
Authors: A. Sherstov, A. Storozhenko
Gapped Clique Homology is QMA1-hard and contained in QMA
Authors: R. King, T. Kohler
2:40 – 3:50pm

Plenary 2

Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute

3:55 – 4:15

Break

4:15 – 5:30PM

Session 3A

Session 3B

Session 3C

 Reverse Mathematics of Complexity Lower Bounds
Authors: L. Chen, J. Li, I. Oliveira
Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering
Authors: M. Farach-Colton, A. Krapivin, W. Kuszmaul
Deterministic Algorithm and Faster Algorithm for Submodular Maximization subject to a Matroid Constraint
Authors: N. Buchbinder, M. Feldman
 Interactive Proofs for General Distribution Properties
Authors: T. Herman, G. Rothblum
Tight Analyses of Ordered and Unordered Linear Probing
Authors: M. Braverman, W. Kuszmaul
On Approximating Cutwidth and Pathwidth
Authors: N. Bansal, D. Katzelnick, R. Schwartz
 Trading Determinism for Noncommutativity in Edmonds’ Problem
Authors: V. Arvind, A. Chatterjee, P. Mukhopadhyay
Tight Bounds for Classical Open Addressing
Authors: M. Bender, W. Kuszmaul, R. Zhou
The Bidirected Cut Relaxation for Steiner Tree has Integrality Gap Smaller than 2.
Authors: J. Byrka, F. Grandoni, V. Traub
 \Pi_2^p vs PSpace Dichotomy for the Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem
Authors: D. Zhuk
Instance-Optimality in I/O-Efficient Sampling and Sequential Estimation
Authors: S. Narayanan, V. Rozhoň, J. Tětek, M. Thorup
Efficient Approximation of Hypertree Width
Authors: V. Surianarayanan, D. Lokshtanov, S. Saurabh, J. Xue, V. Korchemna
 Jump operators, Interactive Proofs and Proof Complexity Generators
Authors: E. Khaniki
An Optimal Algorithm for Sorting Pattern-Avoiding Sequences
Authors: M. Opler
Faster isomorphism testing of p-groups of Frattini class-2
Authors: G. Ivanyos, E. Mendoza, Y. Qiao, X. Sun, C. Zhang
6pm

Business Meeting

Day 3: Tuesday, October 29, 2024

9:00 – 10:30am

Session 4A

Session 4B

Session 4C

  Polynomial Calculus sizes over the Boolean and Fourier bases are incomparable
Authors: S. Mouli
Certifying Euclidean Sections and Finding Planted Sparse Vectors Beyond the Dimension Threshold
Authors: V. Guruswami, J. Hsieh, P. Raghavendra
High-Temperature Gibbs States are Unentangled and Efficiently Preparable
Authors: A. Bakshi, A. Liu, A. Moitra, E. Tang
  A Dense Model Theorem for the Boolean Slice
Authors: G. Kalai, N. Lifshitz, T. Ziegler, D. Minzer
Sum-of-Squares Lower Bounds for Non-Gaussian Component Analysis
Authors: I. Diakonikolas, S. Karmalkar, S. Pang, A. Potechin
Structure learning of Hamiltonians from real-time evolution
Authors: A. Bakshi, A. Liu, A. Moitra, E. Tang
  Dot-Product Proofs and Their Applications
Authors: N. Bitansky, P. Harsha, Y. Ishai, R. Rothblum, D. Wu
Semirandom Planted Clique and the Restricted Isometry Property
Authors: J. Błasiok, R. Buhai, P. Kothari, D. Steurer
Quantum eigenvalue processing
Authors: G. Low, Y. Su
 

Low Acceptance Agreement Tests via Bounded-Degree Symplectic HDXs Authors: Y. Dikstein, I. Dinur, A. Lubotzky and

and

Constant Degree Direct Product Testers with Small Soundness Authors: M. Bafna, N. Lifshitz, D. Minzer

Efficient Certificates of Anti-Concentration Beyond Gaussians
Authors: A. Bakshi, P. Kothari, G. Rajendran, M. Tulsiani, A. Vijayaraghavan
Quantum computational advantage with constant-temperature Gibbs sampling
Authors: T. Bergamaschi, C. Chen, Y. Liu
  Chernoff-Hoeffding and Reverse Hypercontractivity on High Dimensional Expanders
Authors: Y. Dikstein, M. Hopkins
Tensor cumulants for statistical inference on invariant distributions
Authors: D. Kunisky, C. Moore, A. Wein
Optimal tradeoffs for estimating Pauli observables
Authors: S. Chen, W. Gong, Q. Ye
  New investigations into noncommutative CSPs
Authors: E. Culf, H. Mousavi, T. Spirig
Efficient Statistics With Unknown Truncation: Polynomial Time Algorithms Beyond Gaussians
Authors: J. Lee, A. Mehrotra, M. Zampetakis
A computational test of quantum contextuality, and even simpler proofs of quantumness
Authors: A. Arora, A. Coladangelo, A. Cojocaru, K. Bharti

10:30 – 10:50am

Break

10:50 – 12:00

Plenary 3

Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University

   

12pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:20pm

Session 5: Best Student Papers (Machtey Prize)

 
Capacity Threshold for the Ising Perceptron
Authors: B. Huang
 
Optimal quantile estimation: beyond the comparison model
Authors: M. Singhal, M. Gupta, H. Wu

2:40 – 3:50pm

Knuth Prize Lecture

Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania 

3:55 – 4:15

Break

4:15 – 5:30pm

Session 6A

Session 6B

Session 6C

  Proofs of Space with Maximal Hardness
Authors: L. Reyzin
Online Combinatorial Allocations and Auctions with Few Samples
Authors: P. Duetting, T. Kesselheim, B. Lucier, R. Reiffenhauser, S. Singla
The Tractability Border of Reachability in Simple Vector Addition Systems with States
Authors: D. Chistikov, W. Czerwiński, Ł. Orlikowski, F. Mazowiecki, H. Sinclair-Banks, K. Węgrzycki
  Commitments are equivalent to one-way state generators
Authors: R. Batra, J. Rahul
Benchmark-Tight Approximation Ratio of Simple Mechanism for a Unit-Demand Buyer
Authors: Y. Jin, P. Lu
Hardness of Packing, Covering and Partitioning Simple Polygons with Unit Squares
Authors: M. Abrahamsen, J. Stade
  Succinct arguments for QMA from standard assumptions via compiled nonlocal games
Authors: T. Metger, A. Natarajan, T. Zhang
Semi-Bandit Learning for Monotone Stochastic Optimization
Authors: A. Agarwal, R. Ghuge, V. Nagarajan
The Orthogonal Vectors Conjecture and Non-Uniform Circuit Lower Bounds
Authors: R. Williams
  Certifying almost all quantum states with few single-qubit measurements
Authors: H. Huang, J. Preskill, M. Soleimanifar
On Robustness to k-wise Independence of Optimal Bayesian Mechanisms
Authors: N. Gravin, Z. Wang
Strong vs. Weak Range Avoidance and the Linear Ordering Principle
Authors: O. Korten, T. Pitassi
  How to Simulate Random Oracles with Auxiliary Input
Authors: Y. Dodis, A. Jain, R. Lin, J. Luo, D. Wichs
Hardness of Approximate Sperner and Applications to Envy-Free Cake Cutting
Authors: R. Gao, M. Roghani, A. Rubinstein, A. Saberi
Canonical forms for matrix tuples in polynomial time
Authors: Y. Qiao, X. Sun

Day 4: Wednesday, October 30, 2024

9:00 – 10:30am

Session 7A

Session 7B

Session 7C

  Boosting uniformity in quasirandom groups: faster and simpler
Authors: E. Viola, H. Derksern, C. Lee
Improved Distance (Sensitivity) Oracles with Subquadratic Space
Authors: D. Bilò, S. Chechik, K. Choudhary, S. Cohen, T. Friedrich, M. Schirneck
Replicability in High Dimensional Statistics
Authors: M. Hopkins, R. Impagliazzo, D. Kane, S. Liu, C. Ye
  The sample complexity of smooth boosting and the tightness of the hardcore theorem
Authors: G. Blanc, A. Hayderi, C. Koch, L. Tan
Sparse graph counting and Kelley–Meka bounds for binary systems
Authors: Y. Filmus, H. Hatami, K. Hosseini, E. Kelman
Computing Approximate Centerpoints in Polynomial Time
Authors: Y. Cherapanamjeri
  On the Existence of Seedless Condensers: Exploring the Terrain
Authors: E. Chattopadhyay, M. Gurumukhani, N. Ringach
Towards Instance-Optimal Euclidean Spanners
Authors: H. Le, S. Solomon, C. Than, C. T\’oth, T. Zhang
Near-optimal Size Linear Sketches for Hypergraph Cut Sparsifiers
Authors: S. Khanna, A. Putterman, M. Sudan
  Tight Bounds for the Zig-Zag Product
Authors: G. Cohen, G. Maor, I. Cohen
Sensitivity, Proximity and FPT Algorithms for Exact Matroid Problems
Authors: F. Eisenbrand, L. Rohwedder, K. Wegrzycki
Sensitivity Sampling for k-Means: Worst Case and Stability Optimal Coreset Bounds
Authors: N. Bansal, V. Cohen-Addad, M. Prabhu, D. Saulpic, C. Schwiegelshohn
  Distinguishing, Predicting, and Certifying: On the Long Reach of Partial Notions of Pseudorandomness
Authors: J. Li, E. Pyne, R. Tell
Computational hardness of detecting graph lifts and certifying lift-monotone properties of random regular graphs
Authors: X. Yu, D. Kunisky
Novel properties of hierarchical probabilistic partitions and their algorithmic applications
Authors: S. Banerjee, Y. Bartal, L. Gottlieb, A. Hovav
  Improved Condensers for Chor-Goldreich Sources
Authors: J. Goodman, X. Li, D. Zuckerman
New Structures and Algorithms for Length-Constrained Expander Decompositions
Authors: B. Haeupler, D Hershkowitz, Z. Tan
Spectral Guarantees for Adversarial Streaming PCA
Authors: Z. Xun, E. Price

10:30 – 10:50am

Break

10:50 – 12:05pm

Session 8A

Session 8B

Session 8C

 

A stronger bound for linear 3-LCC
Authors: T. Yankovitz

and

Exponential Lower Bounds for Smooth 3-LCCs and Sharp Bounds for Designs
Authors: P. Kothari, P. Manohar

Gaussian Approximation of Convex Sets by Intersections of Halfspaces
Authors: A. De, S. Nadimpalli, R. Servedio
Almost-Linear Time Algorithms for Decremental Graphs: Min-Cost Flow and More via Duality
Authors: J. van den Brand, L. Chen, R. Kyng, Y. Liu, S. Meierhans, M. Gutenberg, S. Sachdeva
  Random Gabidulin Codes Achieve List Decoding Capacity in the Rank Metric
Authors: Z. Guo, C. Xing, C. Yuan, Z. Zhang
Agnostically Learning Multi-index Models with Queries
Authors: I. Diakonikolas, D. Kane, V. Kontonis, C. Tzamos, N. Zarifis
Dynamic Deterministic Constant-Approximate Distance Oracles with Worst-Case Update Time
Authors: B. Haeupler, Y. Long, T. Saranurak
  Near-Tight Bounds for 3-Query Locally Correctable Binary Linear Codes via Rainbow Cycles
Authors: O. Alrabiah, V. Guruswami
Exploration is Harder than Prediction: Cryptographically Separating Reinforcement Learning from Supervised Learning
Authors: N. Golowich, A. Moitra, D. Rohatgi
Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) Factorization in Sublinear Time
Authors: D. Kempa, T. Kociumaka
  An Improved Line-Point Low-Degree Test
Authors: P. Harsha, M. Kumar, R. Saptharishi, M. Sudan
Revisiting Agnostic PAC Learning
Authors: S. Hanneke, K. Larsen, N. Zhivotovskiy
Maximum Flow by Augmenting Paths in Time
Authors: A. Bernstein, J. Blikstad, T. Saranurak, T. Tu
  Fast decision tree learning solves hard coding-theoretic problems
Authors: C. Koch, C. Strassle, L. Tan
Ramsey Theorems for Trees and a General ‘Private Learning Implies Online Learning’ Theorem
Authors: S. Fioravanti, S. Hanneke, S. Moran, H. Schefler, I. Tsubari
Near-Optimal (1+ϵ)-Approximate Fully-Dynamic All-Pairs Shortest Paths in Planar Graphs
Authors: A. Filtser, G. Goranci, N. Patel, M. Gutenberg

12:05 – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:20pm

Session 9: Best Papers

 
Universal Optimality of Dijkstra via Beyond-Worst-Case Heaps
Authors: B. Haeupler, R. Hladík, V. Rozhon, R. Tarjan, J. Tětek
 
Near-Optimal Deterministic Network Decomposition and Ruling Set, and Improved MIS
Authors: M. Ghaffari, C. Grunau

2:20 – 2:45

Break

2:45 – 4:15pm

Session 10A

Session 10B

Session 10C

  Verifying Groups in Linear Time
Authors: O. Klein, I. Komargodski, S. Evra, S. Gadot
Nearly Optimal List Labeling
Authors: M. Bender, A. Conway, M. Farach-Colton, H. Komlos, M. Koucky, W. Kuszmaul, M. Saks
The ESPRIT algorithm under high noise: Optimal error scaling and noisy super-resolution
Authors: Z. Ding, E. Epperly, L. Lin, R. Zhang
  Power Series Composition in Near-Linear Time
Authors: Y. Kinoshita, B. Li
Stochastic Online Correlated Selection
Authors: Z. Chen, Z. Huang, E. Sun
Constant-Depth Arithmetic Circuits for Linear Algebra Problems
Authors: R. Andrews, A. Wigderson
  Faster (Δ+1)-Edge Coloring: Breaking the Time Barrier
Authors: S. Bhattacharya, D. Carmon, M. Costa, S. Solomon, T. Zhang
Directed Isoperimetry and Monotonicity Testing: A Dynamical Approach
Authors: R. Pinto Jr.
Gradient descent for unbounded convex functions on Hadamard manifolds and its applications to scaling problems
Authors: H. Hirai, K. Sakabe
  An Improved Pseudopolynomial Time Algorithm for Subset Sum
Authors: L. Chen, J. Lian, Y. Mao, G. Zhang
Efficient and Near-Optimal Noise Generation for Streaming Differential Privacy
Authors: K. Dvijotham, H. McMahan, K. Pillutla, T. Steinke, A. Thakurta
On the Complexity of Avoiding Heavy Elements
Authors: Z. Lu, I. Oliveira, H. Ren, R. Santhanam
  Naively Sorting Evolving Data is Optimal and Robust
Authors: G. Giakkoupis, M. Kiwi, D. Los
A Strong Separation for Adversarially Robust Estimation for Linear Sketches
Authors: E. Gribelyuk, H. Lin, D. Woodruff, H. Yu, S. Zhou
Gradient Descent is Pareto-Optimal in the Oracle Complexity and Memory Tradeoff for Feasibility Problems
Authors: M. Blanchard
  Tight Bounds for Sorting Under Partial Information
Authors: I. van der Hoog, D. Rutschmann