The working conjecture from K'04 that there is a proof complexity generator hard for all
proof systems can be equivalently formulated (for p-time generators) without a reference to proof complexity notions
as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item There exist a p-time function $g$ extending each input by one bit such that its ... more >>>

The *range avoidance problem*, denoted as $\mathcal{C}$-$\rm Avoid$, asks to find a non-output of a given $\mathcal{C}$-circuit $C:\{0,1\}^n\to\{0,1\}^\ell$ with stretch $\ell>n$. This problem has recently received much attention in complexity theory for its connections with circuit lower bounds and other explicit construction problems. Inspired by the Algorithmic Method for circuit ... more >>>

In a recent breakthrough, Chen, Hirahara and Ren prove that S$_2$E/$_1 \not\subset$ SIZE$[2^n/n]$ by giving a single-valued FS$_2$P algorithm for the Range Avoidance Problem (Avoid) that works for infinitely many input size $n$.

Building on their work, we present a simple single-valued FS$_2$P algorithm for Avoid that works for all ... more >>>

We study the Range Avoidance Problem (Avoid), in which the input is an expanding circuit $C : \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}^{n+1}$, and the goal is to find a $y \in \{0,1\}^{n+1}$ that is not in the image of $C$. We are interested in the randomized complexity of this problem, i.e., in ... more >>>